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Technika mistyczna Abrahama Abulafii przedstawiona w ’Ocar ‘eden ha-ganuz

Publication date: 01.01.2008

Studia Religiologica, 2008, Volume 41, pp. 69 - 79

Authors

Mikołaj Krawczyk
Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 31-044 Kraków
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Technika mistyczna Abrahama Abulafii przedstawiona w ’Ocar ‘eden ha-ganuz

Abstract

Abraham Abulafia’s Mystical Technique Presented in ’Ocar ‘Eden Ha-ganuz

The text presents the prophetic kabbalistic mystical techniques described in ’Ocar ‘Eden ha-Ganuz [The Hidden Treasure of Eden] by the 13th-century Sephardic kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240– 1292?). Composed in Messina in 1285 for a disciple named Saadia, the book is considered as a mature explanation of the mystical system. Together with his ’Or ha-Sekhel [Light of the Mind] and Chayye ha-‘Olam ha-Ba [Life of the World to Come], it constitutes one of the essential texts of Abulafi an kabbalah and prophetic kabbalah as such. The article includes, for the first time in Polish translation, a large fragment of Abraham Abulafia’s book concerning an explication of mystical practice of one of the ways of chochmat ha-ceruf (“wisdom of combination”) and descriptions of Abulafia’s mystical experiences.

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Information: Studia Religiologica, 2008, Volume 41, pp. 69 - 79

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Technika mistyczna Abrahama Abulafii przedstawiona w ’Ocar ‘eden ha-ganuz

English:

Abraham Abulafia’s Mystical Technique Presented in ’Ocar ‘Eden Ha-ganuz

Authors

Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 31-044 Kraków

Published at: 01.01.2008

Article status: Open

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