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Plotinus, evil, matter, cards

To: alt.tarot
From: eskenazi@mail.sendanet.es (Enrique Eskenazi)
Subject: Re: Plotinus, evil, matter, cards
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 05:40:06 +0200

In article <19970516205501.QAA20040@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
mlyoung@aol.com (MLYoung) wrote:


>I think here we're getting into a question about the sources used by
>the occultists.  How much, for example, did Augustine influence
>the Jewish authors of the Kabbalah?  They seem more influenced
>by the neoplatonist ideas of material and spirit.  I have no idea of
>what the historical truth is.
 
Gershom Scholem writes:
" The encounter between the Gnostic tradition contained in the Bahir and
neoplatonic ideas concerning God, His emanation, and man's place in the
world, was extremely fruitful, leading to the deep penetration of these
ideas into earlier mystical theories. Thje Kabbalah in ints historical
significance, can be defined as the product of the interpenetration of
Jewish Gnosticism and neoplatonism"

-- 
Enrique
eskenazi@mail.sendanet.es
Io chi sono? Eh, non lo so.
-Nol sapete?
Quasi no

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