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By Aryeh Kaplan

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has translated Sefer Yetzirah, the oldest and so much mysterious of all kabbalistic texts, and now brings its theoretical, meditative, and magical implications to gentle. He expounds at the dynamics of the religious area, the worlds of the Sefirot, souls, and angels. whilst adequately understood, Sefer Yetzirah turns into the handbook for a really specified kind of meditation intended to bolster focus and to help the improvement of telekinetic and telepathic powers. --This textual content refers to an out of print or unavailable version of this name.

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