Third Edition God, the Universe, and Man-their essential unity and
fundamental attributes as seen through the eyes of Jewish esoteric
tradition-is the subject of Leo Schaya's masterly study of the
Kabbalah. Unlike most works on the subject, which focus on the
history of the Kabbalah or the Kabbalah as literature (not to
mention countless 'new age' rants), this penetrating text expounds
the universal teachings of the Kabbalah on the relationships of all
things to their supreme archetypes, the ten Sephiroth, or
principial aspects of God. In addition to the Old Testament and the
Talmud, Schaya draws on one of the classical sources of Jewish
mysticism-the Zohar, or Book of Splendor-fromwhich he extracts an
all-embracing synthesis of the numberless degrees of All-Reality,
to which correspond the multiple states of human being, from
earthly individuality to essential identity with the Absolute. This
work, acclaimed by reviewers and scholars alike, fittingly
concludes with an illuminating chapter on the Name of God, which
saves 'all those who invoke him in truth.' Students of comparative
religion will find an abundance of information here, for striking
parallels both with the Hindu cosmological doctrines and the
metaphysical insights of the Vedantic sages are among the surprises
interlaced in this account of Judaic esoteric wisdom. In this,
Schaya carries on the extraordinary work of three great
20th-century metaphysicians of the philosophia perennis: Ren Gunon,
Frithjof Schuon, and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. This book will be
extremely useful to anyone who is, in the words of Maimonides,
'perplexed' by the Bible in the sense of having exercised his best
thinking about it and who now stands 'broken' before its apparent
contradictions and its overwhelming emotional authority. The
Kabbalah, or esotericism, is the communication to man of what
Schaya calls principial ideas, ideas that are to thought and
actions what the sun is to its rays. Standing between metaphysical
ideas and the symbolic language of the Zohar and the Old Testament,
he allows each side to penetrate the other. -Jacob Needleman,
author of Lost Christianity, A Sense of the Cosmos, etc. This book
fills an urgent need. To rediscover the deepest meaning of the Old
Testament is something that could haved a most tonic and
enlightening effect on the whole of Christian thought today; no
clearer interpreters are to be found than the masters of the
Kabbalah. -Marco Pallis, author of The Way and the Mountain, A
Buddhist Spectrum, etc. Leo Schaya was born in Switzerland in 1916.
He received a traditional Jewish upbringing, but from an early age
devoted himself to the study of the great metaphysical doctrines of
East and West, particularly those of Neoplatonism, Sufism, and
theAdvaita Vedanta. His works include, in addition to The Universal
Meaning of the Kabbalah (first published in French in 1958 as
L'Homme et l'Absolu selon la Kabbale), La Doctrine Soufique de
l'Unit, La cration en Dieu: la lumire du judasme, du christianisme
et l'islam, and Naissance l'esprit, as well as numerous articles.
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