Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magic (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) [Paperback]

David Godwin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Llewellyn's Sourcebook | Publication Date: September 8, 2002

One of the most trusted reference works ever published on the Cabala has been revised and expanded. Featuring a new and more usable format, this book is a complete guide to cabalistic magick and gematria in which every demon, angel, power and name of God ... every Sephirah, Path, and Plane of the Tree of Life ... and each attribute and association is fully described and cross-indexed by the Hebrew, English, and numerical forms.

All entries are now incorporated into one comprehensive dictionary. There are hundreds of new entries and illustrations, making this book even more beneficial for Cabalistic pathworking and meditation. It now has many new Hebrew words and names, as well as the terms of Freemasonry, the entities of the Cthulhu mythos, and the Aurum Solis spellings for the names of the demons of the Goetia. It contains authentic Hebrew spellings, and a new introduction that explains the uses of the book for meditation on God names.

The Cabalistic schema is native to the human psyche, and Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia will be an invaluable reference tool for all Cabalists, magicians, scholars and scientists of all disciplines.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Hebrew

From the Publisher

David Godwin's third revised and expanded edition of Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia should be part of every magician's library.

The study and comparison of the numerical value of words to discover occult correspondences is a form of Cabalistic numerology known as Gematria. Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia contains the enumeration for hundreds of words, saving you many hours of work.

Each entry explains a word and its Cabalistic numerical value. For example, Naher is Hebrew for river and has a numerological value of 255. You'll also learn about the four rivers of Eden, including their names, their associated element, their corresponding letter of the Tetragrammaton, and their enumeration.

Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia also includes comparisons of numerological systems, variations of the Tree of Life, an introduction explaining the basics of the Cabala, and the complete text of Aleister Crowley's Sepher Sephiroth.

This book is an invaluable resource for anyone studying this cornerstone of Western esoteric wisdom.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 3 Rev Sub edition (September 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567183247
• ISBN-13: 978-1567183245
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book, poor Hebrew proofreading., March 27, 2004

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Uri Raz (Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magic (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) (Paperback)

This book is an excellent *hermetic* cabala encyclopedia - it is thorough, bringing together most of the information one would see in it, e.g. various attributions a-la Crowley's Liber 777 covering subjects such as the 72 fold name of god, the 42 letters name of god, seals, spirits, tarot, etc.

The book contains three major sections - the first is the encyclopedia itself in English alphabetical order, the second a Hebrew-English dictionary, and the third a gematric index which brings various Hebrew words by their gematric value.

There is a good bibliography, a reproduction of Crowley's Sepher Sephiroth, and a couple of interesting appendixes.

The major problem I see with this book is enormous number of errors in Hebrew - it looks like neither the author not any of Llewellyn's staff working on the book know any Hebrew. This includes not only spelling errors (which lead to errors in the gematria calculations, which means one should double check *all* Hebrew spelling and gematria calculations in this book with a good English-Hebrew dictionary), but also errors in basic material, e.g. none of the spellings of the 42 letters name of God brought in the book is correct.

So, indeed, one can benefit a lot from learning the correspondences and their logic, but still needs to cast doubts about what's written in the book and research for her/himself.

A secondary problem is with images - those are valueable, but many of them look pixelized, as if they were scanned at low resolution and enlarged.

And to repeat my emphasis from the first paragraph - this is a book about *hermetic* cabala, and *not* Jewish cabala. Jewish Cabala uses a different version of the tree of life (described in appendix C of this book), different attributions, etc.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Response to the Distraught Reviewer, August 27, 2006

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Auther Taylor (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magic (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) (Paperback)

In response to the distraught reviewer, whose review starts, "If you're into ingnoring most of the jewish character..." I have to offer a disclaimer here for any would be potential buyers. True, if you're looking for a book that expounds the principles of the kabbalah while maintaining as much of the jewish historicity as possible, this book isn't the one. But I must say that this book neither claims to fulfill the latter criteria nor is it meant to. This book is meant as a reference tool for those studying the qabalah (spelling you'll usually see when this is the case) in it's capacity as the cornerstone of the western mystery tradition(golden dawn, stella matutina, A.A. etc). The fact that crowley's 777 is included should've made this quite apparent. A word of advice to everyone, but especially the afore mentioned reviewer, you might want to do a little research on any item you plan to purchase and decide to publicly denounce, as you'll kind of have a tendency to make yourself look silly, maybe even of less than average intelligence when you happen to be totally off base. So for those who would persue the "mysteries" you should definitely add this selection to your library as it is a great asset. For those wishing to study the historical and traditional jewish kabbalah your aims would be much better served through books by Aryeh Kaplan and others like them, as your main corpus of study will be the Sefer Yetzirah, the Zohar and the Bahir.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must have, June 26, 1999

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This review is from: Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magic (Llewellyn's Sourcebook) (Paperback)

this book is a must have ,it has a lot of spirit names there numbers that go to them and names in hebrew,names of god,angels demons the tree of life etc. it is one of the best refernces in cabalistic magic