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

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Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia by David Godwin is the only sourcebook you'll ever need for understanding the basis of Western mysticism: the Cabala. There is no longer any need for myriad books on mysticism, magic, and the occult in order to trace down the basic meanings, Hebrew spellings, and enumerations of the hundreds of terms, words, and names you need to reference as you wind your way through Cabalistic magic and Gematria.

Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia is the most complete correlation of Hebrew and English ideas ever published. Included are such essentials as all of the two-letter root words found in Biblical Hebrew, the astrological signs, every demon, angel, power, sephira, path, and plane on the Tree of Life, and much more. Each attribute and association is fully described and cross-indexed by the Hebrew, English, and numerical forms.

This third revised and enlarged edition features a comprehensive new introduction to the Cabala and the key to Cabalistic numerology: Gematria. The revised format includes hundreds of new illustrations and entries, making Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia more accessible than ever.

Included are many names of God, angels, spirits, correspondences of the paths on the Tree of Life, terms of Freemasonry, the complete text of Aleister Crowley's seminal Cabalistic work Sepher Sephiroth, and more.

This book is a vital reference work for any student of Western mysticism or magic.

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Text: English, Hebrew

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Product Details

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 3 Rev Sub edition (September 1, 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: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #344,133 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Uri Raz (Israel) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome sourcebook! NOT for the beginner, though!, September 7, 1999

By A Customer

This is a true Qabalistic encyclopedia, just as the title says. Mr. Godwin has done a beautiful job on this one and deserves praise for it! I recommend any interested folks first read Regardie's "A Garden of Pomegranates" before you get into this hefty volume!