Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia

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.

This book provides the practitioner a great resource for the Cabala. The book has listings of Angels, names of God, spirits, and more!! The book was written by a very knowledgable author with deep roots. The book wasn't meant for someone looking for rituals but as a Encyclopedia for everything Cabala (or however you want to write it). The new help for the Hebrew alphabet and pronunciation is helpful but the student should still seek more intense studies of the language before getting too deep. Otherwise I use this book constantly for research and resource.

This book has almost everything,I feel that this book is a wonderfull book full of little odds and ends that every student needs.It even pronounces most of the names for you(as accurate as anyone can get in a book)I mean this book for one, is thick and is meant for the use of serious students,It's not full of rituals,it's full of the things you need to do complex magick with(symbols,etc.)It's a must own...

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!

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