Arthur Edward Waite and the Holy Kabbalah: The Secret Tradition in Israel
In 1929, the Anglo-American mystic and scholar Arthur Edward Waite published a work of unparalleled depth and "Highly Systematic" metaphysical intensity: The Holy Kabbalah . Moving beyond the fragmented surface of traditional occultism, Waite sought to reveal the absolute Hierarchical Structure of the spirit —a multi-dimensional methodology for understanding how the unmanifested light of the One is concentrated and focused through the medium of the Secret Tradition in Israel . For Waite, the Kabbalah was not a set of "magic spells," but the primary "Theurgical Roadmap" for the restoration of the soul through the application of Christian-Hermetic Gnosis . To understand the Holy Kabbalah is to confront the concept of Luminous Ingress . Waite teaches that the universe is a tiered architecture of light, currently in a state of "Atmospheric Friction" due to the influence of the planetary Archons. He Argued that the Kabbalah represents the absolut...