tarotlovely Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Does anyone have any resources for learning about Qabalah for beginners? I have Robert Wang's The Qabalistic Tarot, but I was hoping to find something a bit simpler so I can wrap my mind around the basics before I delve into the deep stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
Trophies and Medals and_it_spoke Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 @Rose Lalonde posted this great resource: https://nofaithinthehumanrace.com As a newbie to Qabalah myself, I recently took an on-line course via WitchLab.com The website of the teacher is here: https://www.circulos-matrem.com/?lightbox=dataItem-jrcp2irw Under 'studies' you can find some resources. As far as books, I can recommend a couple: 'A Garden of Pomegranites' by Israel Redgardie And 'The Essential Kabbalah' by Daniel C. Matt That last one is a great spiritual counter balance to the more 'practical' guides out there. Link to post Share on other sites
Barleywine Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 I began a long time ago with Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah, William Gray's Ladder of Lights, Gareth Knights Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, Israel Regardie's Tree of Life, Frater Achad's QBL, Franz Bardon's Key to the True Qabalah and the entire multi-year BOTA course of study. Trying to find a simple treatment of a difficult subject is challenging. Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford is supposed to have a lighter touch but I haven't read it. Link to post Share on other sites
Trophies and Medals gregory Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 30 minutes ago, Barleywine said: I began a long time ago with Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah, William Gray's Ladder of Lights, Gareth Knights Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, Israel Regardie's Tree of Life, Frater Achad's QBL, Franz Bardon's Key to the True Qabalah and the entire multi-year BOTA course of study. Trying to find a simple treatment of a difficult subject is challenging. Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford is supposed to have a lighter touch but I haven't read it. I have; it does. Link to post Share on other sites
ZENofMakaveli Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 I have a favorite site for this which I’ll link here. This may be a little bit particular to my tastes , but you might give it a try and see if you like it. I like to see a lot of the symbolism/correspondences all in one place & this site does a good job of that imo. My go-to for going on 5 years now. The original site was down last year , but it’s archived in full. https://web.archive.org/web/20170928133220/http://www.qabalah.dk/paths.html Link to post Share on other sites
ZENofMakaveli Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Copenhagen Kabbalah Link to post Share on other sites
Trophies and Medals TheLoracular Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 On 6/14/2020 at 1:37 PM, Barleywine said: I began a long time ago with Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah, William Gray's Ladder of Lights, Gareth Knights Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, Israel Regardie's Tree of Life, Frater Achad's QBL, Franz Bardon's Key to the True Qabalah and the entire multi-year BOTA course of study. Trying to find a simple treatment of a difficult subject is challenging. Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford is supposed to have a lighter touch but I haven't read it. That is pretty much the book list I started with too. Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabalah is most definitely gentle and funny but written by one of the most respected scholar-magicians of the modern era. What helped me the most in learning the KBL/QBL back in the 1990s is that I had a study partner. I had already been a tarot reader and neo-pagan for a decade; my study partner introduced me into Hermetic magick and the KBL/QBL. We worked with both BOTA course-work (more my thing) and with some Thelema stuff and the Thoth deck (more his). We talked for hours about once a week in a coffee shop, had pictures and notebooks. Israel Regardie was in the 1990s my favorite of the authors mentioned above. His work helped me understand others better. Link to post Share on other sites
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