Alchemy and Kabbalah

Download or read book Alchemy and Kabbalah written by Gershom Scholem and published by Spring Publications. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the century-old connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its Christianized varieties, such as the gold- and rosicrucian mysticisms, and the myth-based psychology of C. G. Jung, and uncovers forgotten alchemical roots of embedded in the Kabbalah.