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Once you have followed several of these links and appreciate the extent of the written material on Kabbalah, your eyes will begin to glaze over and you may find yourself slumped at your terminal in a catatonic stupor of information overload. This is the beginning of that mystical state described in this paraphrase of W.B. Yeats' Long-Legged Fly:

"That the Great Work may not fail,
And it's secrets be lost,
Switch on the modem, log on the Net,
Whatever the cost;
The Kabbalist is wired,
Where the grimoires are spread,
His eyes fixed on nothing,
A hand under his head.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves on silence"

Right: Rembrandt's Catatonic Kabbalist with Laptop Computer
Index

* Hermetic Kabbalah & Hermetica
* Jewish Kabbalah & Judaism
* Historical
* Mystical
* General Occult Links
* Miscellaneous

Hermetic Kabbalah & Hermetica

Colin's Hermetic Kabbalah Site
This is only the links page - the actual content is here

Twilit Grotto of Joseph and Candy Peterson
Archives of Western Esoterica. Dee, Bruno, Trithemius, Iamblichus etc etc - the Petersons will certainly get their reward in my heaven. I cannot recommend this site too highly. See also their compendious Zoroastrian material.

M. Alan Kazlev's Kabbalah Site
An amazing site. Excellent for the Kabbalah alone. Follow some of the sneaky little links to related subjects and the entire mystical corpus of the world unfolds like a semtex-powered pop-up book. Recommended.

Donald Tyson's Supernatural World
Editor of the recent edition of Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, he now has a site with a large amount of original and well-informed content. Recommeded.

Copenhagen Qabalah
A well-produced and presented overview of Hermetic Qabalah by Morten Hass. The content is in English, but there are links to Danish resources.

Arcana
ARCANA is a mailing list for scholars and students of the occult, with a focus on the historical and anthropological aspects of magic and the belief in magic.

Alexandria
The Journal of Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth & Culture. See also Phanes Press.

Bill Heidrick's Writings
This is where Bill hangs his WWW hat these days.

BOTA Home Page
The Builders of the Adytum (no connection with page editor)

The Tree of Life
Attractively designed site with considerable content.

Servants of the Light School of Occult Science
Long established Western Esoteric Tradition teaching organisation (no connection with page editor)

The Hermetic Journal

The Hermetic Library (Alchemy Site)
An excellent site with unusual and interesting content. (Note 29th. March 1999 - this site keeps getting better)

A Hasty Presentation of Two Versions of a Cosmological Diagram
Pictures of Chinese T'ai Chi diagrams, with commentary by Richard Brzustowicz. Something that looks suspiciously like an oriental Tree of Life. Worth a look.

OGDOS Home page
The Oxford Golden Dawn Occult Society

Corpus Stavish: The Writings of Mark Stavish
Writings on hermetic, magical and kabbalistic topics

What Kabbalah Means to Me
An imaginative and well presented personal viewpoint on Kabbalah

Basic Kabbalah
A Beginner's Introduction by Karen Chapdelaine

The Enochian World of Benjamin Rowe
Benjamin Rowe (aka Josh Norton) has spent many years using the magical system communicated to Dr. John Dee by angels in the 1580's.

Enochian MSS
A useful bibliography of primary and secondary source material relating to Dr. John Dee's angelic communications.

The Equinox
This site has a very usable version of Aleister Crowley's occult periodical The Equinox, typed in with heroic perseverance by Bill Heidrick. The Equinox is so large you might prefer to do what I did - download the whole site and read it offline.

Ordo Templi Orientis History
A massive quantity of information available on OTO history. Unfortunately (for me) some of the more interesting documents are written in German.

Christian Kabbalah
Essay on Renaissance Christian Kabbalah

Hermetic Alchemical Order of the QBLH
This site was designed by the person who designed Times Square. Check all your multimedia extensions before even thinking of visiting this site. Remember to upload the Netscape EctoPlayer helper application to give your WWW invocatory uploads more substance (Dittany of Crete is old hat these days).

The Templum Kabbalah Course Site
This site has several interesting resources for ritual and hermetic kabbalah.

Voice of the Shuttle - Classical Studies
Excellent links to online resources.

Cabala - Tercer Genesis
Spanish Cabala site with Spanish source material. Includes a translation of my own Notes on Kabbalah.

Jewish Kabbalah & Judaism

Bnei-Baruch Kabbalah Home Page
Authentic Jewish Kabbalah site.

M. Alan Kazlev's Kabbalah Site
An amazing site. Excellent for the Kabbalah alone. Follow some of the sneaky little links to related subjects and suddenly the entire mystical corpus of the world unfolds like an exploding pop-up book. Recommended.

The Sefer Yetzirah
The Wescott translation - not the best, but online beggars can't be choosers. See also this version compiled by Bill Heidrick. Alternatively use a search engine ... there are many online copies.

The Tomer Devorah by Moses Cordovero
A religious and mystical classic, this work was written in the 16th. century by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero.

Shaar HaYichud,
The Book Of Unification, of the Mittler Rebbe, the Holy Reb DovBer of Lubavitch. Translated by Rabbi Yossi Markel.

Kabbalah Online
Kabbalah from a Chassidic viewpoint, from R. Yossi Markel.

Kabbalah
By Jeff Spiegel, subtitled Jewish Kabbalah Meditation from Torah to Self-improvement to Prophecy. This is a very impressive site. Recommended.

The Work of the Chariot
Important Kabbalah site created by Daniel Feldman. There are several on-line translations of core texts such as the Sepher Yetzirah, some parts of the Zohar, and other works.

Religious Studies 463: Jewish Mysticism
Course notes by Prof. Eliezer Segal at the University of Calgary. Excellent outline material.

Rabbi I. A. Kook
Presentation of the ideas and teachings of the Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865 - 1935), formerly first Rabbi of Eretz Israel.

Nehuda Press
"In The Shadow of The Ladder - Introductions to Kabbalah by Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag."
Translated by Mark and Yedidah Cohen. Haven't seen it, but it comes with excellent recommendations.

The Donmeh of the Internet
WWW site and mailing list devoted to the Sabbatean movement and the extraordinary life of Sabbatai Tzevi.

Kabbalah Bibliographical Guide
But see also the comprehensive bibliographies by Don Karr.

Kabbalah and Chassidut
Gateway to the Inner Dimension of Jewish Mysticism from
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Messianism Reading List Index


Studying the Kabbalah
Purports to be an extract from the autobiography of Solomon Maimon, 1792

Judaica Collection
A large collection of links

Project Genesis: Torah on the Information Superhighway


Solomon Schechter Academy
Montreal-based academy with an interesting Judaic Studies links list.

An Internet Guide to Chabad Literature

Aesch Mezareph
A 16th. century text on alchemy, written by someone with a background in Kabbalah.

Historical

Traditio: subject index
A general historical reading list of stupendous proportions.

A Summary of Pythagorean Theology
by John Opsopaus. There are some exceptionally fine articles on the WWW these days, and this is one of them. The similarity between some aspects of the theosophic structure of Kabbalah and some aspects of Pythagoreanism have been observed since the Renaissance (e.g. Johann Reuchlin). What this means is unclear, but anyone who is interested in the foundations of Kabbalah is certain to be intrigued.

Burckhardt
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt. Massive reference work on the period - important for the beginnings of Christian and Hermetic Kabbalah.

Galileo Project
Entry point into the Galileo Project's massive store of information. Includes biographies of over 631 individuals from the 16th & 17th centuries, including Dr. John Dee, and many important alchemists - see Catalog of the Scientific Community. A superb historical resource for the Hermetic historian.

Plato
All philosophy is footnotes to Plato.

New Advent Catholic Supersite: Fathers of the Church
This site contains a superb collection of patristic literature - that is, very early works by Roman and Greek Christian fathers which is of outstanding historical importance for understanding the relationship of early Christianity to Gnosticism and Neoplatonism - both of which relate to Kabbalah.

The Gnostic Society Library
Highly recommended. A very large collection of essential gnostic source material (and much besides).

Decline of the Library of Alexandria
Ever wondered why people queued-up to set fire to this most-famous of all libraries? This great little essay is the history of its glacially slow combustion.

Biblioteca Arcana
This is one of my favourite WWW sites - a collection of essays on Graeco-Roman magic and traditions, along with many translations of otherwise hard-to-find material.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE)

Perseus Project Homepage
This is a major collection of classical (Graeco-Roman) literature. I still haven't forgiven them for not having "De Mysteriis" by Iamblichus. Humph. [Aside, stage whisper: Ha! But the Petersons now have Iamblichus. Double Ha!]

Sacred and Religious Texts
Your favourite version of the Truth ... online.

The Alchemy WWW Site and Virtual Library
The definitive online resource for alchemy.

Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
An academic site with some wonderfully arcane content. The section on Jewish, Christian and Pagan magic is particularly good.

Lilith
Pages devoted to the Lilith myth.

Mystical

Mysticism in World Religions
Large site, includes material on Kabbalah.

Links to Contemplative Resources
Well chosen links to some major repositories

General Occult Links

Lucky Mojo
Fascinating site run by Catherine & Tyagi Nagasiva Yronwode. Tyagi is one of the great eclectics, and his essays are worth reading for their antinomian perspectives.

Anathema Books: Occult Books and Occult Resources
I don't normally carry links to commercial sites, but I made this an exception.

Miscellaneous

Margo's Magical Letter Page
Sound Symbolism, Phonosemantics, Phonetic Symbolism, Mimologics, Iconism, Cratylus, Ideophones, Synaesthesia, The Alphabet, The Word.
Kabbalists have always deconstructed language in curious ways. A site that explores some of the less well-known attributes of language and sound. Recommended.

The Ted Hughes Homepage
I hadn't realised that UK Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (now deceased) had been strongly influenced by hermeticism, platonism and kabbalah. Dr. Ann Skea has been investigating many of these influences in his poetry. Of particular interest is her essay Poetry and Magic, "... an analysis of Birthday Letters, and Ted Hughes' use of Tarot and Cabbala in this sequence".

Sacred Geometry
There are many hints and suggestions of an ancient connection between numbers, geometry and Kabbalah, giving rise to speculation (from antiquity) that the teachings of Pythagoras are Middle-Eastern in origin. This essay on the numerology of the Platonic Solids is worth a read. See also Leonora Leet's The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah.

Principia Cybernetica Web
Principia Cybernetica tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies. I find it difficult to express the extent of my admiration for this site. A superbly hyperlinked exposition with 18,000 documents pointed to by 10,000 links. And it is literate, clear, and enjoyable.

The World of Ken Wilber
Hermetic Kabbalah provides what is very much a holistic worldview. Ken Wilber is an influential modern exponent of what one might call "the perennial philosophy", as represented throughout history by individuals such as the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus. Wilber's Sex, Ecology, Spirituality is the best modern exposition of this viewpoint that I have found, and I admire this work greatly.

The Meditation Site
An introduction to practical meditation techniques from all over the world. What a good idea!

Religious Movements Homepage: Qabalah/Kabbalah
Observe how Kabbalah is located in the general religious firmament.

The Metaphysics Research Lab Home Page
Motivated by similar concerns as historical Kabbalists, this is what Kabbalah turns into when you give it to academics. Hardcore modern metaphysics. Don't tell them about this link - they'd be mortified!

The Dan Clore Necronomicon Page
Was Abdul Alhazred influenced by Merkhabah mysticism? You won't find the answer here.

Project Gutenberg Master Index
This is the best source for online copies of out-of-copyright literature. Did you know all of William Blake was online? This is great when you want to search for every instance of Goolganooza (which I do each morning after my press-ups).

Kronos Quartet: The Dream and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
What this has to do with the "Father of Kabbalah" is left as an exercise to the reader.