title: Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar's Conversations with Christianity
author: Ellen D. Haskell
description: <br>"Haskell's revelation of arguments against Christian claims throughout the Zohar transforms our understanding of this central work of medieval Jewish mysticism and illuminates Jewish resistance to a persecuting society. This original and provocative book persuasively demonstrates that coerced sermons and disputes, attacks on Jewish books and beliefs, and the triumphalist religious art and architecture of thirteenth-century Spain fomented an anti-Christian polemic, hidden in plain sight in the Zohar's pages."-Judith R. Baskin, Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean for Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon <br>
zlib_text: Madame Blavatsky on the history and tribulations of the Zohar v. 19.10, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 17 September 2019 
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  Madame Blavatsky on the histo-
  ry and tribulations of the Zohar 
   
   
  
  BLAVATSKY SPEAKS SERIES 
  A COUP D’OEIL AT THE HISTORY AND TRIBULATIONS OF THE ZOHAR 
  ABSTRACT AND TRAIN OF THOUGHTS 
  Madame Blavatsky on the history and tribulations of the Zohar v. 19.10, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 17 September 2019 
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  Abstract and train of thoughts
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  A coup d’oeil at the history and tribulations of the Zohar 
  The European Occultists see in the Jewish Kabbalah alone the universal well of wisdom 
  and find in it the secret lore of nearly all the mysteries of Nature. For them the Zohar is 
  an Esoteric Thesaurus of all the mysteries of the Christian Gospel. 
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  The Esoteric language used by the Alchemists was their own, given out as a blind 
  necessitated by the dangers of the epoch they lived in, and not as the Mystery-language, 
  as used by the Pagan In