title: Kabbala Denudata: The Kabbalah Unveiled: Containing the Following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery & The Greater and Lesser Holy Assemblies.
author: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
description: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918), was an occultist, writer, translator and co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His translation of Christian Knorr von Rosenroth's Kaballah Denudata had a deep influence on modern western occultism, including the theosophical movement.
zlib_text: Presented to the
  LIBRARY
  of the
  UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
  by the
  CANADIAN FOUNDATION
  for
  JEWISH CULTURE
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  THE SECRET DOCTRINE
  IN ISRAEL
  
  INAH
  THE SACRED TREE OF THE SEPHIROTH
  Frontispiece
  
  THE
  SECRET DOCTRINE
  IN ISRAEL
  A STUDY OF THE ZOHAR AND
  ITS CONNECTIONS
  BY
  ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
  WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
  OCCULT RESEARCH PRESS
  Publishers
  115 FOURTH AVENUE
  NEW YORK 3, N. Y.
  
  A
  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  PREFACE
  IN
  the
  year
  1902
  I
  endeavoured
  in
  The
  Doctrine and
  Literature
  of
  the
  Kabalah
  to
  offer
  a
  consideration
  in
  detail
  of
  the
  chief
  texts
  which
  embody
  the
  Secret
  Tradition
  in
  Israel, together with some account of the
  manner
  in which
  it
  influenced
  Christian
  scholarship
  in
  Europe during
  the
  i6th,
  iyth and
  i8th
  centuries,
  or
  broadly speaking, from the period of Picus de Mirandula
  until the eve of the French Revolution.
  The publication
  of Sepher Ha Zohar,
  or
  The
  Book of Splendour, which
  is
  the palmary Kabalistic text, for the
  first time in another
  language than the or