Gershom Scholem quotes

The Kabbalah, literally 'tradition,' that is, the tradition of things divine, is the sum of Jewish mysticism. (Gershom Scholem)
The process which the Kabbalists described as the emanation of divine energy and divine light was also characterized as the unfolding of the divine language. This gives rise to a deep-seated parallelism between the two most im­portant kinds of symbolism used by the Kabbalists to communi­cate their ideas. They speak of attributes and of spheres of light; but in the same context they speak also of divine names and the letters of which they are composed. From the very beginnings of Kabbalistic doctrine these two manners of speaking appear side by side. View quote
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The elements of the divine language appear as the letters of the Holy Scriptures. View quote
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We shall start from the assumption that a mystic, insofar as he participates actively in the religious life of a community, does not act in the void. View quote
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A mystic is a man who has been favored with an immediate, and to him real, experience of the divine, of ultimate reality, or who at least strives to attain such experience. View quote
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No one has a right to speak who, in the midst of thinking, hasn't been overcome with the experience of glimpsing the essence of history. View quote
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Here I need not go into the paradoxes and mysteries of Kabbalis­tic theology concerned with the seflroth and their nature. But one important point must be made. The process which the Kabbalists described as the emanation of divine energy and divine light was also characterized as the unfolding of the divine language. View quote
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