SEepher Yetzirah – Il Libro della Formazione – Istruzioni per creare e realizzare il Golem

The Book of Formation – Instructions for creating and making the Golem SEPHER YETZIRAH, probably written in Palestine in the second or third century, IS THE TEXT FROM WHICH THE KABBALAH WAS BORN as a meditative discipline but also with magical-operative content. Its influence was decisive in defining the mental disciplines capable of opening higher states of consciousness, thus, leading to asceticism, and in providing a doctrinal system consistent with the teachings that make possible for the mind to influence human beings and the world. Respected and commented on by the greatest exponents of ancient Jewish thought, it was an essential text for the development of magical doctrines from the Renaissance to the modern era. • The nature of the Sepher Yetzirah is that of a grimoire, that is a manual of magic practised in the evocation of otherworldly entities with which to establish a relationship to one\\\’s advantage. TRANSLATED FROM THE EBRAIC AND VASTLY COMMENTED, the Sepher Yetzirah is presented in its THREE PRINCIPAL VERSIONS, together with the \\\’Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom\\\’ that describe the stages of asceticism, and the \\\’Fifty Gates of Understanding\\\’.