The Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation)
← all texts · Kabbalah · c. 200–600 CE
What this is
The oldest Kabbalistic text — a terse cosmogony in which God creates the world through the ten Sefirot and the twenty-two Hebrew letters. The seed of all later Jewish mysticism.
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Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Zohar (introduction)
Kabbalah
The vast medieval system that grew from this short book.
The Corpus Hermeticum
Gnostic & Hermetic
Creation through divine word/number — compare the Hermetic logos.