The Sepher Yetzirah , or Book of Formation , although very short, is probably the most important of the Kabalistic texts.
He is the creator of the Rider-Waite tarot and is the author of several books including Book of Black Magic and Pictorial Keys to the Tarot ..
Waite (1857-1942) is one of the bestknown authors and translators of magic and the occult.
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The introduction by Waite surveys the historical background of the Sepher Yetzirah translations and the import of this foundational Kabbalistic text.
Several authors have done this before, but Stenring asserts that he arrived at his correspondences on his own.
Also unique in this translation is Stenring\'s assignment of certain tarot cards to the paths on the Tree of Life.
His Master Key to the Theoretical and Practical Kabala is a diagram of the correspondences between the English and Hebrew alphabets and is not found in other translations of the Sepher Yetzirah .
He reveals the text\'s secrets in his diagrams, tables, and extensive notes.
Stenring has made a word-for-word translation from several texts, choosing only those parts which he believed to be authentic.
As such, it is a seminal text for all serious magicians.
It also sets forth the Hebrew doctrine of Logos--the creation of the world in numbers, letters, and sound.
It lays out the principles of Kabalistic cosmology and the Tree of Life, how humankind (the microcosm) reflects the Divine (the macrocosm).
Its secrets were passed on in the Hebrew oral tradition until it was written down in the 2nd century b.c.e.
The Sepher Yetzirah , or Book of Formation , although very short, is probably the most important of the Kabalistic texts
