The Kabbalistic texts

This group gathers texts of Kabbalah, the tradition of Jewish mysticism. Its foundational works include the Sefer Yetzirah, the brief and ancient Book of Formation, and the Zohar, the great thirteenth-century commentary that became the central text of the tradition.

The browser will find the key works the atlas gathers. The entries describe each text's teaching, authorship and dating, distinguishing the Jewish Kabbalistic tradition from the later Christian and Hermetic adaptations that drew on it.