The More Select and Obscure Dogmas of the Kabbalists

& I will be their God, and they shall be my people. In the pursuit of grasping this wisdom, among other things that are sought after, I observe that nothing is more desirable, nothing more useful, and likewise nothing more holy, than the way the monuments of the most ancient, orthodox, and more secret Theologians original: "Theologorum." In this context, Archangelus specifically refers to the ancient Kabbalists, whom he views as "secret theologians" whose works are being rediscovered. are now emerging into the light everywhere. For what could have ever been more necessary for the benefit of the Church original: "Ecclesiae.", or for the convenience and progress of students? Indeed, the Church will stand safer and firmer through works of this kind—even by these very minute safeguards—and the talents of these students are always trained toward a better harvest. For antiquity itself possesses I know not what peculiar gift in treating arduous matters and investigating divine affairs, which Marcus Cicero The Roman orator and philosopher Cicero. also seems to have understood when, in his inquiries discussing weighty causes, he says:

The men who existed in those ancient ages, the closer they were to the birth of the world, the more blessed they were in character and mind. A paraphrase from Cicero’s "Tusculan Disputations," book 1, section 12. Archangelus uses this pagan authority to argue that older sources are closer to divine truth.

If he seems to have spoken aptly concerning ethnic i.e., Pagan or non-Christian. men, how much more correctly can we affirm this of our own? And even more so of the more secret Theologians, who, in the explanation of the sacred letters, do not delay the reader with various and subtle questions. They do not pursue battles of useless words and superfluous conflicts (from which envy, contention, and slander are accustomed to sprout). Instead, they are entirely occupied with this: to more diligently extract the spirit hiding within the letter of the law like a certain husk original: "corticem." A common metaphor in mystical thought where the literal text is the "shell" or "bark" (cortex) that must be peeled away to reach the spiritual "kernel.", so that they may thus affect the mind, change the perception, lift the soul upward, and finally transform the whole man, as great as he is. And in performing this, they do not anxiously procure outside aids, but following the sentiment of the Apostle, they compare spiritual things with spiritual original: "spiritualibus spiritualia." A reference to 1 Corinthians 2:13, a key verse for justifying the allegorical and mystical interpretation of Scripture., and they blend together a vast power of the scriptures gathered from every side from the sacred letters original: "sacris literis," referring to the Holy Scriptures. as if from fountains (not without great judgment). Which...