Collection of Treatises on the Occult Sciences

taught to their successors by word of
mouth, and so on to others in a
perpetual order; for this reason, this science was
named Kabbalah From the Hebrew 'Qabbalah', meaning 'received tradition'., which word signifies a science
received. This is why the Hebrews, having
learned it by tradition, have thus named it
Kabbalah. And later, Moses received it from God
himself and communicated it to the seventy
elders, just as Hilaire Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310–367 AD), a Bishop and Doctor of the Church. certifies
expressly, who made use of the second
Psalm: Why have the nations
raged? original: "quare fremuerunt gentes" from Psalm 2:1.
which means "why have the nations
trembled?" I perceive that the same Moses,
although he had written the letters and the words
of the Old Testament, nevertheless he possessed
separately certain more secret mysteries
which he had hidden for the elders, who
since that time have taught this doctrine.
The Lord speaks in his Gospel through these
words: The scribes and the Pharisees sit
upon the chair of Moses; observe and do A reference to Matthew 23:2-3.