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catchword: Epilogus

The Kabbalistic faculty and the Talmudic faculty exchange teachings and studies . . . 17. E
Kabbalists devote themselves to contemplation; they are men of speculation among the Masters of the Law . . . 17. F
Kabbalists occupy a higher place and a worthier rank than the Talmudists . . . 17. C
The interpretation of a single scripture is different for Kabbalists and Talmudists . . . 17. H
Kabbalah does not permit us to live on the ground original: humi degere; a metaphor for remaining in a lowly, purely material state of mind, and concerning the rapture of Kabbalists . . . 20. L
Contradictories coincide; Being and Non-being are the same thing . . . 23. Q
The Kabbalist breaks through the darkness by means of Kabbalah and grasps the true light . . . 23. R
The Kabbalist strikes up a friendship with angels and performs wondrous things . . . 23. S
What Kabbalah is understood to be . . . 57. E
The contemplation of the highest and divine matters; by whom and to what extent . . . 57. H
Before the creation there was nothing except God, the Tetragrammaton: the sacred four-letter name of God, YHWH, and His wisdom . . . 60. K
Correct contemplation depends upon the twenty-four books of Holy Scripture . . . 71. X
The third part of the Kabbalistic art . . . 81. R
The combination of letters alone, once transformed, is the focus in the Book of Ietzira: the Sefer Yetzirah or "Book of Formation," a foundational text of Jewish mysticism . . . 83. A
On the manifold diversity of the heavens . . . 85. H
Individual [celestial] bodies have their own angelic rulers . . . 85. I
That Kabbalist is a fool who attributes miracles to shapes alone, or to spoken words . . . 87. M
What deification original: deificatio; the mystical process of being made divine or achieving union with God is . . . 4. H
The desire for divinity is naturally implanted in man, and how it is fulfilled . . . 4. L
Divine things are not known through logical demonstration . . . 26. E
Defense of Pythagoras against his slanderers, and how it is to be understood . . . 35. N
On Gods and men . . . 48. Y
God is the principle of unity; He is above unity and above every being . . . 73. D
To know of God only that which He Himself has revealed to us ought to be enough . . . 73. E
The Tetragrammaton-God [having] died original: Deus Tetragrammatus mortuus; likely a reference to the Christian Kabbalistic interpretation of the Incarnation and the death of Christ . . . 82. T
God is also named in the plural, on account of His many relationships . . . 85. E
On harmful demons . . . 86. K
On remedies against harmful demons . . . 86. L
Eloquence is not restricted by brevity of speech . . . 8. H
Epilogue of the first book; and that divine matters are not discerned by human reason . . . 26. D
Epilogue of the statements in the first book, and on the true Savior . . . 33. L
On the Ethics, Economics, and Politics of Pythagoras . . . 50. B