On the Nature and Origin of the Doctrine of Emanation among the Kabbalists

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    Thirdly, the question can easily be answered: Whether the Alexandrian-Egyptian or any Greek philosophy; or the Chaldean-Persian; or finally a so-called holy science, which the patriarchs of the Hebrews: the biblical forefathers, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are said to have possessed, is to be regarded as the actual and true ancestral mother of the Kabbalistic emanation system.