Lévi links the Old and New Testaments by comparing the qabalistic imagery and concepts inherent in both "The Prophecy of Ezekiel" and "The Apocalypse of St. John." Includes Lévi's illuminating commentary on Ezekiel. He explains how the description of Solomon's temple, the great sanctuary of the true God, represents the Qabalistic or traditional theology of the Hebrew seven the measurements are symbolic and refer to sacred numbers. The Mysteries of the Qabalah completes the second book in a trilogy written by the famous French esoteric scholar, Eliphas Levi. In the first part of this work, Levi links the Old and New Testaments by comparing the qabalistic imagery and concepts inherent in both "The Prophecy of Ezekiel" and "The Apocalypse of St. John". He explains how the description of Solomon's temple, the great sanctuary of the true God, represents the Qabalistic or traditional theology of the Hebrews -- even the measurements are symbolic and refer to sacred numbers. In the second part of the treatise, Levi demonstrates that "The Apocalypse of St. John" is a symbolic resume of knowledge for initiates and a key to the high Qabalah. The theology of the Hebrews can be attached to Christianity through the prophecy of Ezekiel. It served as a model for "The Apocalypse of St. John", which -- behind the emblems of the Qabalah -- hides the most profound secrets of Christian theology. Students of the Western Mystery tradition will find this material of special interest when exploring the symbolism of the Bible and Qabalah. Alphonse Louis Constant, better know by his pen name Eliphas Levi , was a master of the traditional Rosicrucian interpretation of the Kabbalah. He was born in France in 1810, and through the offices of the parish priest, was educated for the church at SaintSulpice. He was later expelled from seminary for teaching doctrines contrary to those of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1824 Levi began studying the occult sciences, and wrote about magic and the Kabbalah for the next three decades. His other books include Transcendental Magic, Mysteries of the Qabalah , and The Book of Splendours. THE MYSTERIES OF THE OABALAH, or, The Occult Agreement of the Two Testaments By ELIPHAS LÉVI Samuel Weiser, Inc. Copyright © 2000 Samuel Weiser, Inc. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-87728-940-1 Contents List of IllustrationsPreface by R. A. GilbertForewordPart One The Prophecy of EzekielPart Two The Apocalypse or Revelation of Saint JohnFirst Figure: The seven churchesSecond Figure: The seven sealsThird Figure: The seven trumpetsFourth Figure: the seven cupsThe Propheticn Plan of the Book of the ApocalypseThis is the key of the kingdomAbout the Author CHAPTER 1 And it came to pass in the thirtieth year of the fourth month. Three multiplied by ten (30) in the cycle of twelve. Division of the ternary bythe quaternary in the cycle of twelve. On the fifth day of the month. Five, the number of the soul queen of the four elements, in the science of threeas explained by ten and ruled by the movement of twelve. As I stood among the prisoners by the river Chobar. [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] The river of astral and prophetic light represented by Shin, giving life toBeth and finding reproduction through Resch. That the heavens were opened. In other words, I was given understanding of celestial analogies. And I saw the visions of God. That is, the visible hieroglyphs by means of which can be manifested the ideasone can reasonably have of God. And I looked and there came a whirlwind from the north. The impulsion of the motivating principle is given to the negative pole,manifesting itself through the positive. Impulsion of the motivating principle. Vision of a whirlwind of fire And a great cloud. The universal substance, Ether, is condensed through a movement of molecularpolarization, and matter first appears in a gaseous state, then in the form ofvapours. And a whirlwind of fire. The active force manifest in fire rushes from one pole to another, giving to allpoints of matter, or of condensed Ether, a rapid movement of rotation. Thus arebrought about the force of attraction and the force of projection. And in the universal light middle of the fire, in the centre of polarized in anastral circle, like an electrical configuration, there appears a globe of lightresembling amber or transparent gold. Cosgulation of light and formationof the electric astral nucleus And in the middle of this formation, at the central point of the primitive globefrom which radiates projection and toward which attraction is born, theappearance of four animals: 1. The eagle: air, understanding, mind, soul. 2. Man: water, knowledge, life, light. 3. The lion: fire, force, action, movement. 4. The bull: earth, work, resistance, form. In Hindu symbology the eagle is replaced by the peacock and the lion by theserpent. And this was their appearance: The forces in combinationproduce the elementary forces The animals are purel