Jewish Magic from the Renaissance Period to Early Hasidism; Moshe Idel, Hebrew University.
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Spanish Kabbalists โ โThe real purpose of the exile was to destroy the powers of evil, and mete out appropriate justice to the gentiles who were inspired by these powersโ.
โThe distance between Jewish elitist magic and Christian Renaissance magic is, indeed, not a very great oneโ.
โThe plight of Spanish Jews on the historical level influenced the adoption of a more extreme type of magicโ.
โThe interest in magic in the circle of Kabbalists of della Reina can be conceived as an attempt to isolate Jews from their Christian environment by the demonization of Christianityโ.
โBut we have seen someone who designed amulets which refer to the [attribute] of [stern] judgement [using the color of] redโ.
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โSome of the ancients commented that by the combination and permutation of the Name of 72 [letters], after a great concentration [of mind], the righteousโฆ will receive a revelation of an aspect of Bat Kolโ.
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โThe quintessence of the [mystical] intention [of the prayer] is that the person who prays should direct his intention to cause the descent of the spirituality from the supernal degrees to the letters which he pronouncesโ.
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โUsing Kabbalistic formulas based on the divine name consisting of forty-two letters, those two devils were forced to descend and were then bound and sealed by the letters, in order to facilitate the advent of the Messiahโ.
โThe magician was at the same time a Kabbalist who received revelations whose essence was the reinstatement of the pristine science and the victory of Judaism over Christianity and Islam in the messianic eonโ.
โThe disclosure of Kabbalistic books before the advent of the Messiah was related to the eschatological wars to be waged by the hidden โ that is, the lost โ tribes, who would be able to overcome the power of Christianity by using their knowledge of practical magicโ.
โIf Molkho intended to bring about the abolishment of Christianity by using magic, then his contacts with the pope might have been motivated by his intention to fight Christianity in its very strongholdโ.
โThis Kabbalist, who died as a martyr during the pogroms in 1648 in Russia, attempted to combat Christianity using magical Kabbalah and, like his Spanish predecessors, he conceived Christianity in demonic termsโ.
โThe magical and the mystical teachings of the Besht have messianic implications and he may be regarded as a redemptive figure whose activity includes magical facetsโ.
โMoses is portrayed ascending on high in order to receive the Torah and afterward to contest with the hostile angelsโฆ the work of Moses seems to be similar to that of the Beshtโ.
โTo receive the power and spiritual force of the planet Saturn, he has to dress [in] black and he will wrap himself in black [clothes] and will cover the place he stood upon with black clothes and will eat things which increase the dark bileโ.
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