Kabbalah: Key to Your Inner Power (Mystical Paths of the World's Religions)

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Summary: Beware of Cults
Review: Before considering reading anything by Elizabeth Claire Prophet, read this eye-popping report at ... ...

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Summary: This is where to begin and where to end studying the Kabbala
Review: I almost gave up studying the Kabbalah in depth given the difficulty and general "user-unfriendliness" of most deeper books. Have you ever tried starting with the 3-volume "Wisdom of the Zohar"?? This book is astonishing in that while there is always more scope for study of this subject of course, Prophet's work is not only by far the best introduction to Kabbalism, but gave me the best idea of the subject's history and origins, the purpose and use of this esoteric system, and even topics barely mentioned elsewhere. For example, what did the original Kabbalistic mystics actually DO? How does the Kabbalah connect with the subject of twin souls? And how to use "the science of the spoken word" in conjunction with the Kabbalah? Finally, with this great guide, exhaustively researched, I feel able to read other works with true understanding and application.

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Summary: an excellent book
Review: I heard about Kabbalism and was interested in learning more about it so I came to the Amazon.com website to see if I could find a book about it. When I read the review of this book that another user wrote, I decided to purchase it. It was just as excellent as the other user had said it was. I found it explained many concepts that I had learned from the Bible/church and Catholic school in a way that made them make so much sense to me. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wanted to know more about those topics discussed in the Bible and who wanted to understand them more fully. I also enjoyed the book "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life" by Drunvalho Melchizedek that contained many of the same things that were in Mrs. Prophet's book and explained them just as well and she did.

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Summary: basic info but BE WARNED
Review: This book isn't bad as a jumping off point for the basic structure and meaning of each aspect of the Kabbalah. Beware though that Prophet ventures into the realm of applying Kabbalah to the Eastern Chakra system and does so BADLY. All of Ms. Prophet's color correspondences for the the chakras are just plain WRONG. Skip the chakra section altogether.