Sepher Yetzirah/Preface


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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

It has been at the earnest wish of many students, members of the Theosophical Society, and of my Hermetic fratres of the Order of the G.D., that I have made a revised translation of the "Sepher Yetzirah." In this edition I have followed most closely the Hebrew version of Joannes Stephanus Rittangelius, which was printed in 1642 at Amsterdam, and I have forsaken many of the Latinised renderings which had been adopted in the First Edition, from the works of Postellus and Pistorius.

The Notes have been extended, and it is hoped that they explain and illustrate difficult passages, and render this abstruse treatise more comprehensible than it has been hitherto found.

W. W. W., F.T.S.


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