POPPERS, MEIR. Ilan HaGadol. Edited by Aaron Meir Altschuler

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Lot 169

(KABBALAH)

POPPERS, MEIR. Ilan HaGadol. Edited by Aaron Meir Altschuler

Incorporating numerous Kabbalistic devices, charts and other displays ff. 15 leaves. Browned. Half-calf marbled boards, rubbed. Large folio Friedberg, Aleph, 1616 (unseen)

Warsaw: 1893

Est: $200 - $300

Over the ages, attempts were made to render into diagram-form the teachings of the Kabbalah concerning the structure of the spiritual universe. Known as the Ilan Hagadol (“great tree”) or Ilan Hakadosh (“holy tree”) or simply as the Ilan, this arrangement would provide the student of the esoteric lore, a clearer notion of the exact layout of this highly complex system as represented by Lurianic cosmogony