# Kabbalah · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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The Canon · No. 062
Kabbalah
Jewish mysticism; the received tradition
c.12th c. CE (as a distinct tradition) – present · Abrahamic · Living · Provence, Spain, Safed, Eastern Europe; global
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.2nd–6th c. CE Merkavah mysticism; ascent to the divine chariot.
- c.1150–1200 CE The Bahir appears in Provence; the sefirot are named.
- c.1280 CE The Zohar circulates in Castile.
- <strong>1492 CE</strong> Expulsion from Spain. The catastrophe that Lurianic Kabbalah is, in effect, a theological response to.
- 1534–1572 CE Isaac Luria at Safed; tzimtzum, shattering and tikkun.
- 1626–1676 CE Shabbetai Zvi proclaimed messiah on Lurianic grounds; mass movement across the Jewish world; he converts to Islam under Ottoman threat in 1666. The collapse discredits public messianism and makes rabbinic authorities deeply wary of Kabbalah.
- 1698–1760 CE The Baal Shem Tov; Hasidism turns Kabbalah into a popular, joyful, accessible piety.
- 1875–1947 CE Western occultists — the Golden Dawn, Crowley — appropriate the Tree of Life, detach it from Judaism, and combine it with tarot and astrology.
- 1969–present The Kabbalah Centre popularises a commercial version; mainstream Jewish authorities largely disown it.
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