Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magic

by David Godwin, Aleister Crowley (Contributor)

One of the most trusted reference works ever published on the Cabala has been revised and expanded. Featuring a new and more usable format, this book is a complete guide to cabalistic magick and gematria in which every demon, angel, power and name of God ... every Sephirah, Path, and Plane of the Tree of Life ... and each attribute and association is fully described and cross-indexed by the Hebrew, English, and numerical forms. All entries are now incorporated into one comprehensive dictionary. There are hundreds of new entries and illustrations, making this book even more beneficial for Cabalistic pathworking and meditation. It now has many new Hebrew words and names, as well as the terms of Freemasonry, the entities of the Cthulhu mythos, and the Aurum Solis spellings for the names of the demons of the Goetia. It contains authentic Hebrew spellings, and a new introduction that explains the uses of the book for meditation on God names.

The Cabalistic schema is native to the human psyche, and Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia will be an invaluable reference tool for all Cabalists, magicians, scholars and scientists of all disciplines.

Genres: Reference, Occult, Magic, Nonfiction, Research, Spirituality, Magick

832 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Michael Herrman · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can drive yourself insane with an endless cascade of coincidental correspondences. You can puzzle over the Tunnels of Set, wonder what they are, wonder why they matter, and wonder why their contemplation trumps self examination. You can do it in Hebrew. You can do it in English. You can do it all until you wonder what you've done.

[Heidi Wiechert · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an encyclopedia so I feel that the rating system doesn't really apply. Yes, it's a good reference book, but a five star one? hmmmm.

I use this mainly for the English to Hebrew (or Hebrew to English) spellings of various names. I was surprised as how difficult that information was to locate. This book takes care of that little problem and much, much more.

[Keith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely more useful for the Hermeticist than for the Jewish mystic, although the Hebrew bits are very well done in both an easily readable native font and multiple transliterations where there is doubt or conflict among sources. The prefatory and supplemental materials are quite good, though I do wish they had gone into more detail on some of the more abstruse topics collected in the encyclopedic entries themselves; e.g., the Tunnels of Set are referenced throughout, but only about one paragraph citing Kenneth Grant as the principle source of that material is given, perhaps because Godwin doesn't find it all that useful himself. It also could use more extensive descriptions on some topics within the entries to obviate the need for cross-referencing to other works, though admittedly that could well push the size of the work up to unmanageable proportions, given its existing heft. All that said, I'm sure I'll be sifting through this as a reference source quite frequently.
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[Mark Upshaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource to have on hand. I have used it for decades.

[James Staiti · Rating 5 out of 5]

The idea for this book was excellent, and fairly well-executed by the author, with the occasional typo and other such mistakes that someone familiar enough with the subject matter to make good use of this book may easily rectify.

[Samira · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is essential to our own if this is apart of your path.