Poetry Chaikhana
Sacred Poetry from Around the World

Jewish

13th Century

About Rabbi Abraham Abulafia

Timeline (1240 - ?)

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English version by
Jerome Rothenberg and Harris Lenowitz

Original Language
Hebrew

Circles 2 (from Life of the Future World)

Recommended Books

	A Big Jewish Book: Poems and Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg
	Meditation and Kabbalah, by Aryeh Kaplan

(circle 5)
o look here now this is the way itself

(circle 6)
by which you'll understand the gilgul metempsychosis complete

(circle 7)
the one I now write in the circle

(circle 8)
the intention of the explanation

(center circle 9)
way that may be understood as three-fold gilgul metempsychosis

     (spokes)
     the chosen way
     disclosing
     secrets
     of the world
     & man

-- from A Big Jewish Book: Poems and Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg

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About Rabbi Abraham Abulafia

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Sacred Poetry from Around the World