The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah (Samael Aun Weor)
Mystical Crapola
[My 1-star Amazon review (NDA) of “The Initiatic Path of Tarot and Kabbalah” by Samael Aun Weor.]
I have read numerous books on the Kabbalah (Kabbalah, by Moshe Idel, The Essential Kabbalah, by Daniel Matt, Meditation and Kabbalah, by Aryeh Kaplan, The Way, by Michael Berg, and Introduction to the Cabala, and the Work of the Kabbalist, by Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi, The Key to the True Kabbalah, Franz Bardon, et al.) and some on the Qabalah (The Mystical Qabalah, by Dion Fortune, 777 and Other Qababalistic Writings, by Aleister Crowley, and The Tree of Life, by Israel Regardie), so I think I’m eminently qualified to review this book.
In short, “The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah” is worst book I’ve read on the Kabbalah (and Tarot), and that’s saying something, because most of the ones I’ve read suck. Anybody who gives this book more than a single star is clueless, or worse. The author, Samael Aun Weor, makes one erroneous statement after another, and hasn’t the foggiest insight into real mysticism and occultism. His sefirotic attributions are ridiculous, and on top of his mumbo-jumbo pseudo-mysticism and off-base occultism, the man, who bills himself as a master, clearly suffered from a messianic complex.
In the book’s Prologue, it immediately become evident how lost in space Weor was. He writes: “The author of the Tarot was the Angel Metraton. He is the Lord of the Serpent Wisdom. The Bible refers to him as the Prophet Enoch.” Complete fabricated nonsense. Then he writes, “Binah is the Holy Spirit, the igneous power. Again, ridiculous. Binah correlates with the planet Saturn and worldly understanding, and has nothing to with the Holy Spirit. Here’s one more example of Weor’s idiocy: “All of those students that practice esoteric exercises wiwithout working on the Arcanum A.Z.F. are similar to the man who is foolish enough to build his house on the sand. His house will fall with a great crash to the Abyss. We must build upon the Living Rock. This Rock is the sex.” The rest of the book is more of the same garbage.
In sum, there is nothing good or redeeming about this book; it is simply mystical crapola.
[My 1-star Amazon review (NDA) of “The Initiatic Path of Tarot and Kabbalah” by Samael Aun Weor.]
I have read numerous books on the Kabbalah (Kabbalah, by Moshe Idel, The Essential Kabbalah, by Daniel Matt, Meditation and Kabbalah, by Aryeh Kaplan, The Way, by Michael Berg, and Introduction to the Cabala, and the Work of the Kabbalist, by Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi, The Key to the True Kabbalah, Franz Bardon, et al.) and some on the Qabalah (The Mystical Qabalah, by Dion Fortune, 777 and Other Qababalistic Writings, by Aleister Crowley, and The Tree of Life, by Israel Regardie), so I think I’m eminently qualified to review this book.
In short, “The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah” is worst book I’ve read on the Kabbalah (and Tarot), and that’s saying something, because most of the ones I’ve read suck. Anybody who gives this book more than a single star is clueless, or worse. The author, Samael Aun Weor, makes one erroneous statement after another, and hasn’t the foggiest insight into real mysticism and occultism. His sefirotic attributions are ridiculous, and on top of his mumbo-jumbo pseudo-mysticism and off-base occultism, the man, who bills himself as a master, clearly suffered from a messianic complex.
In the book’s Prologue, it immediately become evident how lost in space Weor was. He writes: “The author of the Tarot was the Angel Metraton. He is the Lord of the Serpent Wisdom. The Bible refers to him as the Prophet Enoch.” Complete fabricated nonsense. Then he writes, “Binah is the Holy Spirit, the igneous power. Again, ridiculous. Binah correlates with the planet Saturn and worldly understanding, and has nothing to with the Holy Spirit. Here’s one more example of Weor’s idiocy: “All of those students that practice esoteric exercises wiwithout working on the Arcanum A.Z.F. are similar to the man who is foolish enough to build his house on the sand. His house will fall with a great crash to the Abyss. We must build upon the Living Rock. This Rock is the sex.” The rest of the book is more of the same garbage.
In sum, there is nothing good or redeeming about this book; it is simply mystical crapola.
