Renaissance magic
Moses Cordovero
Ramak · Moshe Cordovero
The great systematiser. Pardes Rimonim gathers three centuries of kabbalistic writing into one ordered account, and is still the clearest statement of what the sefirot were taken to be before Luria.
- Dates
- 1522 – 1570
- Dating
- documented dates
- Born
- Safed
- Died
- Safed
The life
He taught in Safed and died there two years before Luria, having written an enormous amount by the age of forty-eight.
Place in the tradition
Where this site's Hermetic tree gets its twenty-two channels: Pardes Rimonim 7:1 enumerates them as the opinion of the commentators, and then rejects two of them.
a note on the record
History and later legend
His system was overtaken by Luria's within a generation, which has left him persistently under-read.
the written record
Principal works
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written 1548; printed Kraków 1592
Pardes Rimonim
פרדס רמונים
Orchard of Pomegranates: thirty-two gates systematising the whole inheritance. Its seventh gate enumerates the twenty-two channels this site's Hermetic tree draws, and then refuses two of them.
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