Source books · Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala
Portae Lucis
De Porta Lucis R. Josephi Gecatilia
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In this study
In the chronology, in Paulus Ricius's account.
A free Latin translation of part of Sha'arei Orah, and the book through which Christian Europe first read a kabbalistic classic in its own language. Its title page shows a man holding a tree of ten spheres — probably the first printed image of the sefirot. It is deliberately not linked to the Sha'arei Orah Text here: the Text is Gikatilla's book, and this is a partial translation of it made for another purpose.