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Course Pack 1, Apophatic Abrahamic: the cover beside source sheet 1 (Vital in Hebrew) and source sheet 2 (Dionysius in Greek)
The cover, source sheet 1 (Hebrew) and source sheet 2 (Greek), as printed.
Course Pack 1 · first edition

Apophatic Abrahamic: how can anything be said of God?

A drop-in teaching module of one session, one week or three weeks. One question, whether any positive predicate can be said of God, followed through three traditions in their own words: Vital and Maimonides, Dionysius the Areopagite, the kalam of the attributes and Ibn Arabi.

  • A syllabus in three shapes, with full citations
  • Four comparative source sheets: Hebrew, Greek and Arabic beside English, each link between traditions labelled as documented transmission or structural parallel
  • Three assignments with rubrics, a discussion ladder, and instructor notes naming the standard translation to set beside each Hekhal draft
  • 27 typeset pages, plus editable Word and Markdown files for your learning platform (course licence)

Hekhal's English renderings are machine-assisted drafts and are labelled as such; the original-language text is the text of record. A reviewed edition follows, and every buyer of this edition receives it free. Read the free sample week first.

Course licence
$300

One instructor, one section, one academic term. Host it in your course's LMS, print it, adapt it.

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Self-study edition
$29

The same pack for one reader's own study. Not for classroom distribution.

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Department or multi-section licence, an invoice for your institution, or a pack built around your own syllabus: see For Institutions or write to [email protected].

For the classroom · new

One Question, Three Traditions

Seven one-page charts that set Jewish, Christian and Islamic mysticism side by side on a single question, each with a student worksheet and an answer key. Every line between two traditions is marked T, documented transmission, or S, a parallel with no documented contact, so students learn to tell influence from resemblance. Each chart prints its key terms and one short quotation in Hebrew, Greek or Arabic, with an exact reference.

  1. Chart 1: How did God make the world?01How did God make the world?
  2. Chart 2: What does it mean to call God light?02What does it mean to call God light?
  3. Chart 3: Can God be named?03Can God be named?
  4. Chart 4: Was there a perfect Human before the first human?04Was there a perfect Human before the first human?
  5. Chart 5: Is there a map of the journey inward?05Is there a map of the journey inward?
  6. Chart 6: Who may climb to heaven?06Who may climb to heaven?
  7. Chart 7: What becomes of the self in union with God?07What becomes of the self in union with God?
One Question, Three Traditions · seven classroom comparison charts · 23-page PDF · US Letter and A4, a teacher guide, and every chart as a separate file. For world religions, AP World History and introductory courses.
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One Question, Three Traditions · department edition · Every teacher in one school: the seven charts with worksheets and keys, plus an editable Word worksheet and answer key for each chart and a 16:9 projection deck per chart (the chart, each tradition in its own words, a T-or-S slide to argue, the evidence, discussion).
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One Question, Three Traditions · district or network licence · The department edition for every school in a district, diocese or network, plus a live 60-minute online session for your teachers on the transmission-or-parallel method, booked at a time that suits you. Purchase orders and invoices: write to the editor.
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Try one first: download chart 7, “What becomes of the self in union with God?”, free (reference chart, worksheet and answer key). The charts adapt Hekhal’s Rosetta maps, released under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are shared under the same licence.

Printable editions

Diagrams and term cards typeset from the Hekhal editions, with every source named on the print. Each is a PDF in several sizes, to print at home or at any print shop. Nothing is shipped.

The Divine Darkness · six term cards from the Mystical Theology

The Divine Darkness · six term cards from the Mystical Theology

Gnophos, agnosia, hyperousios, hyperagnostos, hyperphaes, mystikos: six illuminated cards in Greek with their loci in Dionysius, plus two grid sheets.

$7Buy · $7
The Merkavah Vocabulary · six Hebrew term cards

The Merkavah Vocabulary · six Hebrew term cards

Merkavah, chayyot, ofanim, hashmal, kisei ha-kavod, heikhal: six illuminated cards with the Hebrew of each locus, from Ezekiel to the Heikhalot.

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All seven prints · the complete set · The Seven Palaces, the Tree of the Sefirot, the Union Triangle, both card sets, the Three Rivers timeline and the Alphabet of Creation, in one download.
$35Buy · $35

Each print names its sources in its credits. Where the English follows the Hekhal Targum drafts, which are machine-assisted and pending scholarly review, the print says so. These are documents about historical texts and make no claim about ritual use or effect.

A live course · founding seats

Reading the Abrahamic mystics side by side

Four live online sessions of 75 minutes with the editor, weekly from the week of January 11, 2027, capped at 25. Founding seats are $149 (the course will be $199). The course runs only if at least 8 seats are taken; if not, every founding seat is refunded in full. Every seat includes the department edition of the classroom charts, and three seats are free for readers who could not otherwise attend.

  1. The Merkavah ascent. The Heikhalot palaces and their gatekeepers, beside Paul’s third heaven and the mi‘raj.
  2. Dionysius and the way of unsaying. The divine darkness, the Kabbalists’ Ayin, and Ibn Arabi’s tanzih: can God be named?
  3. Ibn Arabi and al-Jili on the Perfect Human. al-Insan al-Kamil beside Adam Kadmon and the Naassene Adamas.
  4. The question the traditions still dispute. Henosis, fana and theosis, and whether the mystics describe the same experience, argued from the evidence.

Each session reads the key passage in Hebrew, Greek or Arabic beside Hekhal’s English, argues a real scholarly dispute from both sides, and ends with the class judging each link between traditions as documented transmission or parallel. No languages are needed. As a capstone, each participant builds a three-tradition map of their own; with permission, the best are published on Hekhal with credit. Educators also leave with a classroom version of each session.

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Three seats are free for readers who could not otherwise attend: write to the editor.

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