Texts
The library, by tradition. Every passage carries provenance. Every translation carries a status. Original-language scripts hosted alongside named translations.
Sefer Yetzirah
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham
Sefer ha-Bahir
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to Rabbi Nehunya ben Hakanah
Sefer Yetzirah §§ 1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten Sefirot (v1, baseline)
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham. Composed c. 2nd-9th century CE; the dating is contested, with Hayman 2004 favoring an earlier (late-antique) provenance.
The Contraction
Chaim Vital (recording Isaac Luria)
Sefer Yetzirah §§ 1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten Sefirot (v2, full scaffolding)
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham. Composed c. 2nd-9th century CE; the dating is contested, with Hayman 2004 favoring an earlier (late-antique) provenance.
The Line
Chaim Vital (recording Isaac Luria)
The Circles
Chaim Vital (recording Isaac Luria)
The Linear Configuration
Chaim Vital (recording Isaac Luria)
Sefer Yetzirah 1:7 -- the end fixed in the beginning, before One what do you count?
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham
Heikhalot Rabbati 1: The Programmatic Prologue
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically narrated by Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha. Composed c. 3rd-7th century CE.
Heikhalot Rabbati 19: The Seal-Passage Instructions
Anonymous; narrated by Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha. Composed c. 3rd-7th century CE.
Heikhalot Rabbati 24: The Throne-Approach Climax
Anonymous; narrated by Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha. Composed c. 3rd-7th century CE.
b. Hagigah 14b: The Pardes Account and the "Water, Water" Warning
The Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah 14b -- the baraita of the four who entered the pardes (Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Aher, Rabbi Akiva) and Rabbi Akiva's warning about the stones of pure marble. Vilna Romm edition.
Tosefta Chagigah 2: The Four Who Entered the Pardes (no "water, water")
Tosefta, Chagigah ch. 2 -- the four who entered the pardes (Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Elisha [Aher], Rabbi Akiva), the two parables of safe gazing, and the Ben Zoma upper-and-lower-waters episode. Machon-Mamre edition (public domain).
Yerushalmi Chagigah 2:1: The Four Who Entered the Pardes (Palestinian; fates swapped, no "water, water")
Jerusalem Talmud, Chagigah 2:1 -- the Palestinian account of the four who entered the pardes and the Ben Zoma upper-and-lower-waters episode. Venice (Bomberg) editio princeps, 1523. The extended Elisha-ben-Abuya persecutor narrative is elided (marked [...]).
Heikhalot Rabbati 26: The Sixth-Palace Water-Illusion
Anonymous; Heikhalot Rabbati 26:1-2 -- the chashmal sorting-test and the water-illusion the sixth-gate guardians cast. Wertheimer, Batei Midrashot recension (public domain).
Zohar, Sifra di-Tzeniuta -- The Balance and the Kings Who Died
Anonymous Zoharic authorship (Castilian circle, late 13th c.; pseudepigraphically R. Shimon bar Yochai). Targum machine-assisted, 2026-05-29.
Zohar, Sifra di-Tzeniuta -- The Prologue (the Parable of the Wheat)
Anonymous Zoharic authorship (Castilian circle, late 13th c.; pseudepigraphically R. Shimon bar Yochai). Targum machine-assisted, 2026-05-29.
Zohar, Idra Rabba -- The Convocation of the Greater Assembly
Anonymous Zoharic authorship (Castilian circle, late 13th c.; pseudepigraphically R. Shimon bar Yochai). Targum machine-assisted, 2026-05-29.
Zohar, Idra Rabba -- The Skull and the Dew of Atika
Anonymous Zoharic authorship (Castilian circle, late 13th c.; pseudepigraphically R. Shimon bar Yochai). Targum machine-assisted, 2026-05-29.
Zohar, Idra Rabba -- The Precious Beard and Its Conformations
Anonymous Zoharic authorship (Castilian circle, late 13th c.; pseudepigraphically R. Shimon bar Yochai). Targum machine-assisted, 2026-05-29.
Zohar, Idra Zuta -- The Death of R. Shimon
Anonymous Zoharic authorship (Castilian circle, late 13th c.; pseudepigraphically R. Shimon bar Yochai, narrated by R. Abba). Targum machine-assisted, 2026-05-29.
Risala al-Ahadiyya
Attributed to Ibn Arabi (1165-1240); attribution contested -- some scholars assign to Awhad al-din Balyani (d. 1288)
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, Poem XI lines 13-15 -- the religion of love
Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240); composed in Mecca c. 1215
Mishkat al-Anwar
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111)
The Hidden-Treasure hadith (kuntu kanzan makhfiyyan)
Attributed hadith qudsi (12th-13th c. Sufi transmission); authenticity contested
Fusus al-Hikam I (Bezel of Adam) -- the opening on the Beautiful Names beyond enumeration
Ibn al-'Arabi (Muhyi al-Din), Damascus, 627/1230 CE
Fusus al-Hikam II (Bezel of Shith) -- the opening on essential and name-mediated bestowals
Ibn al-'Arabi (Muhyi al-Din), Damascus, 627/1230 CE
Fusus al-Hikam III (Bezel of Noah): the tanzih/tashbih dialectic
Ibn al-'Arabi (Muhyi al-Din), Damascus, 627/1230 CE -- chapter III, Fass hikma subbuhiyya fi kalimat Nuhiyya
Jacob at Peniel
Composite (P/J/E source critical analysis); received as Mosaic in both Jewish and Christian canons
Walking on the Water
Traditionally ascribed to the apostle Matthew; modern scholarship treats the Gospel as an anonymous composition drawing on Mark and the Q sayings source, edited within a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian community.
Job in the Whirlwind
Anonymous; received in both Jewish and Christian canons. The Bavli (Bava Batra 14b–15a) records a debate over authorship; one tradition assigns it to Moses.
Christ in Gethsemane
Ascribed to the apostle Matthew; modern critical view: anonymous Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian community drawing on Mark and the Q sayings tradition
1 Enoch · The Book of the Watchers
Pseudepigraphic; composite Second Temple Jewish work c. 3rd c. BCE - 1st c. CE
Mystical Theology
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (anonymous, writing in the persona of the Athenian convert of Acts 17:34)
Cain and Abel
Composite (P/J/E source critical analysis); received as Mosaic in both Jewish and Christian canons
The Transfiguration on Tabor
Ascribed to the apostle Matthew; modern critical view: anonymous Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian community drawing on Mark and the Q sayings tradition
The Interior Castle
Teresa of Cepeda y Ahumada (Teresa of Ávila), 1515-1582
The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous; possibly a Carthusian or solitary priest writing for a young contemplative
Mystical Theology I.1 -- the opening prayer
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE)
Mystical Theology I.1 -- the opening prayer (v2, full scaffolding)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE)
Mystical Theology I.3 -- the truly mystical darkness of unknowing
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE)
Life of Moses II §162-163 -- the entry into the darkness
Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-c. 395 CE), Cappadocia
Chapters on Love I.1-3 -- the definition of love and the chain of virtues
Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662 CE)
Enneads VI.9.11 closing -- Christian apophatic reception
Plotinus, Enneads (edited posthumously by Porphyry)
Enneads VI.9.11 closing -- Akbarian Sufi reception
Plotinus, Enneads (edited posthumously by Porphyry)
Enneads VI.9.11 closing -- PaRDeS anachronism control
Plotinus, Enneads (edited posthumously by Porphyry)
Tarjumān al-Ashwāq, Ode I -- the Divine Ideas perplex the heart
Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (560-638 AH / 1165-1240 CE)
Al-Khamriyya (Wine Ode), opening verses (1)-(6) -- the pre-eternal wine of divine love
ʿUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ (576-632 AH / 1181-1234 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 33 -- Umm al-Kitāb (The Mother of the Book)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 32 -- Ṣalṣalat al-Jaras (The Reverberation of the Bell)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 34-35 -- The Qurʾān and the Furqān (Gathering and Discrimination)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 36-38 -- The Three Prior Books (Torah, Psalms, Gospel)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 39-40 -- The Descent and the Opening (al-Nuzūl, al-Fātiḥa)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 41-44 -- Mount Ṭūr and the Throne Symbols (al-Ṭūr, al-Rafraf, al-Sarīr wa-l-Tāj, al-Qadamayn)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 45-49 -- The Throne, the Footstool, the Pen, the Tablet, and the Lote-Tree
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 50-51 -- The Holy Spirit and the Angel Named the Spirit
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 52-55 -- The Heart, the First Intellect, Estimation, and Aspiration (and their four Archangels)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 56-57 -- Thought and Imagination (al-Fikr, al-Khayāl)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 58 -- The Muhammadan Form (al-Ṣūra al-Muḥammadiyya), the Light from which Paradise and Hell were Created
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 59 -- The Soul (al-Nafs), the Root of Iblīs
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 60 -- The Perfect Human (the keystone of the work)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 63 -- The Various Religions and Forms of Worship (the closing chapter)
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 61 -- The Portents of the Hour, Death, the Barzakh, and the Reckoning
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)
al-Insān al-Kāmil, Bāb 62 -- The Seven Heavens, the Seven Earths, and the Seven Seas
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (b. 767 AH / 1365 CE; d. c. 826-832 AH / 1422-1428 CE)