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Wikipedia guidelines discourage linking directly to a disambiguation page. It isn't clear to me which meaning of strength is referenced in the article -- physical strength? Fortitude? Virtue? Would someone who is knowledgeable on the subject please direct the link to an appropriate page? Thank you. Sanguinity 18:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Might I add that '288' would not be the numerical value of 'Nitzotzot' as it would be spelt NITzVTzVTh which would sum to '652'. Since it is a plural of the word 'spark' and thus having a VTh at the end to pluralize it, the value would never be under 406 (just from the addition of the VTh). So the author may wish to consider whether or not they would like to perpetuate that incorrect gematria. Haetzchiam23 ( talk) 19:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 19:20, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Gevurah → Geburah — Relisted. Vegaswikian ( talk) 18:15, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
I think this section should be deleted. There are no citations, and the references at the bottom of the article are to Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune, two occultists who are not viewed by anyone as being serious theologians. If there is to be a section on non-Jewish interpretations of Kabbalah, we're going to need some actual legitimate sources on par with Chabad and Aryeh Kaplan. Writings of early Church Fathers, Saints, Popes, etc?
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The history of Hermetic Qabalah, which Fortune and Crowley integrated into their systems, dates to the sixteenth century, and the work of (H. C.) Agrippa, whose works syncretised Jewish Kaballah and other esoteric subjects in influential works. Agrippa is an important figure: I'm not sure how the previous commenter was grading intellects, certainly Agrippa was never Pope, but few of us are. Agrippa's work had documented influence on, say, Dee, and Dee on the Golden Dawn, and that, of course, on Crowley, Fortune et al. Quite how that influence affected the section "Non Jewish Sources" is hard to tell, as it's now completyely gone, as if none of this ever happened! The idea that western esotericism doesn't have a deep history but is, instead, all fever-dreams and essential oil MLM schemes doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Zaza9147 ( talk) 18:16, 5 October 2023 (UTC)