By Steven T. Katz
This can be a selection of unique essays designed to proceed and extend the groundbreaking dialogue began in Katz's earlier collections, Mysticism and Philosophical research (OUP 1979) and Mysticism and spiritual Traditions (OUP 1984). The book of the sooner volumes proven Katz as a number one authority on mysticism and an enormous determine within the learn of comparative faith, and his method of the topic has been either influential and arguable. all the ten essays incorporated in Mysticism and Language analyzes the connection among language and mystical adventure in a single of the world's nice spiritual traditions. The essays are via a number of the premier experts within the box, together with Ninian shrewdpermanent, William Alston, Moshe Idel, Bernard McGinn, Carl Ernst, Ewert Cousins, Steven Katz, Bernard Faure, Stephen Phillips, and Bimal Matilal.
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And the [main] purpose is to reach this level, by his cleaving to the supernal worlds, and thereby he is worthy to 42 Rei/ication of Language in Jewish Mysticism 43 pronounce [his] speech before God in a perfect way and full of illumination. This is the intention of the Tiqqunim by positing the combination of letters House Head, namely to make a house to the Head that is God, Blessed be He and His name, [so] that He may dwell in the words and the speeches of his Torah and his prayer. 8 In creation and in ritual, the Hebrew language was considered by Jewish mystics as playing a role much more important than the common communicative one that language regularly plays .
123-24. Eliade here quotes Heinrich Zimmer (with slight modi fications), Philosophies 0/ India, ed. Joseph Campbell (Princeton, N . J . , 1951), p . 3 7 5 . I have followed Zimmer's original translation of the last sentence rather than Eliade's, whose translation I otherwise employ. 22. Madhyamika-Kiirikiis, chap. 24, stanza 14. 23. This practice would , of course, later spread throughout much of the Buddhist world. 24. For example, they are employed in various magical practices. Such usage is described in Annamarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimension 0/ Islam (Chapel Hill, N .
This instru mental concept of language is characteristic of those types of Jewish mysticism that focused on ecstatic experiences as an important religious ideal, such as the medieval ecstatic Kab balah and late Polish Hasidism. 4. Finally, language is considered to be a means by which one can attract or capture the divine in the lower world. This "talismatic" conception has obvious affinities with some as pects of medieval Arabic magic, which entered Kabbalah in fourteenth-century Spain, became important in Cordoverean Kabbalah in Safed, and played a paramount role in Hasidic mysticism.