“The idea of man as a microcosm, expressed so many times in the philosophical and mystical literature of old and new times, nowhere receives such an in-depth interpretation as in Kabbalah”.
— S. N. Bulgakov “Non-Evening Light”
“Sciences such as theology, philosophy and mathematics take their principles and roots from it [Kabbalah]. Therefore all these sciences (scientiae) are subordinate to this wisdom (sapientia); and their principles and rules are subordinate to her principles and rules; and therefore their argument is insufficient without it”.
— R. Lull “Works of Raymond Lull”
“Kabbalah gives the highest principle an unpronounceable name; from it she derives, in the form of an emanation of the second stage, four principles, of which each again branches into twelve, and these, in turn, into 72, etc.... to infinite further ramifications, just as there are an infinite number of species and subspecies... And, in the end, it turns out that everything Divine can be brought to one Primary Source, just as all the light that shines primordially and by itself, and the images that are refracted in many mirrors and in as many separate objects, can be brought to one to the formal ideal principle – the Source of all these images”.
— G. Bruno “Italian Works”
