ABRAHAM

THE PATRI-

ARCH'S BOOK JEZIRAH,

or the Formation of the World; indeed revealed to the Fathers who preceded the times of Abraham, but also explained by Abraham himself to Isaac, and preserved for posterity through the hands of the Prophets; held by the seventy-two listeners A reference to the seventy-two elders of Israel who, in Jewish tradition, received the oral transmission of wisdom from Moses. of Moses in the second rank of divine truth—that is, in the realm of reason, which is secondary to divine authority.

Translated from the Hebrew and illustrated with commentaries in 1551, toward the ruin of Babylon and the end of the corrupted world, by Guillaume Postel, the Restored. Postel added "Restitutus" (the Restored) to his name following a spiritual crisis and mystical experience in Venice in 1551, after which he believed he had a divine mission to reform the world.

P A R I S,

Sold by the author himself, or rather the translator, G. Postel. At the Italian schools.

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