Gershom Scholem

Alchemy and Kabbalah

128 pages, ISBN 0-88214-566-5 / 978-0-88214-566-2, Spring Publications

A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the centruy-old connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its Christianized varieties, such as the gold- and Rosicrucian mysticisms, and the mythbased psychology of C.G. Jung.