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    "name": "The Kabbalah Unveiled (Mathers)",
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    "form": "translation of three Zohar treatises",
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    "author": "S.L. MacGregor Mathers (trans. from Knorr von Rosenroth's 1684 Latin)",
    "year_approx": 1887,
    "note": "S.L. MacGregor Mathers's 1887 translation of three central Zoharic treatises — the *Idra Rabba* (Greater Assembly), *Idra Zuta* (Lesser Assembly), and *Siphra Dtzenioutha* (Book of Concealment) — via Knorr von Rosenroth's 1684 Latin *Kabbala Denudata*. The first widely-circulated English access to Zoharic material.",
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      "slug": "00-introduction-kabbalah-sephiroth-tree-of-life-four-worlds",
      "title": "Introduction (Kabbalah, Sephiroth, Tree of Life, Four Worlds)",
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      "subtitle": "Introduction — Kabbalah, Sephiroth, Tree of Life, Four Worlds",
      "blurb": "S. L. MacGregor Mathers's 1887 introductory essay — the foundation-text by which late-Victorian English-language readers received Lurianic Kabbalah. The ten *sephiroth* arranged on the Tree of Life; the four worlds (Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, Assiah); the partzufim; the doctrine of *en-sof*. The frame for the three Zoharic tractates that follow."
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      "subtitle": "*Sifra di-Tzeniutha* — The Book of Concealed Mystery",
      "blurb": "The shortest and most concentrated of the Zoharic tracts — five chapters of dense aphoristic Kabbalah on the *concealed mystery* of the divine emanations. The text whose exposition occupies the entirety of the two *Idrot* (Greater and Lesser Assemblies)."
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      "subtitle": "*Idra Rabba* — The Greater Holy Assembly",
      "blurb": "The longer of the two great companion-tracts. Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai and his nine companions gathered in a field to expound the secrets of the *Sifra di-Tzeniutha*; their detailed expositions of the *Long Face* (Arikh Anpin) and the *Short Face* (Zeir Anpin) — the great partzufim. Three of the nine companions die in ecstasy during the assembly."
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      "title": "The Lesser Holy Assembly (Idra Zuta)",
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      "subtitle": "*Idra Zuta* — The Lesser Holy Assembly",
      "blurb": "The closing tract — and the textual closing of the Zohar proper. The Lesser Assembly held at the time of Rabbi Shimon's death; the great master concludes the disclosure of the *Sifra di-Tzeniutha* and dies as his soul leaves his body with his last word still on his lips. The most exalted single passage in the Zoharic corpus."
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