Beginning of Part 1 of the Book of the Hidden Secret

Author:: Jabir ibn Ḥayyān
Form:: alchemical treatise
Approx. date:: c. 800 CE

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Kraus pp. 334-341. Selections (Kraus's نخب, nukhab).

Source context· Egyptian-Hebrew stream · Egypto-Chaldean cultural impulse

Stream: Egyptian-Hebrew
Cultural impulse: Egypto-Chaldean (3rd post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 800 CE
Written down: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch

1Beginning of Part 1 of the Book of the Hidden Secret
Primordial concealment and the hidden structure of divine reality in Kabbalistic cosmogony
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