THE ATLAS OF THE ORDER THAT TOOK

Christian Knorr von Rosenroth

Knorr

nature

German Christian Hebraist, and the bottleneck through which the Kabbalah reached educated Europe. He worked with Jewish teachers and read the originals; his scholarship was serious and his sources were real.

His Latin is the text Mathers worked from. Everything the Golden Dawn built therefore stands at two removes from the source language — with a selection and a frame applied at the middle step by a man who held that these books proved Christian doctrine.

rhymes with

sephirahdaat

whyDa'at is the knowledge that is present and not counted — a station everything passes through and which the diagram will not quite admit to. The whole English-speaking tradition passed through Knorr and mostly does not know it.