Gershom Scholem

The scholar who turned the study of Kabbalah from an embarrassment into a field. Against a German-Jewish establishment that treated the mystical tradition as superstition best forgotten, he read the manuscripts, dated them, tracked the borrowings, and established — among a great deal else — the Neoplatonic descent this whole pack draws.

The pack's own source, standing inside the pack. A claim of descent is a scholarly claim, and this room refuses to make it anonymously: if the channel is real, someone traced it, and that someone can be read and argued with.