Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

by Marla Segol

Book Overview

In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice.

Kabbalah and Sex Magic traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027108961X
• ISBN13: 9780271089614
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"