Kabbalah Book Review

My review of Kabbalah : Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul by Harry Freedman pub. Bloomsbury Publishing 2019.
Kabbalah's Christian counterpart, Cabala, emerged during the Renaissance, becoming allied to magic, alchemy and the occult sciences.
This esoteric vision has a precise and documentable history, which begins in Renaissance Italy, where various characters had been attracted by certain ancient Jewish traditions, which they nevertheless reinterpreted in their own way.
Kabbalah flourished in the Renaissance and its method was adopted in varying measures by Hermeticists, Rosicrucians, Freemasons and tarot card readers.
Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibnitz, Carl Jung and Harold Bloom have all admitted to the influence of Kabbalah. But it all goes back to the Hebrew Bible where the prophet Ezekiel described in detail his vision of the heavenly throne, perceived as a chariot.