Tempted of the Devil or Passages in the Life of a Kabbalist (1888) (Paperback)

The two forms of theosophy which excited the most attention, and attracted the largest number of earnest students, were Zoroastrianism, and the occult teaching of the Jews as contained in the Kabbalah or Qabalah. It is with this latter that we are now concerned, for in "Des Rabbi Vermachtnis," the novel from which our story is taken, Dr. Becker describes the effect which the study of the Practical Kabbalah had on the lives and characters of the initiated, and those who came in contact with them.