Primeval Evil in Kabbalah: Totality Perfection Perfectibility

About this book

Primeval Evil analyzes the various versions of a theory maintaining the Kabbalistic visions as to the precedence of evil before good within the divine realm and in the lower dimensions of reality. It proposes a source for some of the theories of evil in medieval Kabbalah in the Zurvanic version of Zoroastrism and their reverberations which is different from the scholarly assumptions as to the influence of Gnosticism on Kabbalah. A series of pre-Kabbalistic Kabbalistic and Hasidic texts have been addressed in print and in manuscripts in order to substantiate the understanding of these theories are related to visions of the divine as all-encompassing and perfect or perfectible.