Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy, by Marla Segol, is an academic treatment of the creative role God has in the kabbalah, especially related to characterizations that can be called sexual. The author writes an academic work here, although the interested amateur with some background in this area does well in this text. If we allow our academic study of God to fulfil the literal sense of a divine body, instead of the spiritualizing elements found in Jewish philosophy, and in modern academic studies, we open new pathways. This book explores those new avenues of approach.
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