The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
8 teachers
Kabbalah
Abraham Abulafia
Letter-permutation meditation as a path to prophecy and divine union
1240-c.1291
Kabbalah
Moses de León
The Zohar and the world as the unfolding of the sefirot
c.1240-1305
Kabbalah
Moses Cordovero
Systematizing the Kabbalah; God immanent in all things
1522-1570
Kabbalah
Isaac Luria
Tzimtzum, broken vessels, and cosmic repair (tikkun)
1534-1572
Kabbalah
Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov)
Devekut - joyful, continuous cleaving to the divine in all of life
c.1698-1760
Kabbalah
Aryeh Kaplan
Recovering Kabbalah as a practical manual for meditation
1934-1983
Kabbalah
Marc Gafni
Each person carries a 'Unique Self,' an irreplaceable perspective of the divine that the world needs them to l…
1960–present
Kabbalah
Moses
Revelation of the divine name and the Law
traditional figure, c. 13th c. BCE (per tradition)