Texts
The library, by tradition. Every passage carries provenance. Every translation carries a status. Original-language scripts hosted alongside named translations.
Sefer Yetzirah
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham
Sefer ha-Bahir
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to Rabbi Nehunya ben Hakanah
Sefer Yetzirah §§ 1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten Sefirot (v1, baseline)
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham. Composed c. 2nd-9th century CE; the dating is contested, with Hayman 2004 favoring an earlier (late-antique) provenance.
Sefer Yetzirah §§ 1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten Sefirot (v2, full scaffolding)
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham. Composed c. 2nd-9th century CE; the dating is contested, with Hayman 2004 favoring an earlier (late-antique) provenance.
Sefer Yetzirah 1:7 -- the end fixed in the beginning, before One what do you count?
Anonymous; pseudepigraphically ascribed to the patriarch Abraham
Risala al-Ahadiyya
Attributed to Ibn Arabi (1165-1240); attribution contested -- some scholars assign to Awhad al-din Balyani (d. 1288)
Mishkat al-Anwar
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111)
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, Poem XI lines 13-15 -- the religion of love
Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240); composed in Mecca c. 1215
The Hidden-Treasure hadith (kuntu kanzan makhfiyyan)
Attributed hadith qudsi (12th-13th c. Sufi transmission); authenticity contested
Fusus al-Hikam I (Bezel of Adam) -- the opening on the Beautiful Names beyond enumeration
Ibn al-'Arabi (Muhyi al-Din), Damascus, 627/1230 CE
Jacob at Peniel
Composite (P/J/E source critical analysis); received as Mosaic in both Jewish and Christian canons
Walking on the Water
Traditionally ascribed to the apostle Matthew; modern scholarship treats the Gospel as an anonymous composition drawing on Mark and the Q sayings source, edited within a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian community.
Job in the Whirlwind
Anonymous; received in both Jewish and Christian canons. The Bavli (Bava Batra 14b–15a) records a debate over authorship; one tradition assigns it to Moses.
1 Enoch · The Book of the Watchers
Pseudepigraphic; composite Second Temple Jewish work c. 3rd c. BCE - 1st c. CE
Christ in Gethsemane
Ascribed to the apostle Matthew; modern critical view: anonymous Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian community drawing on Mark and the Q sayings tradition
Mystical Theology
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (anonymous, writing in the persona of the Athenian convert of Acts 17:34)
Cain and Abel
Composite (P/J/E source critical analysis); received as Mosaic in both Jewish and Christian canons
The Transfiguration on Tabor
Ascribed to the apostle Matthew; modern critical view: anonymous Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian community drawing on Mark and the Q sayings tradition
The Interior Castle
Teresa of Cepeda y Ahumada (Teresa of Ávila), 1515-1582
The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous; possibly a Carthusian or solitary priest writing for a young contemplative
Mystical Theology I.1 -- the opening prayer
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE)
Mystical Theology I.1 -- the opening prayer (v2, full scaffolding)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE)
Mystical Theology I.3 -- the truly mystical darkness of unknowing
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500 CE)
Enneads VI.9.11 closing -- Christian apophatic reception
Plotinus, Enneads (edited posthumously by Porphyry)
Enneads VI.9.11 closing -- Akbarian Sufi reception
Plotinus, Enneads (edited posthumously by Porphyry)
Enneads VI.9.11 closing -- PaRDeS anachronism control
Plotinus, Enneads (edited posthumously by Porphyry)