Science of the Kabbalah

This is the first translation into English of Lazare Lenain's seminal work on the Shemhamephorash. 'The Science of the Kabbalah, or the Art of Knowing the Good Geniuses' was originally published in 1823. It was picked up by Papus when he was Grand Master of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix and republished in 1909. Indeed, in his Preface he says: 'No publication could benefit the progress of Kabbalistic studies more than the reissue of Lenain's very rare tract.' Since then it has inspired such diverse esoteric characters as Samuel McGregor Mathers of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Robert Ambelain of the Ordre Martiniste. Lenain's stated purpose in writing the book was to: 'make the public aware of what Magic is, so that each may obtain a correct notion of it, for ignorance demonizes everything it doesn't understand.' Indeed, these are words which are particularly relevant today, in an age where scholarship, intellect, science and principle are being sacrificed upon