By H.P. Blavatsky – The Secret Doctrine – Mistaken is he who accepts the kabalistic works of today, Kaballahand the interpretations of the Zohar by the Rabbis, for the genuine kabalistic lore of old!

For no more today than in the day of Frederick von Schelling does the Kabalah accessible to Europe and America contain much more than “ruins and fragments, much distorted remnants still of that primitive system which is the key to all religious systems.”

The oldest system and the Chaldaean Kabalah were identical. The latest renderings of the Zohar are those of the Synagogue in the early centuries—i.e., the Thorah (or Law), dogmatic and uncompromising.

By H.P. BlavatskyThe Secret Doctrine