[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Kenneth Hite]

>>Fair cop. So, what *is* the technical name for a non-Jew who
>>practices kabbalistic magic?  I can fix it in the errata, if there's
>>a correct term.
>
>I'd go with "wannabe," "hypocrite," "fool," "poser," and maybe 
>"ignorant bastard deluded by the Golden Dawn who feels the need to 
>appropriate the trappings of a religion they feel no connection to."

Sadly, none of those terms would work for, among others, Ramon Lull, 
Johannes Reuchlin, Paul Ricci, Cornelius Agrippa, Guillaume de 
Postel, Heinrich Khunrath, Athanasius Kircher, or Christian Knorr von 
Rosenroth.

It's a historical fact that non-Jewish magicians worked with the 
kabbalah well before Westcott and Mathers.  The degree to which their 
magic (or that of orthodox Jewish kabbalists, for that matter) is, or 
was, efficacious isn't the point.

Kenneth Hite, LHN

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