Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00594)

Friends, I received a request from a serious researcher. He writes that jewish Theosophist A. L. Bosman in his book "The Mysteries of the Qabalah" (1916), p. 31, claims that Theosophy is from Jewish origin.
That "The Book of Dzyan" is HPB's re-written version of the Jewish Sohar. Gershom Sholem affirms Bosman.

Also it is said that HPB did not quote from the original text of the Sohar but from a bad English translation of Knorr von Rosenroths Latin Translation in his "Kabbala Denudata" (1677-1684), which also contains a bad translation of the Sifra di-zeniutha. 

Is Dzyan = Zion = The Book of Zion = the holy Book of the Jews?

What do the HPB students say about that claim?

Is this claim true?

Why is that nearly 90 years old research not known in theosophical circles?

Thanks
Frank


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