ABSTRACT
In Assagioli's library there are both scholarly books and modern journals on Jewish mysticism; the scholarly work includes writing by Buber, with whom he was personally in touch, and Gershom Scholem. Scholem also comments that the Kabbalah of the early thirteenth century was the offspring of a union between an older and essentially Gnostical tradition represented by the book Bahir, and the comparatively modern element of Jewish Neoplatonism'. The Kabbalah was a secret doctrine a school of mystics who are not prepared to hand their secret knowledge, their "Gnosis", to the public'. The Kabbalah has always been seen as part of the esoteric element in Jewish spirituality, available only to the few and the learned. The balancing of the Kabbalah and psychoanalysis would have produced the particular symmetry of the egg-shaped diagram: though this is of course guesswork. Halevi quotes a classical Kabbalistic story from the Zohar, which illustrates the spirit of both the Jewish mystical search and of psychosynthesis.
