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Cris : Journal of the Historical Society of Križevci, Vol. XII No. 1, 2010.

Original scientific paper

The significance of the Kabbalah in Giulio Camillo Delminio’s L’Idea del Theatro

Ivana Skuhala Karasman ; Institut za filozofiju, Ulica grada Vukovara 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska

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Abstract

The Kabbalah originated in the Middle Ages, more precisely in Provance in France in the 12th century. It is based on explanations of the sephi rot, which are the emanations of the divine principle. Their names are: Kethar Elyon (the supreme God’s crown), Chokmah (God’s wisdom), Binah (God’s intelligence), Chesed (God’s mercy or grace), Geburah or Din (God’s power), Rahamim (God’s sympathy), Netsach (God’s constancy), Hod (God’s majesty), Yesod (the foundation of all active forces in God) and Malkuth (God’s kingdom). The Ka-bbalah includes techniques of dealing with the letters of the Hebrew alephbet in order to achive a mystical contemplation and reach the knowledge
about the creation of the world. Together with the hermetic tradition, the Kabbalah played a signifi-cant role in Renaissance neoplatonic philosophy, in which it takes a form of Christian Kabbalah. One of the first promotors of Christian Kabbalah is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, who held that the Kabbalah included almost all Christian mysteries. Giulio Camillo Delminio, a Croatian Renaissance philosopher, gave the Kabbalah a prominent posi-tion in his book L’Idea del Theatro (1568). In this article I will use the L’Idea del Theatro to show the significance and position of the Kabbalah in Rensaissance philosophy as well as Camillo’s specific approach to it. Camillo’s concept of the world is based on the the kabbalistic doctrine and the hermetic philosophy. In his construction of the theater of the world he uses the kabbalistic symbolism of numbers and kabbalistic elements in the explanation about the origin of the world, which he modified in oder to match the Christian docrines in form of Christian Kabbalah.

Keywords

Giulio Camillo Delminio; Kabbalah; Christian Kabbalah; Theater of the World

Hrčak ID:

67916

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/67916

Publication date:

1.2.2011.

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