They had a compendium of key texts, which they recorded in an order. A kind of seder Limmud.
Some were from Israelite traditions. Some were from other traditions, maybe I can find a cool prophetic text from something earlier that they inherited? A story of asherah?
Rabbi itschak found it, and entered the maamar from the Zohar to start to prepare the ground for the return of the Asherah to recognition among the Israelites (asherah), as the sacred tree or pole, and as the human form of yhvh, who is manifest in many forms, in including human forms, examples. Her description in human form is the Asherah, as goddess. They understood Hir to contain all the Gods of the pantheon, El was hesed, anat was din, Baal was tiferet. These were additional names, parallel to El, elohim and altogether they were yhvh.
He found it and brought it to Spain . There it split it into two. Abulafia adopted the prophetic practice and combined it with the guide to the perplexed, thereby casting it into the language of Aristotelianism, And also sefer yesitah
The circle of the Zohar adopted the mystical symbolism and parts of the mythology and integrated them with gnostic and neoplatonic currents in medieval Spain. However, the full stature of the Asherah did not emerge until the last generation of the circle, who beheld all the sefirot, like the Gods of the ancient pantheon, are contained in YHVH manifest as Asherah. In the doctrine of the active divine feminine, the Shiur Komah or Stature of Binah and Shekhinah in one whole, whose spine is tiferet and thoughts are chochmah and keter, the Asherah of the Mitnabot once again took Hir place in the human mind.
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