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This book describes the pictorial world of alchemy and mysticism, cosmological systems, the Kaballah and magic, astronomic and astrologic systems, freemasons and Rosicrucians. Included are multiple illustrations by Robert Fludd and William Blake. Peter Apianus' "Astronomicum Caesareum" of 1540, a facsimile of which is held by the Sackner Archive is also described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Three pages taken for consideration by Favretto 2016, Two loose pages: Thou and Thou into dover futtering, Honeyblood of jese green the color of the grass (signed at bottom). One mounted page on board Avenue six flights up ten fifteen Longwood avenue (with hand painted paper collage, painting of soldier face, stamps). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a long, autobiographical poem which is printed in a linear manner as brief phrases separated by four spaces. The cover that depicts a Kabbalistic, surrealistic landscape image was designed by John Brandi. The Sackner Archive holds two versions of this poem which are presented as large handwritten copies that incorporate large Hebrew letters and visual images overlaid on the pages or Hebrew letters confined to the top third of the page, respectively. In the early seventies, at the time that the handwritten copies were made, Hirschman was at the peak of his Kabbalistic period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents These two drawings are Gaard's riff on the Kabbalist "Tree of Life." The first drawing has the title written in the upper left hand corner and the second drawing Frank Gaard's signiture in the lower right hand corner. Exhibitied at Gaard's retrospective at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN in 2012. The frames were made by the museum. Wikepedia: The ten Sephirot are a step-by-step process illuminating the Divine plan as it unfolds itself in Creation. They are fully found in the Medieval Kabbalah texts, such as the central work in Kabbalah, the Zohar. The Hebrew etymology of their names in Kabbalah is understood to refer to the nuanced aspects of meaning of each Sephirah. This direct connection between spiritual and physical creations and their Hebrew names, reflects the theology in Kabbalah that Creation is formed from the metaphorical speech of God, as in the first chapter of Genesis. Kabbalah expounds on the terms of the Sephirot. In the first complete systemisation of...

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Explains the process of numerical deduction of Gematria to produce Aleph numbers, e.g., assign a value of 1 to A, 2 to B, 3 to C, etc. GOD = 7 + 15 + 4 = 26; MAN = 13 + 1 + 14 = 28; EARTH = 52 and DEVIL = 52. Words of similar numerical values tend to be explanatory of each other. Temura relates to permutations or anagrams, viz., DEVIL = 52 = LIVED. The book of Tarot is a deck of 78 cards that is often combined with Kabbalah to express all laws of Man, God and the Universe and also has Tarot numbe -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was presented to participants in the Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) of Greater Miami tour of the Sackner Archive. Curated by Marvin Sackner, all 86 works on display demonstrated the use of Hebrew letters, words and texts in ancient and modern contexts. The catalog listing is illustrated with 30 images scanned into the Archive data base. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Hirschman box. Hirschman's translation of Kabbalist poet and Mystic Levi's Rose Cross poetry. The cover art is by actor Dean Stockwell, collage art in the style of his friend and fellow artist, Wallace Berman -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several works depicted in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. These include Transparente Zeit(ung), two Durch-Streichung drawings, and Konsonanten-Akkumulation, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his book, "Post/Face," Rothenberg writes that gematria is a form of traditional Jewish numerology using "the fact that every letter of the Hebrew alphabet is also a number, & that words or phrases, the sums of whose letters are equal are at some level meaningfully connected." These coincidences serve as an entry for Rothenberg into the kinds of correspondences or constellations that have been central to modernist & post-modernist poetry experiments over the last century & a half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Provides extensive numerical analysis of Hebrew words and diagrams including histograms depicted on computer printouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing depicts eight, silver colored, Hebrew 'daleth's' arranged in a grid that are flanked by green ghostlike outlines of 'other daleth's.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The object is a Kabbalistic disc accompanied with instructions for creating visual translations of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The object is a Kabbalistic disc accompanied with instructions for creating visual translations of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing depicts the Hebrew letter 'daleth' in silver paint and 'mem' in black ink wash with deliberate spattering of the paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text consists of two letters to a page, AO, AO, AO and AK. Since the 1990's, Parfitt hs published books on Kabbalah and esoteric psychologies. Cavan is presumably the poet, Cavan McCarthy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The Sackners are mentioned in the chapter on Jack Hirschman stating that "his visual work has been extemsively collected by the Marvin and Ruth Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach." Michael Duncan describes Wallace Berman as "a key under-recognized artist of his generation...an enigmatic, underground figure whose colllages and assemblages articulate an important strand of dark spirituality in postwar American culture." Descriptions and illustrated works and a biography of each member of the circle contribute an important body of work to the understanding of this group. the book also includes an in depth analysis of Semina, Wallace's journal that is "a fragmentary guidebook to alternative modes of thinking, living, and art making...based on a romantic embrace of mysticism, individualism, and domesticity." The catalogue also includes an illustrated chronology from...