Merkabah
A mystical tradition of the Kabbalists pertaining to the Throne Chariot of God which could ascend and descend through the different heavenly halls or palaces known as the Hekhaloth--with the seventh or final revealing the Glory of God.
Merkabah (Heb.)
A chariot. The Cabalists say that the Supreme, after he had established the ten Sephiroth-which, in their totality, are Adam Kadmon, the Archetypal Man, ...
TAKE MERKABAH EXIT
Here's our first "road-side attraction". We will return to the main subject in later installments of this "Ramble.
Jewish Encyclopedia: Merkabah
"The Hekhalot Literature and Shamanism"
Yakov Leib haKohain: Merkabah Mysticism and Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah
Inner Judaism: ma'aseh bereshit, ma'aseh merkavah and the synthesis of Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah ...
He takes Metatron (Ek 1:26-28) as the archetypal, supernal Adam of Jewish gnosticism and traces angel imagery through 1 and 3 Enoch into Merkabah mysticism.
This crowned coin is representative of Malkuth, one of the titles of Shekhina/ Matronit, and a symbol for the Goddess in the World among the Merkabah Mystics who were practicing Jewish Gnosticism before the Kabbalists.
Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism dedicated to Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Merkabah tradition.
This had its roots in Merkabah mysticism, involving magical rituals, meditation, prayer and ecstatic experience.
 See also: Mystic, World, Mater, Ritual, Spirit
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