THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS

Henry More (1614-1687) was the most important of the "Cambridge

Platonists." Several of his works deal with the Jewish Cabbala. More

recognized a "Threefold Cabbala, Literal, Philosophical, and Mystical, or

Divinely Moral." He dedicated his _Conjectura Cabbalistica_ to Cudworth,

Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, of which More was a Fellow. Cudworth

was one of those who attended the Whitehall Conference, summoned by

Cromwell in 1655 to discuss the readmission of the Jews to England.

Platonic influence was always prevalent in mystical thought. The Cabbala

has intimate relations with neo-Platonism.

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