>>837152
It's not even close to Christian mysticism. Which is orthodox. It's Gnosticism. It sprung up at the same time as Gnosticism, but among Rabbis. It draws on all of the same neo-platonic texts. It's use of the Tanakh is merely tangential. Right from the beginning even on Genesis, it spouts Gnostic heresy. For example, it teaches the preexistence of souls (same as Gnostics) and that Adam and Eve existed in heaven first. That the material world of flesh are the very "skins" God clothed them with in their fall. That material reality in and of itself is a mark of sin.
No Christian, mystic or otherwise, would have taught such nonsense. Those who do have been formally anathematized since the 7th Council at least.
Anathema (3)
To them who undertake Greek studies not only for purposes of education but also follow after their vain opinions, and are so thoroughly convinced of their truth and validity that they shamelessly introduce them and teach them to others, sometimes secretly and sometimes openly,
Anathema (3)
To them who of themselves refashion creation by means of mythical fabrications and accept the Platonic ideas as veritable, saying that matter, being self-subsistent, is given form by these ideas, and who thereby clearly calumniate the free will of the Creator Who brought all things into being out of non-being and Who, as Maker, established the beginning and end of all things by His authority and sovereignty..