"Jewish readers of the Zohar and its related literature knew all this. The non-philosophers were struck by the very depth of its insight into God, and into humanity, and made the Zohar into a holy book, probably the third holiest in Judaism after the Bible and the Talmud." It has also been influential inn Christianity. I realize that there is a version included in The Classics of Western Spirituality but as I recall, that is abridged. We also need something like the Pritkzer edition ...