Puerta del cielo (Gate of Heaven)

Abraham Cohen de Herrera, of a former New Christian family, was a philosopher and kabbalist. He lived in Florence and Venice before joining his uncle in Morocco. During the English conquest of Cádiz, de Herrera was taken captive and shipped to London. He settled in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), where he lived as a Jew and studied Lurianic kabbalah. Later, having moved to Amsterdam, de Herrera composed two kabbalistic works in Spanish, Casa de Dios (House of God), concerning angels and the soul, and Puerta del cielo (Gate of Heaven), on kabbalistic theories of God and the cosmos.