Page "Isaac Luria" Paragraph 14

However, the most renowned of the initiates was Rabbi Hayyim Vital, who, according to his master, possessed a soul which had not been soiled by Adam's sin.

With him Luria visited the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and those of other eminent teachers ; it is said that these graves were unmarked ( the identity of each grave was unknown ), but through the guidance Elijah each grave was recognized.

Luria's kabbalistic circle gradually widened and became a separate congregation, in which his mystic doctrines were supreme, influencing all the religious ceremonies.

On Shabbat, Luria dressed himself in white and wore a fourfold garment to signify the four letters of the Ineffable Name.