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ebrew alphabet in the workings of the qabalah, you will be able to correspond many different attributes from any system of magic and religion. qabalah this is a simple discourse on some of the major facets of the qabalah. it is also spelled as kabbalah and cabala.(pronounced ka-bah-lah. orgins qabalah comes from the hebrew word qbl, meaning an oral tradition, the esoteric and mystical division of judaism. the qabalah presents a symbolic explanation of the origin of the universe, the relationship of human beings to the godhead, and an emanationist approach to creation, whereby the infinite light (ain soph aur) manifests through different sephiroth on the tree of life. although the central book of the qabalah, the zohar, was not written down until around 1280 a.d. probably by moses de leon

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

, you may wish to add god/goddess-power forms as an interspersed chant, with the voices of the group ebbing and rising in waves. you may wish to welcome the archangels, or guardians of the four watchtowers at the four compass points as you cast your circle (the archangels represent the celestial beings that feature in the cosmologies of the three main religions of the western world -christianity, judaism and islam. for more information, see pages 200 and 236. alternatively, you may wish to call upon powerful goddess forms: isis, ishtar, cerridwen, innana, shakti, yoruba, danu, kali and aine, protect, empower and inspire this magical endeavour. you can embellish the casting ceremony as much as you like, perhaps drawing pentagrams in the air at the four main compass points, and combining thi

isman and can attract health and good fortune. anima: the term coined by carl gustav jung to represent the female power within men as well as women. animus: jung's term for the male power within women and men. ankh: an egyptian symbol of eternal life. archangels: higher orders of angels, celestial beings featuring in the cosmologies of the three major religions of the western world, christianity, judaism, and islam, as well as many other world religions. athame: a double-edged knife used in formal ritual magick. auric field/aura: the personal energy field around all animate life, visible to clairvoyants. beltain: the celtic festival of summer, beginning on 30 april and lasting for three days. bicarmel mind: a way of thinking that uses both hemispheres of the mind, the logical and the intui

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

clergymen was one of sexual orgies and "perversions, and the handbook of the inquisitors, the malleus maleficarum- which has been responsible for the deaths of many more people than even hitler's mein kampf- is full of detailed sexual imagery and reveals the nature of the souls of the monks who wrote it, rather than of the innocents it was used to massacre. eventually, satanism, protestantism and judaism were inextricably woven together to form a patchwork quilt of evil that the church attempted to destroy during the middle ages, with fire and sword. as a matter of fact, a certain type of devil worship did exist during those times but, ironically, the acolytes of hell were usually never brought to trial; something which stems from the fact that many of those who celebrated and attended the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ent, and this task he must of course accomplish without in any way impairing his virility. it will then be lawful for a magician to invoke isis, and identify himself with her; if he fail to do this, his apprehension of the universe when he attains samadhi will lack the conception of maternity. the result will be a metaphysical and- by corollary- ethical limitation in the religion which he founds. judaism and islam are striking example of this failure. to take another example, the ascetic life which devotion to 11 magick so often involves argues a poverty of nature, a narrowness, a lack of generosity. nature is infinitely prodigal- not one in a million seeds ever comes to fruition. whoso fails to recognise this, let him invoke jupiter<
ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

way he wants it) this school being debased by nature, is not so far removed from conventional religion as either the white or the yellow. most primitive fetishistic religions may, in fact, be considered fairly faithful representatives of this philosophy. where animism holds sway, the "medicine-man" personifies this universal evil, and seeks to propitiate it by human sacrifice. the early forms of judaism, and that type of christianity which we associate with the salvation army, billy sunday and the fundamentalists of the back-blocks of america, are sufficiently simple cases of religion whose essence is the propitiation of a malignant demon. when the light of intelligence begins to dawn dimly through many fogs upon these savages, we reach a second stage. bold spirits master courage to asser

masterpieces of literature. they represent the agony of human despair at its utmost degree of intensity, and the melancholy contemplation which is induced by their perusal is not favourable to the inception of that mood which should lead every truly courageous intelligence to the determination to escape from the 33* anti-semite writers in europe- e.g. weininger- call the black theory and practice judaism, while by a curious confusion, the same ideas are called christian among anglo-saxons. in 1936 e.v. the "nazi" school began to observe this fact. 34* n.b. christianity was in its first stage a jewish communism, hardly distinguishable from marxism. 52 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 93 ferule of the black schoolmaster to the outstretched arms of the white mistres

ost dynamic sense. the only religion which corresponds to this school at all is that of ancient egypt; possibly also that of chaldea. this is because those religions are magical religions in the strict technical sense; the religious component of them is negligible. so far as it exists, it exists only for the uninitiate. there are, however, traces of the beginning of the influence of the school in judaism and in paganism. there are, too, certain documents of the pure greek spirit which bear traces of this. it is what they called theurgy. the christian religion in its simplest essence, by that idea of overcoming evil through a magical ceremony, the crucifixion, seems at first sight a fair example of the white tradition; but the idea of sin and of propitiation tainted it abominably with black

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

these great movements which have caused civilization after civilization to arise from barbarism, it would merely form an argument for cultivating epilepsy. of course great men will never conform with the standards of little men, and he whose mission it is to overturn the world can hardly escape the title of revolutionary. the fads of a period always furnish terms of abuse. the fad of caiaphas was judaism, and the pharisees told him that christ "blasphemed" pilate was a loyal roman; to him 9 they accused christ of "sedition" when the pope had all power it was necessary to prove an enemy a "heretic" advancing to-day towards a medical oligarchy, we try to prove that our opponents are "insane" and (in a puritan country) to attack their "morals" we should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to inv

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

not for a moment suppose that this verse supports the historicity of 'jesus 'jesus' is not, and never was, a man; but he was a 'god' just as a bundle of old rags and a kerosene tin on a bush may be a 'god' there is a man-made idea, built of ignorance, fear, and meanness, for the most part, which we call 'jesus' and which has been tricked out from time to time with various gauds from paganism, and judaism. the subject of 'jesus' is, most unfortunately, too extensive for a note; it is treated fully in my book 888. al iii,52 "i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him" the new comment mohammed's point of view is wrong too; but he needs no such sharp correction as 'jesus' it is his face- his outward semblance- that is to be covered with his wings. the tenets of islam, correctly interpr

story itself to the barbarous tribes of europe "din 'severity' or 'judgment' may refer to the jewish law, rather than to the faith (ad 'din) of islam. assuming this, the six religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside islam and christianity. why assault their flesh rather than their eyes, as in the other cases? because the metaphysics, or point of view, is correct- i take judaism as qabalistic- but the practice imperfect. al iii,54 "bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds" the old comment 54. appears to be a plain instruction in theology and ethics. i do not understand "din. bahlasti= 358, and ompehda perhaps 210. the new comment see appendix weh note: not extant. by sound bahlasti suggests "hurling" or "blasting" ompegda is not too phantastically onomat

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

t the chaldean, the egyptian and the zoroastrian religions may be taken as representing the third, the fourth, and the fifth rays respectively. christianity and probably buddhism were the result of sixth ray influence. mohammedanism, which numbers so large a following, is also under sixth ray influence, but it is not a great root religion, being a hybrid offshoot of christianity with the tinge of judaism. the rays are sometimes considered as divided into three classes; the first ray by itself, the second ray by itself, and the other five in a group. when regarded in this way, they are spoken of as the three rays, and typify the various trinities. another suggestive fragment of symbology describes the three rays as using respectively three kinds of fire to light the sacrifice of the altar

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ey spoke in plain terms of god. they did not think of jesus of nazareth as a crucial experiment. they knew him as friend and master, and they flung their whole being into the enthusiasm of his friendship and service. their preaching was the good news about jesus. they assumed that men already meant something when they spoke of god, and, without challenging the inheritance which they received from judaism, they set side by side with it the jesus whom they had known living, and dead, and alive again. they had been through much more than a time of inexplicable miracles, healings, and voices, and a strange mastery over nature itself, and at the end a conquest of death. if they had told the world, and us, these things alone, they would have been believed. such stories have always found a hearin

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

ivine individuality (ii. 130) a "castor owes his immortality to pollux. b. pollux sacrifices himself to castor (ii. 130) leo the fifth sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "the esotericism of the first creative hierarchy (which is the sixth in reality. a.a.b) is hidden in the zodiacal sign leo (i. 234) pisces the twelfth sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "in judaism and christianity, the messiah is always connected with water, and with baptism (ii. 413- 402- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the second racial initiation. b. the first planetary initiation" 2. pisces "shines as a symbol of the past, present and future spiritual saviours (i. 717) 3 "kepler states as a positive fact that at the mome

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

old testament jehovah in the christian teaching of hell fire. this situation is one which the christ is seeking to alter; it has been in preparation for his instituting a new and more correct presentation of divine truth that i have sought with love and understanding to point out the faults of the world religions, with their obsolete theologies and their lack of love, and to indicate the evils of judaism. the present world faiths must return to their early simplicity, and orthodox judaism, with its deep-seated hate, must slowly disappear; all must be changed in preparation for the revelation which christ will bring. the first things which the christ will do, beginning with this full moon of june, will be to prepare all people everywhere (if possible through their regenerated, religious ins

in a negative and not a positive form. the christ endeavoured to offset and bring to an end the need for the ten commandments, by giving us the eleventh commandment; this, if kept, would entail the keeping of all the others. there was the revelation which christ himself gave, summing it up for us in his life of service, in the love which he preached and in his constant repudiation of theological judaism (the sadducees and the pharisees. this difficulty with judaism still persists and is symbolised for us in the failure to recognise the messiah when he came to them in their own country and let it be known that he came to the whole world and not to the jews alone. for this new revelation the christ is preparing as are all the members of the hierarchy, from the highest chohan down to the hum

relatively unimportant. this is a superficial point of view and one which meets with little sympathy from the hierarchy. that the jews should be rid of fear is of major importance; that they should know and recognise the christ as the messiah, and therefore find for themselves that the religion they follow is destructive of many of the finer values, is likewise of major importance; that orthodox judaism, along with all the other faiths, should realise that there is no desire to make them christian (in the ordinary sense of the term, but that they should all move towards some loving synthesis and eliminate their mutual antagonisms and rivalries is equally urgent, and this statement includes the christian faiths as well. that the vatican cease its political scheming, its exploitation of the

se perception is not possible. to each point enumerated i will append in a few brief words the reason why it is regarded as important: 1. the reorganisation of the world religions. reasons a. to make way for the world religion, universal religion. b. to return humanity to the simplicity which is in christ. c. to rid the world of theology and ecclesiasticism. 2. the gradual dissolution of orthodox judaism. reasons a. because of its presentation of a wrathful jehovah, caring only for his chosen people. this is a basic evil. the lord of the world, the god in whom we live and move and have our being, is totally otherwise. b. because of its separativeness. c. because it is so ancient that its teachings are largely obsolete. d. because when the jews become spiritual they will greatly benefit man

e a third political situation which will not be entirely dependent upon the choices of an unintelligent public or on the control which the hierarchical technique evidently involves. the mode of this new type of political guidance will later appear. this second group will implement the new religion; by the time they come into control the old theological activities will have been completely broken; judaism will be fast disappearing; buddhism will be spreading and becoming increasingly dogmatic; christianity will be in a state of chaotic divisions and upheavals. when this takes place and the situation is acute enough, the master jesus will take certain initial steps towards reassuming control of his church; the buddha will send two trained disciples to reform buddhism; other steps will also b

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

y the passing relics of three dead and gone religions. the spirit has gone out of the old faiths and the true spiritual light is transferring itself into a new form which will manifest on earth eventually as the new world religion. to this form all that is true and right and good in the old forms will contribute, for the forces of right will withdraw that good, and incorporate it in the new form. judaism is old, obsolete and separative and has no true message for the spiritually-minded which cannot be better given by the newer faiths; the moslem faith has served its purpose and all true moslems await the coming of the imam mahdi who will lead them to light and to spiritual victory; the christian faith also has served its purpose; its founder seeks to bring a new gospel and a new message th

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, called "mishna" and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine called the "talmud" of which there are two extant forms, one compiled at babylon-the most notable, and the other associated with jerusalem. to the original "mishna" the rabbis added further commentaries named "gemara" from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until at least a.d. 1500. the two talmuds were first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively. the old testament books were the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned rabbis were not satisfied with them alone, and they supplemented them by two parallel ser

f the nature of the universe symbolised by the three primary elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiacal influences of the heavens, which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in its annual course. i have given the names and definitions of the thirty-two paths at the end of my edition of the" sepher yetzirah" now to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament into a series of twenty-two (the letters) works to be read for the culture of spiritual life; this twenty-two they obtained from the thirty-nine books of the o.t. canon, by collecting the twelve minor prophets into one treatise; ruth they added to judges; ezra to nehemiah; while the two books each of samuel, kings, and chronicl

ion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him" who, indeed, except his own ego, soul or higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all: jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, who was the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, solomon could not have so grossly denied it. go back, however, to the narrative of creation in genesis, and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is made from the dust, and eve is made from adam, and each has breathed into the form, the "nephesh chiah--the breath of life, vitality; but there is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ses (kabala) the reader is asked to turn to stanza iv. of book i. and its fourth commentary to find that the 3, 4 (7, and the thrice seven, or 1065, the number of jehovah, is the number of the 21 prajapati mentioned in the mahabharata, or the three sephrim (words in cipher or figures. and this comparison between the creative powers of archaic philosophy and the anthropomorphic creator of exoteric judaism (since their esotericism shows its identity with the secret doctrine) will lead the student to perceive and discover that, in truth, jehovah is but a lunar and[[footnote(s* in the "book al-chazari" by jehuda-ha-levi, translated by dr. d. cassell[[vol. 2, page] 41 the emanations of ain-soph "generation" god (see book i, part 2 "deus lunus) it is a fact well known to every conscientious stud

, page] 41 the emanations of ain-soph "generation" god (see book i, part 2 "deus lunus) it is a fact well known to every conscientious student of the kabala, that the deeper he dives into it, the more he feels convinced that unless the kabala- or what is left of it- is read by the light of the eastern esoteric philosophy, its study leads only to the discovery that, on the lines traced by exoteric judaism and christianity, the monotheism of both is nothing more exalted than ancient astrolatry, now vindicated by modern astronomy. the kabalists never cease to repeat that primal intelligence can never be understood. it cannot be comprehended, nor can it be located, therefore it has to remain nameless and negative. hence the ain-soph- the "unknowable" and the "unnameable- which, as it could not

th-kol is the daughter of the divine voice, or primordial light, shekinah. in the puranas and hindu exotericism, vach (the voice) is the female logos of brahma- a permutation of aditi, primordial light. and if bath-kol, in jewish mysticism, is an articulate praeternatural voice from heaven, revealing to the "chosen people" the sacred traditions and laws, it is only because vach was called, before judaism, the "mother of the vedas" who entered into the rishis and inspired them by her revelations; just as bath-kol is said to have inspired the prophets of israel and the jewish high-priests. and both exist to this day, in their respective sacred symbologies, because the ancients associated sound or speech with the ether of space, of which sound is the characteristic. hence fire, water and air

es now on earth; the semite hebrew to the latest. one is nearly one[[vol. 2, page 471] the craft of the rabbins. million years old; the other is a small sub-race some 8,000 years old and no more* but phallic worship has developed only with the gradual loss of the keys to the inner meaning of religious symbols; and there was a day when the israelites had beliefs as pure as the aryans have. but now judaism, built solely on phallic worship, has become one of the latest creeds in asia, and theologically a religion of hate and malice toward everyone and everything outside themselves. philo judaeus shows what was the genuine hebrew faith. the sacred writings, he says, prescribe what we ought to do. commanding us to hate the heathen and their laws and institutions. they did hate baal or bacchus w

e: one is almost inclined to say that in the esoteric they are grosser and still more anthropomorphic, than in their exoteric rendering. take as an example the same symbol, even in its christian application; the lilies in the hand of the archangel gabriel (luke i. 28. in hinduism- the "holy of holies" is a universal abstraction, whose dramatis personae are infinite spirit and nature; in christian judaism, it is a personal god, outside of that nature, and the human womb- eve, sarah, etc, etc; hence, an anthropomorphic phallic god, and his image- man. thus it is maintained, that with regard to the of the bible, one of two hypotheses has to be admitted. either behind the symbolic substitute- jehovah- there was the unknown, incognizable deity, the kabalistic ain-soph; or, the jews have been fr

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, neither to buddhism, islam, judaism nor christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. it is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the w

men and conception, the occult and actual connection of our satellite with fecundation is to this day unknown to physiology, which regards every popular practice in this reference as gross superstition. as it is useless to discuss them in detail, we may only stop at present to discuss the lunar symbology casually, to show that the said superstition belongs to the most ancient beliefs, and even to judaism- the basis of christianity. with the israelites, the chief function of jehovah was child-giving, and the esotericism of the bible, interpreted kabalistically, shows undeniably the holy of holies in the temple to be only the symbol of the womb. this is now proven beyond doubt and cavil, by the numerical reading of the bible in general, and of genesis especially. this idea must certainly hav

laimed by the writer, which would be absurd. what i know, i give out; that which i cannot explain, the student must find out for himself. but while supposing that the whole cycle of the universal mystery language will not be mastered for whole centuries to come, even that which has been hitherto discovered in the bible by some scholars is quite sufficient to demonstrate the claim- mathematically. judaism having availed itself of two keys out of the seven, and these two keys having been now rediscovered, it becomes no longer a matter of individual speculation and hypothesis, least of all of "coincidence" but one of a correct reading of the bible texts, as anyone acquainted with arithmetic reads and verifies an addition or total* a few years longer and this system will kill the dead letter o

ds of the archangel in the early representations of his appearance to the virgin mary; and these symbolical images are preserved to this day in the iconography of the greek and roman churches. thus water, fire, the cross, as well as the dove, the lamb, and other sacred animals, with all their combinations, yield esoterically an identical meaning, and must have been accepted as an improvement upon judaism pure and simple. for the lotus and water are among the oldest symbols, and in their origin are purely aryan, though they became common property during the branching-off of the fifth race. let us give an example. letters, as much as numbers, were all mystic, whether in combination or each taken separately. the most sacred of all is the letter m. it is both feminine and masculine, or androgy

araoh's daughter "called his name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, which is the same. in the relics of ancient egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus f

BOOK OF ENOCH

was shed that it filled jerusalem from end to end. at this time, the religious establishment left the country, taking the ark of the covenant and all the important religious texts with them. after a number of years in egypt, the refugees went further south, near to the source of the nile, at lake tana in ethiopia. the descendants of these people are the falashas, who even today follow the form of judaism that had been practiced in israel only before 620 bc. the ethiopians translated the book of hanokh into ge'ez, and had enough respect to look after it. meanwhile, all hebrew versions disappeared but a substantial part of the book had survived in greek, and some parts in aramaic, but until scottish traveler, and freemason, james bruce, returned from ethiopia in 1773, with three manuscripts

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

e and a female. to these we have given names. it would seem that by so doing we are limiting what is, by definition, limitless. but so long as you know, and keep always in the back of your mind, that "it" is limitless you will find that this is the easiest path to follow. after all, it is pretty difficult to pray to a "thing, a supreme power, without being able to picture someone in your mind. in judaism there is this problem to an extent (though judaism is a theocentric faith; the supreme power there has a name which may not be uttered and may not be written. yahweh is the vocalized form often used, but it is derived from the four letters yhwh (the "divine tetra-grammaton, signifying "that name too sacred to be pronounced. in christianity there was developed the use of a human male, jesus

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

, you may wish to add god/goddess-power forms as an interspersed chant, with the voices of the group ebbing and rising in waves. you may wish to welcome the archangels, or guardians of the four watchtowers at the four compass points as you cast your circle (the archangels represent the celestial beings that feature in the cosmologies of the three main religions of the western world -christianity, judaism and islam. for more information, see pages 200 and 236. alternatively, you may wish to call upon powerful goddess forms: isis, ishtar, cerridwen, innana, shakti, yoruba, danu, kali and aine, protect, empower and inspire this magical endeavour. you can embellish the casting ceremony as much as you like, perhaps drawing pentagrams in the air at the four main compass points, and combining thi

isman and can attract health and good fortune. anima: the term coined by carl gustav jung to represent the female power within men as well as women. animus: jung's term for the male power within women and men. ankh: an egyptian symbol of eternal life. archangels: higher orders of angels, celestial beings featuring in the cosmologies of the three major religions of the western world, christianity, judaism, and islam, as well as many other world religions. athame: a double-edged knife used in formal ritual magick. auric field/aura: the personal energy field around all animate life, visible to clairvoyants. beltain: the celtic festival of summer, beginning on 30 april and lasting for three days. seite 177 wicca01.txt bicarmel mind: a way of thinking that uses both hemispheres of the mind, the

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

nd yajur-veda 1500 indo-europeans invade india. vedic culture. 1500 (ca) volcanic destruction of thera, thought to be the origin of atlantis story. harranians established a pilgrimage site at the giza plateau in egypt. 1400 bc the roots of mithraic belief are found in the worship of the sky goddess mitra in northern mesopotamia. avesta composed in avestan (an east-iranian language) 1200 origin of judaism, o.c. of o.t, starting with the torah (the first 5 books. sophocles claimed dice were invented by palamedes during the siege of troy. herodotus attributed them to the lydians in the reign of atys. 1194 fall of troy (events described in iliad/odyssey. 1100 (ca) rise of mayan culture. 994- king david captures jerusalem. 10th century bce solomon, son of david, king of israel flourished 950 to

t) c.210 clement of alexandria stromata book 6 chap.4 describes sacred ceremonial procession of egyptian priests carrying the 42 books of hermes(emanation of re) 215-220: origen (185-253/4, then catechist for the christian community of alexandria, preaches his homilies on genesis along with a lot of other works 216 to 276- life of mani, the illuminator, who founded manicheism, based on ideas from judaism, christianity, zoroasterism, gnosticism, etc. 244-261 mani sent a mission to egypt under adda and patteg reaching as far as alexandria and another mission was led by ammo penetrating to the far north-east of the empire, to parthia and marv and beyond where he founded communities. 250-325 ce iamblicus, neoplatonic philosopher, was born in chalcis, coele-syria 261-62 manichaean mission, led

f kabbalah" in provence. 1160-1170 yehuda ibn tibbon translates book of the duties of the heart by bahya ibn pequda which apparently was influenced by the rasa'il of ikhwan as-safa (encyclopaedia of the brotherhood of purity) and, possibly, by hermetic sources< bahya s the duties of the heart, written in arabic in around 1075, denote the first complete assimilation of muslim ascetic theology into judaism -s.d. goitein, ebrei e arabi, 1980, p. 179> 1162 to 1227- life of genghis khan, conqueror of china and russia, invader of europe and islamic empire, destroyer of assassin power. approximate beginnings of the wandering of the gypsies of north india. 1163: work begins on the gothic cathedral of notre-dame de paris. 1165 prester john letter addressed to manuel commentus, emperor of byznatium

mperor frederick i barbarossa and some great stories for english king richard i the lion-hearted, who stops on his way out to visit joachim. the crusade does not, however, re-take jerusalem. 1189-1245 ibn al-farid egyptian poet sufi way of love intoxication c.1190- 1260 richard de fournival. trouv re 1190: rambam writes the moreh nebukhim, or guide to the perplexed, using rationalism to reconcile judaism with aristotle's laws of nature, and shloshah-asar ikkarim, the thirteen articles of faith. c. 1190 wolfram von eschenbach: parzival. isaac the blind. 1194-1270 nahmanides 1194-1256 ya aqob anatoli court doctor, alchemist, and translator for frederick ii c.1231; assistant of michael scotus, whom he frequently quotes in his work: goad of the disciples. a major link between jewish-muslim spa

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dgmental, fire and brimstone gods- originated: negative extraterrestrials. the 'fear of god' was born, and this fear and resistance to change (disobeying the gods) is still in the collective psyche. over time, as described at length in the robots' rebellion, these various god myths became fused together to form 'composite gods, based on themes from many of the earlier civilisations. so it is with judaism, the christian bible, islam, and most of the others. their version of; god relates to the type of extraterrestrials from which their religion originated or the way many different extraterrestrial stories have become fused into a composite god over the centuries. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to worship a composite god made up of extraterrestrials. amen. if you look at the orig

to control this dimension. the potential for manipulating humanity with such technology is simply limitless. what better way to control people, close down their minds and divide and rule, than to create a series of dogmatic religions based on extraterrestrial special effects? look at the pain, misery, and inter-generational ignorance that has been visited upon this planet by christianity, islam, judaism, and all the rest. if you want to shut down someone's consciousness so they stop thinking for themselves and delink their minds from their infinite potential, sell them a dogmatic religion or some other form of rigid dogma. they are then putty in your hands. i think the takeover of planet earth was achieved by what i call the luciferic consciousness. i use this as an overall name to descri

and means of retaining power. humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. dogmas take endless forms and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through 'divide and rule' becomes easy. it is happening today in the same way- more so, in fact- as it has throughout the period of the vibratory prison. to a manipulator, judaism is just as useful as christianity and islam; the political 'left' is just as important as the political 'right. you need two dogmas to play off against each other. the most effective dogmas over thousands of years have been the religions. one generation takes on a narrow view of life and themselves (a religion) and imposes it on their children, who then do the same to their children, and s

ns, and the original clarity was lost in the repeated communication. the knowledge also became a vehicle for control, and it was accordingly changed to suit those in power at any given time. this is why you still find elements of this knowledge in all religions. the original core knowledge has been diluted and diverted in countless directions, to manifest as religions such as christianity, islam, judaism, paganism, hinduism, etc. all have retained the themes of the knowledge to some extent, while often destroying its true meaning with dogma, myth, and manipulated make-believe. ironically, paganism has retained far more of the original knowledge than those religions (such as christianity) which condemn it as 'evil. the fourth dimensional prison warders wish to prevent us from knowing who we

, was both positive and negative. there was the civilisation called sumer in mesopotamia (now iraq, which developed alongside the birth of the brotherhood 23 the tigris and euphrates rivers. sumer is believed to have originated from around 6000bc, although such figures must be treated as only estimates. this would later become part of the babylonian empire, which greatly influenced the beliefs of judaism and, through that, christianity, as did the egyptian civilisation. you can read the detailed history of all this in the robots' rebellion. a contact who has worked on the 'inside' of government and security agencies in the uk told me a story which relates both to sumer and the themes of an extraterrestrial takeover. he says that in the 1960s the british intelligence agencies produced a sec

vels of the brotherhood ladder might ponder deeply on this for their own sake, if not for that of others. another brotherhood frontman was the marquis de mirabeau. he is known to have been financed by the german, moses mendelssohn, a member of the uluminati.21 rabbi marvin s. antelman names mendelssohn as a key manipulator for an inner 'jewish' clique which he believes has been seeking to destroy judaism and all religion.22 he says that this clique, together with non-jews, are followers of what he, too, calls the all-seeing eye cult. he links this group to the house of rothschild and says the cult was the force behind the french revolution. mendelssohn started the uluminati front, the haskala movement in 1776- the year the bavarian uluminati was launched. another figure close to mendelssoh

ing eye cult. he links this group to the house of rothschild and says the cult was the force behind the french revolution. mendelssohn started the uluminati front, the haskala movement in 1776- the year the bavarian uluminati was launched. another figure close to mendelssohn was the uluminati member, friedrich nicholai. rabbi antelman described mendelssohn as a "con man" who plotted the demise of judaism while claiming to be a promoter of the religion and the "race. this is precisely what has happened since and continues today. there is a global jewish clique who are not, in truth, followers of judaism or supporters of jewish people. the freemasonry lodges in france, particularly those under the control of the grand orient form of the order, were infiltrated by illuminati manipulators and

had nothing to do with what was best for jews, even though its architects, the rothschilds, are jewish if only in name. it was about the wider strategic oil and new world order possibilities that a foothold in that part of the middle east would offer. i believe that rabbi marvin s. antelman is correct when he links the house of rothschild with the all-seeing eye clique which is seeking to destroy judaism. things may be done in the name of jewish people as a whole, but they are not done for their benefit. jewish people are used as fodder by the elite and by many within the jewish hierarchy. nor is it true that most jewish people today have a genetic line back to ancient israel, a claim used to justify the occupation of palestine. for the same reason, the term 'anti-semitic' is constantly mi

ed elders of zion available to hitler. so what could possibly motivate this manipulating jewish clique to treat their fellow jews in such a subhuman way? quite simply, the manipulators are not really jews, as rabbi marvin s. antelman points out in his 1974 book, to eliminate the opiate. antelman, who lost seventeen members of his family to the nazis, says that this clique does not want to promote judaism, it wants to destroy it, as it wants to destroy all alternatives to its own focus of worship, the all-seeing eye cult of antiquity. it is this which provides the common themes of loyalty and motivation between the jews, arabs, british, germans, americans etc, who are knowingly working together to bring about the global fascist tyranny known as the new world order. the 'jews' of the global

s by whatever means alternative versions of history which challenge 'the official line' are also afraid of the people- afraid that their manipulation will be exposed by such a free flow of information. the way the jewish mind has been so seriously manipulated by the jewish hierarchy over the centuries has had another effect. like the roman catholic church and other religious and racial tyrannies, judaism, and more recently zionism, has used fear and guilt to maintain control of its people. it has pressurised each generation to conform to what it tells them they must believe and it has programmed their minds to think of themselves as a people who have always been, and will always be, the subject of oppression and prejudice from the rest of society. a leaflet12 asking for financial support f

d's name, as a prime suspect in the murder of pope john paul i, who died after only 33 days in office in 1978. this pope perhaps knew something of what was going on, both in terms of freemasonry infiltration and the stealing of vatican wealth. the 'christian' wing of the all-seeing eye cult wants to infiltrate and destroy christianity in the same way its jewish membership are working to undermine judaism. maybe pope john paul i pyramid power 191 was determined to act to bring an end to the manipulation, although others say he was an illuminati pope. anyway, he was found dead, murdered by agents of p2, and this was covered up with lies about 'natural causes. the doctors who were allowed to examine him appeared confused, with each suggesting a different cause- heart attack, cancer, and brain

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nded all "sides" in the two world wars and that's provable (see..and the truth shall set you free. so let us summarise the scam (a) you need to first imprison the human mind with a rigid belief and a fundamentally limited sense of reality- the sheep pen. it doesn't much matter what these beliefs may be, so long as they are rigid and discourage free thought and open-minded questions. christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, and all the rest, each make their contribution to human servitude while apparently claiming different "truths (b) you encourage those who follow these rigid beliefs to impose them on others and make life very difficult and unpleasant for anyone who does not conform (c) you bring these beliefs into conflict, so ensuring the divide and rule you so desperately need for contr

rce that all the religions have emerged- the continuation of the knowledge and bloodlines of atlantis and lemuria. they may interpret this base information slightly differently and emphasise different strands, but the core from which they have come is the same: the atlantean, lemurian and sumer empires and their belief system, not least its focus on the worship of the sun. where did christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, buddhism, and others like zoroasterism, etc, etc, all emerge from? the middle and near east, the vast region ruled from sumer at one time and still dominated by that knowledge base and belief system in the thousands of years that followed sumer's atlantis revisited 51 demise. the sumerian story of king sargon is a classic case. they said that his mother floated him in a b

member of the sumerian royal family who brought him up as their own.8 the hebrews, or rather their manipulating priests, the levites, later stole this ancient story from the sumerian accounts and used it in the fable of their invented character known as moses. the old testament is founded on sumerian accounts, edited and rewritten as required, to create a manufactured history and religion called judaism. the new testament is based on symbolic stories repeated over and over in the thousands of years before its creation and based on the sumerian (and golden age) religion of sun worship. the new testament texts, in turn, created a manufactured religion and history called christianity. two prison-religions and two make-believe histories for the price of one book. what more do you want? great

rtrayed with a jackal or dog/wolf head, as was an or anu, the royal leader of the anunnaki.17 heru= hero= hybrid bloodline and these "heroes" may be ruling the earth, at blood brothers 73 least in part, on behalf of the sirius "gods. another definition of the term, hero, is a "man sacrificed to hera, which is again related to heru/horus, etc.18 biblical scholars and the dictatorships that control judaism and christianity have always avoided an explanation of that "nefilim" passage in genesis because it is so difficult to encompass the contents into the party line. but, hey, they tell us that this is the literal word of god and he's not going to make a cock-up, is he? it's very clear. some sort of beings, the sons of the gods, came down and produced children with earth women and those child

anunnaki-illuminati to destroy or marginalize the cultures of the native americans, central and south americans, black africans, the australian aborigines, and the "pagan" religion in general. this is what they did, of course, as even conventional history records, but it never tells you the real reason why or who was really behind it. by replacing these native cultures with imposed christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, and all the rest, they could either crush the true knowledge with rigid dogma, or imprison it in a gruesome hierarchical structure of genetic "superiority, as with the hindu caste system. the unholy alliance 107 columba(us) the interconnections of the illuminati web can be seen in the story of christopher columbus. he sailed to the americas in 1492 knowing basically where

l religion of worshipping the goddess was replaced by the male "god. however, that was only on the surface, 196 children of the matrix for public consumption, control, and ignorance. to suppress the ancient knowledge, not least that of true history, it was necessary to destroy the outward expression of goddess worship while its initiates continued with business as usual. therefore, religions like judaism, christianity, and islam were created to give the appearance of being dominated by the male, while, in truth, being secret vehicles for the worship of the goddess. this involved taking female deities like el and depicting them as male. the sun goddess way back in history the sun was portrayed as female.2 in japan, a country with a long history of serpent worship, the ruling clans claimed d

son of god, was born in the "place of bread" and jesus said he was "the bread of life. the priesthood took the ancient sumer sun religion, esoteric, astrological and astronomical knowledge, and the stories of their reptilian gods, and buried them in symbolic fables. this hid their real meaning, except to initiates, while introducing the rigid beliefs of the prison religions. every major religion, judaism, christianity, hinduism, islam, and buddhism all had the same basic origin: the knowledge and beliefs of sumer, which inherited the knowledge and beliefs of atlantis and lemuria. the major religions were all founded in the lands once occupied by the sumer empire. they may have emphasised different elements of the sumer beliefs, but that was the mould from which they all came. the priesthoo

op the people rebelling against this suppression, control, and poverty, the priesthood stories had to promise a paradise in the afterlife for all those who obeyed "god's law. in other words, their law, the law of the anunnaki. and for those who did not obey this "law? eternal hell and damnation. even the term "sin, as i have pointed out, comes from the name of an anunnaki "god. out of babylon (1: judaism the texts that formed the old testament of the bible, a foundation of judaism and christianity, were written after the levite priesthood of the hebrews were held in captivity after 586bc in..here we go..babylon! i think the term "captivity" is less than appropriate, also. the early hebrews worshipped the serpent god of the sumer empire and the levites were called "sons of the great serpent

s far more about this story in the biggest secret, where i have highlighted the way these texts were coded with esoteric knowledge and why the vast majority of people who we call "jewish" today have no genetic connection to palestine or israel. they originate, as jewish sources have confirmed, from the khazars, a people from southern russia and the caucasus mountains, who had a mass conversion to judaism in the 8th century. the terms "jewish" and "hebrew" have become mixed up. some people we call jewish go back to the hebrews of the middle east, but most do not. they come from the caucasus. it shouldn't matter where they come from, its just a body, but if people are being told a fib they have a right to know. so much of the "hebrew" knowledge also came from the egyptian mystery schools and

d the bloodline of "jesus? answer: they didn't. that genealogy was invented to serve a purpose, as were the old testament genealogies back to "abraham" in sumer. they were part of the manufactured history, some truth mixed with endless lies and deceit, which was created to hide what really happened. edouard dujardin, in his book, ancient history of the god jesus (watts and co, 1938) documents how judaism or the "jahvehists" took the gods of other nations and turned them into mythical hebrew leaders, heroes, and prophets "where judaism fully succeeded, the ancient baals of palestine were transformed into heroic servants of jahveh; where it gained only a partial victory, they became secondary gods..many of the old baals of palestine were assimilated by judaism, which converted them into hero

wn as mother mary or "mata-meri" and called the "queen of heaven "our lady, and "mother of god".25 el in the edda texts was also known as mary. the hebrews worshipped a god and goddess deity called mari-el or "mary-god, and the "mother mary" of christianity is just another name for the ancient goddess known as el, isis, ishtar, barati, artemis, and diana. the christian religion, like its bed-mate judaism, sought to remove the feminine principle from the public domain, and the ancient trinity of father-son-mother became father-son-holy ghost. the grotesque suppression of women would follow "justified" by the invented words of the mythical st paul "wives submit to your husbands for the husband is the head of the wife, as christ is the head of the church. now if the church submits to christ s

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people who call themselves christian. there are many whoexpress a loving spirituality through their christian beliefs. i am talking of the institutionof christianity and its arrogant indoctrination and imposition of its desperately limitedvision of life which has created a mind-prison for literally billions of people over almost2,000 years. all the worlds major religions, hinduism, christianity, judaism and islam,came out of the very same region of the middle and near east from which the aryanrace and the reptile crossbreeds emerged after the cataclysm of perhaps 7,000 years ago.these religions were designed to imprison the mind and engulf the emotions with fearand guilt. they were usually based on some saviour-god figure like jesus ormohammed and only by believing in them and following t

stoke the fires of hell for all eternity.staggeringly, billions upon billions have fallen for this scam over thousands of years,and still do. thats fine if they want to give their minds and their lives away, but manyinsist that everyone else must do the same and thats not fine. seriously not fine. most ofthe people reading this book will be from the parts of the world dominated bychristianity and judaism and so i shall take those as the main examples of how symbolicstories have become literal truths and how the manipulation of these stories has producedthe most powerful form of mass mind control yet invented.to understand the true background to the religions, we need to appreciate the basisof all ancient religion going back to the phoenicians, the babylonians and beyond. itwas the sun. the

hat blackmagic dictated the state religion in egypt and that the intellectual and spiritual activitiesof the people were paralysed by complete obedience to the dogma formulated by thepriestcraft. what a perfect description of the levite-babylonian mode of manipulationand of all the religions, like christianity, which were to emerge from the lies theypeddled. and thats a crucial point to remember. judaism, christianity and islam allbase their beliefs on these same stories written by the levites after their stay inbabylon. we are looking at a point in history which was to define and control the worldfrom then until now. the knowledge the levites stole from egypt and expanded as aresult of their stay in babylon, became known as the cabala (kabala, qaballa, whichcomes from the hebrew root, qbl

history which was to define and control the worldfrom then until now. the knowledge the levites stole from egypt and expanded as aresult of their stay in babylon, became known as the cabala (kabala, qaballa, whichcomes from the hebrew root, qbl, meaning mouth to ear. this is the method used tocommunicate the most secret information to initiates. the cabala is the esoteric streamof what is called judaism, which in fact is a front for the babylonian brotherhood, as isthe v atican. the cabala is the secret knowledge hidden in codes within the oldtestament and other texts. judaism is the literal interpretation of it. this is a techniqueyou can see in all the religions. an example of the levite coding is the names of thefive scribes, garia, dabria, tzelemia, echanu and azrel, in the second boo

exist in egypt and there was no hebrew law because there wasno hebrew race. the only worship was egyptian worship. the hebrew religion,language and race only emerged when initiates of the egyptian mysteries, later to beknown as levites, took the knowledge out of egypt and invented a whole history tocover what they were doing, who they were working for and where they came from. theterms hebrew and judaism are another way of saying egyptian. this is one reasonwhy we have the constant use of symbols by todays brotherhood which relate to egypt,85including the pyramid with the capstone missing. this is symbolic of the great pyramidat giza and the egyptian mystery schools, together with much deeper meanings. at theentrance to the mystery school temple in egypt were two massive obelisks. these ar

ab peoples ofpalestine! again, as jewish writers such as arthur koestler have exposed, all except asmall minority of people who created and populated the state of israel, originategenetically in southern russia, not israel. the hooked nose which is considered sojewish is a genetic trait of southern russia and the caucasus, not israel. in 740 ad, apeople called the khazars had a mass conversion to judaism. koestler writes:the khazars came not from jordan, but from the volga, not from canaan, but from thecaucasus. genetically they are more related to the hun, uigar and the magyar than theseed of abraham, isaac and jacob. the story of the khazar empire, as it slowly emergesfrom the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax that history has ever perpetrated.20there are two main sub divisio

he egyptian portrayals of isis holding thebaby horus (see figure 15. these people did notactually exist, they are symbolic. isis becameassociated with the astrological sign of virgo thevirgin, as did mary. the titles given to isis ofstar of the sea and queen of heaven were alsogiven to mary and they both originate fromqueen semiramis, who was called the queen ofheaven in babylon. christianity and judaism areboth the religion of babylon.throughout the world you see the same sunreligions and rituals, in sumer, babylon, assyria,egypt, britain, greece, europe in general,mexico and central america, australia..everywhere. it was the universal religion inspiredby the same, ultimately extraterrestrial, sourcethousands of years before christianity. sun andfire worship was the focus of religions in

171.49ibid.50ibid, p 172.103cmapter fiveconquered by the crossthe christian church is a farce founded on a fantasy. if anyone requires confirmationof how easy it is for the few to control the masses, they need look no further than thebillions of people who have worshipped the fairy tales peddled these past 2,000 yearsby men in long frocks. and what goes for christianity goes for the rest of them,judaism, islam, hinduism and all the rest.these religions were created by the same force to achieve the same effect and,therefore, the saviour-god myths throughout the ancient world have an identical gameplan: 1 you are born with original sin and so you are an unworthy piece of shit from theday you arrive on the planet. 2 you can only be saved by believing in the saviour andthat means doing what t

emiramis, was titled the holy spirit. so the father, son and holyghost, are in fact nimrod-tammuz and semiramis. christianity is the religion ofbabylon and has been from the start. today rome and italy remain a majorbrotherhood centre, as i detail in. and the truth shall set you free. the v atican itselfis wholly controlled by the brotherhood and one of its most important bases.christianity, like judaism and islam, was designed to achieve another vital part ofthe reptilian agenda: the suppression of the female energy, the intuitive connection tohigher levels of our multidimensional consciousness. once you suppress your feminineenergy, your intuition, you switch off your higher consciousness and become dominatedby your lower consciousness. you are isolated from your highest expression of lo

they dotoday. the hebrew and christian religions are the inventions of those who controlledthe underground stream of secret knowledge. even the ritual garbs are the same in somany ways. what do jewish people wear? skull caps. what does the pope wear? askull cap. this is symbolic of the way priests in the mystery schools used to shave thebacks of their heads. the more formal headgear and ritual of judaism and christianityare also very similar because they originate from the same source and the popes mitreis the fish head symbol of nimrod.to complete the trio, along came the skull-cap-wearing muslims and the creed ofislam, inspired by the prophet mahomet (mohammed) when he had a vision in theyear 612. once more we find that islams roots are in christianity and judaism andtherefore babylon. m

the most valid. as such, all christians and jews shouldconvert to islam, the orthodox muslims demand. the term, jihad, is the holy war thatmuslims are urged to wage against all who do not accept the creed of mohammed. howfitting that islam means to submit or surrender and muslim means one who submits.some of the bloodiest conflict in history has resulted from the desire of islam,christianity and judaism to impose their creed on each other, when they all come fromthe same source and the same manipulation! excuse me, did i come in late and misssomething? beam me up scotty, get me out of here..the islamic god allah is the same god, the muslims say, as the judeo-christian,jehovah. the koran is the islamic holy book, but muslims also give credence to thepentateuch, the first five books of the

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th, a religious group which believes baha ullah, a persian nobleman of the late 19th century, to be the most recent manifestation of god. he has spent the past three years studying the baha i writings and the religious texts of other major world religions. his experience in proclaiming deitus as the word of the new aeon had convinced him that the prophets of the world s great religions (hinduism, judaism, zoroastrianism, buddhism, etc) were influenced by the same dark god that dictated the book of the law and the book of coming forth by night. key to this belief in a commonality between satanism (and other religions of the lefthand- path) and the baha i faith (and other religions of the right-hand-path) are the words of anton lavey in the satanic bible who writes that in an age of ice god

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ations should go to the hebrew culture for their mystical tradition? the answer to this question will be readily understood by those who are acquainted with the esoteric theory concerning races and sub-races. everything must have a source. cultures do not spring out of nothing. the seed-bearers of each new phase of culture must of necessity arise within the preceding culture. no one can deny that judaism was the matrix of the [page 2] european spiritual culture when they recall the fact that jesus and paul were both jews. no race except the jewish race could possibly have served as the stock upon which the new dispensation was to be grafted because no other race was monotheistic. pantheism and polytheism had had their day and a new and more spiritual culture was due. the mystical qabala pa

oint before the student has a general concept, much of that time will be wasted because the bearing of that concept on the scheme as a whole will not be understood. the rabbis themselves apply to kether the titles, concealed of the concealed, and the inscrutable height, hinting that there is not a great deal that the human mind can hope to know about kether. 11. it is worthy of note that exoteric judaism, to whose liabilities christianity is the not altogether fortunate heir, does not contain any concept of the emanations, or overflowing of the sephiroth one from another. it declares that god made the sea and the hills and the beasts of the field, and we visualise this process, if we visualise it at all, as the work of a celestial craftsman fashioning each new phase of manifestation and pu

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and unrighteousness is dominant, then i am reborn. for the protection of the virtuous, the destruction of evil-doers, and to reestablish righteousness, i am reborn from age to age. belief in repeated divine reincarnations of the deities for the good of the world, as distinct from one unique messianic event, is one of the major theological differences between hinduism and western religions such as judaism and christianity. avebury avebury is possibly the most spectacular of the ancient megalithic monuments in the british isles, far surpassing in size the more well-known stonehenge. like stonehenge, it is located in wiltshire. enough of the monument has survived that a picture of what it looked like when it was completed can be reconstructed. the large ritual area is surrounded by a circular

d laid down methods of interrogation, torture, and execution. his colloquium heptaplomeron de abdites rerum sublimium varcanus, aroused very unfavorable opinions regarding his religious views. in it bodin discussed the theological opinions of jews, moslems, and deists to the disadvantage of the christian faith, and although he died a catholic, he professed in his time the tenets of protestantism, judaism, sorcery, atheism, and deism. the demonomanie was published in paris in 1580 and again under the title fleau des demons et des sorciers at wiort in 1616. in its first and second books bodin demonstrated that spirits have communication with mankind, and he traced the various characteristics and forms that distinguish good spirits from evil. his topics include the methods of diabolic prophec

magic concerns the discipline of the self and the art of controlling and directing personal and cosmic power, which may or may not be personified as a demonic or deific form. in its pre-twentieth-century form, ceremonial magic s rites were religious actions, and the ritual format partook largely of the nature of religious observances. it was not, as generally supposed, a reversed christianity or judaism, though it departed radically from orthodox christianity; nor did it partake of the profanation of religious ritual. it was in effect an attempt to derive power from god for the successful control of evil spirits. even in the grimoires and keys of black magic, the operator was constantly reminded that he or she must meditate continually on the undertaking at hand and center every hope in t

n from jehovah to test the justice of this accusation, by afflicting job in everything he holds dear. we have here the spy, the informer, the public prosecutor, the executioner; all embodied in satan, the adversary: these attributes are not amiable ones, but the writer does not suggest the absolute antagonism between jehovah and satan, which is a fundamental dogma of modern christianity. in later judaism the concept of satan is strongly colored by persian dualism, and it has been supposed that asmodeus of the book of tobit is the same as aeshara daewa of the ancient persians. both satan and satans are mentioned in the book of enoch; in ecclesiasticus, satan is identified with the serpent of genesis; and in the book of the secrets of enoch his revolt against god and expulsion from heaven ar

ive in the light of slade s later reputation as a fraud and in view of the startling tricks performed by stage magicians with cords and rings. zollner reported on his experiment in his book transcendental physics (1880, which became the object of much ridicule by his colleagues. end of the world one of the most common concepts in prophetic literature, especially in the apocalyptical literature of judaism and christianity. the term can denote either the end of the physical world (cosmos) or the end of the social order (aeon. the theological term eschatology refers to teachings about the last things (from the greek eschaton. eschatology includes a consideration not only of the destiny of the world but of the individual (death, judgment, heaven, hell. the most dramatic form of eschatology is

maccabees to the mishnah. philadelphia: westminster press, 1987. cross, frank moore. the ancient library of qumran. minneapolis, minn: fortress press, 1995. ginsburg, christian d. the essenes: their history and doctrines. london: routledge and kegan paul, 1863. knibb, michael a. the qumran community. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1987. kraft, robert a, and george w. e. nickelsburg. early judaism and its modern interpreters. philadelphia: fortress press, 1986. simon, marcel. jewish sects at the time of jesus. philadelphia: fortress press, 1967. est popular name for erhard seminars training, a system of experiential philosophy developed by werner erhard. through the 1960s erhard explored a variety of self-help courses and spiritual disciplines, including dale carnegie, the church of

belief that they had the backing of heaven. in the subsequent peace after the war ended, they were an embarrassment to the crown, but had become wealthy and powerful enough that king ferdinand could not move against them. the garunda settled in as a secret intelligence network. one target of its spying was the maranos, jews who had outwardly converted to catholicism, but were secretly adhering to judaism. the garunda aligned with the inquisition over the next century and shared any confiscated property and money with it. it also spread to spanish territories in south america. in 1821, the spanish government finally moved against the garunda, found a set of incriminating books, and the following year executed many of its leaders. the garunda was effectively suppressed in spain, but continue

, no. 3 (october 1961. hastings, a. c, james fadiman, and james b. gordon. health for the whole person. boulder, colo: westview press, 1980. hastings, a. c, and stanley krippner. poltergeist phenomena and expectancy set. northwestern tri-quarterly 3, no. 3 (spring 1961. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. hastraun a small mystical sect of judaism located in some parts of palestine and babylon. members practiced a form of communism and were also known as fearers of sin. hatha yoga one of several yogic traditions, hatha yoga refers to the ancient hindu practice of static physical exercise used to develop physical, physiological, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the self. unlike the active movements of western gymnastics, hatha

epherd of men, the perfect sermon, or the asclepius, excerpts by stobacus, as well as fragments from the church fathers and from the philosophers zosimus and fulgentius. these writings were neglected by theologians, who dismissed them as the offspring of third-century neoplatonism. according to the generally accepted view, they are eclectic compilations, combining neoplatonic philosophy, philonic judaism, and kabalistic theosophy in an attempt to supply a philosophic substitute for christianity. the many christian elements to be found in these mystic scriptures were ascribed to plagiarism. examination of early mystery writings and traditions has shown that the main source of the trismegistic tractates is probably the wisdom of egypt and that they go back in an unbroken tradition of type an

ereafter, in 1923, he had a vision of a brown-skinned damsel who was transformed into an eagle. he interpreted the vision as a prophecy concerning a church he was to found. thus on september 23, 1923, he founded universal hagar s spiritual church. he opened the church s school of mediumship and psychology the next year. along with his traditional spiritualist ideals, hurley taught a form of black judaism. he believed that blacks were god s original hebrew people and that the mark of cain (god s curse) was the pale skin of white people. hurley also suggested that he was the bearer of god s spirit on earth for the emerging aquarian age, just as jesus was the spirit bearer for the piscean age, and moses and adam had been for prior astrological ages. he believed that the aquarian age had begun

the fathers of the church series, vol. 4. washington, dc: catholic university of america press, 1973. bernard, theos. philosophical foundations of india. london: rider [1945. carrington, hereward. death: the causes and phenomena with special reference to immortality. london, 1911. reprint, new york: arno press, 1977. charles, r. h. a critical history of the doctrine of a future life in israel, in judaism and in christianity. london, 1899. reprinted as eschatology, the doctrine of a future life in june 19, 2000, in judaism, and in christianity: a critical history. new york: schocken books, 1963. ducasse, c. j. critical examination of the belief in a life after death. springfield, ill: charles c. thomas, 1974. fournier, d albe. new light on immortality. london, 1908. hyslop, james h. psychic

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part of the divine essence itself, whereas the ordinary devotee of most religious systems merely desires to walk in god s way and obey his will. historical survey mysticism has emerged as a strain in all of the major religious systems, both east and west. it tends to have a particular affinity, however, with some systems. while there is, for example, a perceptible mystical stain in christianity, judaism (hassidism, and islam (sufism, western systems that emphasize the transcendence of a personal all-powerful deity have made mysticism a secondary concern. in the east, where the unreality of material things is emphasized, mysticism is a more dominant form of spiritual life. the sufis of persia may be said to be a link between the more austere indian mystics and those of europe. with the ris

ess not subject to birth and death, or change and decay. various pathways of yoga facilitated that quest, involving self-purification, service to others, and refinement of perception based upon physical health and its spiritual counterpart. the hindu emphasis on the duties and responsibilities of a householder taking priority over the quest for mystical enlightenment have something in common with judaism, which does not seek to separate mystical experience from everyday life. judaism is essentially pragmatic in its approach to the spiritual life and requires that mystical experience be interfused with daily life and religious observance. the jewish mystic typified in the period of eighteenth- to nineteenth-century hasidism, was a pious rabbi, living a life of prayer, study, and meditation

atron of the healing art; and thou osiris, lord of strength and vigour, do thou thyself be present too. arnebascenis, patron of philosophy, and yet again asclepius, son of imuthe, who presidest over poetry. apollonius, apollonius, apollonius, thou teachest the magic of zoroaster, son of oromasdes; and this is the worship of the gods. for the evocation of spirits belonging to religions issued from judaism, the following kabalistic invocation of solomon should be used, either in hebrew, or in any other tongue with which the spirit in question is known to have been familiar: powers of the kingdom, be ye under my left foot and in my right hand! glory and eternity, take me by the two shoulders, and direct me in the paths of victory! mercy and justice, be ye the equilibrium and splendour of my l

, the principal town in haiti. pasqually is credited with having written a book, traite de la reintegration des etres, but this was not published until the end of the nineteenth century. a rather extensive summary of the rituals he proposed for the order were gathered and published by rene le forestier in 1928. the rituals drew heavily upon the kabala, which pasqually felt was the essence of true judaism. the format, however, followed one that would have been familiar to a pious roman catholic. the members began the day with a reading of the office of the holy spirit. around ten in the evening, following a time of prayer, the members entered a private ritual space where a ritual diagram would be drawn on the floor. the invocation would begin at midnight. its purpose was to communicate with

and its survival of bodily death (2 vols, 1903) that the recorded appearances, intimations, and messages of the departing and the departed prove that between the spiritual and material worlds an avenue of communication does exist.that which we call the despatch and receipt of telepathic messages, or the utterance and the answer of prayer and supplication. traditional prayer in western religions (judaism, christianity, and islam) that imply a direct relationship between the believer and a beneficent deity have always been severely challenged by the existence of significant evil. the idea of a loving and omnipotent god acting on behalf of human life was put to its most intense test by the holocaust of world war ii. if there is any simple efficacy to devout and heartfelt prayers to a deity

nd form, which in hinduism is considered the highest and most difficult stage of godrealization. he then undertook his great pilgrimages. he visited all the holy places of india, meeting sri ramakrishna and sri aurobindo. he went on to travel through afghanistan and persia, then made a pilgrimage to mecca. after this experience of the moslem shrine, he next traveled to jerusalem, the holy city of judaism and christianity. he went on to turkey, through the balkans into greece and then through italy to rome, so that he might better understand the christian religion. after visiting most european countries, he was invited shirley, ralph encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1402 to england by queen victoria s indian secretariat and had 18 private visits with the queen. in 1901, af

ritualists do not believe in an afterlife of unchangeable bliss or eternal damnation. in their perspective, there is no hell with brimstone and flames of fire as some christians teach. in like measure they deny the existence of devils, a final judgment, and the vicarious atonement. christ was a great teacher who descended to set an example. it is our task to do for christianity what jesus did for judaism, said a message received by w. stainton moses from the spirits who allegedly spoke through his automatic writing. spiritualists also deny the resurrection of the physical body, as did the hieracites, a sect that flourished in the fourth century: they maintain that it is the soul alone that resurrected. spiritualism admits all the truths of morality and religion of all other sects. the mora

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

school from a young age, and we regularly attended services and holiday celebrations at our local synagogue. i treasure the memories of receiving my father s blessing before the ark of the torah on the occasion of my bar mitzvah,1 and observing my mother lighting candles on the sabbath. but, as my heart opened and mind developed, i could not shake a feeling from deep within myself that rabbinical judaism had somehow become disconnected from its spiritual taproot. something essential was missing. it appeared to me that a rigid fence had been built around the letter of the torah, but that the living spirit of the torah was no longer there. i knew that other religions had distinct and beautiful mystical traditions, but where was ours? the rabbis never mentioned it, never taught us anything ab

the ark of the covenant, with its attendant class of hereditary priests bound to a strict code of levitical purity? furthermore, the word rabbi does not appear anywhere in the torah, and was not an official title or position until after rabbinical academies were established in the fifth century bce. how did the pharisaic rabbinical sect secure its position of dominance and orthodox authority over judaism by the time of the late hasmonean period? what was the advent of master 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% yeshuvah (jesus) really about xa call for a new direction in judaism or for a return to its original roots? was master mohammed really the last in the line of the shemite prophets, and the qur an its final revelation? when regarded outside the context of the dogmas that developed to support the ort

ractices and disciplines described herein do so at their own discretion and liability, the universal mystical spirituality of the children of abraham is a robust, precious, and little known heritage upon which the fabric of the judaic, christian, islamic, and perhaps even the tantric religions are woven. in this book, that heritage is called the mystical qabalah.1 within the context of rabbinical judaism, this mystical tradition has come to be known as the jewish kabbalah, and in islam, as sufism (arabic tasawwuf. the christian cabala emerged from the mystical side of christianity, which developed as a parallel tradition to pauline dogma as it diverged and became estranged from its judaic roots. the christian cabala evolved as a way to harmonize jewish kabbalistic doctrines with christian

ge of forty who have studied the torah and talmud for many years. in all fairness, it should be noted that there are a substantial number of chasidim and other religious jews who embrace and encourage the study and practice of the jewish kabbalah without distinction of age or gender. however, they represent a very small minority, and firmly regard the qabalah as the exclusive property of orthodox judaism. the overall result is that the vast majority of contemporary jews, most of whom are not orthodox, have little knowledge of their own immensely rich mystical tradition. the lingering barriers and attitudes of exclusivity regarding the study of the jewish kabbalah serve to perpetuate a long standing sexist and elitist mindset that discourages individuals from pursuing direct mystical experi

s regarding passages and topics in the mishnah. the gemara of jerusalem was formally compiled circa 430 ce, and the gemara of babylon circa 530 ce. the talmud yerushalmi is composed of three volumes and the talmud babli has sixtyfour volumes, reflecting the relative complexity of the environments and cultural milieus in which they developed. the pharisaic rabbinate emerged as the dominant sect in judaism, occupying the seat of its orthodox authority. it peaked with the virtual political and economic control of the temple of jerusalem by the sadducees and pharisees in the hasmonean period, after the liberation of jerusalem by the maccabees. the many warnings and stern admonitions pronounced by a succession of hebrew prophets went unheeded. when master yeshuvah came, he berated the widesprea

ed even further in the diaspora after the destruction of the second temple in 70 ce. except for the karaite and sabbataian movements, this dominance has remained largely unchallenged to this day, though cracks in the wall are starting to appear. few jews give much thought to the idea that the religion of their desert hebrew forebears might have been radically different in practice than rabbinical judaism. the word rabbi is not to be found in the hebrew torah and only finds limited usage in the entire tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings, where it is used to denote tribal leaders and other authorities.5 master yeshuvah told his disciples not to take the title rabbi, and taught that the lord hvhy is the only true rabbi.6 the anthropological and linguistic elements that shaped the nomadic is

extraordinary natural disasters such as drought and earthquakes (the sinai peninsula is situated among massive tectonic faults, and violent dynastic changes in the city-states around which they wandered and dwelled. perhaps conditions in ur in southern iraq warranted that abraham leave and migrate along the ancient silk route into syria. the idea of jewish renewal i.e. the return to the roots of judaism has recently come into vogue. but a real return to the roots of judaism would be a return to the religion of the ancient desert hebrews* 0- 1 the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham reflects an ancient mystical transmission that preceded and supersedes any of the individual religious vessels through which it has been filtered and colored. orthodox jews sometimes refer to this trans

al qabalah of the children of abraham, few remain that are entirely faithful to their original versions. many of them are replete with corruptions, and have taken on additions and commentary often undifferentiated from the original texts. despite extensive evidence brought forth by linguistic experts to the contrary, most orthodox and fundamentalist adherents in each of the respective branches of judaism, christianity, and islam regard their respective scriptures as completely intact and unviolated reproductions of the originals. many english translations of the scriptures are flawed by dogmatic distinctions and/or a low level of understanding. many of the commentaries on the primary texts, and much of the secondary material available, are built 8- f e upon expositions of earlier writers w

of this, consider how many of the so-called pagan traditions (ignorantly labeled as satanic witchcraft by fundamentalists) were assimilated into orthodox western christianity.16 8- f e the rabbinate responded in a similar manner to diffuse the powerful influence and popularity of the karaite movement, which originated in persia. the karaites arose in reaction to and as a revolt against rabbinical judaism in the eighth century ce, and were not fully put down until the fifteenth century ce. from its earliest beginning, it (the karaite revolt) spread throughout the jewish diaspora into every stratum of society. karaism derives from the hebrew word karah (lit. to read) i.e. to read the torah without the intervention of rabbis. they rejected the talmud as a conspiracy of the rabbis to separate

rate ordinary people from the simplicity of the torah. for them, the torah was the sole source of religious laws. karaites created different oral laws to deal with modern life. many talmudic dietary laws were abolished and the use of tefillin (phylacteries) was abandoned. in response to the threat that the karaites posed to their authority, the jewish rabbis were able to prevent a final schism in judaism by co-opting many acceptable karaite ideas and reforming abuses. gradually, the karaite revolt dissipated and ceased after almost 700 years. 17 it is also relevant to note that the karaites attacked the provocative anthropomorphism of the qabalistic doctrines. while few contemporary jews know anything about the karaites, the impetus for their revolt is similar to conditions in modern judai

ly, the karaite revolt dissipated and ceased after almost 700 years. 17 it is also relevant to note that the karaites attacked the provocative anthropomorphism of the qabalistic doctrines. while few contemporary jews know anything about the karaites, the impetus for their revolt is similar to conditions in modern judaism. many jews today feel ambivalent about and tenuously connected to rabbinical judaism. many orthodox jews regard the conservative and reform branches of judaism as heretical sects, declaring them to be jews only in the biological sense. in recent decades, an extraordinary number of people born and raised by jewish parents have set out to explore the ideas and practices of other mystical traditions, as if in search of traces of their own. we hear the colloquialisms hindjews

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ere, i, pp. iff. m. w. bloomfield, the seven deadly sins, michigan, 1952, p. 342, and the references there given. festugiere allows hardly anything to it and concentrates almost entirely on the greek influences in the hermetica. a cautious summary by bloomfield (op. cit, p. 46) is as follows "these writings are chiefly the product of egyptian neoplatonists who were greatiy influenced by stoicism, judaism, persian theology and possibly by native egyptian beliefs, as well as, of course, by plato, especially the timaeus. they were perhaps the bible of an egyptian mystery religion, which possibly in kernel went back to the second century b.c" the mystery cult theory is opposed by festugiere, i, pp. 81 ff. 3 hermes trismegistus was highly organised and at peace. the pax romano, was at the heigh

e most attractive part of the hermetic writings. how was a christian magus to get round augustine? marsilio ficino did it by quoting augustine's condemnation, and then ignoring it, though timidly, by practising magic. giordano bruno was to take the bolder course of maintaining that the magical egyptian religion of the world was not only the most ancient but also the only true religion, which both judaism and christianity had obscured and corrupted. there is another passage on hermes trismegistus in the de civitate dei, widely separated from the one on the egyptian idolatry and in quite a different context. augustine is affirming the extreme antiquity of the hebrew tongue and that the hebrew prophets and patriarchs are much earlier than any of the gentile philosophers, and the wisdom of the

n the nock-festugiere edition. other useful works are a. d. nock, conversion, oxford, 1933; c. h. dodd, the bible and the greeks, london, 1935; r. mc. l. wilson, the gnostic problem, london, 1958. 2 there is general agreement that the first treatise of the corpus hermeticum, the pimander, contains some jewish elements but opinions differ as to the amount of the writers' indebtedness to hellenised judaism. 3 most scholars are of the opinion that there is very little, if any, christian influence in the hermetica. dodd, who stresses the jewish influence, thinks that "features of the hermetica in which christian influence might be suspected, can be accounted for by hellenistic-jewish ideas which lie behind both the hermetica and the new testament (op. cit p. xv, note. 21 ficino's "pimander"and

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eoretical, is philosophical; the second is magical and is largely elaborated round the maaseh merkabah- the chariot of ezekiel and the four animals which are also mentioned in the apocalypse. out of this magical qabalah much of the magic of the middle ages was developed. the speculative, or metaphysical, qabalah is the more important branch. it forms, as adolph franck says: gthe heart and life of judaism h.1 it covers the evolution, involution, and devolution of the universe in every conceivable spiritual, moral, and intellectual form; and under such symbolism as gthe spirit clothes itself to come down and unclothes itself to go up h; and again in ecclesiastes, gwho knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? h2 all these doctr

buddhism, zoroastrianism, christianity, theism, deism, dualism, agnosticism, pantheism, satanism, spiritualism, and atheism; for every cult, except polytheism, has burnt offerings on the altar of the qabalistic mystery- magically depicted in the form of the pan-like baphomet. it is this extraordinary universality which it is important to remember, for it has been the binding force which has kept judaism intact; it has waterproofed it against solvent influences. further still, the qabalah does offer to humanity a world religion or cult. in a silent and secret way its doctrine is the conquering mystery of the life-force. the philosophy of the qabalah the philosophy of the qabalah is not difficult to define; it is a question of balance, of poise, and of equilibrium. but to explain what is me

good as god and evil as satan. consequently they love the one and hate the other, and so establish a disunity within and among themselves. this is the foundation of manichaeism. they cannot see, as the mishna says, that ggod has placed in all things one to oppose the other h and that ggood purifies evil and evil purifies good h 10. this is the essential ignorance which separates christianity from judaism; for to the christians salvation consists in the conquest of evil- that is, in its separation from the good. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 39 the evolution of satan. the personification of evil in the form of satan as the god of evil is the heresy which separates christianity from judaism; consequently, in order to understand what this heresy entails, it is of vital importance to enqui

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first come into note the now famous treatise written by the rabbis of judah, calledmischna,and this formed the basis of those vast compilations of hebrew doctrine called thetalmud,of which there are two extant forms, one compiled at babylon- the most notable- and the other associated with jerusalem. to the originalmischnatime added further commentaries namedgemara.from this time the literature of judaism grew apace, and there was a constant succession of notable hebrew rabbis who published religious treatises, until, at least.a.d.1500. the twotalmudswere first printed at venice in 1520 and 1523 respectively.theold testament may be looked upon as the guiding light through the ages of the jews, but the learned of them were never satisfied with it alone, and they, at all times, supple255 ment

th, the holy voices chanting at the crystal sea, of the great sea, the mothersupernal-binah: and of the twenty-two occult forces of the nature of the universe symbolized by the three primary elements, the planets, and the zodiacal influences of the heavens which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in annual course. now, to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old testament into a series of twenty-two (the letters) works to be read for spiritual life; this twenty-two they obtained from the thirty-nine books of the canon, by collecting the twelve minor prophets into one treatise, ruth they added to judges, ezra to nehemiah, while the two books each of samuel, kings and chronicles, they called one e

s; for thatishis portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him' who, indeed, except his own higher self. but perhaps this book is from the pen of some obscure jew, or half pagan chaldee or babylonian. not at all; jewish critics have all assigned it to solomon, the king of the jews at the time of their heyday of glory; surely if the immortality of the soul were the essence of the judaism of the people, he could not have so grossly denied it.a further glance atthekabalah101goback, however to the narrative of creation and the same story is found; the animals are made from the dust, man is made from the dust, and eve is made from adam, and each has breathed into the form, the nepheshchiah-thebreath of life; but there is no hint that adam received a ray of the supernal mind, w

mony, conviviality, and all healthy enjoyments are recognised as proper; and there is no inter255 ference whatever with the domestic life of the brethren, nor with their modes of employment, property or possessions. we learn from the three ancient authors whom i have named that, on the other hand, the essenes were jews closely related to the sect of the pharisees; they professed and prac255 tised judaism in its most strict and exclusive form, but offered no sacrifices and were sabbatarians of the most severe type; they dwelt apart from civic life, often in villagesor in monastic solitude, lived in poverty and practised celibacy, bathed and put on white garments before each meal; they refused to look at statues of men and to use coined money because of the human forms there figured; and the

ld, as well as to the much later vehm-gerichte of westphalia, the steinmetzen, the trade guilds, the french compagnonageand the rosicrucians; even our origin from the celtic druids of britain and nor255 mandy has.been inferred. i have upon a former occasion expressed my dissent from the assertion that modern freemasonry has relation to the essene fraternity, which practised a form of ultra-strict judaism, and whose members were celibates who lived in almost monkish seclusion about the time of the establishment of the christian religion. in these notes upon the cult of mithra (persian, mithras (greek) or mitra (sanscrit, the genius of the heavenly light, i shall show that this ancient persian religion spread in the course of time to europe, and has left its traces in ruined temples and scul

zd, the creator and world ruler. he was named in the 'vendidad- zervanaresemblances of freemasonry to mithra 247akarana, or zervan akerene 'eternal light' or possibly 'boundless time, of whom nothing can be conceived, known or declared- a supreme being without attributes or qualities comprehensible to man. he is the absolute, the sat of the vedantists and the ain suph of the kabalists of medieval judaism. he may have been considered as the source from whom first the good god ormuzd, and later ahriman the evil principle, came forth after the creation of this world. the zoroastrian faith postulated the subsequent appearance by emanation of six ameshaspentas or amshaspands springing from ormuzd and making with him a septenary of powers; these great beings may be compared with the christian id

n those of the greek pantheon of olympus were being shattered and their temples neglected as effete and outworn. another era arrived, and the men of northern europe came down nation after nation and destroyed the greco-roman civilisation, but they adopted the christian faith; dark ages, centuries of obscurity of intellectual life followed; the new church also drifted into a formalism like that of judaism and lost much of its power to infuse personal enthusiasm for goodness and spiritual progress. the reformation passed over europe, this was an open profession of a revived spiritual life, and there is some reason to believe that it was accompanied by a concealed movement carried out by a private fraternity 'the rosicrucians, who were, it is believed, deep students of nature and world histor

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as to be provided more speedily and effectively. otherwise, it may be too late. e it is no exaggeration to say that the collection of books by harun yahya have assumed this leading role. by the will of god, these books will be a means through which people in the 21st century will attain the peace, justice and happiness promised in the qur'an. the works of the author include the new masonic order, judaism and freemasonry, global freemasonry, kabbalah and freemasonry, knight templars, islam denounces terrorism, terrorism: the ritual of the devil, the disasters darwinism brought to humanity, communism in ambush, fascism: the bloody ideology of darwinism, the 'secret hand' in bosnia, behind the scenes of the holocaust, behind the scenes of terrorism, israel's kurdish card, the oppression polic

adopt whatever worldview they wish and to live in accordance with it. this is their natural right. but, others also have a right to expose their errors and to criticize them, and this is what this present book attempts to do. we follow the same approach in our criticisms of other communities introduction y k l as well. like the jews for example. this book, in part, also deals with the history of judaism and offers certain important criticisms. it must be pointed out that these have nothing to do with anti-semitism or "judeo- masonic" conspiracy theories. indeed, anti-semitism is alien to a true muslim. jews are a people that at one time had been chosen by god and to whom he sent many prophets. throughout history they suffered much cruelty, even being subjected to genocide, but they never

t they did conduct extensive excavations under the ruins of herod's temple 12 the authors of the hiram key were not the only ones who found evidences of this. french historian gaetan delaforge makes this similar contention: the real task of the nine knights was to carry out research in the area in order to obtain certain relics and manuscripts which contain the essence of the secret traditions of judaism and ancient egypt.13 at the end of the nineteenth century, charles wilson of the royal engineers, began conducting archeological research in jerusalem. he arrived at the opinion that the templars had gone to jerusalem to study the ruins of the temple. wilson found traces of digging and excavation under the foundations of the temple, and concluded that these were done by tools that belonged

f jewish religion. according to this definition, the kabbalah investigates the hidden meaning of the torah and other jewish religious writings. but, when we examine the matter more closely, we discover that the facts are quite something else. these facts lead us to the conclusion that the kabbalah is a system rooted in pagan idolatry; that it existed before the torah, and became widespread within judaism after the torah was revealed. this interesting fact about the kabbalah, is explained by just as interesting a source. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, maintains the following in his book, masonluk nedir ve nasildir (what is freemasonry and what is it like: we don't know clearly where the kabbalah came from or how it developed. it is the general name for a unique, metaphysically constitute

from or how it developed. it is the general name for a unique, metaphysically constituted, esoteric and mystical philosophy particularly connected with jewish religion. it is accepted as jewish mysticism, but some of the elements it contains show that it was composed much earlier than the torah.15 the french historian, gougenot des mousseaux, explains that the kabbalah is actually much older than judaism.16 ef from the templars to ancient egypt eg global freemasonry although the kabbalah developed within judaism, it depends on sources from outside of it. the kabbalah arose out of the pagan beliefs of ancient egypt and mesopotamia. the jewish historian, theodore reinach, says that the kabbalah is "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it."17 salomon reina

al. it is believed that rabbis who study the kabbalah possess great magical power. also, many non-jews have been influenced by the kabbalah, and have tried to practice magic by employing its doctrines. the esoteric tendencies that took hold in europe during the late middle ages, especially as practiced by alchemists, have their roots, to a great extent, in the kabbalah. the strange thing is, that judaism is a monotheistic religion, incepted with the revelation of the torah to moses (peace be upon him. but, within this religion is a system called the kabbalah, that adopts the basic practices of magic forbidden by the religion. this substantiates what we have presented above, and demonstrates that the kabbalah is actually an element that has entered judaism from the outside. but, what is the

must look to ancient egypt in order to find the basic origins of the kabbalah-templars-freemasonry chain. eh from the templars to ancient egypt kabbalah as "one of the worst aberrations of the human mind" these pictures from modern kabbalist works reflect the dark world of the kabbalah. the jewish historian theodore reinach describes the kabbalah as "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it" solomon reinach defines the global freemasonry ei the dark world of the kabbalah ej from the templars to ancient egypt the magicians of ancient egypt the ancient egypt of the pharaohs was one of the most ancient civilizations of the world. it was also one of the most oppressive. the magnificent monuments that still remain from ancient egypt the pyramids, sphinxes and

et doctrines that they discovered in jerusalem, totally abandoned christianity and became an anti-religious organization practicing heretical rites. 2. when we asked what this doctrine was that influenced the templars, we found that it was basically the kabbalah. 3. when we examined the kabbalah, we found proof that, however much it may resemble jewish mysticism, it is a pagan doctrine older than judaism, that later entered the religion, and that its true roots are found in ancient egypt. 4. ancient egypt was governed by the pagan system of pharaoh, and there we found an idea that forms the basis of the modern atheistic philosophy: that of a universe existing of its own accord, and evolving by chance. all this surely paints an interesting picture. is it by chance that the philosophy of the

, the same thing cannot be said of all jews, but some of them did adopt egyptian paganism. indeed, they carried on the doctrines of the egyptian priesthood (pharaoh's magicians, that lay at the foundation of global freemasonry fk an ancient egyptian statue of hathor. that society's beliefs, and corrupted their own faith by introducing these doctrines into it. the doctrine that was introduced into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its basis was the practice of magic. interestingly, the kabbalah provides an account of creation quite different from that found in the torah. it is a materialist account, based on the ancient egyptian idea of the eternal existence of matter. murat ozgen, a turkish freemas

. so, the kabbalah is far removed from jewish religion and much more closely related to the ancient mystery religions of the east.24 the jews, by adopting these ancient egyptian materialist and esoteric doctrines that were founded on magic, ignored the related prohibitions in the torah. they took on the magic rituals of other pagan peoples, and thus, the kabbalah became a mystical doctrine within judaism, but contrary to the torah. in her book entitled secret societies and subversive movements, the english writer nesta h. webster says: global freemasonry gc some jews, influenced by the cultures of the pagan civilizations of ancient egypt and mesopotamia, turned away from the torah that god gave them as a guide, and began to worship various material objects. above is pictured a pagan temple

rah, and changed the latter by adding into it ideas derived from the tradition they espoused. the origin of this tradition stretches back to the priests of ancient egypt (the magicians of pharaoh's regime. it is, in fact, the kabbalah which was passed on from there by a number of jews. the kabbalah assumed a form that enabled ancient egyptian and other pagan doctrines to insinuate themselves into judaism and de- global freemasonry gg velop within it. kabbalists, of course, assert that the kabbalah simply explains in more detail the hidden secrets of the torah, but, in reality, as jewish historian of the kabbalah, theodore reinach, says, the kabbalah is "a subtle poison which enters into the veins of judaism and wholly infests it."26 it is possible, then, to find in the kabbalah clear trace

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ied the structure of the mystery traditions and re-instated the original gnostic faith. hence, the gnosticism of jesus is not superior to other gnostic traditions, but is a refinement or adaptation of an age-long tradition. indeed, the gnosticism of jesus brought together egyptian, greek and mystery cult traditions (such as those of eleusis and mithra) into one coherent system. the iconography of judaism played a small part but was insignificant in comparison to, for example, the greek mystery cult tradition. to understand this nexus of the gnosis we really need to jettison the old model which sees gnosticism as a jewish or christian heresy. as has been documented in such texts as the jesus mystery and jesus christ, sun of god+ it is more likely that rabbinic judaism and christianity are p

ysticism which into jewish religious language. these teachings, however, did not remain available forever. as society changed and a new regime came to power the teachings of jesus were suppressed and replaced with the political faith of emperor constantine, and accordingly the gnosis went underground to ensure its survival. what we have in today's religious movements are not the original forms of judaism and christianity, but apostate faiths masquerading in their place. the bible itself has been tampered with to the gnostic handbook page 8 such an extent that only through much critical study can we restore just some of its inner meaning. the institute upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it

some of its inner meaning. the institute upholds the original inner teachings of jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from pagan to so-called christian sources. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however, fragmentary and incomplete belong neither to the hindu's, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. the secret doctrine, madame blavaskty. behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened

, while it has a esoteric meaning, it too, has been twisted to reflect the barbaric and violent storm god that is falsely represented throughout the old testament as the creator. for gnostics there are literally two gods within the old testament period, the original i am, the transcendent one of the light and the barbaric thought form which became the nationalistic warlord of later fundamentalist judaism. for these reasons gnostics tend to avoid the old testament names of god altogether and use the more common terms of the mystery tradition. the pleroma the first principle is the source of all light, the unoriginate originator. however, this principles does not exist alone, throughout time he/she/it expands and contracts filing the spiritual dimensions with luminous beings of all orders an

xact number of migrations, there is general agreement certainly that major settlements were made in tibet, india, sumer/egypt and south america. it is from the sumer/egypt basin that the israelite mysteries developed. the israel connection developing from the theory above we have the fascinating studies by ahmed osman and others. these suggest clearly a direct link between what was supposed to be judaism and egypt. this evidence proves, fairly conclusively in many peoples minds, that moses and arkenaten were the same people and that the israelites were his followers escaping from egypt. this model certainly re-visions the old testament as we start to realize that judaism in this earlier phase had little to do with what we see as rabbinic judaism today. the evidence is then they developed a

terpretations. while certainly the esoteric keys are found hidden throughout its pages we must also be aware of the distortions of the gnosis that exist within it. the priestly stream (that of the scribe) rightly belongs beyond the old testament, it occurred the gnostic handbook page 72 after the captivity in babylon when yahwehist scribes took control of diaspora israel in babylon and re-moulded judaism into a new form. this new form was based on literalist and fundamentalist not gnostic values. the yahwahist tradition was embodied, the el demolished and the priest class was edited into the old testament to make it seem supreme. the old testament, as such, is a very edited book. it was written by a priest class which existed a long time after the original events, and a class which wanted

nd mould the yahwahist tradition into a militaristic style cult. this moulded old testament (combined with the talmud) became the text of modern jewry. when the israelites migrated to other lands after the assyrian captivity they re-established many of the gnostic traditions. hence, the druids and those of the celtic faith probably had more in common with the original israelite gnosis that modern judaism and christianity. we can see how the struggle between various divergent traditions has been edited into the old testament, joseph s coat of many colours, for example, a sumerian symbol of a qadesh priest became a simple piece of clothing. baal has been demonised to become the enemy of the people of israel yet we know that the early priests of israel actually accepted baal as part of their

st wisdom, while the crawling serpent represents the decay of earth. the duality of the snake is the dualism of the ancient wisdom. israel on the world stage if we continue from our egyptian israelite model, the next question is what happened to the israelite community? the historical evidence suggested that the priest class created a literalist/ fundamentalist cult which came to the forefront in judaism after the time of jesus. but where did the earlier israelites go? we know that ancient israel, whose capital was samaria, was taken captive by the assyrians in 721 bc and yet after this traditional history tells us that the ten tribes are lost- but is this really so? or has history also been twisted by scribes and politicians? we know that josephus writing in 70 ce states "the ten tribes d

ounts ireland and england were the first countries outside palestine to receive the christian message. the essene link connected to these migrations is another very important link. when some of the people of judah returned to palestine after the captivity, not all accepted the roman rule and integrated into the secular state. though the pharisees and sadducees continued the fundamentalism form of judaism, some of those who returned kept the original israelite faith and separated themselves off into the deserts. though this group traveled from location to location, around approx. 180 bc they formed a secret communal order to sustain the ancient mysteries in the deserts of palestine. this group kept separate from the rest of the local peoples but kept contacts with greek and perhaps even egy

more in the bridge they created for the gnostic traditions and jesus, than in their own doctrinal stance. jesus was not a jew racially or by geography (he was a galilean, he was certainly not a jew by religion either but an israelite in the essene sense. in this context we can then see how gnosticism (or real christianity) developed out of the israelite-essenes, not the fundamentalist or literal judaism of the pharisees. they (the essenes) were not waiting to receive the law- they already possessed it. their aim was to deliver it from the realms of darkness in which it had been engulfed. the torah, that is, the divine teachings as revealed to moses had, it was held, been successively perverted by false expositors. the dead sea scriptures, theodore gaster, doubleday, ny. the essenes, jesus

ove and beyond the norm. in preparation for the work of jesus and james, the qumran community (the essenes) had been formed, the teacher of righteousness began to outline the requirements for individual theosis and this became the mystery teachings of the essenes. other mystery cults undertook similar preparation. the gnostic handbook page 88 the essenes rejecting the apostate forms of literalist judaism, separated themselves into the deserts and began preparation for the great change which was to occur. they understood that there were to be two messiahs, a king (davidic) and a priestly. today these two messiahs have been misunderstood and the concept of messiah or christ has been distorted. in ancient israel the christ or messiah was not one individual, it was a state of consciousness, a

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structures mankind has are artificial, they have evolved as the "powers that be" would like them to evolve. hence to really understand what we are talking about you need to put aside your pre-conceptions. now this will be difficult, so many words have connotations which have been deliberately programmed to have us react in certain ways. we have developed certain "understandings" of christianity, judaism, hinduism, democracy, politics etc. all of which may or may not be true, but nevertheless all of which probably originated from the system around us, rather than from within ourselves. it is always important to realise the extent to which language can be moulded to suit different worldviews and used to create specific reactions and impressions. in some ways we might agree with the discussi

s to bind back, to return to the source or origin. these teachings are those which lead back to the spiritual world, the treasury of light from which we have become alienated. but it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however fragmentary and incomplete, belong neither to the hindus, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, nor to buddhism, islam, judaism or christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. madame blavaskty. behind the veil of the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of nineveh or thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the assyrian o

ective unconscious and by correspondence, on the astral worlds. some of the more unusual eggregores are those which are religious in nature. many gods are artificial and created out of fear and insecurity, such gods and deities are real in a psychological sense, but since they lack connection to the light world, they tend to work in destructive and neurotic ways. the degeneration of god-images in judaism and christianity can be clearly seen with the replacement of real spiritual forms with psychologically projected (neurotic) forms, or eggregores. the difference between these is important and can be readily illustrated. take for example, a historical figure. after his death we have the facts about the historical figure and perceptions of that figure. after a period of time we may even have

se tradition, a counterfeit kabbalah was being developed. in babylon the children of cain created an amalgam of babylonian paganism and israelite belief which later became known as the talmud. as time progressed they stepped into the shoes of the now-believed lost ten tribes and falsely identified themselves as jews (of judea) or as israel. they edited the torah to reflect their distorted view of judaism, and created a apostate faith based on the values of the talmud. as the deception continued many of these babylonian cainites migrated to other regions, they became known as the edomites and later on many of their number integrated with the people known as the khazars. the khazars were of turkish stock and converted to the talmudic form of judaism around 900 c.e. this conversion is of grea

cordingly, it is said, they have more in common with the turkish people than with the original people of israel (by the way, koestler is not some rabid anti-semite, he is jewish. the relevance of this is not to illustrate some wild historical polemic, but to show the difference between sethian and cainite kabbalah. this is not simply a racial or cultural debate, but a discussion on the origins of judaism, christianity and kabbalah. just as the gnostics rejected christianity as a distortion of the true faith, they totally rejected talmudic judaism as a demiurgic creation. further to this, we know that the essenes were a small group of the lost ten tribes who returned to israel after the captivity and that they saw the pharisees and saduccees as being of a dissimilar culture, race and spirit

uation of those who professed to be the jews of that period ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not gnostic theurgy page 90 in the truth, because there is no truth in him. when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of john 8:44,45. as time has progressed the talmudic form of judaism has become accepted. we have come to call the people who were khazars- jews and even have come to accept their appropriation of the name israel. the truth of the matter is that the kabbalah is aryan in origin, it is an ariosophic tradition and is part of the indo-european worldview. it is not and never has been jewish in the modern misuse of the term. restoring the kabbalah it is not easy

nd the message of the gnosis is heralded as we head into aquarius and the nexus of the kali yuga. the start of this age is usually dated between 1844 and 1910, we believe 1844 to be the accurate starting point. this is a complex period which, nearing the end of the cycle, involves massive conflicts between the powers of light and darkness. it is also the period when the apostate (false) faiths of judaism and christianity (and other counter gnostic traditions) have taken hold of the culture at large and the gnostic message only survive underground. the remnant period has nexus dates at 1844, 1904, 1964 and 2004. and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith god, i will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see vis

the seed to abraham, isaac and jacob (and this is from a zionist jewish writer) it seems likely that the traditions of modern jewry were evolved by the edomite tribes while in babylon, here gained precedence while the real people of israel migrated to the west. the migration of isreal created a void and substitute israelites stepped in. accordingly, we need to totally review our interpretation of judaism. when we consider the great fraud that has been perpetuated, we need to run a critical eye over the old testament as well. when we do, we find some interesting anomalies. the old testament actually includes many different streams which seem to have be written by many different authors, many of which had conflicting religious views (for example, isaiah is said to have been written by at lea

ere attacking them for heresy! a later tradition regarding the relationship of jesus to the druids sheds even further light on these connections. the essene link when some of the people of judah returned to palestine after the captivity, not all accepted the roman rule and integrated into the secular state. though the pharisees and saducees continued the corrupt form of talmudic (edomite) form of judaism, some of those who returned, kept the original israelite-aryan faith and separated themselves off into desert communities. though this group travelled from location to location, around 180 bce they formed a secret communal order to sustain the ancient mysteries, this was located in the deserts of palestine. this group taught separation from the people of palestine and while many other retu

rom location to location, around 180 bce they formed a secret communal order to sustain the ancient mysteries, this was located in the deserts of palestine. this group taught separation from the people of palestine and while many other returning judeans mixed with the edomites and other local peoples, this group sustained its discrete identity. they upheld the original israelite teachings, so as "judaism" in its pharisaic form became popular they rejected it, refusing to worship in the temple and living a monastic life in the desert. this group became known as the essenes and forms an important link in the survival of the gnosis through the dark time from constantine's rule to the present. gnostic theurgy page 196 if it is true as everyone attests, that moses left an oral law, it is amongs

'olivet. it is from the ranks of the essenes that jesus came and re-established the gnostic faith. jesus was not a jew racially, by geography (he was a galilean) and he was certainly not a jew by religion (pharisaic or edomite. he was an israelite in the essene sense of the world. in this context we can then see how gnosticism (or real christianity) developed out of the israelite-essenes, not the judaism of palestine. we can also clearly see how judaism (in the modern sense) developed from the talmudic schools of babylon rather than from the traditions of israel. accordingly we get a clear picture that all is not what it seems in modern religious traditions. when we couple this to the fact that emperor constantine re-moulded the prevailing jewish and christian groups into a political amalg

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788 also produces love/will key: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. love is the la w, love under will. 788= all rare scents are of jasmine and rose; silver, gold and lapis lazuli& jasper are there, which hits upon our gold theme. gold, be it noted, is in some sense the goal of the great work and is a source of both health and wealth. the bruchah or blessings are the closest thing in judaism to a formal sacrament comparable to communion. only it is a communion with a vine not a god. say you so? jesus, quoted in john 15:1: 1 am the true vine and my father is the husbandman. the powdered white gold produced by modern, but alchemica4 processes brought to mind the white tincture. in naeq6 white tincture= 231= seventy two fold lion and, also hermetically sealed. vine= 72= i.n.r.i

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allwinning die to player jack in the fairytale. but very commonly dice-playing is ascribed to the devil, in folktales he looks on at the game, especially if played during divine service on sunday, and he plays with men, who have to stake their own souls^ in witch-trials he is called schenzerlcin^ dicer, from schanzen to throw dice, schm. 3, 374; and he lies in wait for gamblers, renn. 11316 seq. judaism has devils, but knows nothing of she-devils; all power for good or evil it places in the hands of male beings (p. 396. to put it still more generally: gods are altogether the older, and a strict monotheism or dualism recognises gods alone; it is in the mellower fulness of polytheism that goddesses first emerge. the teutonic paganism, like others, is fond of female deities and elves: even t

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, which they generally identified with the granaries of joseph. a crucial part of the renaissance, which began in fourteenth- century ce italy, was the rediscovery of classical texts. during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ce, hermetica from egypt were wrongly thought to be the world s most ancient religious documents. this aroused great interest in egyptian religion and its relationship to judaism and christianity. the myths of osiris, isis, and horus became the subject of sermons and essays. from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries ce, there were many attempts to decipher egyptian hieroglyphs.111 46 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 10. the memphis decree of 196 bce inscribed in three scripts on the rosetta stone: top, hieroglyphic; center, demotic; bottom, greek (br

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ight key -ooo- the policy of the theosophical society q. in the days of ammonius there were several ancient great religions, and numerous were the sects in egypt and palestine alone. how could he reconcile them? a. by doing that which we again try to do now. the neo-platonists were a large body, and belonged to various religious philosophies; so do our theosophists. it was under philadelphus that judaism established itself in alexandria, and forthwith the hellenic teachers became the dangerous rivals of the college of rabbis of babylon. as the author of the eclectic philosophy very pertinently remarks: the buddhist, vedantic, and magian systems were expounded along with the philosophies of greece at that period. it was not wonderful that thoughtful men supposed that the strife of words oug

ns) knowledge: occult wisdom. josephus flavius a historian of the first century; a hellenized jew who lived in alexandria and died at rome. he was credited by eusebius with having written the 16 famous lines relating to christ, which were most probably interpolated by eusebius himself, the greatest forger among the church fathers. this passage, in which josephus, who was an ardent jew and died in judaism, is nevertheless made to acknowledge the messiahship and divine origin of jesus, is now declared spurious both by most of the christian bishops (lardner among others) and even by paley (see his evidence of christianity. it was for centuries one of the weightiest proofs of the real existence of jesus, the christ. kamaloka (sans) the semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where

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cute rea- soning" but far more of a still acuter sophistiy. recently the mass of cumulative evidence has been re-enforced to an extent which leaves littie, if any, room for further controversy. a con- clusive opinion is furnished by too many scholars to doubt the fact that india was the alvut mater, not only of the civilization, arts, and sciences, but also of all the great religions of antiquity judaism, and hence christianity, included. herder places the cradle of humanity in india, and shows moses as a clever and relatively modem compiler of the andent brahmanical traditions "the river which encircles the country (india) is the sacred ganges, which all asia considers as the paradisaical river. there, also, is the biblical gihon, which \i none else but the indus. the arabs call it so unt

umber. basilides and valentinus preceded irenaeus and tertullian; and the two latter fathers had less facts than the two former gnostics to show that their heresy was plausible. neither divine right nor truth brought about the triumph of their [irenaeo-tertullianic] christianity; fate alone was propitious. we can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one of alt these sects kabalism, judaism, and our present christianity in- cluded but sprang from the two main branches of that one mother- tnmk, the once universal religion, which antedated tbe vedic ages we speak of that prehistoric buddhism which merged later into brfthmanism. 240. cf. jiutin; hortatom addrees to l/u qreeke, iv; gesnenu: 0p4b1)2 ahanta. 241. wron^y aacribed to clement, who however describes tbe btuilidean doct

han by quoting what our space permits from superttatural religion^ the author of which bases his assertions on the evidence of the greatest criucs, as well as on his own researches. he shows as existing in the days of marcion "two broad parties in the primitive church" one considering christianity "a mere continua- tion of the law, and dwarfing it into au israelitish institution, a narrow sect of judaism; the other representing the glad tidings as the introduc- tion of a new system, applicable to all, and supplanting the mosaic dispensation of the law by a universal dispensation of grace. these two parties" he adds "were popularly represented in the early church by the two apostles, peter and paul, and their antagonism is faintly revealed in the ejndu to the g
etic than such like sentences "such are /af apostles, deceitful workers, transform- ing themselves into the apostles of christ. the very chiefest apostles (8 corinlhiaa. i digitizecoy google 162 isis ttmv mt.rn marcion, who recogniaed no other goapeu thaa a few epittlea cf paul, who rejected totally the adthropomorpbism of the old tuta- ment, aad drew a distinct hne of demarcation between the old judaism and christianity, viewed jesus neither as a king, mes ab of the jews, nor the son of david who was in any way connected with the law or prophets "but a divine being sent to reveal to man a wholly new spiritual religion, and a hitherto unlmown god of goodness and grace" the 'lord god' of the jews in hia eyes, the creator (demiurge, was totally different and distinct from the deity who sent

was m&tcion so far wrong? was it blasphemy, or was it intuition, divine inspiration in him to express that which every honest heart yeank- ing for truth more or less feels and acknowledges? if in his sincere desire to estabush a purely spiritual religion, a universal faith based on unadulterated truth, he found it necessary to make of christianity an entirely new and separate system from that of judaism, did not mardon have the very words of chiist for his authority "no man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh tiom the garment, and the rent is made worse. neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new botuea, and both are preser

the diviue wisdom. as to the new testament, it had lost its purity when the compilers became guilty of interpolations. the revelation of divine truth was sacrificed by them to promote selfish ends and maintain quarrels. the accusation does not seem so very improbable to one who is well aware of the constant strife between the champions of orcumcision and the 'law' and the apostles who had ^ven up judaism. the gnostic ophites taught the doctrine of emanations, so hateful to the defenders of the unity in the trinity, and vice versa. the unknown deity with them had no name; but ms first female emanation was called bythos or depth^ it answered to the shekhinah of the kabalists, the 'veil' which conceals the 'wisdon' in the cranium, of the highest of the three heads. as the pythagorean monad, t

emarked, with a benevolent smile "read this instructive and truthful book; i could explain to you neither better nor more correctly the secrets of god and our blessed 'hamza. than it does" the traveler understood the hint. mackenzie says they settled at lebanon about the tenth century, and "seem to be a mixture of kurds, mardi-arabs, and other semi-civilized tribes. their religion b compounded of judaism, christianity, and mo- hammedanism. hey have a regular order of priesthood and a kind of kterotchy. there is a regular system of passwords and signs .twelve month's probation, to which either sex is admitted, precedes initiation" we quote the above oidy to show how little even posons as trust- worthy as mr. mackenzie really know of these mystics. mosheim^ who knows as much, or we should ra

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or jewish studies 33rd annual conference (washington, dc: december 16, 2001) in the session titled sefer yesirah: mystical and philosophical intertexts. see wasserstrom s articles (1) sefer yesira and early islam: a reappraisal (in the journal of jewish thought and philosophy, vol. 3 no. 1: 1993) and (2) further thoughts on the origins of sefer yesirah (in aleph: historical studies in science and judaism, no. 2 (2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale; see also wasserstrom s comments in between muslim and jew: the problem of symbiosis under early islam (princeton: princeton university press, 1995, pages 126-133. further, refer to wolfson s summary, sefer yetzirah: linguistic mysticism and cosmological speculation, which is a section

were restless college kids who needed to be constantly refocused and jollied into sticking with the material. bokser, ben zion. the jewish mystical tradition. new york: the pilgrim press, 1981. within this valuable anthology, bokser gives us the first eight paragraphs of sy; the translation is based on gruenwald s preliminary critical edition. alexander, philip s. textual sources for the study of judaism. totawa: manchester university press/barnes and noble, 1984. reprinted, university of chicago press, 1990. in the midst of this well-considered collection is a translation of sy excerpts, based upon an eclectic text. the extracts included were chosen with a view to making clear [sy s] basic structure and leading ideas. an introduction to the text appears on pages 27-29, the translation on

slightly condensed renditions of chapters 1, 3, 4, and 5. these expand slightly on the passages presented in cohn-sherbok s earlier jewish and christian mysticism: an introduction (by dan cohn-sherbok and lavinia cohn-sherbok, new york: the continuum publishing company, 1994) in the section called creation mysticism. in the midst of steven fisdel s how-to book, practice of kabbalah: meditation in judaism (northvale: jason aronson inc, 1996, one finds sy chapter 1, paragraphs 1- 6 and 8, hebrew and english, in a chapter entitled, the sefirot of the formless: imprinting as the foundation of creation. from these sy passages, various meditations are derived: on the names of god listed in sy s initial segment; on the interrelationship of the letter families (i.e, mothers, doubles, and simples)

portant concepts of kabbalah, according to franck, were chaldean and persian, that is zoroastrian. notwithstanding this basic assumption on franck s part which was rejected by subsequent research he regarded kabbalah as a uniquely important jewish phenomenon. this diagnosis of the role of kabbalah is strikingly similar to scholem s famous perception of the role of kabbalah as a vital component of judaism (kabbalah: new perspectives, p. 8) waite, arthur edward. the holy kabbalah: a study of the secret tradition in israel as unfolded by sons of the doctrine for the benefit and consolation of the elect dispersed through the lands and ages of the greater exile. london: williams and norgate ltd, 1929; reprinted new hyde park: university books, 1960. this title incorporates a. the doctrine and l

f prayers as keys, though gematria, to the unity of all creation. it is hard to excuse his claim that moses cordovero wrote lechah dodi, his use of pereks as the plural of perek, or his description of luria as being primarily interested in the practical side of kabbalah. it is impossible to ignore his claim that the hasidic movement believed that study was worthless( jewish mysticism it ain t, in judaism 23: 4, 1974) we are finally brought to gershom scholem, who, in his several studies, presents sy more reliably than any of the writers discussed thus far in part 2. scholem was a deep and sympathetic scholar, but one who would not suffer inaccuracy or lubrication. more recent scholars find fault with scholem s being long on historiography while short on phenomenology a criticism always acc

dited by joseph dan english section (jerusalem: the hebrew university, 1987. langermann, y. tzvi. introduction to a new redaction of sefer yesira? in kabbalah: journal for the study of jewish mystical texts 2, edited by daniel abrams and abraham elqayam (los angeles: cherub press, 1997. shulman, david. is there an indian connection to the sefer yesirah? in aleph: historical studies in science and judaism, number 2: 2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale. wasserstrom, steven m. further thoughts on the origins of sefer yesirah, in aleph: historical studies in science and judaism, number 2: 2002, edited by gad fruedenthal, indiana university press, at http//inscribe.iupress.org/loi/ale. sefer yesira and early islam: a re-appraisal, in

37) that sy served as the main source of mystical speculation for 20073 25 sefer ha-bahir* the iyyun circle* the provence school as headed by rabbi isaac the blind, and the ashkenazi hasidim. the commentary of gaon of vilna (elijah ben solomon zalman) on sy is discussed in elliot r. wolfson s from sealed book to open text: time, memory, and narrativity in kabbalistic hermeneutics, in interpreting judaism in a postmodern age, edited by steven kepnes (new york: university press, 1996. raphael jospe s early philosophical commentaries on the sefer yesirah: some comments, in revue des tudes juives, 149 (1990, pages 369-415 contains a useful summary. consideration is given to the commentaries of saadia, dunash ibn tamim, judah ben barzillai al-bargeloni, and judah ha-levi. an addendum contrasts

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(pp. 309-363, and especially mark verman fs study, the books of contemplation: medieval jewish mystical sources (albany: state university of new york press, 1992, which includes translations of several major texts of this group. on the iyyun school, see. dan, joseph. the eunique cherub f circle: a school of mystics and esoterics in medieval germany [texts and studies in medieval and early modern judaism, 15, tubingen: mohr siebeck, 1999: comments regarding the iyyun school, or gcircle, h throughout. grozinger, karl e. ghandling of holy traditions as a path to mystical unity in the kitve ha- eiyyun, h in rashi 1040-1990: congres europeen des etudes juives, ed. by gabrielle sed-rajna (paris: editions du cerf, 1993. verman, mark. gthe evolution of the circle of contemplation, h in gershom sc

ic physiology: isaac the blind, nahmanides, and moses de leon on menstruation, h ajs review, vol. 28, no. 2 (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 2004. pachter, mordechai. gthe root of faith is the root of heresy h= part ii of pachter fs roots of faith and devequt: studies in the history of kabbalistic ideas (los angeles: cherub press, 2004. schechter, solomon. gnachmanides, h in studies in judaism: first series [articles by s. schechter (philadelphia: the jewish publication society, 1896; rpt. 1945. also in studies in judaism: a selection (philadelphia: jewish publication society/ cleveland- new york: meridian books, 1958. schwartz, dov. gfrom theurgy to magic: sacrifice in the circle of nahmanides and his interpreters, h= chapter three) in studies on astral magic in medieval jewish

society, 1896; rpt. 1945. also in studies in judaism: a selection (philadelphia: jewish publication society/ cleveland- new york: meridian books, 1958. schwartz, dov. gfrom theurgy to magic: sacrifice in the circle of nahmanides and his interpreters, h= chapter three) in studies on astral magic in medieval jewish thought, translated by david louvish and batya stein [the brill reference library of judaism, vol 20 (leiden- boston: brill, 2005. shulman, yaacov dovid. the ramban: the story of rabbi moshe ben nachman. new york. london. jerusalem: c. i. s. publishers, 1993. stern, josef. problems and parables of law: maimonides and nahmanides on reasons for the commandments (ta famei ha-mitzvot. albany: state university of new york press, 1998. twersky, isadore (ed. rabbi moses nahmanides (ramba

. 28, no. 2 (cambridge: association for jewish studies, 2004. margoliouth, george. gthe doctrine of ether in the kabbalah, h in jewish quarterly review, vol. 20 (1908. wolfson, elliot. gmystical realization of the commandments in sefer ha-rimmon, h in hebrew union college annual, vol. 59 (cincinnati: 1988. gmystical-theurgical dimensions of the commandments in sefer ha- rimmon, h in approaches to judaism in medieval times i, edited by david r. blumenthal [brown judaic studies, no. 54 (atlanta: scholars press, 1988. wolfson prepared a critical edition of sefer ha rimmon: the book of the pomegranate: moses de leon fs sefer ha-rimmon [brown judaic studies, no. 144, atlanta: scholars press, 1988.a revised version of wolfson fs ph.d. dissertation (waltham: brandeis university, 1986. the text is

em tov: the krown of the good name [spain, 13th century. belize city: providence university, 2006. for information, go to www.everburninglight.org. cohen, seymour. the holy letter. a study in jewish sexual morality (translation of iggeret ha- kodesh) new york: ktav, 1973; rpt. northvale/london: jason aronson inc, 1993. dan, joseph. ggershom scholem fs reconstruction of early kabbalah, h in modern judaism, vol.5, no. 1 (1985; and in gershom scholem [modern critical views, edited by harold bloom (new york. new haven. philadelphia: chelsea house publishers, 1987. gershom scholem and the mystical dimension of jewish history: chapter 6. gthe early kabbalah h and chapter 7. gfrom gerona to the zohar. h. jewish mysticism and ethics. seattle: university of washington press, 1986; 2nd enlarged edit

and isma fillan sources, h in binah, vol. 3 (ed. j. dan; westport: praeger, 1994. gisaac ibn latif.philosopher or kabbalist? h in jewish medieval and renaissance studies, edited by alexander altmann (cambridge: harvard university press, 1967. wolfson, elliot. gnegative theology and positive assertion, h in daat, nos. 32-33 (1994. through a speculum that shines. vision and imagination in medieval judaism. princeton: princeton university press, 1994: chapter six. gvisionary gnosis and the role of the imagination in theosophic kabbalah. h 20081 14 addendum: pre-kabbalistic streams of jewish mysticism* to fill the span between the close of the old testament and early kabbalah, a muchsimplified selection of streams representative of.or having influence upon.jewish mysticism can be outlined thu

evious standard, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament, edited by r. h. charles (2 vols, oxford: clarendon press, 1913; rpt 1973* b. philo philo, who has a somewhat anticlimactic relationship with jewish mysticism, was the most important jewish philosopher of the first century. thoroughly hellenized, he begins for us the long, and rather strained, counterpoint between neoplatonism and judaism (and, indeed, jewish mysticism) which simmers right on up to spinoza and beyond. of particular use in the present context are the following: on philo. borgen, peder. gheavenly ascent in philo: an examination of selected passages, h in the pseudepigrapha and early biblical interpretation, edited by j. charlesworth and c. evans (sheffield: sheffield academic press, 1993. lewy, hans (ed. gphi

wing. urbach, ephraim e. the sages. their concepts and beliefs. jerusalem: magnes press, 1975; rpt. cambridge and london: harvard university press, 1987; see especially chapter vi. gmagic and miracle h; chapter vii. gthe power of the divine name h; chapter viii. gthe celestial retinue f; chapter ix. ghe who spoke and the world came into being h; and pp. 578-80. chernus, ira. mysticism in rabbinic judaism. berlin: walter de gruyter, 1982. chernus presents a series of essays on the relationship between merkabah mysticism and rabbinic midrashim. halperin, david. the merkabah in rabbinic literature [american oriental series, vol. 62. new haven: american oriental society, 1980. the faces of the chariot [texte und studien zum antiken judentum, 16. tubingen: j. c. b. mohr (paul siebeck) 1988. pat

dien zum antiken judentum, 16. tubingen: j. c. b. mohr (paul siebeck) 1988. patai. raphael. gates to the old city: a book of jewish legends. new york: avon books, 1980: the midrash sections* three other works on the qumran materials are of great interest in the present context, especially the third. boccaccini, gabriele. beyond the essene hypothesis. the parting of ways between qumran and enochic judaism. grand rapids: wm. b. eerdmans publishing co, 1998. davidson, maxwell j. angels at qumran: a comparative study of 1 enoch 1-36, 72-108 and sectarian writings from qumran [journal for the study of pseudepigrapha series, 11. sheffield: sheffield academic press, 1992. schiffman, lawrence h. reclaiming the dead sea scrolls. the history of judaism, the background of christianity, the lost libra

iterature in english. f for starters, though, refer to the following survey articles. alexander, p. s. gincantations and books of magic, h in emil schurer, the history of the jewish people in the age of jesus christ (175 b.c..a.d. 135, a new english version revised and edited by g. vermes, f. millar, and m. goodman (edinburgh: t&t clark ltd, 1986: volume iii, part 1, pp. 342- 79. idel, moshe. gon judaism, jewish mysticism and magic, h in envisioning magic: a princeton seminar and symposium, edited by p. schafer and h. kippenberg (leiden: brill, 1997. schafer, peter. gjewish magic literature in late antiquity and early middle ages, h in journal of jewish studies, vol. xli, no. 1 (1990. gmagic and religion in ancient judaism, h in envisioning magic. 2. merkabah and hekhalot material& 3. sefe

otes on yehuda halevi fs kuzari. h. lobel, diana. between mysticism and philosophy: sufi language of the religious experience in judah halevi fs kuzari. albany: state university of new york press, 2000. schwartz, dov. gjudah halevi and abraham ibn ezra h= chapter one) in studies on astral magic in medieval jewish thought, translated by david louvish and batya stein [the brill reference library of judaism, vol 20 (leiden. boston: brill, 2005. silman, yochanan. philosopher and prophet: judah halevi, the kuzari, and the evolution of his thought. albany: state university of new york press, 1995. sirat, colette. a history of jewish philosophy in the middle ages: chapter 4. strauss, leo. gthe law of reason in the kuzari, h in proceedings of the american academy for jewish research, vol. xiii (ne

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ord karov- to advance toward something. the right line represents the essence of the spiritual object, whereas the left line is actually only that part of egoism that can be employed by joining it to one s altruistic intentions- 340- attaining the worlds beyond 26 cognition of the spiritual world much paper has been wasted by philosophers discussing the impossibility of comprehending the creator. judaism, as a doctrine founded on the personal experimentation of the kabbalists, answers the question: how can we discourse on the possibility or impossibility of perceiving the creator prior to perceiving him? any definite statement implies a certain measure of perception. therefore, it is first necessary to define what is meant by saying "it is impossible to perceive the creator or infinity" on

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v i n g f o r c e 55 higher elements, in the sense that they precede all religions and belief systems. kabbalah is about the two working forces of reality, the giving force, called creator, and the receiving force, called creature. kabbalah has nothing to do with any religion or any faith. i do not want to compare kabbalah to other teachings, nor do i wish to discuss any religion, be it hinduism, judaism, christianity, or islam. after all, why deal with religion when we can discuss the physics of the upper world? the challenge in explaining this material is that we cannot compare our emotions. we cannot say that the term, upper force that one person feels is identical to the term, upper force that another person feels. hence, trying to compare this or that teaching to the kabbalah is point

cientist. the study of kabbalah continually builds new insights and discernments in us, eventually leading to the perception of the upper worlds. from the above we can understand why kabbalah contains all the teachings and sciences of this world. without proper explanations, we would be lost and think that kabbalah is a mystical teaching of wizardry and miracles. there are others who relate it to judaism, but in truth the wisdom of kabbalah has no connection whatsoever with mysticism, religion or any other manmade fantasy. the purpose of the wisdom of kabbalah is one: to bring humanity to congruence with the creator through gradual correction. kabbalah is such a successful method for the correction of humankind s egoism precisely because it is written by those who are corrected. one s desi

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kabbalist who rewrites the kabbalah in each generation and fits it to the new generation. the torah does not change because it speaks of technical existence. but unsuitable rules were canceled over time. for example, today there is no temple and therefore none of the rules linked with it or with the holiness of the land apply today. k a b b a l a h a n d j u da i s m q: is the difference between judaism and kabbalah that judaism is a religion, and kabbalah is a wisdom based on rationality and understanding? t h e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 61 a: kabbalah is the wisdom of the revelation of the creator, the system of the attainment of the upper revelation, a sublime truth and superior knowledge. religion does not deal with any of that. a religious person must know how to follow rules a

balah is the wisdom of the revelation of the creator, the system of the attainment of the upper revelation, a sublime truth and superior knowledge. religion does not deal with any of that. a religious person must know how to follow rules and live within their boundaries. kabbalah, however, leads to the attainment of the upper world. r i t ua l q: how does kabbalah relate to customs and rituals of judaism? a: before the soul is revealed, man doesn t feel any inner need for spiritual development. at that stage, man must only obey laws and customs, but does not belong to spirituality. the part that does belong to spirituality is our effort to correct self from the aim for ourselves to the aim for the creator. corrected aims are hidden because no one can see what is corrected in man. these cor

r, even when one becomes a great kabbalist, the person continues to perform the same mechanical mitzvot as an ordinary believer would. these two are not connected. you can ask great experts in mitzvot, great ravs, and they will tell you that they don t know kabbalah. you don t have to know kabbalah in order to keep mitzvot. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 62 t wo s e t s o f ru l e s q: judaism or kabbalah? that is the question! a: judaism is a collection of religious rules that dictate how to conduct ourselves in our world. other than what we must know, such as how to provide for our livelihood, how to behave, dress, or how to raise a family, kabbalah teaches something more. the kabbalah tells what we must do besides providing for the natural needs on the corporeal-human level

e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 69 everything in hebrew, they built a dictionary- the link between the root and the branch- that today is the basis for this whole science. the hebrew language is also called the holy tongue because it leads to holiness, to the attributes of the creator. now, there still remains the question why, until today, kabbalists were either jews or people who converted to judaism (proselytes. the reason lies in the uniqueness of their souls. the collective soul of adam consists of 600,000 parts, or 600,000 souls, separated by the intensity of their will. before the sin of the first man, every desire was aimed at pleasing the creator; each was a desire to give to the creator. but as a result of the sin of the first man, desires changed from pleasing the creator to p

f correction in their own mother tongue. that is why kabbalah is expressed in the language of the jews. k a b b a l a h i s n o t a r e l i g i o n q: is there an equivalent to kabbalah in other religions? a: there is no equivalent to kabbalah in other religions because the wisdom of kabbalah is not a religion, but a science. it does not relate to religions, beliefs, extrasensory methods, or even judaism. any orthodox jew will answer the question, do you know the wisdom of kabbalah? by saying that not only do they not know it, but they do not think there is any need to know it. and the response will be correct, as the wisdom of kabbalah is not necessary for those who are occupied with religious rituals. moreover, the wisdom of kabbalah intensifies both the desire to receive and the desire

ch, should we imagine one man who reached the spiritual level called, abraham, or was it abraham, the historical figure. in the second case, if abraham wrote the book before moses, then how is the name of the prophet, yehezkel (ezekiel, mentioned there (mishnah 8, p.1? this prophet lived centuries after abraham did. a: the book of creation was supposedly written by abraham. this is the opinion of judaism, not my own. i actually never say anything on my own and can always provide a reference for my words. that is why my adversaries do not oppose me, they oppose kabbalah! baal hasulam says in his letters that sefer yetzira was written by some other kabbalist. regarding the time, this is a question only for you and not for abraham or another kabbalist. however, nothing will help until you, to

even if our evaluations are negative, they are nonetheless a testimony to our progress. k a b b a l a h v s. a s c e t i c i s m q: if i understand correctly, the spiritual path begins with the formation of the screen within me, meaning with the restriction on reception of pleasures. does that not lead to self-oppression? if i have to give up on pleasures, won t that bring me to asceticism, which judaism forbids? a: contrary to all other religions and philosophies, kabbalah states clearly and unequivocally that spiritual ascent means increased pleasure. the beginning of the path includes the study of the kabbalah, while the reader maintains a regular way of life without change or limitations. but since our desires influence our acts, if we want to achieve something sublime, we must act acc

sire to reach for the creator, a desire for spirituality, that individual should be provided with all the conditions for spiritual growth, and should not be stopped or scared off. kabbalah states that a person must freely choose that part of the torah- revealed or secret--according to the ripeness of his soul. there was a great rav by the name of noam elimelech who said: kabbalah alone kept me in judaism. that is because his soul has reached beyond the phase of the revealed torah, and if he had not received that fulfillment he could not have truly existed. one should find oneself. that is the only thing that kabbalists encourage, whereas those who follow ideas and beliefs blindly, purposely forbid it. b i r t h a n d c o r r e c t i o n q: man is born in our world through the joining of a

rt. it offers nothing to satisfy our petty desires. your cry should be accompanied by a longing for the creator, and not just a desire for everything to be right again. this world was created precisely for pain! if you want out of that situation, get out of this world. that is what kabbalah offers you. read constantly, and you will get it. s u i c i d e q: why is suicide considered so terrible in judaism? if one sees no point in living, why cannot that person choose death? after all, it is known that man cannot tolerate pain, so how does suicide sit with the purpose of creation? a: if a desperate person separates from life only in order to avoid pain, it shows that the most important thing for that person is not life, but pleasure! without pleasure, life becomes a burden that any person wo

e a prophet to say the simple truth: everything we do before we see the entire system of creation is only to harm us. it is only the wisdom of kabbalah that enables us to see it. v e g e t a r i a n i s m q: i have recently stopped eating meat and fish because i think that living creatures (those with a nervous system and a sensation of pain) shouldn t have to suffer just to serve as my food. but judaism permits eating fish and animals, and does not see anything negative in it (at least it does not forbid it. is there a profound meaning to eating meat that is hidden from me? a: the whole of nature, including all the upper and lower worlds, was created for man, and rise along with man. that is why we must use everything for ourselves: extinguish pests, grow and slaughter domestic animals, s

spiritual act of giving to the creator, which likens man to him. external action has no such effect. the creator doesn t put on tefillin made of animal skin. his action is the light of gar de hochma in gadlut of zeir anpin, which is defined as tefillin. that is what one must attain. r e f l e c t i o n s a n d t h o u g h t s 417 w h at i s yo u r s c h o o l o f j u da i s m? q: which school of judaism do you belong to? a: i belong to the only ancient ever-existing school, which was started by abraham, the very first jew. upon the destruction of the temples, as a result of a spiritual downfall, various schools of judaism emerged because, as rav yehuda ashlag writes in his introduction to the study of the ten sefirot (item.1, an iron wall has been erected between us and the science of kab

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on, m2r 3x1 canada e-mail: info@kabbalah.info web site: www.kabbalah.info toll free in canada and usa: 1-866-laitman fax: 1-905 886 9. 379 how to contact bnei baruch. 380 the path of kabbalah 3 9 part one: the beginning c h a p t e r 1 .1 t h e g r e at i l l u s i o n thou shalt have no other gods before me. thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20:3. judaism forbids idolatry and any kind of fetishism. this prohibition envelops the most fundamental principle in judaism: that everything we see is only a figment of our imaginations. over the years, many of us have consciously or unconsciously adopted this principle after realizing that, by changing our perspective, we might be able to better cope with our day-to-day problems. this perspective det

hind any articles that were ready for print, because he did not want to publish his articles after his father, his great teacher. however, time passes and the demand for kabbalistic texts changes. today s students can no longer absorb the material the way it was presented to us. we can say that rabash was the last of the great kabbalists of the past. contained within him was the entire history of judaism. his knowledge of the history of judaism and the great rabbis of the last generations was very impressive, and he would tell their stories as though they were a part of his own life. we can clearly see from his stories that in the beginning of the 20th century there was a spiritual decline that reached so low that the gates to the spiritual world began to close, and a time of spiritual dar

he reason for the important need to clearly distinguish between kabbalah and religion. every religion relies on a certain prophet, a person who was connected with spirituality and circulated his knowledge among people. this argument is at the basis of every religion, meaning that everything begins with the sublime truth, the revelation of the creator before the prophet, who was the founder, be it judaism or any other religion. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method to attain the creator that is available for all. it allows any person to come without any mediators and to reach a spiritual contact with the creator. people who have reached spiritual attainment described how they did this step by step so that others might follow them to a similar conclusion. one s spiritual connection with the cre

pa r t f i v e: r e l i g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 319 o t h e r r e l i g i o n s q: are there parallels to the wisdom of kabbalah in other religions? a: there is no parallel to the wisdom of kabbalah in other religions because the wisdom of kabbalah is not a religion, but a science. it is not related in any way to religions, faiths, or clairvoyance of any kind, not even to judaism. any believing jew, when asked if is proficient in kabbalah, would reply negatively, and see no need to be. one does not need the wisdom of kabbalah to perform religious commandments. besides, the study of kabbalah increases one s egoism; increases one s desire for knowledge, and relies on self-discovery and understanding of the spiritual world, whereas religion relies on self-restriction

a: the torah states clearly that, there is none else beside him. this means that there is only one supreme force, namely the creator. everything we perceive as a struggle between opposing forces in nature stems from one guidance, the creator that leads creation. the creator is the sole ruler; he is one, unique and unified. moreover, the idea that there are other forces contradicts the essence of judaism. the concept that it is not the creator who governs the evil forces is intended to justify our existence. the torah clearly states the heavy punishments that will befall the chosen people by the creator if they do not follow the path of the torah. catastrophes have happened more than once throughout our history, and each time the creator warned us about it in advance. the talmud speaks of

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

sociated with sex and sensuality. satan has also been portrayed as a proud, clever, creative nonconformist willing to question the status quo. in the modern world, all of these characteristics are regarded as positive traits, at least theoretically. almost all contemporary images of the devil derive directly or indirectly from the christian tradition. christian diabolism in turn has dual roots in judaism and zoroastrianism. the jewish satan was never as sinister as his christian counterpart. initially, in fact, satan was not a being at all, but, rather, an accusatory or adversarial role assigned by god. specifically, the earliest satans were angels, sent by god for the purpose of obstructing or blocking the acts of human beings. this is clearly represented in the book of job, where satan i

en gave the repatriated jews money to rebuild the temple. the persians were zoroastrians, a religion built around the notion of an ongoing, more or less evenly matched struggle between ahura mazda (in later zoroastrianism, uhrmazd, the god of light and the upper world, and angra mainyu (later ahriman, the god of darkness and the lower world. partially because of a friendly link with the persians, judaism took in influences from zoroastrianism. thus satan, the closest thing the jews had to an evil spirit, was reconceived in the mold of angra mainyu as god s enemy. this portrait of an evil divinity locked in a cosmic war against god was later bequeathed to christianity. early christianity arose as a jewish sect during the apocalyptic period. the first christians strongly believed in the immi

to nonmembers. the abbey has about a hundred members, scattered throughout the united states, canada, greece, england, and australia. see also crowley, aleister;magic and magical groups for further reading: melton, j. gordon. encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research, 1996. abraxas abraxas is a term associated with gnosticism, an ancient religious movement influencing judaism, christianity, and contemporaneous paganism that was prominent during the first few centuries of the common era. its central teaching was that this world was the creation of an evil deity who had trapped human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma, to which we should seek to return. two distinct types of entities are associated with

ds. eventually there will be a final battle (a zoroastrian armageddon) between good and evil in which it is anticipated that ahriman and his hosts will be defeated. the earth will then be renewed, evil people will be destroyed, and the righteous resurrected. one of the points on which zoroastrianism differs from the other monotheisms is in its conceptualization of the genesis of satan. mainstream judaism, christianity, and islam all view satan as a fallen angel who was cast out of heaven, either for disobeying god or for rebelling against god. by way of contrast, ahriman is believed to be very much on par with ahura mazda. they even created the world together, which explains why the world is such a mixture of good and bad. later thinkers speculated that the two beings were twins, both fath

ama is the god of the dead. in the earliest vedic texts, yama ruled an afterlife realm not unlike the norse valhalla in which the deceased enjoyed carnal pleasures. as hinduism was transformed in the post-vedic period, yama became a rather grim demigod, who snared the souls of the departed and conducted them to the otherworld. the notion of an angel of death was most fully developed in rabbinical judaism. like yama, the jewish idea of an angel of death developed across time. the biblical emissaries of death were clearly under the direct command of god, as, for example, in 2 samuel: then the angel stretched out his arm toward jerusalem to destroy it; but the lord repented of the evil and said to the angel who was destroying the people, enough! stay your hand (2 sam. 24:16. none of the bibli

eath is defeated, especially by human deception. in these tales he is portrayed as being rather stupid. and in the final group, the angel of death is moved by compassion to spare someone s life or otherwise to act benevolently. in many of these narratives, the confrontation with the angel of death occurs on a wedding night, during which one of the two betrothed is fated to die. see also hinduism; judaism; satan for further reading: encyclopaedia judaica. vol. 2. new york:macmillan, 1971. sykes, egerton. who s who: non-classical mythology. new york: oxford, 1993. wigoder, geoffrey. the encyclopedia of judaism. new york:macmillan, 1989. angel on my shoulder this 1946 film was first made as a comedy then remade for television in 1980. the central narrative is built around the timeworn theme o

on, the encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research, 1993. archon archon, a greek term meaning ruler, is the name of a class of entities who played an important role in gnostic thought and who are roughly comparable to evil archangels. gnosticism refers to a movement and school of thought that was prominent in the hellenistic mediterranean world that influenced paganism, judaism, and christianity. its core teachings were that this world, and especially the human body, were the products of an evil deity the demiurge who had trapped human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma, to which we should seek to return. according to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings (one of the aeons) r

to be the fatherin- law of the bar shalmon, who is a demon. and in the devil s own dear son, by james branch asmodeus (bridgeman art gallery) aurum solis 17 cabell,asmodeus is the son of sammael and lilith (who is adam s first wife. in the legends of solomon, asmodeus (also known as saturn, marcolf, or morolf) is held responsible for creating carousels, music, dancing, and drama. see also demons; judaism for further reading: godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. ronner, john. know your angels. murfreesboro, tn: mamre, 1993. astaroth astaroth is mentioned in a variety of sources, often without much detail. in arthur edward waite s the book of black magic and of pacts it is declared that, before he fell from heaven, astaroth was a prince of the or

8 10. the early israelites had no purely evil, demonic beings. it was only later, after the hebrews encountered the zoroastrian religion, that they developed an evil antigod opposed to yahweh. looking back on the above verses from a later time, the rabbis seem to have interpreted this passage as ascribing the name azazel to the devil, or to one of the devil s infernal chieftains. see also demons; judaism for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. ronner, john. know your angels: the angel almanac with biographies of 100 prominent angels in legend and folklore, and much more. murfreesboro, tn:mamre, 1993. backward masking backward masking refers to the insertion of subliminal messages into a piece of music by recordi

zebub beelzebub appeared in the old testament only once, never in the apocalyptic literature, and a number of times in the new testament. although the origin of his name is uncertain, beelzebub shared the destiny of many heathen gods of beelzebub (dover pictorial archive) bells 25 canaan who were turned into demons when the jews began to filter in and developed what eventually became monotheistic judaism. baal was mocked by the jews as baalzebub, lord of flies, who created and controlled flies in the philistine city of ekron. but he was originally baal the prince, the chief god in the canaan pantheon. baalzebub appeared in kings 2:1 as the god called upon by king ahaziah (c. 850 849 b.c) to cast out demons. in the new testament his name was transformed into beelzebub, and was used to refer

giovetti 1993, 19. among other contents, the book of jubilees repeats the central angel tale in the book of enoch in which a group of angels mate with mortal females. they then fell from grace and became devils after leaving their heavenly abode. the book of jubilees adds that god sent the flood to destroy the race of sinful giants who were the offspring of these unnatural unions. see also enoch; judaism for further reading: giovetti, paola. angels. the role of celestial guardians and beings of light. transl. toby mccormick. 1989. york beach, me: samuel wiser, 1993. prophet, elizabeth clare. forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. 1983. livingston, mt: summit university press, 1992. bosch, hieronymus as a result of the complicated messages of his art, bosch has

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

lieve in a literal interpretation of genesis? this is a difficult question. the nature of belief in myths is no doubt variable, from literal interpretation to what is undoubtedly more common an understanding of myths as symbolically relevant or spiritually significant, but not as literal truth. another aspect of origin myths that does appear to be unique to christian creationism (and perhaps also judaism) is the concern to pin down an exact time (in real, calculated human time) when creation occurred. this has led creationists to propose the young earth idea, far out of line with scientific evidence. in most other cultural traditions, as far as we know, there is not a concern with a real-time framework for acts of creation. creation is considered to have occurred in some cosmic time, outsi

eresting question: aside from christianity, how do other major world religions view the issues of scientific evolution and divine creation? to what extent are 20 evolution and religious creation myths there conflicts between the two in these religions? and are creationist movements present within world religions outside christianity? in what follows, we discuss these matters in relation to islam, judaism, hinduism, and buddhism. islam islam is an arabic word meaning both submission and peace. at the core of the islamic faith is the idea that a muslim submits to allah (god, thus finding spiritual peace. islam emphasizes the oneness and unity of allah, that muhammad was his final prophet (in arabia in the seventh figure 1.2 representatives of some of the major non-christian denominations in

sible for, among others, terrorism and fascism. of course, american creationists usually do no go that far, although some u.s. evangelical leaders have blamed the 9/11 attacks on our materialistic society, no doubt further vitiated by darwinian ideology. harun yahya promulgates that schoolchildren be instilled with the fear of god, a fear supposedly diminished by pernicious and godless darwinism. judaism judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion still in existence today. like islam, but unlike christianity, it rejects any pictorial representation of god. but unlike both christianity and islam, judaism does not affirm that satan is the inventor of evil. jews and christians alike recognize the old testament, in particular, its first five books, called the torah in hebrew. thus, there exist

and christians alike are people of the book; that is, all believe in revealed religions. it is probably safe to say that god (gott in german, yeob in greek, deus in latin, dieu in french, dio in italian( in russian, and so on, yhwh, and allah are very similar if not identical concepts. one complication in the jewish interpretation of genesis, however, is the existence of several main branches of judaism: orthodox, conservative, and reform, as well as many other variants such as reconstructionist and ultra- orthodox. another complication is the absence in judaism of a centralized authority in matters of doctrine, leaving it up to potentially many religious leaders to offer their own interpretation of the sacred texts. and there is the old joke: three jews, four opinions. historically, the

onservative, and reform, as well as many other variants such as reconstructionist and ultra- orthodox. another complication is the absence in judaism of a centralized authority in matters of doctrine, leaving it up to potentially many religious leaders to offer their own interpretation of the sacred texts. and there is the old joke: three jews, four opinions. historically, the general attitude of judaism has been that the creation account in genesis should not be taken literally: it is symbolic rather than descriptive of an actual fact. the great medieval jewish philosopher creationism and intelligent design 23 maimonides even wrote that only ignoramuses would take genesis literally. on the other hand, the age of earth, how life-forms came to be, and the timing of the appearance of humans

eir lives. amidst all the diversity within hinduism are the unifying concepts of dharma and moksha. dharma refers to the religious duty to maintain and perfect the world and society. moksha refers to spiritual release from this world, often by renouncing society. there are various ways and means within hinduism to both maintain the world and seek ultimate release from it. contrary to monotheistic judaism, islam, and christianity, polytheistic hinduism has a plurality of religious texts. such books as the rig-veda, the upanishads, and the bhagavad-gita come to mind. likewise, hinduism has more than one myth of creation. one version restricts itself to saying that some sort of substance, prakrit, is at the origin of all that exists in the universe. another version is much more descriptive; i

stopped by stopping desire (transcending egoistical attachment (4) desire can be stopped by following the eightfold path, which is basically following a moral, compassionate, and selfless style of life. after this very brief introduction to buddhist philosophy, let us see whether it is compatible or not with evolutionary science. first, we should point out that, contrary to what is happening with judaism, christianity, hinduism, and islam, there is no such thing as buddhist fundamentalism, nor are there political parties based on buddhism. in addition, buddhism does not recognize any particular myth of creation, making it impossible for evolutionary science to conflict with buddhist texts. in other words, buddhism does not have the equivalent of genesis and its counterpart in the quran, or

ns in the world is ultimately a product of mind, and there is no creator of mind. what can we conclude from this admittedly brief foray into the reception of evolution in non-christian world religions? first, it appears that evolution can be a problem in the more orthodox or fundamentalist portions of three world religions christianity (mostly protestantism but more rarely catholicism, islam, and judaism. all three are monotheistic religions with the idea of one god as creator. further, these are revealed religions. possibly, then, a powerful single creator god with a strong message about the origin of life sets a frame for some within these faiths to see evolution as a threat to religious conviction. by contrast, neither hinduism nor buddhism is monotheistic or revealed, and neither sees

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severely asthmatic in his youth, he was prevented from following the military career usually pursued by younger sons of the royal family. as a child, he had been raised in germany where the climate was thought to be more suitable for his delicate health. while there, he had received an excellent education; and he was known to be deeply religious. he was also a scholar with a very deep interest in judaism. in fact, he was a real judeophile; and he spoke, read and wrote hebrew. by the time he became grand master he had accumulated a significant library which included a collection of original hebrew manuscripts. these were forty-four in number; and at least eleven were classical kabbalistic works. figures 5 through 7 show the index to the manuscripts2* from the catalogue prepared by thomas j

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siac mysteries--contained three holy objects, each having an important phallic interpretation: the pot of manna, the rod that budded, and the tablets of the law--the first, second, and third principles of the creative triad. the manna, the blossoming staff, and the stone tables are also appropriate images respectively of the qabbalah, the mishna, and the written law--the spirit, soul, and body of judaism. when placed in king solomon's everlasting house, the ark of the covenant contained only the tablets of the law. does this indicate that even at that early date the secret tradition had been lost and the letter of the revelation alone remained? as representing the power that fabricated the lower, or demiurgic, sphere, the tablets of stone were sacred to jehovah in contradistinction to the

opied by scribes who not only sometimes made errors in letters and words, but permitted themselves to introduce new material into the text, or to combine in one manuscript, without mark of division, writings composed by different men; instances of these sorts of procedure are found especially in micah and jeremiah, and the groups of prophecies which go under the names of isaiah and zachariah (see judaism and christianity) does the mutilated condition of the holy bible--in part accidental--represent none the less a definite effort to confuse the uninitiated reader and thus better conceal the secrets of the jewish tannaim? never has the christian world been in possession of those hidden scrolls which contain the secret doctrine of israel, and if the qabbalists were correct in their assumptio

ners of the world. the same author also sees in adam a prototype of christ, for he writes "adam sleeps that eve may be formed: christ dies, that the church may be formed. while adam sleeps, eve is formed from his side. when christ is dead, his side is smitten with a spear, that there flow forth sacraments to form the church* adam himself was the figure of him that was to come" in his recent work, judaism, george foote moore thus describes the proportions of the adamic man "he was a huge mass that filled the whole world to all the points of the compass. the dust of which his body was formed was gathered from every part of the world, or from the site of the future altar. of greater interest is the notion that man was created androgynous, because it is probably a bit of foreign lore adapted t

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

w it will be sufficient for you to make a symbolic gesture which will ceremonially demonstrate your severance from old restraints and inhibitions that in the past have acted as the main obstacles to the development of the powers within you. basically, these restraints can be symbolized as the yoke imposed by such established systems of irrational thought as organized religion, be it christianity, judaism, or buddhism. organized religion, let me emphasize. of course, there are many other ironclad systems of thought without occult bases which have been imposed upon the public mind from time to time, such as communism, fascism, or capitalism, but these at least function under the pretence of ministering to the bodies of mankind rather than to the good of the soul, whatever that might be. the

ious in difference to mixing of styles and cultures. all that matters is the item's effect on you and your deep mind. while on the subject of religious components "words of power" cabalistic names of god and the like, here is a tip for the wise witch: better results will always be obtained if you happen to subscribe to the religion from which your words of power derive, in the case of the cabala, judaism, or maybe unorthodox christianity. however, always remember, it is only the awe, the shiver of emotional excitement, aroused by the name or quotation, which is its chief magical value. if you can do this with an arabic name of god, roman catholic saint, or tibetan demon, so much the better. go ahead and use it. likewise, the name of your husband, wife, lover, favourite politician, film sta

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sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who could not under-stand how god could so cruelly visit the world (p. 291)the crooked serpentby his spirit he hath garnished the heavens: his hand hath formed the crooked serpent (job 26:13)this can also be translated: his artful hands brought forth the winding serpentnashon (people of the serpent)a tribe within judaism, of which david was a member. is this where we get the word, nation?asgardsame as the semitic eden, a place of gardens and temples. the abode of the gods.the asasa race of intelligent giants that must have been mortal since it is said that they perished also in the greatconflagrations. the norse custom of setting their dead onto the waters in a boat is a vestige of the timewhen the race so

consider is that there is nothing spiritual or ethereal about the word angel. inits greek form, the definition aggeloswas translated from the original hebrew malath, which meantno more than messenger (p. 47)mythology and factwhat actually transpired was that the original mesopotamian writings were recorded as history. thishistory was later rewritten to form a base for foreign religious cultsfirst judaism and then christianity.appendix b: book abstracts214atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the corrupted dogma of the religions then became established as history and because the contriveddogma (the new approved history) was so different from the original, the early first-hand records werelabeled mythology (p. 60)mardukthe great babylonian god was the son of goddess damkina, b

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to the same injuries. and finally, he would use iron objects, like swords and long knives, to stab disruptive spirits. satanists, on the other hand, may hesitate to bring iron anywhere near the spirit during a ritual as it may offend the gods. another thing that impressed me about magicians, both good and bad, was the overall knowledge they possessed regarding the bible, islam, apocryphal texts, judaism, hinduism, and almost all the mythologies. they could quote the bible with the best of them. this overall spiritual knowledge is most likely due to their understanding regarding the singular root story, rather than intense memorization on their part. the fact that they so liberally use the names and storylines from multiple beliefs so interchangeably is proof of this. what else i found int

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mpyric path, literary and folklore is highly suggested. it is through inspired magickal lore that one may develop their own form of becoming, something which may add to their own arcana of belief. in the yatuk dinoih, the lines of persian sorcery and vampyrism are close, as connected with the adversary form of ahriman. an early ritual described in "sacrifices in greek and roman religion and early judaism" by royden keith yeikes describes a persian blood ritual known as 'taurobolium, which holds a connection to mithris and the lore of the bull. in this ritual, the practitioner slays a bull on a platform, which has many holes in the wood. the blood then pours upon the individual. symbolically, the sacrifice of the wolf to ahriman is symbolic only. no blood of an animal or human should ever b

MORALS AND DOGMA

ncidence in their ideas, readily explained by attributing it to a foreign influence. the jews of egypt, under the influence of the school of alexandria, endeavored in general to make their doctrines harmonize with the traditions of greece; and thence came, in the doctrines of the therapeuts, as stated by philo, the many analogies between the pythagorean and orphic ideas, on one side, and those of judaism on the other: while the jews of palestine, having less communication with greece, or contemning its teachings, rather imbibed the oriental doctrines, which they drank in at the source and with which their relations with persia made them familiar. this attachment was particularly shown in the kabalah, which belonged rather to palestine than to egypt, though extensively known in the latter;

apocalypse or revelations, by whomever written, belongs to the orient and to extreme antiquity. it reproduces what is far older than itself. it paints, with the strongest colors that the oriental genius ever employed, the closing scenes of the great struggle of light, and truth, and good, against darkness, error, and evil; personified in that between the new religion on one side, and paganism and judaism on the other. it is a particular application of the ancient myth of ormuzd and his genii against ahriman and his devs; and it celebrates the final triumph of truth against the combined powers of men and demons. the ideas and imagery are borrowed from every quarter; and allusions are found in it to the doctrines of all ages. we are continually reminded of the zend-avesta, the jewish codes

and the gnosis. the seven spirits surrounding the throne of the eternal, at the opening of the grand drama, and acting so important a part throughout, everywhere the first instruments of the divine will and vengeance, are the seven amshaspands of parsism; as the twenty-four ancients, offering to the supreme being the first supplications and the first homage, remind us of the mysterious chiefs of judaism, foreshadow the eons of gnosticism, and reproduce the twenty-four good spirits created by ormuzd and inclosed in an egg. the christ of the apocalypse, first-born of creation and of the resurrection, is invested with the characteristics of the ormuzd and sosiosch of the zend-avesta, the ainsoph of the kabalah and the carpistes [greek ?a?p?st] of the gnostics. the idea that the true initiate

epted scottish rite, and before it by the rite of perfection, fell into disuse, were merely communicated, and their rituals became jejune and insignificant. these rites resembled those old palaces and baronial castles, the different parts of which, built at different periods remote from one another, upon plans and according to tastes that greatly varied, formed a discordant and incongruous whole. judaism and chivalry, superstition and philosophy, philanthropy and insane hatred and longing for vengeance, a pure morality and unjust and illegal revenge, were found strangely mated and standing hand in hand within the temples of peace and concord; and the whole system was one grotesque commingling of incongruous things, of contrasts and contradictions, of shocking and fantastic extravagances, o

mself; they knew not the demiurge in his true relation to the hidden supreme god _who never reveals himself_ in the sensible world. they confounded the type and the archetype, the symbol and the idea. they rose no higher than the demiurge; they took him to be the supreme god himself. but the spiritual men among them, on the contrary, clearly perceived, or at least _divined, the ideas veiled under judaism; they rose beyond the demiurge, to a knowledge of the supreme god; and are therefore properly his worshippers[[greek ?e?ape?ta. therapeutai. other gnostics, who had not been followers of the mosaic religion, but who had, at an earlier period, framed to themselves an oriental gnosis, regarded the demiurge as a being absolutely _hostile_ to the supreme god. he and his angels, notwithstanding

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one must surmise that he produced the universe through some astounding feat of male parthenogenesis. these homosexual tendencies reflect themselves in the harsh intolerance of mosaic law towards women. wives are chattels. women are not admitted to worship. adulteresses are stoned to death. these 'super-male (sin is nothing of the sort, of course; he is an 'under-male) traits are not exclusive to judaism. one finds them in all religions that associate the concept of spiritual purity with sexual abstinence. sexual abstinence is 'good 'only in the athletic sense. and some biological types experience no good effects from it. some athletes copulate more during and after an athletic event than normally, and perform just as well or better for it. this is a matter to be decided strictly by person

just as well or better for it. this is a matter to be decided strictly by personal judgment. to establish sexual abstinence as a religious rule for all, indiscriminately, is insensate "yet there are those who have dared and achieved thereby (see liber 175. certainly: but others have achieved without it, and anyway, once you achieve, why not outgrow the old toys and go on to other things? we take judaism as an example only because the sexual morality preached in the west is essentially old testament stuff it is useless that christians should pretend they are christians when they persist in interpreting their 'jesus' in the same terms that orthodox jews ascribe to a 'good 'rabbi! were we to believe for one moment that the gospels are the biography of an actual, historical, person, we would

not for a moment suppose that this verse supports the historicity of 'jesus 'jesus is not, and never was, a man; but he was a 'god, just as a bundle of old rags and a kerosene tin on a bush may be a 'god. there is a man-made idea, built of ignorance, fear, and meanness, for the most part, which we call 'jesus, and which has been tricked out from time to time with various gauds from paganism, and judaism. the subject of 'jesus' is, most unfortunately, too extensive for a note; it is treated fully in liber 888. the main source of the 'jesus' of the new testament was the unnamed master of righteousness' of the essenes; but it is impossible nowadays to separate what is historical and about him from what is historical but about the prophet ionas, or the rabbi x, or the rabbi y. to say nothing

anity. it should be noted that these religions are mentioned impersonally, while christianity and islam are mentioned in the person of their founders, or alleged founders. obviously 'din' refers to mosaic law; islam has already been disposed of in the previous verse. why assault their flesh rather than their eyes, as in the other cases? because the metaphysics, or point of view, is correct i take judaism as qabalistic but the practice imperfect. organized religion is the death of theurgy. but at least it should not be the death of common sense. you are free to make a fool of yourself, but leave your neighbor alone. he may make a fool of himself who knows? 54. bahlasti! ompehda! i spit on your crapulous creeds. by sound, bahlasti suggests "hurling" or "blasting; ompehda is not too phantasti

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s revealed in chapter 4. there you will see how to cause any young girl, however prudent she may be, to become maddened and inflamed with lust. secrets of the cabala< it is said that god created the world by pronouncing the tetragrammaton correctly and it is regarded as the ultimate magical word of power. the tetragrammaton is an essential part of the cabala, a form of mysticism that evolved from judaism. one tradition surrounding the cabala is that magic spells and rituals based upon its system possesses an extremely potent effect over all forms of matter. chapter 5 tells you exactly how to use the magical power of the cabala to increase your money supply. secrets of the spirit world is there a place of coming together between the living and the dead? an essential part of the esoteric art

to invoke. now indulge in the sex act, but keep your mind at all times< on your magical intention. that s all there is to it. chapter 5 ancient secrets of the cabala it is said that god created the world by pronouncing the tetragrammaton correctly and it is regarded as the ultimate magical word of power. the tetragrammaton is an essential part of the cabala, a form of mysticism that evolved from judaism. it is the four letter name of god yod, he, vau, he and is normally pronounced jehovah or yahweh, and sometimes adonai. please do not try to understand it now, you will not be able to until you have mastered the middle pillar ritual revealed in this chapter. but once you are ready for it, i think you will find it to be one of the most profound and rewarding experiences in your life. here

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ture of good and evil (as explained in part one the "allegory" or garment of the chashmal can be either concealing or revealing. furthermore, the allegory brings out the concept in the way of "somethingness. this somethingness is the source of evil. it is for this reason that anything which has its source in nogah may be utilized for either good or evil. for example, the souls of true converts to judaism have their source in nogah. because of this they are drawn to judaism and may convert, thus entering the domain of the holy. on the other hand, since they have free choice, they are not compelled by their nature to do so and may choose to stay in the domain of the unholy) as explained, it is the "somethingness" of the comprehension of divine concepts that the animal soul adheres to and bec

en in our generation, there is still a spark of a spark of a spark of the divine soul. however, this spark does not necessarily even draw a person to fulfill the commandments. all that it does is keep him from divesting himself of his "jewishness" altogether and converting to another religion, g-d forbid. this may be observed in the reformed or conservative jews, and all other so called "forms of judaism" being espoused today. there is not even an ounce of truth or g-dliness in their "religion. the entire "religion" only revolves around their own personal "comfort levels" and desires, and has nothing at all to do with g-d. nevertheless, though their "religion" has nothing at all to do with true judaism as defined by g-d in his torah, they still feel an inner need to identify themselves as

lfill the mitzvot in action, but to come close to his father in heaven, in the manner that a small child follows his father and never wants to be separated from him (this level can be seen in converts and returnees who are personally "moved" from their "place" of evil by a great longing and desire to come close to g-d. this is what motivates them to begin fulfilling the commandments or convert to judaism) 3) the third level, which is higher then the previous two, is the essential arousal of the aspect of the neshamah of the divine soul. this is corresponds the third level of the animal soul, mentioned above, in which his heart of flesh actually becomes aroused in a felt way, with great passion and desire for g-dliness. in the divine soul, this is the essential arousal of the heart of flesh

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. before publishing these translations in book form they will, please g-d, be examined for accuracy by a competent authority, and any necessary changes will be made then. chabad of malibu. 22943 pacific coast highway. malibu, ca 90265. 310-456-6588 powered by chabad.org c 2001-2007 chabad-lubavitch media center. all rights reserved. in everlasting memory of rabbi yosef y. kazen, pioneer of torah, judaism and jewish information on the web 11 parashat bereishit the first verse in the torah literally reads gin the beginning, g-d created the heavens and the earth. h the verb in this verse, gto create, h refers to the second of the four worlds, atzilut( gemanation h, beriah( gcreation h, yetzirah( gformation h, and asiyah( gaction h. the torah does not [here] speak about the world of atzilut, b

name in hebrew] hevel and the shin of [seth fs name in hebrew] shet. moses in hebrew is moshe, mem-shin-hei. he is thus seen as the rectification of seth and abel. in other words, the ultimate tool for rectifying the sin of adam is the torah (which was given through moses. some of the souls that went out [of adam] were rectified [by being reincarnated] in converts. when an individual converts to judaism (in accordance with jewish law, he draws down into his being a jewish soul that he did not possess previously. existentially, then, his conversion process represents the transformation of the mundane into the holy. to explain further: the [original] garment of adam was the light that corresponds to the [aspect of the soul known as] nefesh. this [light] was like the fourth gshell, h which i

here is no level of evil corresponding to the yechidah, since yechidah is the soul fs total identification with divinity, and there obviously can be no type of evil that expresses the same quality in the opposite direction, since there is no gevil deity h to compromise g-d fs absolute oneness. the soul of onkelos, the convert, was from this aspect [of reality. onkelos was a roman who converted to judaism and is the author of the standard aramaic translation of the torah. we have discussed the significance of aramaic in this context previously. this is the mystical significance of [the custom of reading the torah] gtwice as in scripture and once in translation. h the talmud enjoins us to review the weekly portion of the torah each week by reading it aloud, each verse twice in the original h

ading sages dispersed, each one establishing his own beis midrash that stood side by side with the sanhedrin. but all these became diminished in standing and authority when compared to the newly arising torah center that was being established in babylonia. h5 many of the inhabitants of the land of israel left at this point.6 thus, this year may be considered to mark the point when the emphasis in judaism shifted from learning torah toward yearning for the redemption from exile, in other words, for the messianic era. the sages also state that before the creation of the world, g-d was gcreating worlds and destroying them. h7 in kabbalah, this is understood to refer to the fact that there were numerous gproto-worlds h preceding the creation of the world of atzilut, the ideal, rectified world

utral shell since it may be used for either good or evil. the presence of the foreskin makes sexual relations more physically titillating but also insulates the individual from his partner fs feelings. it is thus at once the physical manifestation of both selfish, sensual desire and innate egocentricity, and therefore embodies and epitomizes the totally impure shells, the realms of absolute evil. judaism therefore requires that the foreskin be circumcised [however, this king] who is situated opposite the sign of the holy covenant, grabs this supernal light from the neutral realm, which was intended for the bride, and usurps it for himself. 4 see the mystery of marriage, pp. 421-426. 5 eitz chaim 8:4-5, 9:1-3. 6 3:103b. 7 ezekiel 1:4, 1:27, and 8:2. 8 joshua 5:4, 7. the arizal on parashat v

abraham rectified the sin of idolatry, isaac the sin of murder, and jacob the sin of sexual licentiousness. these are the three cardinal sins, which the torah instructs us to give up our lives for rather than transgress (if we are given the choice between being killed or committing sins other than these three, we should commit them, unless it is a case of a ruler or government trying to snuff out judaism altogether, in which case we must give up our lives rather than committing any sin forbidden by the torah) adam, in a certain sense, transgressed all three of these cardinal prohibitions in committing the primordial sin.4 transgressing g-d fs command was denying him; this was akin to idolatry. inasmuch as this sin brought dead upon the whole human race, it was akin to murder. by committing

f adam. this lasted for seventeen years, this being the numerical value of the word for ggood h [tov, indicating that the first 130 years were spent rectifying the evil, whereas the last 17 years were good, without evil. tov: tet-vav-beit= 9+ 6+ 2= 17. these years were the good years of jacob fs life, for he was reunited with joseph and lived comfortably with his family, all of whom were loyal to judaism. and this is why jacob descended to egypt, for it was there that all the soulsparks that adam wasted [during those 130 years] were reincarnated, as we have explained elsewhere .translated from sha far hapesukim 13 genesis 47:28. 217 parashat vayechi this parashah begins: gjacob lived in the land of egypt for seventeen years. h1 as we know, jacob was also known by another name, israel. thes

fore] circumcised them. these were the gmixed multitude h that left egypt with the jewish people. when the jews left egypt, ga mixed multitude also left with them. h4 these were converts from a number of peoples.including egyptians.5 moses also wanted to accept them and take them in under the wings of the shechinah.6 therefore, since joseph began this deed and was the first one to convert them to judaism [it is appropriate that] moses took him with him [personally. in the talmud,7 the sages point out that gwhereas all the [other] jews were occupied with the spoil [of egypt, moses occupied himself with the commandments, h i.e, with fulfilling joseph fs wish to be exhumed and taken to the holy land. the arizal gives a thematic explanation of why this was so. further on, we are told that phar

urify the insight, and sweetening (of the impure elements of the insight with the power generated by the pure, refined insight. moses was trying to skip the middle stage of this process. nonetheless, they still contained an admixture of sparks of holiness, and this is why moses exerted all his energy to gather the mixed multitude under the wings of the divine presence [that is, to convert them to judaism. we find a similar [phenomenon] with balaam, about whom our sages said, g[when the torah says] eand there arose no prophet in israel like moses, f3 [it implies that] no [such prophet] arose in israel, but among the [other] nations of the world one did arise, namely balaam. h4 balaam was thus somehow a fallen version of moses. 1 exodus 12:38. 2 ibid. 1:8. 3 deuteronomy 34:10. 4 bamidbar rab

firot and the body, yesod corresponds to the organs of procreation. since the generation of the exodus were the pupils of moses and the original recipients of the torah, they were also elevated to this profound level of consciousness. thus, in the talmud, this generation is referred to as gthe generation of knowledge. h 1 see exodus 12:38. 2 ibid. 32:1-4. the arizal on parashat ki tisa (3) 396 in judaism, sin is defined as something that in some way degrades or perverts a person fs awareness or consciousness of g-d. there are of course many levels of this, ranging from the subtle, ginnocuous h sins of indulging in some permitted pleasure (glatt kosher chocolate cake c) to the out-and-out overt sins which incur serious punishments. their common denominator, however, is that to a greater or

different [celestial] prince, and that no [prince] has permission to pass into the area of another fs jurisdiction. this is why we do not take tithes from one year fs produce for the previous year fs, but rather take tithes each year from its own produce. this is also why we must repent every year for [the sins of] that year, for the repentance of one year does not help for another year. time in judaism is not a monolithic entity. every moment in time has its own unique nature and gpersonality, h a result of the changing hues of divine energy constantly recreating the world. as part of this, every year has its own personality, and therefore mitzvot designated to be performed in a specific year must be done so. above, this is depicted as the gprince h or angelic personality of a specific y

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greek tau. seeing that he understood the necessity of the tau or cross on the twelfth leaf of the book of thoth, he should have seen also the manifold and magnificent meaning of the hermetic hanged man, the prometheus of science, the living man who touches earth by his thought alone, whose firm 61 ground is heaven, the free and immolated adept, the revealer menaced with death, the conjuration of judaism against christ, which seems to be an involuntary admission of the secret divinity of the crucified, and lastly, the sign of the work accomplished, the cycle terminated, the intermediary tau, which resumes for the first time, before the final denary, the signs of the sacred alphabet. 62 the doctrine of transcendental magic 63 xiii a n necromancy ex ipsis mors we have said that the images of

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he remnants of all worships which had been absorbed by the queen of the world. according to the gospel narrative, the inscription which set forth the spiritual royalty of christ was written in hebrew, in greek and in latin: it was the expression of a universal synthesis. hellenism, in fact, that grand and beauteous religion of form, announced the coming of the saviour no less than the prophets of judaism. the fable of psyche is an ultra-christian abstraction, and the cultus of the pantheons, by rehabilitating socrates, prepared altars for that unity of god, of which israel had been the mysterious preserver. but the synagogue denied its messiah, and the hebrew letters were effaced, at least for the blinded eyes of the jews. the roman persecutors dishonoured hellenism, and it could not be re

73 cation of apollonius, we used the magical philosophy of patricius for the ritual, containing the doctrines of zoroaster and the writings of hermes trismegistus. we recited the nuctemeron of apollonius in greek with a loud voice and added a conjuration beginning: glet the father of all be counsellor and thrice-great hermes guide. h for the evocation of spirits belonging to religions issued from judaism, the following kabalistic invocation of solomon should be used, either in hebrew or in any other tongue with which the spirit in question is known to have been familiar: powers of the kingdom, be ye under my left foot and in my right hand! glory and eternity, take me by the two shoulders, and direct me in the paths of victory! mercy and justice, be ye the equilibrium and splendour of my li

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society for krishna consciousness o sri chinmoy centres o syda yoga dham o world plan executive council. islamic groups o american muslim mission o hanafi madh-hab center of islam faith o islamic center o shi'a islam o sufi order. japanese heritage groups o buddhist churches of america o nichiren shoshu of america o perfect liberty kyodan o zen center of rochester (new york. jewish groups o black judaism o conservative judaism o federation of reconstructionist congregations and havurot o lubavitch hassidism o orthodox judaism o reform judaism. sikh/sant mat groups o eckankar o elan vital o movement for spiritual inner awareness, church of the o sikh council of north america o sikh dharma (3ho "other" groups o baha'i faith o church of satan o church of scientology o church universal and tri

n their religious thought. the universal life church has spawned a number of similar church bodies including the crown of life fellowship, the life science church, the calvary grace church and the brotherhood of peace and tranquility. rastafarian are a new religion developed in jamaica in the early twentieth century and imported to america in recent decades. it draws on themes familiar from black judaism and black islam, but is distinct from both. finally, vajradhatu is a buddhist group, but out of a tibetan rather than a japanese tradition. temple of set address: post office box 470307 san francisco, ca 94147 other names by which known: within this religion its principles are termed "setian, and individual affiliates are termed "setians. as the original god set was later caricatured as th

lyzing any system for purposes of discussion, or to simply form a picture for future reference: 1) deities, 2) mysteries, 3) initiatory states, and 4) mythology. while examining these four areas, keep in mind the basic question 'what does this religion do for the individual' a brief explanation of these follows, and then this model is applied consecutively to paganism, neo-paganism, christianity, judaism, and setianism. the purpose is to assist the setian in communicating clearly and confidently with people who have divergent religious viewpoints. the passionate world of apologetics is one that someday will involve every setian, perhaps in their own home. but if one looks for basic concepts such as these four categories: deities, mysteries, initiatory states, and mythology, plus considerin

ue insights into the role of ritual and myth in the maintenance of mental and emotional health. christianity when one looks at the judeo-christian religions using these same four criteria, some interesting conclusions surface. christianity is blatantly pagan, using the roman catholic church as an example (we know that, but our well-meaning friends don't) let's take a look, and then see how modern judaism compares after that. 1. deities: the famous holy trinity that used to give me a headache in catechism class is still not adequately explained. the holy trinity is god the father, god the son (jesus christ) and god the holy ghost. count that. you get 3, and i always got 3, but it's not: it's one. an incredible amount of human hours and lives and material resources have been used in trying t

it approval of the church. they bring in revenue to the local churches, so tolerance is beneficial. but this aspect of religion is well known in pagan circles also. there has been speculation down through the centuries upon the reasons for the similarities between christian and pagan religious systems. in addition to the outright assimilation of pagan elements into christianity, there is another "judaism, christianity, and the mysteries were equally parts of the religious milieu of the greco-roman world, and this explains many of their similarities. as greco-roman religions, they sometimes faced similar challenges, proposed similar ways of salvation, and shared similar visions of the way to light and life" judaism in looking at judaism from the four perspectives cited earlier, i selected t

four perspectives cited earlier, i selected the writings of contemporary prominent jews. it is clear from what follows how binding, and how blinding to true inner vision, are the ties to tradition. the sources cited here are from a collection titled ancient roots and modern meanings, edited by jerry v. diller. the book covers the extremes in jewish thought of the late 70's. 1. deities: where does judaism stand on the subject of deities? richard l. rubenstein made the following comments "we stand in a cold, silent, unfeeling cosmos, unaided by any purposeful power beyond our own resources. after auschwitz, what else can a jew say about god" a former rabbi, he chose to separate himself from the established jewish community, though his work is representative of the radical reappraisal among j

side is irving greenburg who states "there is a god who cares, human beings have infinite value" but later on he admits "the holocaust suggests a divine presence far more subtle and elusive than hitherto estimated" also "he controls himself. he is the hidden presence, not the intervening presence [because] his people continue to exist in defiance of all logic and all force" rubenstein states that judaism is "largely a this-worldly religion. it focuses attention upon the requirements of i and thou in here and now. the christian church claimed that some of the tragic inevitabilities of the human condition had been overcome through the career of jesus. before this claim, the rabbis preferred their sad wisdom that the human condition had not been altered. they focused jewish attention on those

ithout illusion or hope. the condition of finitude can only be overcome when we return to the nothingness out of which we have been thrust. in the final analysis, omnipotent nothingness is lord of all creation" nothingness or not, it is the concept of final dissolution into another, with resultant loss of self, that is the identifying established goal, however reluctant, that links this aspect of judaism with paganism- the worship of false gods. 2. mysteries: rubenstein goes on to elaborate upon the traditional aspects of jewish religious life, stating that it is within the religious community as an institution that the condition of human "hopelessness" can be shared in depth. interestingly, the mysteries identified were initially experiences that the jews as a people went through, and whi

e non-rational. the first is the realm of the rabbi, whose task is a life-long confrontation of the sacred texts in order to continually keep in front of his congregation the need for and beauty of god's order in this world. the aim is a peaceful and productive world, in areas as diverse as the most humane way to kill animals to insights on politics. the non-rational involves the mystical side of judaism, which is often centered upon the kaballah. these two distinct aspects of judaism are accompanied by two others, one discussed under mythology and the other here. the latter has been widely published in the works of martin buber in the "i-thou" discussion called "dialogue" this state of being is described as "the total and unmediated contact between the individual, and various aspects of h

s of the other and does nothing to diminish it. 4. mythology: the most noticeable thing about jewish myth and tradition is the lack of emotional restraint, and this describes a state that is similar to the initiatory states found in other cultures, especially of the tropics. since it is associated often with the simplest of understanding, i think it is more logical to consider it under mythology "judaism is a religion of strong emotions. its calendar chronicles a series of emotional highs and lows throughout the year. jewish ritual orients itself to the most highly-charged moments of human existence: birth, the passage from childhood to adulthood and responsibility, marriage, and death" the jew is taught to see all of these in terms of their history of god's interaction with them, through

had the images of the prophetesses and heroines of the old testament. this is in part due to the cultural milieu in which the jews must live, wherein the women of the western world generally have equal access to the same educational, political, and economic roles as men. some of the discussion in the source text dealt with the shift from a spiritual focus to a much more materialistic and secular judaism. this was seen as the only way the modern jew could salvage something from his recent apocalyptic past. with the shift from prophets to politicians, and the emphasis on a new world order of peace, it will be interesting to watch the birth-pangs of the new judaism. behind this shift is the disillusionment evidenced in rubenstein's comments, quoted earlier, which he states go back to the des

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ikes down with lightning, and demands of abraham that he sacrifice his first born son. the idea of a separate evil only gradually arrives from the 2nd century b.c. the dilemma of evil created a paradoxical tension between the essentially monist concept of a single divinity underlying existence and the dualistic principle of a lord of light and a lord of darkness. whilst the rabbis have extricated judaism from these early conflicts, the modern christian church remains befuddled by the confusion arising from these two essentially contradictory concepts. standing in the centre of the ensuing maelstrom is none other than the dark one himself. the idea of a devil does not appear in the old testament. rather, we find ha-satan, the opposer. yet this title was a common term for an opponent of any

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of indulgence. i knew then that the christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scourged by any white-light religion" though lavey did not realize it then, he was on his way toward formulating a religion that would serve as the antithesis of christianity and its judaic heritage. it was an old religion, older than christianity or judaism. but it had never been formalized, arranged into a body of thought and ritual. that was to become lavey's role in twentieth-century civilization. after lavey became a married man himself in 1951, at age twenty-one, he abandoned the wondrous world of the carnival to settle into a career better suited for homemaking. he had been enrolled as a criminology major at the city college of san fran

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eference library. the set also includes a twovolume set of biographies and one volume of primary source documents: world religions: biographies (two volumes) presents the biographies of fifty men and women who have played a critical role in the world s religions throughout history. among those profiled are abraham, whose influence is seen in three of the modern world s most influential religions: judaism, christianity, and islam; muhammad, considered the final and most important prophet by muslims; and siddhartha gautama, who became known as the buddha. modern figures include the hindu teacher swami vivekananda and baha u lla h, the founder of the baha faith. women who made significant impacts on religion are also featured, including mother maria skobtsova, an orthodox christian nun who wo

roughout europe, particularly the british isles, and is the source of many modern neo-pagan movements. world religions: almanac xvii words to know church: from the greek, this word refers to the community of all christians. it is also the place where christians go to worship. consciousness: the condition of being aware of one s thoughts, feelings, and existence. conservative: a movement in modern judaism that tries to strike a balance between orthodox and reform judaism. conversion: a change in which a person adopts a new set of religious beliefs. coven: a group of neo-pagans, such as wiccans. alternately referred to as circles, groves, kindreds, garths, hearths, and other terms. covenant: in religion, a covenant refers to an agreement between god or a messenger of god and his followers. c

religions: almanac xxiii words to know metempsychosis: transmigration of souls, or the migration of the soul into a different form, animal, or object after death. mezuzah: a small case containing torah passages that observant jews attach to the doorposts of their houses. midrashim: stories that expand on incidents in the hebrew bible. mishnah: the written text of the talmud. mitzvoth: the laws of judaism contained in the torah. moksha: salvation; liberation from rebirth. monastery: a place where religious people such as monks live, away from the world and following strict religious guidelines. monotheism: belief in one supreme being. morality: following the rules of right behavior and conduct. moshiach: the expected messiah in jewish belief. muezzin: the person who issues the call to praye

for purposes of meditation. oral torah: interpretations of the torah and ways to apply their laws. orders: religious communities. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. orishas: name given to the lesser gods of santer a. orthodox: the name of one of the sects of judaism, generally referring to traditional jews who are conservative in their outlook. oshogatsu: the shinto new year. ostara: neo-pagan holiday held at the time of the spring equinox. pagan: pre-christian or non-christian; also referring to those who worship many gods. pantheon: the class or collection of all gods and goddesses in a system of belief. parshva: the twenty-third tirthankara, who li

a stone tomb constructed to house a deceased pharaoh of egypt. qi: the breath of life or vital energy that flows through the body and the earth. qur an: the sacred scriptures of islam; contains the revelations given to the prophet muhammad revealed to him beginning in 610. ra kah: a unit of prayer. rationalism: belief that knowledge can come exclusively from the mind. reform: one of the sects of judaism, generally used to refer to the less traditional branch of the faith. regla de ocha: the formal name for the santer an religion. rehit maryada: the sikh code of ethical conduct. religious daoism: a form of daoism that recognizes gods, ancestor spirits, and life after death. ren: empathy, the ability to feel for and sympathize with others; the highest confucian ideal. resurrection: the risi

eas the following research and activity ideas are intended to offer suggestions for complementing social studies and history curricula; to trigger additional ideas for enhancing learning; and to provide cross-disciplinary projects for library and classroom use. build a model: build a scale model of the city of jerusalem that shows some of the major sites in three of the world s biggest religions: judaism, christianity, and islam. the map should include the western wall (also called the wailing wall, important to jews; the church of the holy sepulchre, important to christians; and the al-aqsa mosque, important to muslims. be prepared to explain to your classmates the importance of each site and the date on which it was constructed. maps: india is the birthplace of several major religions, i

provide ten rules that followers of both the jewish and christian faiths are told to follow. a role similar to that of jesus is taken by muhammad (c. 570 632) in islam. muhammad is considered the true prophet and messenger of god to whom the angel jabra il (gabriel) communicated god s will. baha u lla h (1817 1892) was the messenger for the baha faith, as was moses (c. thirteenth century bce) for judaism. even in natural religions, which grow out of human questions about the universe and the way it works rather than divine messages, the truths that are found and developed are considered universal and eternally present. these include philosophy- like religions such as buddhism, developed by the buddha (siddartha gautama [563 483 bce. in the faith-based theory, humanity discovers a spiritual

canaan, sumeria, egypt and other african countries, india, native north america, western europe, and australia. these fertility-worshipping religions slowly gave way to more male-oriented belief systems. in europe, invasions from the east in the fourth and third millennia bce by warrior tribes from central asia introduced religions based on patriarchal beliefs. with the development and spread of judaism, christianity, and islam, the earlier pagan religions and their goddess worship were replaced with religions dominated by males. nevertheless, at the time of jesus s birth, the worship of goddesses such as demeter, artemis, aphrodite, and cybele (also known as the great mother) was widespread throughout italy, greece, and the middle east. some historians of religion believe that the great

n egypt and in the fertile crescent of mesopotamia. an ancient form of hinduism also emerged about the same time in what is now known as india. egyptian and mesopotamian religions were polytheistic, meaning they recognized more than one god (hinduism has many deities as well, but they are all understood as different aspects of one supreme being) both egyptian and mesopotamian religions influenced judaism, which was one of the first monotheistic( having one god) religions. judaism stretches back as far as 2000 bce. in asia, buddhism, confucianism, and daoism rose to prominence beginning in about the sixth century bce. all three are philosophies that do not worship a god. they are pantheistic, meaning they see all the universe or enlightenment as godlike. in the west, greek and roman religio

inence beginning in about the sixth century bce. all three are philosophies that do not worship a god. they are pantheistic, meaning they see all the universe or enlightenment as godlike. in the west, greek and roman religions, with enormous numbers of gods and goddesses, were dominant until christianity replaced them in about the fourth century ce. islam, closely related to both christianity and judaism, is one of the most recent major organized religions. it began in the seventh century ce. it has spread rapidly and widely from its arabian base to include 1.3 billion believers around the globe, making it the world s second-largest religion in the early twenty-first century. some scholars list ten to fifteen major religions. these include the five largest religions of christianity, judais

pagan (pre-christian) gods. god has many names as different religions developed over time and geographic regions, they all established one or more gods that the faithful could call upon and worship. the names of these gods differed across religions, although many shared similar characteristics. this is true in the monotheistic faiths that consider abraham as a founder of their religion. these are judaism, christianity, and islam. the jewish name for god is yahweh, or yhwh. another common variation on the name is jehovah. christianity refers to god as the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this refers to the christian trinity, in which god is believed to exist as himself, within jesus christ, the son of god, and as a purely physical representation in the holy spirit. islam refers to god

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0 to hammarskjold on april 24, 1957, as first payment on $25,000 needed to remodel and enlarge the room.8 the movement has issued "u.n. meditation room identification cards [to] 300 men and women who go periodically to this room for prayer (see un room, by this group. i it once issued prayer cards to visitors containing prayers from the "world's great living religions" namely, hinduism, buddhism. judaism, islamism, sikhism, christianity and st. francis of assisi. the friends held vigils of prayer in the room in 1953 and 1954. back in 1946 the movement had sent dr. frank laubach, union theological seminary graduate and author of "letters of a modern mystic" to the paris peace conference to lobby for the establishment of the meditation room- 1 1- speakers for the movement's meetings have inc

d altar first used in the u.n. meditation room, and the cherry wood chairs and drapes from that room, presented to the friends by the u.n. in 1957 (lbid, november-december 1961. the house also contains a large library centered around the thomas sugrue memorial library, a sixteen hundred dollar collection of books on religion and occultism. where one may read up on spiritualism, zen, taoism, yoga, judaism, etc. every book in the library has a bookplate therein designed by the artist, fritz eichenberg. his bookplate "depicts the ancient cross in the shape of a t, surrounded by a serpent symbolizing wisdom and healing, and forming the letter s. the- 12- t and s, thomas sugrue's initials, are crowned by the lotus, vedantic representation of all being. in the background lies the city of jerusal

z eichenberg. his bookplate "depicts the ancient cross in the shape of a t, surrounded by a serpent symbolizing wisdom and healing, and forming the letter s. the- 12- t and s, thomas sugrue's initials, are crowned by the lotus, vedantic representation of all being. in the background lies the city of jerusalem over which shine two stars, the star of the east of christianity and six-pointed star of judaism. a flame spreads an arc of light above, proclaiming the continuity of life and the immortality of the soul (ibid, march-april 1960, pp. 6-7) m. oldfield howey tells us in the encircled serpent (david mackay co, philadelphia, pa, 192, p. 84, that in the symbolism of egypt the "serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cross. the brazen serpent. was a palladium or talisman in [he fo

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ried to limit the influence of the mysteries to later phases, to the fourth century and after, when the church took over the pagan establishment. looking back on another classic study, samuel angus mystery religions and christianity, theodore gaster protested that many of the things claimed to have come from the mysteries might really xviii christianity as mystical fact have been transmitted from judaism. the situation has only really been clarified by the notable discoveries of new texts in 1945 and 1947. the gnostic texts from nag hammadi showed that christianity had been involved with mysteries at a much earlier stage, leading to the complex situation of the second-century crisis. the dead sea scrolls from qumran showed that the judaism of the type that influenced christianity was itsel

human development, existing in different religious settings. he knew that the connection must therefore have been there. historical research, he once said, will one day vindicate completely the evidence drawn from purely spiritual sources, which forms the basis of my christianity as mystical fact. 7 in the meantime he appealed to evidences where he found them for instance, in the mystery-oriented judaism of philo of alexandria or, in the absence of documents relating to the greek mysteries, in the reflection of mystery processes in the pre-socratics and plato (again i have tried in the footnotes to refer to discoveries that now prove his case) part of the roundaboutness of the book is thus explained; but he also clearly wanted to establish a larger perspective than the shortsighted histori

coming of the kingdom of god. 101 the unique one had brought this kingdom to all people who made a connection with him. the separate concern of each individual gave way to a shared concern of all those who were prepared to acknowledge jesus as their lord. to understand how this could be so, we need to see how mysteriosophy had found its way into the national religion of israel. for it was out of judaism that christianity arose. 106 christianity as mystical fact the mysteries and the jews it need cause no astonishment that with christianity we should find grafted onto the stock of judaism those ideas from the mysteries that, as we have seen, were the common heritage of greek and of egyptian spiritual life. in the religions of the several peoples, conceptions of the spiritual assumed variou

-picture. it was said of pythagoras that he had traveled to egypt and india and was instructed by the wise men there. at the period of christian origins we know of people who found so much agreement between platonic doctrines and the deeper meaning of the books of moses, that they called plato a moses speaking the language of athens. 102 mysteriosophy was a universal phenomenon. what it drew from judaism was a form which it had to take in order to become an actual world-religion. judaism expected the coming of a messiah. no wonder that the figure of the uniquely initiated one could only be identified by the jews with their messiah. and this connection helps explain the shift from concern with individual initiation in the mysteries to a concern for the whole people. judaism had been from th

hich the jewish people defined its identity. its yahweh was the people s god. the birth of his son the evidence of the gospels 107 must mean the redemption of the whole people. there was no question of an individual initiate being saved; salvation must be brought to the entire people. it belongs to the basic idea of jewish religion that one dies on behalf of all. the existence of mysteries within judaism, which could be brought out of the obscurity of secret rites into the religion of the people, is also certain. a fully developed mysticism existed in pharisaism, alongside the priestly wisdom that had there become outer formalism. a mystery- wisdom is described here, just as it is elsewhere.103 it is said that an initiate discoursed on wisdom, and his hearers realized the hidden sense of h

descend into the depths? an immeasurable abyss opens before you!104 this comes from the kabbala (mystical tradition. we also hear of the four rabbis who sought the way to the divine realm (paradise. the first died, the second went mad, the third caused great destruction; only the fourth, rabbi akiba, entered in peace and returned.105 jesus and the preaching of the kingdom thus we see that within judaism there was a foundation for the emergence of a uniquely initiated figure. it was 108 christianity as mystical fact only necessary for such a one to say that salvation should not be limited to a few elect individuals, that all the people should share in the redemption. someone had then to spread through the world what had formerly been the experience of the chosen ones in the temples of the

has pointed out in his life of jesus, the raising of lazarus was undoubtedly an event of decisive significance influencing the end of the life of jesus. at the same time, renan s own standpoint seems untenable. for why should the idea that jesus had raised someone from the dead, when it circulated among the populace, have appeared so dangerous to his opponents as to threaten the very existence of judaism? it is all very well for renan to assert: the other miracles of jesus were passing events, repeated in good faith and exaggerated by popular report, and they were thought of no more after they had happened. but this one was a real event, publicly known, and by means of which it was sought to silence the pharisees. all the enemies of jesus were exasperated by the sensation it caused. it is

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r transformation .long associated in medieval and renaissance art with the coming of the messiah who shall make all things new. jim tresner, 33 scottish rite journal the illuminist/masonic meaning of the x is simply this: it is the sign of osiris, the great (egyptian) sun god. texe marrs dark majesty t h e sign, or letter, x, has a long history of use in the ancient mystery religions, in apostate judaism, in freemasonry, and in the occult. the illuminati elite use it to this day to symbolize key phenomena and mark significant events. the mysterious letter x seems to take on a wide and varied life of its own, with or without the secret aid of the elite sponsorship. mark euston, of the christian intelligence resource network, in a letter to the author, detailed some of the many examples of t

s united sexually with the father" in effect, to cabalists she is the feminine form of "god."7 just as masons decry the equality of ordinary women, even denying women the opportunity to become a mason in most orders, so do orthodox jews who practice cabalism openly proscribe and limit women's rights. yet, we see that deeply hidden and imbedded in their secret doctrine, both masonry and cabalistic judaism revere and honor the great goddess, just as does roman catholicism in the form of mother mary. it may surprise male chauvinists, but the goddess, the consort of lucifer, the woman figure whose sign is the downward pointing triangle, reigns side-by-side with jahbuhlun (satan) over the llluminati and its minions. 330 codex magica so many priests are now outed as homosexuals and pedophiles, t

as we move forward through the first decade of the 21st century, the latest cure-all spiritual phenomenon seems to be the jewish cabala (or kabbalah. the cabala is not new, of course. it's been around for centuries. the cabala is actually ancient magic. it is an exotic blend of devilish, sometimes fanciful, new age mystical practices topped by a philosophical bent of jewish supremacism. orthodox judaism, or phariseeism, is rife with cabalism, and jewish rabbis are the cabala's greatest promoters. 420 codex magica celebrities and cabala the recent explosion in mainstream interest in cabalism is boosted by the many bigname celebrities who have recently been hawking cabalism as the miraculous answer to all of man's problems. an undercover bbc reporter who infiltrated a london cabala group wi

among the most notorious of cabalists are the tv comedy stars of the once #1- rated "the jerry seinfeld show" the producer of the seinfeld show was larry david, a jew, all four of the cast were jews, and cabalistic hand signs, occult language, and magic rituals were covertly planted in many episodes. republican party spokesman and former speaker of the house newt gingrich, shown here wearing his judaism skull cap, is into new age cabalistic magic and is a paid spokesman for zionist interests. magical signs of the jewish cabala 421 jason alexander, who played the loveable loser "george costanza" on the show, posed for tv guide magazine in a blatantly cabalistic body pose. plus, his left and right hands gave the "el diablo" horned devil sign in an "as above, so below" gesture. michael richa

emason.3 star trek's leonard nimoy("mr. spock) is constantly sighted in cabalistic poses. his famous vulcan hand sign on the tv series was actually the hebrew letter, shin.4 its display is part and parcel of jewish religion. so every time viewers observed mr. spock (nimoy) giving the sign, they were unknowingly being made a participant in a cabalistic occult ritual. sodom, egypt, and 21st century judaism in one of the most controversial of all the many video documentaries i have produced, cauldron of abbadon, i stated "from jerusalem and israel flow a torrent of satanic evil and mischief endangering the whole world "5 zionist jews and their cohorts in the christian zionist community were angered over what i said, but they had no response to the mountain of facts presented in the video prov

included urinating on a cross and homosexual sodomy. magical signs of the jewish cab a la 423 freemasonry is jewish in 1855, the renowned rabbi isaac wise wrote "freemasonry is a jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are jewish from beginning to end."10 the jewish tribune newspaper, in 1927, in an editorial, stated "freemasonry is based on judaism. eliminate the teachings of judaism from the masonic ritual and what is left?"11 ray novosel, writing from australia in 2004, states: zionist world leaders, men in influential positions with the various masonic organizations everywhere, have worked "hand in glove" for a universal world revolution, which will bring in the one world church and a one world government. many masonic lodges are

re, have worked "hand in glove" for a universal world revolution, which will bring in the one world church and a one world government. many masonic lodges are exclusively jewish, as are the controlling 424 codex magica b'nai b'rith lodges the mother of the infamous and very dangerous anti defamation league (adl).12 masonry's jewish roots a popular pro-freemasonry web site, in an article entitled "judaism and freemasonry" comments: jews were actively involved in the beginnings of freemasonry in america. there is evidence they were among those who established masonry in seven of the original thirteen states..a jewish mason, moses m. hays, helped introduce the scottish rite in america..jews, including rabbis, continued to be involved in the masonic movement in the united states throughout our

on the jewish cabala: the cabala contains such power and demonic teaching, it is more than enough to give the ideology and driving force needed to lead the world astray and to keep such an evil conspiracy alive through the centuries..the cabala is a teaching source of the freemasons as well as for other groups. john torrell, publisher the dove kabbalah: the sacred books of black magic of orthodox judaism which form a large part of the basis of the western secret societies, from rosicrucianism to freemasonry and the oto. kabbalism is itself derived from the sorcery of ancient babylon and..pharaohic egypt. craig heimbichner blood on the altar kabbalism is a system of jewish mysticism and magic and is the foundational element in modern witchcraft. virtually all of the great witches and sorcer

ew cabala is a series of occultic writings that are as demonic as any incantation ever uttered in witchcraft. webster's dictionary tells us the cabala (sometimes spelled kabbala) is "an occult religious philosophy developed by certain jewish rabbis" james lloyd the apocalypse chronicles (vol. vii, no. 1, 2005) 426 codex magica sorcery is commonplace in the depraved religious rituals of cabalistic judaism. here a rabbi is seen carrying a chicken off to be sacrificed in a voodoo/ santeria-type ritual during the jewish festival of yom kippur (israel, a photobiography, by micha bar-am, new york: simon& schuster, 1998) twisted satanic rituals and lies the rabbinical doctrines and teachings of cabalism are based on a curious blending and mosaic of astrology, numerology, graphology, color magic

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h thought and effort to their eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. the part of the human being that survives death is known in judaism, christianity, and islam as the soul the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine self, the atman, and buddhism believes it to be the summation of conditions and causes. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personalit

question of all: do humans survive physical death? and if so, are they born again? the mystery of what lies on the other side of death has given birth to humankind s magic, mysticisms, religions, and all the diverse creatures of light and darkness that populate the mysterious regions in between. 1 chapter exploration how the major religions view the afterlife buddhism christianity hinduism islam judaism ancient egypt and the afterlife egyptian book of the dead osiris: death and resurrection pyramid texts individual human experience with death and the afterlife deathbed visions near-death experiences the mystery schools dionysian mysteries eleusinian mysteries hermetic mysteries orphic mysteries pythagorus tribal religions burial mounds land of the grandparents how the major religions view

k of the dead osiris: death and resurrection pyramid texts individual human experience with death and the afterlife deathbed visions near-death experiences the mystery schools dionysian mysteries eleusinian mysteries hermetic mysteries orphic mysteries pythagorus tribal religions burial mounds land of the grandparents how the major religions view reincarnation buddhism christianity hinduism islam judaism contemporary mystery schools and reincarnation akashic records anthroposophy association for research and enlightenment theosophy experiential quests into past lives hypnotic regression into past lives bridey murphy past-life therapy ian stevenson introduction children take the continuity of life for granted. it is the fact of death that has to be taught. self-preservation is one of humank

at these prehistoric people believed that death was not the end. the member of the tribe or clan who was no longer among the living still required nourishment, clothing, and protection to journey safely in another kind of existence beyond the grave. somehow, there was some part of the person that survived death. that part of the human being that survives death is known in christianity, islam, and judaism as the soul, the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine part of a living being, the atman, which is eternal and seeks to be united with the universal soul, or the brahman. buddhism teaches that an individual is but a transient combination of t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f

he human personality in the same way that the others do. however, all the major faiths believe that after the spirit has left the body, it moves on to another existence. some faiths contend that it ascends to a paradise or descends into a hell. others believe it may achieve a rebirth into another physical body, or may merge with the divine in an eternal unity. traditional christianity, islam, and judaism envision a resurrection of a spiritual body at a time of final judgment, but generally speaking, the soul is of greater value and purpose than the physical body it inhabited while on earth. the material shell within which humans dwell during their lifetime is nothing other than clay or ashes into which god has breathed the breath of life. the physical body is a temporary possession that a

it of the deceased by relatives and friends. in the buddhist tradition, yama is the lord of hell who administers punishment according to each individual s karma, the cause and effect of his or her actions on earth. in neither religious expression is yama at all comparable to satan, who in christian belief is both the creator of evil and the accuser of human weaknesses. in christianity, islam, and judaism, the soul s arrival at either heaven or hell is made somewhat confusing by the teachings of a great, final judgment day and the resurrection of the dead. and when roman catholic christianity added the doctrine of purgatory in the sixteenth century, the matter became all the more complex because now certain souls were given an opportunity to atone for their sins while residing in a kind of

l. new york: macmillan, 1989. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. christianity the core of the christian faith is the belief in the resurrection of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) after his death on the cross and the promise of life everlasting to all who accept his divinity and believe in him. because christianity rose out of judaism, the teachings of jesus as recorded in the gospels reflect many of the jewish beliefs of the soul and the afterlife, primarily that a reunion of body and soul will be accomplished in the next world. the accounts of the appearance of jesus to his apostles after his resurrection show how completely they believed that they beheld him in the flesh, even to the extreme of the skeptical thomas p

the book of the month club, 1992. crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper collins, 1989. larousse dictionary of beliefs and religions. new york: larousse, 1994. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan, 1989. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. judaism then the lord god formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (genesis 2:7. in the second chapter of genesis, yahweh, the god of israel, shapes the form of adam from the clay, then breathes into him the breath of life, so that adam becomes nephesh, or a living soul. interestingly, yahweh also bestows the breath

upon them rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked. such a resurrection was viewed as a restoration of persons who would possess both physical bodies and spirits, thus reinforcing the traditional philosophy that to be a living person was to be a psycho-physical unit, not an eternal soul temporarily inhabiting a mortal body. more often, however, the references to a judgment of the dead in judaism recall the scene in the seventh chapter of the book of daniel in which the ancient of days opens the books of life and passes judgment on the kingdoms of the earth, rather than on individuals. according to some circles of jewish thought, the actual day of judgment, yom hadin, the resurrection of the dead, will occur when the messiah comes. on that fateful day, both israel and the gentile n

n approved doctrine in any of the orthodox christian, islamic, or judaic religions, which all hold fast to the belief that there is but one lifetime, one day of judgment, and a heavenly resurrection of the body for the righteous. reincarnation, the great wheel of return set in motion by one s karma, is accepted as a reality in the hindu and buddhist religions, as well as certain mystical sects in judaism and islam. in the early days of christianity, however, even the church s greatest leaders, such as st. clement of alexandria (150 215 c.e) in his exhortations to the pagans, stated their beliefs in the soul s preexistence: we were in being long before the foundation of the world. we existed in the eye of god, for it is our destiny to live in him. we are the reasonable creatures of the divi

the qur an, the holy book received by the prophet muhammed, doesn t really address the concept of past lives and rebirth, sufism, a mystical sect of islam, accepts transmigration of souls as a reality. in the words of the sufi teacher sharf-u d din-maneri: o brother, know for certain that this work has been before thee and me in byone ages. no one has begun this work for the first time. orthodox judaism also rejects reincarnation as doctrine, but the hasidic sect and those who follow the teachings of the kabbalah, a collection of mystical texts first published in 1280, accept the belief in the transmigration of souls as a firm and infallible doctrine. rabbi manasseh ben israel (1604 1657, the revered theologian and english statesman, said that reincarnation was a fundamental point of thei

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h thought and effort to their eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. the part of the human being that survives death is known in judaism, christianity, and islam as the soul the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine self, the atman, and buddhism believes it to be the summation of conditions and causes. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personalit

est they could within their own family structures, but they were too vitally concerned with the daily task of survival to develop the art of hospitality. however, as the major world religions developed into powerful forces that shaped human society, hospitality and charity became virtues. in order to establish a more complete relationship with the divine, according to the prophets and teachers of judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, taoism, and other faiths, it is important to recognize all people as brothers and sisters and to minister to their needs when the opportunity to do so presents itself. the forty hadith of an-nawawi 15 (islam) admonishes those who believe in allah and in the last day to be generous to their neighbors and to their guests. in the apastamba dharma sutra 8.2 (hin

ionally, the cremation takes place outdoors and the ashes are collected and scattered in the waters of a holy river, such as the ganges. in other countries, hindu dead are taken to a crematorium. followers of the hindu religion believe that the soul, the atman of each individual, is reborn many times in a cycle of spiritual evolution before it can become one with god. those who follow the path of judaism bury their dead in a plain coffin after the body has been washed and dressed. if possible, the funeral takes place on the day after the death has occurred. the coffin containing the deceased is taken first to the synagogue and then to the place of burial. mourners often cut a portion of their outer clothes as a sign of grief; but no flowers are allowed, for it is tradition that the service

om the hebrew paroh and egyptian pr-o, meaning great house. predator any organism or animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals. can refer to a ruthless person who is extremely aggressive in harming another. from the latin praedator and praedari, meaning to seize as plunder. sabbath a day set apart as one of religious worship and rest from work observed on sunday for christians, saturday in judaism and some christian denominations. from the greek sabbaton, via the latin sabbatum, and hebrew sabba, meaning rest. spittle something that looks like or is saliva, which is secreted from the mouth. superstition the belief that certain actions and rituals have a magical effect resulting in either good or bad. from the latin stem superstition, and superstes, meaning standing over or in awe. t

een two rivers. an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world s earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the scientific system or study of measurements. from the greek metrologie, meaning theory of ratios and metron, or measure. mortician an undertaker or one who prepares dead bodi

lemn, religious or ceremonial meaning, such as the rite of baptism. sabbath from the greek sabbaton, and the hebrew sabba, both meaning to rest. a t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d glossary 311 g l o s s a r y day of rest from work and for religious worship. in christianity, sunday is the observed day of worship while saturday is observed in judaism and some christian denominations. sanskrit sanskrit is an ancient indo-european language and the language of traditional hinduism in india. spoken between the fourteenth and fifth centuries b.c.e, it has been considered and maintained as a priestly and literary language of the sacred veda scriptures and other classical texts. santeria from spanish santeria meaning holiness. a religion whic

he tongan tabu, said to have been introduced into the english language by captain james cook in the late eighteenth century. talisman an object such as a gemstone or stone, believed to have magical powers or properties. from the greek telesma, meaning something consecrated, telein, to complete, and telos, result. tanakh from the hebrew tenak, an acronym formed from torah. it is the sacred book of judaism, consisting of the torah the five books of moses, the nevi im the words of the prophets, and the kethuvim the writings. telepathy communication of thoughts, mental images, ideas, feelings, or sensations from one person s mind to another s without the use of speech, writing, signs, or symbols. theory of evolution the biological theory of the complex process of living organisms, how they cha

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h thought and effort to their eternal wellbeing, and they were not the only early civilization to be concerned about an afterlife. with all their diversity of beliefs, the major religions of today are in accord in one essential teaching: human beings are immortal and their spirit comes from a divine world and may eventually return there. the part of the human being that survives death is known in judaism, christianity, and islam as the soul.the very essence of the individual person that must answer for its earthly deeds, good or bad. hinduism perceives this spiritual essence as the divine self, the atman, and buddhism believes it to be the summation of conditions and causes. of the major world religions, only buddhism does not perceive an eternal metaphysical aspect of the human personalit

of deities and the god who conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld kingdom of hades. the egyptians identified hermes trismegistus with thoth, who, in their pantheon of gods, was the divine inventor of writing and the spoken word. these same greek colonists developed an interest in the old egyptian religion, then went on to combine elements of their hellenistic beliefs, add fragments of judaism and other eastern belief constructs, and set about creating a synthesis of the various theologies. a vast number of unknown authors worked at the great task of composing a series of esoteric writings, all of which were attributed to the mythical figure of thoth- hermes. eventually, thoth-hermes became humanized into a legendary king, who supposedly wrote the amazing total of 36,525 volumes

f evangelical christian clergy of linking the ancient craft of the wise with devil worship. oberon zell once observed that practitioners of the old religion/wicca/neo-paganism often find themselves in the awkward position of having a public image that was not created by them, but by their persecutors. in zell fs thought, such an injustice would be much as if the nazis had succeeded in eradicating judaism to the extent that, generations later, the common opinion of what the jewish faith was all about was derived solely from the anti- semitic propaganda of the third reich.just as the opinion of what wicca is all about has been largely derived from the tortured testimonies of those who were put on trial for witchcraft by the inquisition. zell fs analogy makes the point that today fs wiccans m

to assure sales to those interested in such ancient magical texts. modern scholars concede that while the zohar splendidly depicts the spiritual reality that lies behind everyday experience in the material world, there are many passages that betray the influence of spanish culture of the thirteenth century and were likely written at that time by de leon. the influence of the kabbalah on mystical judaism, as well the european alchemists, scholars, and philosophers of the middle ages, was powerful and all pervasive, and the text remained a source of strength and inspiration to seekers of enlightenment for many centuries. as the influence of the christian church grew stronger throughout all of europe, the kabbalah and those who taught its mysteries retreated into the shadows of universities

ker usually follows a ritual in order to infuse the talisman with a certain power. for example, a talisman crafted for a particular individual might be made of a metal corresponding to the qualities associated with a person fs astrological sign. the metal would have to be melted and forged during a positive astrological cycle. just as powerful in stirring the imagination are items associated with judaism and christianity that were lost in ancient times and were claimed to be recovered later. no physical evidence is available to determine that such objects ever existed, but they continue to be pursued. sometimes, distinctions between what is real or imagined become blurred. the holy grail is never mentioned in the bible, for example, but by medieval times it was popularized as gthe holiest

ns, 1993. bernard, raymond. the hollow earth. mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1963. gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline books, 1993. michell, john. eccentric lives and peculiar notions. san diego, calif: harcourt brace jovanovich, 1984. jerusalem jerusalem stands in the middle of the nation of israel, a holy city to three of the world fs great religions.judaism, christianity, and islam. before muslims underwent pilgrimages to mecca, the most venerated holy place in all of islam was the dome of the rock, a magnificent mosque built over the sacred rock where abraham prepared to sacrifice his son isaac to the lord and where the prophet muhammad (c. 570.632) is believed to have ascended to paradise. for the jews, jerusalem is the site of king david f

ham had taken isaac to be sacrificed, the place that had held the ark of the covenant in solomon fs temple, and the spot where muhammad had ascended to paradise, lay exposed to the elements. after the area had t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 244 places of mystery and power jerusalem is the holy city to three of the world fs great religions.judaism, christianity, and islam. been purified by prayers and a rainfall, the caliph ordered the dome of the rock to be built to shelter the sacred rock. the shrine with its massive dome gilded with gold mosaics was completed in 691. the golden dome collapsed in 1016, but it was soon rebuilt. in 1099, christian crusaders massacred the muslim inhabitants of jerusalem and converted the dome of the

two rivers. h an ancient region that was located between the tigris and euphrates rivers in what is today, modern iraq and syria. some of the world fs earliest and greatest ancient civilizations such as ur, sumer, assyria, and babylonia were developed in that region. messiah a leader who is regarded as a liberator or savior. in christianity, the messiah is jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e..c. 30 c.e, in judaism, it is the king who will lead the jews back to the holy land of israel and establish world peace. metaphysical relating to abstract thought or the philosophical study of the nature of existence and truth. metrology the scientific system or study of measurements. from the greek metrologie, meaning theory of ratios and metron, or measure. mortician an undertaker or one who prepares dead bodi

n, religious or ceremonial meaning, such as the rite of baptism. sabbath from the greek sabbaton, and the hebrew sabba, both meaning gto rest. h a t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d glossary 289 g l o s s a r y day of rest from work and for religious worship. in christianity, sunday is the observed day of worship while saturday is observed in judaism and some christian denominations. sanskrit sanskrit is an ancient indo-european language and the language of traditional hinduism in india. spoken between the fourteenth and fifth centuries b.c.e, it has been considered and maintained as a priestly and literary language of the sacred veda scriptures and other classical texts. santeria from spanish santeria meaning gholiness. h a religion w

he tongan tabu, said to have been introduced into the english language by captain james cook in the late eighteenth century. talisman an object such as a gemstone or stone, believed to have magical powers or properties. from the greek telesma, meaning something consecrated, telein, to complete, and telos, result. tanakh from the hebrew tenak, an acronym formed from torah. it is the sacred book of judaism, consisting of the torah.the five books of moses, the nevi fim.the words of the prophets, and the kethuvim.the writings. telepathy communication of thoughts, mental images, ideas, feelings, or sensations from one person fs mind to another fs without the use of speech, writing, signs, or symbols. theory of evolution the biological theory of the complex process of living organisms, how they

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ituals of the sapphire temple appendix one names of the sephiroth appendix two the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram chapter notes bibliography index chapter one; the tree of sapphires voices of the word, leaves of the light the kabbalah (a hebrew word meaning "handed down, or "oral tradition) is the term used to denote a general set of esoteric or mystical teachings originally held within judaism, but later promulgated to a wider audience in the 12th century onwards through centres of learning such as spain. it consists of a body of teachings and analysis dealing with the nature of the universe, the aspects of divinity, and the method of creation. from this set of teachings is derived the role of man in the revealed scheme of things. the history of the kabbalah is difficult to fix

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clergymen was one of sexual orgies and "perversions, and the handbook of the inquisitors, the malleus maleficarum- which has been responsible for the deaths of many more people than even hitler's mein kampf- is full of detailed sexual imagery and reveals the nature of the souls of the monks who wrote it, rather than of the innocents it was used to massacre. eventually, satanism, protestantism and judaism were inextricably woven together to form a patchwork quilt of evil that the church attempted to destroy during the middle ages, with fire and sword. as a matter of fact, a certain type of devil worship did exist during those times but, ironically, the acolytes of hell were usually never brought to trial; something which stems from the fact that many of those who celebrated and attended the

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past. keep the ball rolling. i am myself at last! to bring about quiet, say: hush like a whisper the wind through the trees softer and softer a summer s breeze eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.izof 273 part one: the beginning 6 of 273 chapter 1.1- the great illusion thou shalt have no other gods before me. thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness (exodus 20, 3. judaism forbids idolatry and any kind of fetishism. this prohibition hides behind it the most fundamental principle in judaism, which states that everything we see is only a figment of our imagination. over the years, this principle has been consciously and sometimes unconsciously adopted by many of us after realizing that the ability to change our perspective might serve as a good tool in coping

nd any articles that were ready for print, because he did not want to publish his articles after his father, his great teacher. however, time passes and the demand for kabbalistic texts change. today s students can no longer absorb the material the way it was presented to us. we can say that rabash was the last of the great kabbalists of the past. he contained within him the entire former life of judaism. his knowledge of the history of judaism and the great rabbis of the last generations was very impressive, and he would tell their stories as though they were a part of his own life. we can clearly see from his stories that in the beginning of the 20th century there was a spiritual decline that reached so low that the gates to the spiritual world began to close, and a time of spiritual dar

his is the reason for the important need to clearly distinguish between kabbalah and religion. every religion relies on a certain prophet, a person who was connected with spirituality and circulated his knowledge among people. this argument is at the basis of every religion, meaning that everything begins with the sublime truth, the revelation of the creator before the prophet, the founder, be it judaism or any other religion. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method to attain the creator that is available for all. it allows any person to come by himself without any mediators, to a spiritual contact with the creator. people, who have attained spiritual attainment, described the way they went through step by step so that one might follow them and reach these attainments by himself. one s spiritua

themselves through it. any one who marches on the right path should help those along the way and prevent them from taking dead-end roads by circulating books of real value, audio and video files and cassettes. however, one should be referred to kabbalah only to the extent that he is actually interested. whatever you do, do not force or compel any person, because people must first be ripe for it. judaism q: what kind of connection exists between kabbalah and the role of the jews in realizing the goal you spoke of? a: there is a pyramid-like division in this world: still, vegetative, animate and speaking. the same division exists in our souls as well. the jews are considered to be the chosen people because they were given the opportunity to reach spirituality before the other nations. it is

eatures attain the same spiritual degree as the creator and become his partners. other religions q: are there parallels to the wisdom of kabbalah in other religions? a: there is no parallel to the wisdom of kabbalah in other religions because the wisdom of kabbalah is simply not a religion, but a science. it is not related in any way to religions, faiths, and clairvoyance of any kind, not even to judaism. any believing jew, when asked if he is proficient in kabbalah would reply that he is not, and sees no need to be. and he is right. one does not need the wisdom of kabbalah for the purpose of performing religious commandments. besides, the study of kabbalah increases one s egoism; they increase one s desire for knowledge, and rely on self-discovery and understanding of the spiritual world

her. without a teacher it is impossible to understand anything, although the material itself is already processed sufficiently. if the creator turns to you, you feel it as that unique property called abraham. that inner voice that you feel addresses you is called the creator. the effort to understand it, the voices and indeed yourself, that is what the torah aspires for, nothing more. part seven: judaism part one: the beginning..error! bookmark not defined. chapter 1.1- the great illusion. the internal desire in the study of kabbalah..error! bookmark not defined. chapter 1.2 between creator and creature..error! bookmark not defined. chapter 1.3 the evolution of the soul..error! bookmark not defined. 245 of 273 chapter 1.4 the awakening of the point in the heart..error! bookmark not defined

the torah states clearly that, there is none else beside him. this means that there is only one supreme force, namely the creator. everything we perceive as a struggle between opposing forces in nature stems from one guidance, the creator that leads creation. the creator is the sole ruler; he is one, unique and uniform. moreover, the concept that there are other forces contradicts the essence of judaism. the concept that it is not the creator who governs the evil forces is intended to justify ourselves. the torah clearly states the heavy punishments that will befall the chosen people by the creator if they do not follow the path of the torah. catastrophes have happened more than once throughout our history, and every time the creator warned us about it in advance. the talmud speaks of the

politics will change accordingly. q: is humanity headed toward unity? a: of course humanity is ultimately headed toward unity. in the end the whole of mankind will face the general problem that without that unity it will be impossible to lead a peaceful and secure life. q: can writers, poets and composers call their works their own? a: yes of course, it s theirs. q: what is the connection between judaism and the wisdom of kabbalah? a: great kabbalists were always isolated. regrettably, the people did not have a sufficient desire for spirituality and was unable to understand the wisdom of kabbalah. the situation often got so bad that kabbalists were suspended from society and their books torched. q: is a kabbalist obligated to be respectful toward figures that other peoples consider holy? a

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unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing, nothing of pacts with the "devil" or the worship of evil in any of this; that belongs to misguided exchristians who have been given the absurd fundamentalist sunday school notion that one must choose the christian version of god, or choose the devil. islam, judaism and even catholicism have at one time or another been thought "satanic" and occultists have merely played on this bigoted symbolism, not subscribed to it. as we have seen, wicca since gardner's time has been watered down in many of its expressions into a kind of mushy white-light `new age' religion, with far less of the strong sexuality characteristic of gardnerianism, though, also, someti

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protect me" the invocation of the power of the name should be spoken emphatically, but there is no need to shout it out. speak it firmly and clearly, while holding in your mind the nature and identity of the being that possesses the name. symbols of faith religious symbols can make potent charms of protection for those who believe in their efficacy. the cross of christianity, the star of david of judaism, and the lunar crescent of islam are all forceful amulets of defense on the astral level, but only for those who have a firm faith in their power. christians can also form the sign of the cross upon the air with their right hand, to act as a barrier. it should be visualized as floating upon the air, burning brightly with white flames. wiccans and pagans may prefer to employ the pentagram

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eat masters of magic and commanded all the spirits and demons of the world. the last monarch ruled for a thousand years. some scholars believe that these mythical persian kings are unconnected with the biblical solomon but became merged with him due to the similarity of names. however it may have happened, the fables of solomon as a wonderworker have always been much more popular in islam than in judaism or christianity. according to arab and jewish legends, solomon had the power to control the four winds of the world. borne upon the wind, he flew sitting upon his throne across the face of the whole earth each day, then returned each night to jerusalem. the wind was able to accomplish this amazing feat because the throne rested upon an enormous green carpet, which the wind blew under and l

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dian angel, aiwass, appeared to him and dictated the book of the law (liber al vel legis).xviii his most famous work, the book of the law announces the dawn of the third aeon of mankind: the first aeon was that of the goddess isis, centered around matriarchy and the worship of the great mother; the second aeon was that of osiris, during which the patriarchal religions of suffering and death- i.e, judaism and christianity- rose to power. finally, with the revelation of the book of the law, a new aeon of the son, horus, was born "in this aeon the emphasis is on the self or will, not on anything external such as gods and priests."xix the peak of his magical career- and also of his infamy as the wickedest man alive- was in the period after 1920, when he founded his own ideal spiritual communit

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humane reason why i gave you free will? mortal: well now, i once asked this question to an orthodox rabbi. he told me that with the way we are constituted, it is simply not possible for us to enjoy salvation unless we feel we have earned it. and to earn it, we of course need free will. god: that explanation is indeed much nicer than your former but still is far from correct. according to orthodox judaism, i created angels, and they have no free will. they are in actual sight of me and 283 are so completely attracted by goodness that they never have even the slightest temptation towards evil. they really have no choice in the matter. yet they are eternally happy even though they have never earned it. so if your rabbi s explanation were correct, why wouldn t i have simply created only angels

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ho made a special study of the kabalah. only a few talmudic treatises have as yet appeared in the english language, and hardly any kabalistic tracts, except three from the zohar or book of splendour, viz, the siphra dtzenioutha, the idra rabba and the idra suta. many talmudic and kabalistic quotations may, however, be found in j. p. stehelin s rabbinical literature of 1748; in john allen s modern judaism, of 1816, and in works on the kabalah by adolph franck and christian ginsburg, while hershon has published hebraic lore in his talmudic miscellany, and genesis, according to the talmud. 8. the midrash ha zohar of d. h. joel, leipzig, 1849, narrates the relation between the kabalah and platonism, neo-platonism, greek philosophy and the zoroastrian doctrines of the parsees. numbers--th eir o

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

o itself, the externalization of inner time occasioned by the internalization of exterior space.361 54 chapter one linear circularity (a)temporal poetics nature revolves but never advances, eternal that a circle, this a line. edward young encircled line: a mythologic of hebraic time time, like other facets of phenomenal experience, has played a critical role in the history of world religions.1 in judaism specifically, numerous opinions, spanning many centuries, geographical localities, intellectual influences, and literary genres, have been expressed about time. accordingly, i make no attempt here to provide a comprehensive overview of the understanding of time in the variegated history of judaism.2 i do take the liberty, however, of making two observations, the generality of which will fo

xpressed about time. accordingly, i make no attempt here to provide a comprehensive overview of the understanding of time in the variegated history of judaism.2 i do take the liberty, however, of making two observations, the generality of which will foster rather than eschew specific historical analyses. first, it is not viable to depict temporality in opposition to or separate from spatiality in judaism, let alone to privilege the former as the genuine mark of hebrew spirituality.3 practitioners of judaism in its disparate spatio-temporal instantiations beginning in the ancient near eastern milieu within which the oldest parts of the scriptural legacy began to take shape and continuing through the richly diverse second-temple period to the age of formative rabbinic judaism and beyond thro

e p riode est solidaire d un climat, chaque orient li une saison. 7 particularly in the arena of ritualized behavior, one discerns the concomitant spatialization of time and temporalization of space.8 rather than sharply bifurcating the terms paired in the compound time-space, it is more useful to note their convergence with/in varied socio-cultural constellations. second, from the perspective of judaism as a religious phenomenon, the assumed mutual exclusivity of time configured as linear and as circular the arrow and the cycle a crucial dichotomy that has shaped conceptions of temporality in western thought, is in fact false; the two cannot so easily be separated. 9 there has been a tendency based, in the words of jonathan z. smith, on a groundless distinction 10 to correlate linear time

w and the cycle a crucial dichotomy that has shaped conceptions of temporality in western thought, is in fact false; the two cannot so easily be separated. 9 there has been a tendency based, in the words of jonathan z. smith, on a groundless distinction 10 to correlate linear time with the historical and cyclical time with the mythical, and likewise to correlate the former with ancient israel and judaism and the latter with either near eastern or hellenistic models of religious philosophy.11 but underlying the biblical and rabbinic conceptions of time is a convergence of history and myth that endows ritual performance with historical meaning and historical facticity with ritual transcendence. 12 recurrent patterns transpire within the narrative framework of linear succession the timelessne

y those who study it each day as the day it was given from mount sinai.56 leaving aside the redactional issues and the reasonable demand on the part of historically minded text scholars to locate this dictum diachronically on some chronological grid, it is not unwarranted to say that this statement gives voice to a religious belief (for lack of a better term) foundational to the reconstruction of judaism promoted and sanctioned by the palestinian and babylonian sages: study of torah demands that one be able to imagine each day as a recurrence of the sinaitic theophany, a reiteration of the past that induces the novelty of the present. the conception of time as the moment of unique repetition is elucidated further in the theme of reliving the experience of sinai as it appears in textual agg

ng that there is a change in god s volition, which would attribute to god a state less than perfect, cordovero utilizes the paradoxical expression et lo et, moment-that-is-nomoment, to demarcate the transition from the temporal eternity of ein sof, the primordial being that has no primordiality (qadmon beli qadmut),124 to the eternal temporality of the sefirot.125 cordovero fervently insists that judaism, the faith that believes in creation (kat ha-ma aminim be-hiddush, categorically rejects the possibility of there being anything but ein sof prior to the emanation. thus we find the truth of his essence alone without any other cause, but rather all the other causes are brought about from him in an absolute creation [hiddush gamur, for there was no prior existence at all, god forbid. howeve

ud, alma de-yihuda. surely, i am not advocating a dualism when i speak of two vectors nor do i deny that kabbalistic tradition presumes an analogical relation between the two spheres such that one gains knowledge of the latent from the manifest and of the manifest from the latent an ancient hermetic teaching with roots in platonic philosophy that had a profound impact on the esoteric teachings of judaism, christianity, and islam as they evolved in the middle ages. it is worthwhile mentioning one extract from cordovero where he frames the kabbalistic teaching in these terms: from the lower beings we discern the supernal beings, as it says from my flesh i would behold god (job 19:26, and by means of them a man can discern divinity. after a man contemplates the supernal beings from the lower

rea but the phallic potency situated in the head, sometimes identified as the yod in the brain that corresponds to the yod inscribed on the circumcised phallus.270 thus far there is nothing exceptional about dov baer s teaching. the innovative element surfaces in his explication of this motif in terms of time and eternity. the aforementioned eschatological teaching is part of a lengthy account of judaism s monotheistic declaration, shema yisra el yhwh elohenu yhwh ehad, hear, o israel, the lord is our god, the lord is one (deut 6:4, and the utterance that immediately follows it, barukh shem kevod malkhuto le olam wa ed, blessed be the name of the glory of his kingdom forever. the former corresponds to the supernal unity and the latter to the lower unity. that the compresence of the three m

at it sets up as its goal. thus it experiences no between for all that it naturally, really naturally, lives within it. rather it experiences the inversion of the between. thus it denies the omnipotence of the between and disavows time, the very time which is experienced on the eternal way.3 in this passage, rosenzweig articulates his celebrated theological notion of the metahistorical destiny of judaism set in contrast to the historical fate of christianity, eternal life s surmounting of the eternal way.4 for the one who lives beyond history, the beginning is the end, the end the beginning. the surpassing of time is experienced in the fullness of time, the spontaneous recurrence of what has never been only that which has never been can recur in the instant that has no before or after.5 li

halier, ethics and the feminine, pp. 119 129; cohen, elevations, 195 219; ainley, feminine, otherness, dwelling, pp. 7 20; sandford, metaphysics of love; idem, levinas, feminism, and the feminine, pp. 139 160; shapiro, on thinking identity otherwise, pp. 299 323; idem, and god created woman, pp. 159 195; the essays assembled in chanter, feminist interpretations of emmanuel levinas; katz, levinas, judaism, and the feminine; idem, from eros to maternity, pp. 153 175. in spite of irigaray s critique, the nexus that she herself a rms between femininity, the becoming of the body, and the disruption of temporality does share some important features with levinas. see irigaray, le temps de la diff rence; ziarek, toward a radical, pp. 60 75. 351. levinas, time and the other, pp. 86 87. 352. levinas

ty does share some important features with levinas. see irigaray, le temps de la diff rence; ziarek, toward a radical, pp. 60 75. 351. levinas, time and the other, pp. 86 87. 352. levinas, otherwise than being, pp. 37 38. 353. levinas, wholly otherwise, pp. 3 10, esp. 6 7. 354. levinas, otherwise than being, p. 7; idem, basic philosophical writings, pp. 112 114; and see analysis in katz, levinas, judaism, and the feminine, pp. 12 17. 355. crignon, figuration, pp. 100 125. 356. marion, in excess, p. 115. for an analysis of the invisibility of time and the phenomenology of the inapparent (unscheinbar, drawn mostly from the writings of heidegger and merleau-ponty, see dastur, dire le temps, pp. 71 82; idem, telling time, 27 35. 357. marion, in excess p. 95. 358. ibid, pp. 122 123. 359. my thi

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