This is cross posted from the Year 2012 Tribe where a discussion on Evolution continues to avoid discussing the driving forces involved. I've suggested that the incorrect characterization of Darwin's theory as "Survival of the Fittest" seems to be polarized tagainst the Creationist's "Meant to Be" coloring. Both could use some middle ground where Evolution is seen as valid yet only a process with the context of cosmic forces Kabbalah attemps to reveal.
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-secret-bible/
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The Secret Bible – The Kabbalah
Yoga of The Biblical Tradition
If one takes the Bible, one sees line upon line of writing clearly visible to the eye. Kabbalah is that which is to be read between the lines.
But as the Talmud points out “If you would seek to understand the invisible, then first have an open eye for the visible, for if you do not know the visible your foundation is on shifting ground.”
This process of “reading between the lines is known as “Mystical exegesis” and in the contribution by Tony Crisp that follows this introduction an excellent example is given of how it can be applied to that greatly misinterpreted book – “The Book of Genesis”.
From mouth to ear, from master to disciple, the tradition of Kabbalah was passed down through the ages. At times, parts of it were written down but it can never be fully written down for its real inner secrets are locked away deep in the recesses of the mind of God where even the purest and noblest of the Tzaddikim, the truly holy and just men, cannot penetrate. And even those aspects of it that can be uncovered in meditation are more truly symbols than words.
Bill Heilbronn.
1. ATZILAH – THE WORLD OF EMANATION
Simple stories can hold within them enormous depths of meaning and wisdom. In our heritage of such stories, we could find some of the deepest commentaries on life’s meaning and human existence, if only we would look, or had the key. Take the story of Adam and Eve for instance: is that a primitive fantasy to explain life? Was it created by the ignorant to placate the superstitious? Millions of people have said it was. But popular opinion is not always right. Let us look a little more closely and find out. In this closer look I must first acknowledge the scholarship of F. J. Mayers as expressed in his book The Unknown God – Ain Soph. This is my source for much that is quoted. See: Ain Soph
Hebrew, an ancient language, is quite different to English. This becomes obvious when we remember that the Greek letters alpha, and omega, mean ‘beginning’ and ‘end’. We still say ‘alpha and ‘omega’ to mean the beginning and the end of something, but perhaps without knowing that in a similar way, all of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet have a meaning quite by themselves.
Just as the Greek – Alpha – means “the beginning” so does the Hebrew Aleph mean primal creation, for it is the inaudible out-breathing preparatory to making a sound and only made audible by the vowel pointing that underlies it. Daleth as a letter means multiplication, becoming many, and Mem is the sign of unlimited plurality. If we put these together, we discover something interesting. ADM – Adam.
Symbolism of Adam and Eve
Here, staring us in the face, is the possibility that the word Adam is not singular. It is not referring to an individual. It says – the first creative cause multiplying and becoming many. If anything, it is referring to a force or process in nature, certainly not some physical forebear. Yet for generations this is what we have been led into believing. But let us take the story from the beginning and see the wonderful wisdom it unfolds. It would take too much space to do this word by word as has been done with the word Adam, so I will only give a synthesis of this deeper translation, with occasional notes. To make this understandable without too many notes, I will have to enlarge on the actual words used. For instance, a general translation of the first verse of Genesis is. “Firstly, Elohim created the heavens and the earth”.
Now, several things will be misunderstood if we leave it at that. A little word ‘eth’ that is the combination of the first and last – aleph and tau – letters of the Hebrew alphabet, has been left out of translation. Also, we must note that it does not say ‘In the beginning’ which suggests a process in time and space. The word ‘Elohim’ literally means ‘gods’ or God the gods. That is, the seven creative forces emerging from that which lies behind the emergence of the universe. The word ‘created’ is translated from the word Bara, which broken into letters means “internal movement of the creative life energy in its first action, or from the primary cause”. It suggests an artist arriving at an internal conception of a work, which he will later materialise. i.e., it is all in the mind at this point. The words Heaven and Earth, are therefore not talking about physical realities, but spiritual realities in the conception of the Creator. The word Heavens is ‘Shamaim’, which means infinite source or potential of life forms or life energies. The word Earth is ‘aretz’, which in Hebrew means primal vibrating substance. So we have the source of life forms – the mother, and that substance which it uses
Obviously, the sentence ‘Firstly Elohim created the heavens and the earth’, gives no idea of these meanings. If we enlarge upon it we may arrive at something that brings this understanding. Therefore, at the risk of making many mistakes, I will give a free rendering.
That which moved not and remains always unmanifest expressed out of itself seven creative forces. There was conceived within the one purpose of these the plan and living spiritual reality of the whole cosmos. From beginning to end, all existed as divine realities in this conception. But, it was not yet made real in time, space and motion. But the creative energies began to bring into being the forces and archetypes that would be the spiritual body upon which the physical universe would later hang.
(V. 2 King James Version – And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.)
The basic substance of the universe was chaotic and unmoulded, as yet without form. All the elements of existence were in chaos and unknown. But the creative forces extended into the unformed. Beyond time and space the divine energies caused a great symphony of vibratory energy to express. The Word, which through its patterns of vibrations would be the pattern of creation.”
(V.3 ‘And God said: Let there be light, and there was light’.)
The patterns of energy in the divine conception were full of meaning and consciousness.
(V. 4 ‘And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness’.)
And the creative forces, when the power of consciousness and order was whole, set it in opposition to, and to act upon. the chaotic primal substance, which lacked awareness. Thus, from out of that which was neither conscious or unconscious, substance or non-substance, form or formless, but all things – a cosmic conception had flashed into being. Form and formless were now separated, consciousness and unconsciousness, energy and substance, set apart to form a duality to interact.
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-secret-bible/
snip..
The Secret Bible – The Kabbalah
Yoga of The Biblical Tradition
If one takes the Bible, one sees line upon line of writing clearly visible to the eye. Kabbalah is that which is to be read between the lines.
But as the Talmud points out “If you would seek to understand the invisible, then first have an open eye for the visible, for if you do not know the visible your foundation is on shifting ground.”
This process of “reading between the lines is known as “Mystical exegesis” and in the contribution by Tony Crisp that follows this introduction an excellent example is given of how it can be applied to that greatly misinterpreted book – “The Book of Genesis”.
From mouth to ear, from master to disciple, the tradition of Kabbalah was passed down through the ages. At times, parts of it were written down but it can never be fully written down for its real inner secrets are locked away deep in the recesses of the mind of God where even the purest and noblest of the Tzaddikim, the truly holy and just men, cannot penetrate. And even those aspects of it that can be uncovered in meditation are more truly symbols than words.
Bill Heilbronn.
1. ATZILAH – THE WORLD OF EMANATION
Simple stories can hold within them enormous depths of meaning and wisdom. In our heritage of such stories, we could find some of the deepest commentaries on life’s meaning and human existence, if only we would look, or had the key. Take the story of Adam and Eve for instance: is that a primitive fantasy to explain life? Was it created by the ignorant to placate the superstitious? Millions of people have said it was. But popular opinion is not always right. Let us look a little more closely and find out. In this closer look I must first acknowledge the scholarship of F. J. Mayers as expressed in his book The Unknown God – Ain Soph. This is my source for much that is quoted. See: Ain Soph
Hebrew, an ancient language, is quite different to English. This becomes obvious when we remember that the Greek letters alpha, and omega, mean ‘beginning’ and ‘end’. We still say ‘alpha and ‘omega’ to mean the beginning and the end of something, but perhaps without knowing that in a similar way, all of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet have a meaning quite by themselves.
Just as the Greek – Alpha – means “the beginning” so does the Hebrew Aleph mean primal creation, for it is the inaudible out-breathing preparatory to making a sound and only made audible by the vowel pointing that underlies it. Daleth as a letter means multiplication, becoming many, and Mem is the sign of unlimited plurality. If we put these together, we discover something interesting. ADM – Adam.
Symbolism of Adam and Eve
Here, staring us in the face, is the possibility that the word Adam is not singular. It is not referring to an individual. It says – the first creative cause multiplying and becoming many. If anything, it is referring to a force or process in nature, certainly not some physical forebear. Yet for generations this is what we have been led into believing. But let us take the story from the beginning and see the wonderful wisdom it unfolds. It would take too much space to do this word by word as has been done with the word Adam, so I will only give a synthesis of this deeper translation, with occasional notes. To make this understandable without too many notes, I will have to enlarge on the actual words used. For instance, a general translation of the first verse of Genesis is. “Firstly, Elohim created the heavens and the earth”.
Now, several things will be misunderstood if we leave it at that. A little word ‘eth’ that is the combination of the first and last – aleph and tau – letters of the Hebrew alphabet, has been left out of translation. Also, we must note that it does not say ‘In the beginning’ which suggests a process in time and space. The word ‘Elohim’ literally means ‘gods’ or God the gods. That is, the seven creative forces emerging from that which lies behind the emergence of the universe. The word ‘created’ is translated from the word Bara, which broken into letters means “internal movement of the creative life energy in its first action, or from the primary cause”. It suggests an artist arriving at an internal conception of a work, which he will later materialise. i.e., it is all in the mind at this point. The words Heaven and Earth, are therefore not talking about physical realities, but spiritual realities in the conception of the Creator. The word Heavens is ‘Shamaim’, which means infinite source or potential of life forms or life energies. The word Earth is ‘aretz’, which in Hebrew means primal vibrating substance. So we have the source of life forms – the mother, and that substance which it uses
Obviously, the sentence ‘Firstly Elohim created the heavens and the earth’, gives no idea of these meanings. If we enlarge upon it we may arrive at something that brings this understanding. Therefore, at the risk of making many mistakes, I will give a free rendering.
That which moved not and remains always unmanifest expressed out of itself seven creative forces. There was conceived within the one purpose of these the plan and living spiritual reality of the whole cosmos. From beginning to end, all existed as divine realities in this conception. But, it was not yet made real in time, space and motion. But the creative energies began to bring into being the forces and archetypes that would be the spiritual body upon which the physical universe would later hang.
(V. 2 King James Version – And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.)
The basic substance of the universe was chaotic and unmoulded, as yet without form. All the elements of existence were in chaos and unknown. But the creative forces extended into the unformed. Beyond time and space the divine energies caused a great symphony of vibratory energy to express. The Word, which through its patterns of vibrations would be the pattern of creation.”
(V.3 ‘And God said: Let there be light, and there was light’.)
The patterns of energy in the divine conception were full of meaning and consciousness.
(V. 4 ‘And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness’.)
And the creative forces, when the power of consciousness and order was whole, set it in opposition to, and to act upon. the chaotic primal substance, which lacked awareness. Thus, from out of that which was neither conscious or unconscious, substance or non-substance, form or formless, but all things – a cosmic conception had flashed into being. Form and formless were now separated, consciousness and unconsciousness, energy and substance, set apart to form a duality to interact.
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