chokhmah's Journal: Gnostic Kabbalah

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A dream not interpreted is like a letter not read. - The Talmud, Tractate Berakoth 58a

This word comes from the Hebrew word Kibel, which means "to receive." This reception, the ancient Hebrew Rabbis would say, refers to the reception of a hidden doctrine. While the masses would follow the precepts of exoteric religion and study the body of the doctrine, the Bible, Torah or Tanakh, these books were only supplemental to the secret doctrine studied by the Kabalistic Rabbis. To the Rabbis, the cryptic symbolism within the books the "Zohar" and the "Talmud" was the body of the secret doctrine. Gnosticism has unveiled this most valuable tradition in the light of esotericism.

exoteric: (Gr.) Outward, public; the opposite of esoteric or hidden. (From H.P. Blavatsky's "The Theosophical Glossary.")

Kabbalah is based upon the symbol called in Hebrew Otz Chiim or The Tree of Life. This symbol shows all the different aspects of the universe in all its dimensions in relation to the human, with the different aspects of the soul in relation to divinity. It shows the creation of the cosmos, the creation of individual life, and the creation of the soul. It shows the way every cosmic unit receives and is sustained by cosmic forces. This is the true Kabbalistic reception . In every ancient religion there is a symbolic "Tree of Life." It is in the midst of Eden within the Judeo-Christian traditions, it is the Bodhi Tree of the Buddha Shakyamuni, it is symbolized by the 13 Katuns of the Popul Vuh of the Mayans, and the Ash Tree of the Nordic mysteries. Students are urged to read such books as Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune, Tarot and Kabbalah by Samael Aun Weor, and Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi to understand the in depth symbolical structures of Kabbalah. To have a clear understanding of the Tree of Life, in its basic applications, one can unlock the doors of the mysteries of the ages.

It [the Tree of Life] is a glyph, that is to say a composite symbol, which is intended to represent the cosmos in its entirety and the soul of man as related thereto; and the more we study it, the more we see that it is an amazingly adequate representation; we use it as the engineer or the mathematician uses his sliding-rule, to scan and calculate the intricacies of existence, visible and invisible, in external nature or the hidden depth of the soul. - Dion Fortune (Mystical Qabalah ch 6)

Therefore, the students of our institutions are urged to study these three sciences and how they are applied to all of the ancient religions. We do not exclude any religion, because we believe that the doctrine of the synthesis is the most accurate, objective, all encompassing and tolerant. Understand these three sciences and the three sciences will help you to understand yourself spiritually and psychologically. These sciences should be studied and applied. For what is science without experimentation, theories, and facts?

Introduction to Gnostic Kabbalah

Renounce Tikkun Olam. Time for some reading...

My library: Jacques Derrida, Benedict Spinoza, Aldous Huxley, Noam Chomsky, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Allen Ginsberg, Carlo Michelstaedter, Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Otto Weininger, Oswald Spengler, Christopher Alexander, cyberpunks (William Gibson, Neal Stephenson), Neil Gaiman, Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Pesce, Theodore Kaczynski

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