Kabbalah

[Damocles]

Linky...

A number of celebrities, notably Madonna, are embracing a religion called Kabbalah. Celebrities I say! That is all the endorsement I need. I decided it was time to look into it.

I started with Wikipedia. Here’s what I learned about Kabbalah:

1. It’s all very confusing.
2. No one is quite sure what it is, including the people doing it.
3. Old dead people are somehow to blame.
4. Mastering Kabbalah gives you insight into God, as far as you know.

To master Kabbalah, first you must learn to understand a special language called gobbledygook. For example, in Kabbalah-talk, the definition of tzimtzum goes like this:

“The act whereby God contracted his infinite light, leaving a void into which the light of existence was poured. The primal emanation became Azilut, the World of Light, from which the three lower worlds, Beriah, Yetzirah and Assiyah, descended.”

I’m sure you had the same reaction I did when I read about tzimtzum: “I must renounce my current beliefs and dedicate my life to Kabbalah!”

more at link...

[uscitizen]

Figures that it would start in Hollywood.
Darned nuts.

[Cancel7]

Damo's going to hell for "making fun of God"

[Cancel7]

Damo wrote: "however people's beliefs are not something I will make fun of. It would be hypocritical for me to make fun of another's beliefs "

Hmmmm.

LOL

Well, you can call Gus Pitch because I have just nailed your ass Damo!

And if you don't know who Gus Pitch is, watch "Intolerable Cruelty" some day.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

http://www.watch.pair.com/mystery-babylon.html#cabala
The Chaldean religious tradition that was embraced by apostate Jews during their captivity in Babylon was delivered to subsequent generations by word of mouth. According to Blavatsky, these disseminators of the Chaldean tradition in the few centuries before Christ were known as Tanaim:



“Kabalist. From Q B L H, Kabala, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of ‘secret science’, one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala… The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era… This secret doctrine is identical with the Persian wisdom, or ‘magic’.” (Ibid. p.167)



The dictionary defines the Medieval Latin cabala as derived from the Hebrew word “qabblâ” which means “received doctrine, tradition, from qibbl, to receive.” According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Cabalists claimed to have received these oral traditions, not from ancient Chaldeans, but from the Patriarchs and Prophets “by the power of the Holy Spirit.”



“Cabala comprised originally the entire traditional lore, in contradistinction to the written law (Torah), and therefore included the prophetic and hagiographic books of the Bible, which were supposed to have been ‘received’ by the power of the Holy Spirit rather than as writings from God’s hand... Each ‘received’ doctrine was claimed as tradition from the Fathers...to be traced back to the Prophets or to Moses on Sinai... The chief characteristic of the Cabala is that, unlike the Scriptures, it was entrusted only to the few elect ones;…’”



Because of its heretical nature, the Cabala was not generally promulgated among the Jews but remained the “secret doctrine” of “elect” Jews. That is to say, certain Jews who were deemed worthy could comprehend hidden teachings in the written Torah and, through mystical techniques, make direct contact with “God.” Among these practices are rapid recitation of the “Holy Name of God” (YHVH, or Tetragrammaton), meditation on the 11 Sephiroth of the Tree of Life which are believed to be emanations of God, learning to use the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as force-carrying energy patterns which serve as the building blocks of the cosmos, and, finally, transcending the space/time limitations of the physical world to realize one’s “inner divinity.” This “secret doctrine” has been preserved throughout the ages to the present time by a spiritual brotherhood who progress individually to various stages of enlightenment and proficiency in the hidden wisdom—from “elect” to “adepts” to “wise men” to “adepts in grace”:



“Cabala... The specific term for the esoteric or mystic doctrine concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as a revelation to elect saints from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few. At first consisting only of empirical lore, it assumed, under the influence of Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean philosophy, a speculative character. In the geonic period it is connected with a Mishnah-like text-book, the ‘Sefer Yetzirah,’ and forms the object of the systematic study of the elect, called ‘mekubbalim’ or ‘ba’ale ha-kabbalah’ (possessors of, or adepts in, the Cabala). These receive afterward the name of ‘maskilim’ (the wise), after Dan. xii. 10; and because the Cabala is called (‘Hokmah nistarah’ = the hidden wisdom), the initials of which are , they receive also the name of (‘adepts in grace’) (Eccl. ix. 11, Hebr.).” (Ibid.)



THE PHARISEES



The “Tanaim,” which meant “teacher of the law,” were the Scribes, the rabbis whom Blavatsky identified as the first Kabalists. From the ranks of the Scribes evolved the sect of the Pharisees. According to Occult Theocrasy, by Edith Starr Miller, the creators of the Cabala were the Pharisees, who had formed their sect in Babylon during the captivity and functioned as a secret society after the Jews returned to Israel. The ‘secret doctrine’ of Babylon remained the oral tradition of the Pharisees until they committed it to written form:

[Damocles]

Damo wrote: "however people's beliefs are not something I will make fun of. It would be hypocritical for me to make fun of another's beliefs "

Hmmmm.

LOL

Well, you can call Gus Pitch because I have just nailed your ass Damo!

And if you don't know who Gus Pitch is, watch "Intolerable Cruelty" some day.

This wasn't my site, I was not making fun of the belief, I was making fun of AHZ, Darla. Who believes that these people should be feared as they are taking over the world and have "houses" on college grounds...

Please, try again.

Hint... Look for a scientology thread. I find it hard to avoid that one.

[Cancel7]

This wasn't my site, I was not making fun of the belief, I was making fun of AHZ, Darla. Who believes that these people should be feared as they are taking over the world and have "houses" on college grounds...

Please, try again.

Hint... Look for a scientology thread. I find it hard to avoid that one.

Oh, ok, I'm sorry. I completely missed the AHZ thing. I didn't know.

[Battleborne]

This wasn't my site, I was not making fun of the belief, I was making fun of AHZ, Darla. Who believes that these people should be feared as they are taking over the world and have "houses" on college grounds...

Please, try again.

Hint... Look for a scientology thread. I find it hard to avoid that one.

Madonna is akin to Tom Cruise...looking for love in all the wrong places...Kabbala/Scientology one and the same...keep em' in the dark akin to mushrooms...feed em' lotsa manure..and steal their money as they laugh all the way to the bank!

[Damocles]

Oh, ok, I'm sorry. I completely missed the AHZ thing. I didn't know.

It's alright. I am not perfect, I'll admit to making fun of Scientology. It's just so hard to avoid that one.

[uscitizen]

I think Damo made fun of the nueters with $5 in their new jean pockets and new sneakers too. Tsk, tsk...

[Damocles]

I think Damo made fun of the nueters with $5 in their new jean pockets and new sneakers too. Tsk, tsk...

Yeah, that one is a tough one for me to avoid as well.

I try, but it takes work to become a good Buddhist. I work at it, and will continue to do so.

[Battleborne]

Yeah, that one is a tough one for me to avoid as well.

I try, but it takes work to become a good Buddhist. I work at it, and will continue to do so.

Admit it damo...T-bone.NY or...Ribey... is starting to look and smell really good about now!..Medium rare with a baked potatoe.(potato) sour creame and chives..or cheddhar cheese...Italian salad and a really good cold beer... your preference on brand..give it a go and come back to reality...God gave us Canines for a reason...even Buddah knows why...his weight problemo turned him... Come back home damo...the wife would really appreciate it...shared bbq's with the kids and all!



Sorry had to hit a guy when the weakness was showing...but ya know I am right!

[Damocles]

Admit it damo...T-bone.NY or...Ribey... is starting to look and smell really good about now!..Medium rare with a baked potatoe.(potato) sour creame and chives..or cheddhar cheese...Italian salad and a really good cold beer... your preference on brand..give it a go and come back to reality...God gave us Canines for a reason...even Buddah knows why...his weight problemo turned him... Come back home damo...the wife would really appreciate it...shared bbq's with the kids and all!



Sorry had to hit a guy when the weakness was showing...but ya know I am right!

You are weird, I've told you a million times, I avoid meat for a different reason than religion.

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

Yeah, that one is a tough one for me to avoid as well.

I try, but it takes work to become a good Buddhist. I work at it, and will continue to do so.

Detach from striving.

[Battleborne]

You are weird, I've told you a million times, I avoid meat for a different reason than religion.

Darla 'says' she is a veggie..a little freudian slip eh' damo...

Betta give it a rest darla prefers clams on the shell...