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Why does Kabbalah follow the tradition of the Abrahamic religions in referring to the Creator as masculine? Isn’t it true that any creation requires both male and female “attributes”?
Would the world not have been a less oppressive place if we had referred to God/Creator as “It” instead of
“He “/ “Him” / “His”?
Schalk,
It takes some time to calibrate to the language of the kabbalists.
The books of the kabbalists only speak of natural forces. What are the forces operating on us, who are we, or what are we and what can we do in the situation we are in…why is it happening like this and where is it leading.
I hiked in the desert this summer. By mid day, the sun was aggressive, burning our skin and drying us out.
The sun is the sun. We were caught in the mid day sun, in the desert.
As a kid I went skiing in a small town in Vermont, where the snow was great and the landscape was gorgeous. This week I saw a story online that the entire village was flooded…underwater…homes and businesses ruined.
Water is water.
So now back to our topic. In the wisdom of kabbalah, a force of bestowal is called male and a force of reception is called female.
On the largest scale, of light and vessel, to our personal relationship as all of creation as female towards the Creator who is male.
Seth@KabU
I have a lived a life. This life has been filled with everything possible that this world can give or show me and I have partook of most of it, even most of which would be against Torah. In this life I have lived 5 lives and have caused much pain and broken relationships. Even after 12 years of finding Torah, I continued to be the cause and receptor of pain. In fact I am undergoing the most severe painful circumstance in my entire life at this moment where I could lose everything. A few days ago I was undergoing tremendous stress and anxiety, and when I started this course 2 weeks ago, my stress level has decreased substantially as I am learning to let go of any control I pretend I may have in my situation. I’m letting go, trusting H” is giving me what I need and will give me what I need, even if I perceive it as losing everything I currently have: family, job, etc. Currently I am questioning: Why did H’ have me travel around the world and do things nobody can do in one lifetime, to see all the wonders of the world, to see pain and suffering and also be the cause of it? I feel like I have done or allowed to do everything against His will. Is this possible for me? And what if I die tomorrow and I have not finished the goal of Kabbalah, what happens to me?
Alejandro,
Each one’s point in the heart awakens when it awakens.
Some it takes more lifetimes and some it takes less.
Some pass many states over many miles and others never leave their town.
All of that is under the authority of heaven.
What is in our hand? According to the praise and gratitude that is given to the Creator, to that extent one ascends. It does not matter what he has. What matters is how much he is impressed by the nearing to the Creator. To the extent of the gratitude that a person gives, to that extent he ascends in degree.
Good luck in everything,
Seth@KabU
From the lessons so far, I’ve learned that I’m the will to receive and the Creator is the will to bestow. Further, that we become like the Creator by placing the intention to give to Him over our will to receive. In other words, to receive for His sake rather than our own. Then, on p. 43 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond, I read,
if we were to nullify all our personal interests in everything, we would immediately break the chains of our bodies and would experience our world free of pain and distress
So, I’m confused, are we to nullify egoism or to correct it with intention or are these talking about the same thing and I’m simply confused?
Ilya,
We have no ability to know or feel what is spiritual bestowal. We can approximate by looking at the love of a parent towards a child, but this too, if we examine it is also egoistic.
In order to come to have an intention to bestow, first we reach the nullificaiton of our own personal interests.
However, be cautioned, not to go out into your day and start acting like you don’t need anything and eating stone soup for dinner and sleeping on the floor.
Absolutely not.
Nullifying your own personal interests comes naturally as a result of being more and more influenced by positive spiritual example.
There is a rule in nature that the small one naturally annuls before the big one. For example if you are child soccer player and you saw Lionel Messi,you would be immediately nullified by the greatest soccer player alive, you’d be in awe, wanting to watch how he moves, how he speaks, you’d be happy to carry his bags and stay up talking as long as he wants.
Similarly, we don’t fight with our ego, we invest more in the spiritual environment until it becomes bigger in our eyes than our corporeal desires and the nullification happens naturally and in this process we draw light upon us that raises us to a spiritual embryo and our spiritual birth begins.
Seth@KabU
merci pour tous ces éclaicis, tout me semble claire et simple. je veux juse savoir si en réalisant l’amour du Père pour moi et en m’alignant sur la même intention de donner sans reserve de manière inconditionner. j’aboutirai à la réalité spirituelle comme celle des prophète qui parlent des choses à venir ou qui voient les créatures spirituelles?
I am practising some meditation, as I have been drawn to do this from time to time throughout life. After a meditation, and when I open my eyes, I often feel an awareness that is not usual ordinarily.
After meditating it feels like my mind is vibrating differently. Also I see the world differently through my eyes, the light quality is much brighter, and so are colours, sometimes (rarely) I see particles buzzing around the room. This all fades away of course, usually when I speak or move.
Is there any guidance regarding meditation that you think I might find helpful to the process. I should like to know because I feel good after doing it.
Angela,
Each person should study where there heart is.
If this technique works for you and helps you in your life, so carry on.
A kabbalist can be a musician, a painter, an architect, maybe she runs marathons, jumps into ice water for health or maybe does some practice like you mentioned that has many health benefits.
However, none of those things should be confused with the wisdom of kabbalah. We are studying a practical method for revealing the Creator in our lives. We are studying nature, the forces operating on us, and how to work with them.
Keep them as two distinct things and you will advance more correctly. In the same way that a person may go for a run in the morning, you do have your meditation practice.
Additionally you are studying the wisdom of kabbalah.
Later you will see how everything naturally arranges itself for you.
Seth@KabU
I don’t understand this section from this point to the end. Is there another way to explain?
Is this discussing that Kabbalah is on an even higher attainment than what we are able to do with our mind in this world as exemplified in the seemingly remarkable or fantastic ways our minds have been able to perceive things in this world? For example, If I attain to such a high “noetic” ability to train my mind to conduct “Remote Viewing” I have only elevated my mind to a higher “worldly” level, versus Kabbalah has nothing to do with our minds or this world no matter how advanced our minds can get? Is this correct or am I misunderstanding this section?
Reference pg 36 Spiritual Expressions
We might ask, “Would it not be more correct to call them by names used in scrutiny, such as observation and attainment, or to express oneself with expressions that emphasize the phenomena of the noetic mind?” The thing is that it is nothing like the conducts of the noetic phenomena, since the mind is a particular branch among all the elements of reality. Hence, it has its own ways of manifestation…..
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