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Throughout my life I studied various aspects of spirituality. During those times in my life having friends who were learning the same things became a catalyst in my progress. Enthusiasm and curiosity are contagious.
I was a child, probably about 7 years old, and I was starting to attend classes at Hebrew school. I felt like what they were teaching was a bunch of nonsense. They were telling stories about things that happened to people thousands of years ago and not relating anything to people in the present.
As I evolve through the study of Kabbalah all of this will unfold naturally according to our Creator’s plan.
All that I need to have is an intention.
An intention to connect both with our Creator and with all of creation.
An intention to have equivalence of form with our Creator and with this new manifestation of creation.
From my intention the Creator will provide whatever “carrots and sticks” I may require as a catalyst in my personal evolution.
And as I evolve our Creator already has a plan for me and a place for me.
How could I possibly get anything wrong when our Creator is in control of all things?
All that I need is the intention to follow our Creator’s plan.
What I consistently find so interesting as I study Kabbalah is how it relates to and retells the scriptural stories and prophecies.
Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists all have prophecies about how the Messiah (aka Christ, Â Buddha, Vishnu, etc) is going to return to our world, defeat evil, and bring about a “Golden Age” or “New Jerusalem” that will be Heaven on Earth.
And in each of these prophecies the world is in a state of low morality, chaos, war, disease, famine, and natural disasters just prior to the “correction” that the Messiah is going to disseminate.
The Buddhists have a metaphor about the “drawing back of the bow” where we have to go backwards before we can be propelled forward.
I see humanity in this state of “drawing back the bow.”
I am a student of scripture and history.
I found the retelling of the story of Babylon, Abraham, and Nimrod from the Kabbalist perspective was fascinating.
And this course is giving me a bit better perspective and understanding of the 10 Sefirot and how they relate to the different worlds as well as each person in the present corporeal manifestation.
