| Is it a science, a religion, a teaching? Is | | | | humanity for millennia. |
| it secret or evident? Is it something we can | | | | |
| sense and evaluate? Is it outdated, or is it | | | | Despite the concealment, people have always |
| relevant in our time? | | | | been interested in it. Renowned scientists |
| | | | and philosophers the world over, including |
| Kabbalah is wisdom about the universe. | | | | Newton, Leibniz, and Pico Della Mirandola |
| However, it studies much more than the part | | | | investigated the wisdom of Kabbalah and |
| of the universe that we perceive through our | | | | attempted to understand it. Johannes |
| inborn five senses. Kabbalah explains that | | | | Reuchlin, a humanist, classics scholar, and |
| the universe is, in fact, much wider than | | | | expert in ancient languages and traditions, |
| what we perceive through our five senses. It | | | | writes in his book, De Arte Cabbalistica: "My |
| teaches about that part of the universe that | | | | teacher, Pythagoras, the father of |
| we currently don't perceive. | | | | philosophy, took his teaching from Kabbalists |
| | | | … He was the first to translate the |
| Kabbalah explains how the universe began, how | | | | word, Kabbalah, unknown to his |
| it develops, and how it will end. It studies | | | | contemporaries, to the Greek word |
| the universe's general structure and all of | | | | philosophy…" |
| its particular details. This wisdom consists | | | | |
| of several sections, all of which talk about | | | | Yet, to this day, authentic Kabbalah is |
| the general law of the universe and how we | | | | tainted with many misconceptions and |
| can attain it. | | | | misrepresentations, such as red strings, holy |
| | | | water, spells, miracles and whatnot. |
| If we break it into sections, then Kabbalah | | | | Evidently, only a few know what authentic |
| covers: | | | | Kabbalah is really about. |
| | | | |
| • The creation of the entire universe | | | | Therefore, one must first clarify what the |
| and all of its levels: still, vegetative, | | | | wisdom of Kabbalah is. Kabbalist Yehuda |
| animate, and human. | | | | Ashlag puts it this way in his article "The |
| | | | Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah:" |
| • The phases and the final goal of the | | | | |
| entire evolutionary process, including man's | | | | "...this wisdom is no more and no less, than |
| part in that process. | | | | a sequence of roots, which hang down by way |
| | | | of cause and consequence, in fixed, |
| • The connection between our current | | | | determined rules, interweaving to a single, |
| state and the states we were in before we | | | | exalted goal described as 'the revelation of |
| appeared on the Earth. | | | | His Godliness to His creatures in this |
| | | | world." |
| • The purpose of existing in a | | | | |
| biological body for several decades and | | | | What does this mean? It's saying that there |
| perceiving the surrounding world through the | | | | is an Upper Force or the Creator, and there |
| body and its five senses. | | | | are forces that descend from Him to our |
| | | | world. We are here, in our world, and we are |
| • Our state after we leave this world. | | | | governed by these forces. They're similar to |
| | | | the forces we are aware of, like gravity or |
| • Our reincarnations and the | | | | electromagnetism. The only difference is that |
| relationships between them. | | | | these forces are of a higher order, and they |
| | | | act while remaining hidden to us. |
| • The way of evolving to a higher, | | | | |
| spiritual form while living on earth. | | | | "The Creator" is the ultimate, all-inclusive |
| | | | force. He is the sum of all the forces in the |
| Where Did the Authentic Kabbalah Come from? | | | | universe and is the highest of all the |
| | | | governing forces. The Upper Forces descend |
| The wisdom of Kabbalah appeared over five | | | | from the Creator, going through phases called |
| thousand years ago. Its roots go back to deep | | | | "spiritual worlds," and finally they give |
| antiquity, the Sumerian-Akkadian period and | | | | rise to our world and man inside it. This |
| the time of ancient Babylon. However, | | | | constitutes the subject of the wisdom of |
| Kabbalah remained virtually hidden from | | | | Kabbalah. |