Tag: Kabbalah
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Jewish Kabbalah and Hindu Account of the Origin of the Universe: Cosmological Notes
INTRODUCTION This article aims to demonstrate a fundamental unity of ancient esoteric wisdom traditions by comparing Hindu cosmogony with Jewish cosmogony in addition to correcting certain ideas about shared geometric symbolism. These systems are not oppositional but “two leaves on the same stem,” sharing an identical esoteric core that originates from a primordial universal secret…
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Nahmanides to Theosophy: Views about the Kabbalah
Traditionally, Kabbalah is the mystical, esoteric tradition within Judaism, and its transmission was restricted to a small few highly learned Jewish sages or advanced scholars under the direct tutelgage of a rabbi or a qualified mekubal (master). Therefore, there are levels as discussed. When you ask about the Kabbalah, you will be given a simple…
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Getting Technical about “The First Cause”
The word God is generic for a collective, or plethora of beings, a multitude under a unity, and not a singular entity. The “First Cause” is a philosophical conception, that is in-fact, not the same as what is termed, e.g., the “ever Unknowable Eternal Cause.” There’s for example a historical distinction drawn between El’ and…
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Baptized with Fire: Proclus and Simonian Theosophy on the Symbolism of Fire and Water
“I baptize you with water (υδορ), but (…) he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Paraklêtos) and with fire (pyro or πῦρ)” LUKE 3:16 Iaonnes baptizes Iesous with water. Iesous will baptize you with the FIRE, but this fire is the higher knowledge, or gnosis. The Meaning of Fire in Baptism Is it the FIRE on Mount Sinai…
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Luciferous Protogonos, The God the Ancients Call “The First-Born”
PRE-CHRISTIAN AND MYTHIC ORIGINS COMMENTARY ABOUT THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE LUCIFEROUS describes the radiance of the FIRST PRINCIPLE born from the Great Mother and Father-GOD in nearly every ancient cosmogony. Here, we will give a different meaning of LUCIFER, or the morning star, that is based upon the Graeco-Roman MYSTERIES, known under the titles…
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Blavatsky’s Interpretation of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
“Were it light alone, inactive and absolute, the human mind could not appreciate nor even realise it (…) According to the views of the Gnostics, these two principles are immutable Light and Shadow, Good and Evil being virtually one and having existed through all eternity, as they will ever continue to exist so long as…
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Limitations of Christian Cabalists and Bible Challenge Authority of Western Esotericism
Does the limitations of Kabbalah and the Christian Bible in the Studies of Esotericism blind Western Philosophers? Helena P. Blavatsky challenged the esotericists of her time, who saw in the Bible, the final authority, even in the area of esoteric study. “And now it has come to this: The student interested in the Secret Sciences…
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