Ladyhawk (Mystical) wrote
Hi there
Is there a kabala expert that would like to share their views with us. From what I can figure out kabala has always use magick as part of their religion and the believe in one God. The divine (it depends from person to person what they call it) but because the God aspect is so difficult to understand they divided it into sections. Starting with male and female and from there on Gods and Goddesses. Each of them representing an aspect of the divine.
Maybe there is someone out there that can give us more information about it.
May the light shine where ever you are
LadyHawk |
im not entirely sure what it is you want to know so if i haven't answered your question, i apologize
The name Kabbala comes from the Hebrew word QBL which means oral tradition, which is the mystical part of Judaism, now although the Kabbala is very much linked with Judaism, it does not entirely belong to Judaism.
The main book of the Kabbala is called the Zohar, and although the author is not known for sure its attributed to a man called Moses de Leon. But some of the teachings of the Kabbala predate the Zohar, there are examples of Gnosticism in it which is probably 1000 odd years before the Zohar was written.
Im not entirely sure what it is you want to know, but there are no G-ds or Goddesses in Kabbala, there are only Female and Masculine aspects of G-d, these are illustrated on the Tree of Life, one pillar is considered Masculine energies and the other is Female energies. All of this energy comes from one source called Ain Soph Aur (the Infinite Light), which exists above the Tree of Life.
Most of the Kabbala we come across these days in "magick" is Goldendawn'nised, what i mean is the Golden Dawn created their own flavor of Kabbala using aspects of Christian Mysticism, Jewish Kabbala, Egyptian magick. The Kabbala that one would learn from a Jewish Rabbi is different to the Kabbala that is taught in so called "Western magick". As a Jewish person who wanted to study Kabbala, its not just a case of asking the Rabbi at Shul, there are standards and strict requirements before one is allowed to study Kabbala under a Rabbi.