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Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה‎‎‎), Hebrew meaning “reception”, also known as “Cabala” is a late 15th Century and 16th Century CE incomplete occult philosophical framework created by the Pisan / Venetian families that seeks to define and then reveal to worthy initiates the “true” rules, functions and purposes between the absolute “Divine Creator of Existence” or Ein Sof (בהיר‎‎) and levels of existence of the “Universe” or Olam (עולם) through complex teachings and reinterpretations of sacred texts and symbols. Kabbalah is therefore the antithesis of Humanism also created by the Pisan / Venetian families during the same period.

Contrary to a myriad of deliberate disinformation and falsities, the majority of foundational Kabbalah texts were completed between the end of the 15th Century and end of the 16th Century, being:

(i) The Sefer Yetzirah (ספר יצירה‎‎), Hebrew meaning “book of creation” is a pseudepigrapha text first written no earlier than the 15th Century CE and purported to share ancient knowledge from the times of Abraham at Ur, particularly with child sacrifice, cannibalism and satanic worship; and

(ii) The De Hominis Dignitate (Oration on the Dignity of Man) is a substantial manifesto of 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic first published in 1486 by Count Giovanni Pico of Concordia that represents the founding text of Hermetic and Humanist thought; and

(iii) Corpus Hermeticum is a pseudepigrapha text first published in 1507 in Venice and allegedly by an author known as Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin or “three (3) times great Hermes” and his conversations in the revelation of “reality” and “existence of man” with the chief deity of the underworld identified as Thoth, but in Greek known as Hades or in Latin known as Satan; and

(iv) The Zohar (זֹהַר‎‎), Hebrew meaning “Splendor or Radiance” is a pseudepigrapha text first published in separate small book form in Venice, Geneva and London from 1558 based on exerpts of previous Kabbalah works such as De Hominis Dignitate as well as the completed revised sacred texts such as the Geneva Bible, translated into Hebrew as the Tanakh (תנ"ך) or Jewish Bible. The claim that the Zohar was composed by Moses de León in the 14th Century is a 19th Century fraud and attempt to divert attention from England and its 16th Century origins; and

(v) The Etz Hayim (עץ חיים), Hebrew meaning “Tree of Life” is a text first published in the 17th Century summarizing the Lurianic Kabbalah teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria (b. 1534 – d. 1572) who expanded on the concepts of the Zohar to create a Kabbalic “way”; and

(vi) The Bahir (בהיר‎‎), Hebrew meaning “bright or clear” is a pseudepigrapha text first published in Amsterdam in 1651, but claimed to be from the 1st Century CE; and

(vii) Pardes Rimonim ( פרדס רימונים ), Hebrew meaning ("Garden [of] Pomegranates") is a text first published in the 17th Century summarizing the Cordoverian Kabbalah teachings of Rabbi Moses Cordovero (b. 1522 – d.1570).

The claims that the Kabbalah represents the concealed parts of the Oral Torah is a deliberate fraud designed to hide its 16th Century origin.

In 1236, the Rector of the Pisan University of Montpellier and expert on Arabic literature known as Samuel Judah (b.1173 – d. 1251) was appointed the new Rector of the Pisan University of Cordoba and the historic collection of several hundred thousand Arabic texts. By 1242, he had established Cordoba as the leading Pisan University and by 1245 began promulgating pseudo texts allegedly from a teacher known as “Moses”, also known as “Maimonides” being the distillation and translation into Hebrew of hundreds of texts of Arabic and Persian philosophy.

The creation of Kabbalah Mysticism was borne out of geo-political and cultural events in the late 15th Century that saw massive upheaval of traditional Pisan and Venetian noble and intellectual families and the changing fortunes of the two (2) empires.

Kabbalah is based around a series of key concepts from which the key and most important doctrines are then derived:

(i) Ein Sofi (אין סוף), Hebrew meaning “no end to existence or infinite (wisdom)” is the Kabbalah name for the purest form of the Divine Creator; and

(ii) Ein / Ayin (אין‎‎), Hebrew meaning “is not (existence)” is the Kabbalah Doctrine that before the universe was created there was only pure “Ayin” or “pure nothingness” from which was first manifest eleven (11) Sephirot (סְפִירוֹת‎) or “counts / emanations” of the Ein Sofi (אין סוף) or “Divine Creator”; and

(iii) Yesh (יֵשׁ), Hebrew meaning “there is (existence)”

(iv) Olam (עולם), Hebrew meaning “universe or world” is the generic description for the Universe.

(v) Sephirot (סְפִירוֹת‎), Hebrew meaning “counts or emanations” is the Kabbalah Doctrine that the Divine Creator in purest form or Ein Sofi (אין סוף) manifests from pure nothingness or Ayin (אין‎‎) into eleven (11) attributes being Keter (כתר) “crown”, Chokmah (חכמה) “wisdom”, Da’at (דעת) “knowledge”, Binah (בינה) “comprehension”, Chesed (חסד) “kindness”, Gevurah (גבורה) “severity”, Tiferet (תפארת) “beauty”, Netzach (נצח) “eternity”, Hod (הוד) “spendour”, Yesod (סוד) “foundation” and Malkuth (מלכות) “kingship”; and

(vi) Qliphoth (קליפות‎‎), Hebrew meaning “shells” is the mystical concept that the body is a shell (person) for the soul and not our true selves; and

(vii) Tikkun (תיקון‎‎), Hebrew meaning “correction or rectification” is the Kabbalah Doctrine whereby a purpose of life for men, not creatures is to perfect their true spiritual selves; and

(viii) Temurah (תמורה‎‎‎), Hebrew meaning “exchange” is the Kabbalah Doctrine whereby letters, words and sentences may be re-arranged in sacred texts or sacred or legal writing without defying “Divine Law” or diminishing its ecclesiastical, legal or lawful effect providing a standard coding or decoding method is used. The primary three (3) methods are Atbash (replacing the first letter with the last, the second with the next last and so on), Avgad (replacing each letter with the previous letter) and Albam (replacing the first letter with the twelth, the second with the thirteenth and so on) .Furthermore, such methods may reveal “hidden” truths and messages from the Divine Creator intended for only those willing to learn such Kabbalah arts; and

(ix) Notarikon (נוטריקון‎‎‎), Hebrew meaning “abbreviation” is the Kabbalah Doctrine whereby words and sentences in sacred texts or sacred or legal writing may be dramatically condensed into meaningless acronyms or even alternate but valid words without defying “Divine Law” or diminishing its ecclesiastical, legal or lawful effect providing a standard coding or decoding method for creating acronyms is used. Furthermore, such methods may reveal “hidden” truths and messages from the Divine Creator intended for only those willing to learn such Kabbalah arts; and

(x) Gematria (גימטריה‎‎‎‎), Hebrew meaning “numerology” is the Kabbalah Doctrine whereby letters, words or sentences in sacred texts or sacred or legal writing may be replaced with numerical values without defying “Divine Law” or diminishing its ecclesiastical, legal or lawful effect providing a standard coding or decoding method for creating acronyms is used. Furthermore, such methods may reveal “hidden” truths and messages from the Divine Creator intended for only those willing to learn such Kabbalah arts; and

(xi) Tzadik (צדיק‎‎), Hebrew meaning “righteous one” is the Kabbalah Doctrine that certain men who have completely freed themselves of their animal soul and vital needs to become holy in the wisdom of the Divine Creator without the need of ego, fame or pleasures, yet is willing to strive and suffer for others. The doctrine also says that there are a minimum number of anonymous tsadikim or “hidden saints” living on the earth (around 36) at any one (1) time and it is “for their sake alone that the world is not destroyed”.

Utilizing key terms and structures of Kabbalah, the key concepts of Kabbalah Mysticism are:

(i) Olamot (עולמות‎‎‎‎), Hebrew meaning “(five) worlds” is the Kabbalah Doctrine that existence is a dream of the Divine Creator being five (5) spiritual worlds describing a descending chain of existence of all things. The cosmology begins with Adam Kadmon (אָדָם קַדְמוֹן) or Prehistoric Man united as the same essence as Ein Sofi (אין סוף) that then manifests itself into Atziluth (אֲצִילוּת) meaning the World of Emanation or “Light”, then separated by the Masach (מסך) meaning The Curtain, then into the Beri'ah (בְּרִיאָה) meaning the World of Creation or “Concept”, then into the Yetzirah (יְצִירָה) meaning the World of Formation or “Reality”, then finally Assiah (עֲשִׂיָּה) meaning the World of Action.

(ii) Gilgul Neshamot (גלגול הנשמות‎‎), Hebrew meaning “cycle (transfiguration) of souls” or simply “reincarnation” is the Kabbalah Doctrine whereby certain “higher” souls of men are believed to “cycle” through a particular series of lives or incarnations over periods of time time as part of Tikkun (Rectification of the Soul and “healing the World”) sometimes upwards or downwards within the realities or “dimensions” of the Divine Creator and ultimately towards perfection.

(iii) Seder hishtalshelus (סדר השתלשלות‎‎‎‎), Hebrew meaning “order of sequence” is the Kabbalah Doctrine of the order of evolution and “great chain of being” whereby the supreme creator Ein Sofi (אין סוף) manifests reality through eleven (11) states beginning with Atzmus Ohr Ein Sof ("The Essence of the Infinite Light before the Contraction"),The Tzimtzum ("The Contraction"),The Reshimu ("The Impression"), The Kav ("Line of Light"), Ratzon Kadom ("Original Desire"), Adam Kadmon ("Original Man"), Atzilus ("World of Emanation"), The Masach ("The Curtain"), Beriya ("World of Creation"), Yetzira ("World of Formation") and Asiya ("World of Action"); and

(iv) Etz haChayim (עץ החיים), Hebrew meaning “tree of life” is the mystical diagram of circles and lines most commonly used to display the elements of the Sephirot (סְפִירוֹת‎) which at the deepest level is claimed as a literal representation of the “tree of life and knowledge” from the Garden of Eden meant to reveal to the worthy Kabbalah initiate the knowledge gained first man Adam Kadmon (אָדָם קַדְמוֹן) concerning the nature of Olam (עולם) or “the universe” before he was banished by Elohim; and

(v) Merkabah (מרכבה) ‎, Hebrew meaning “chariot” is the deeply esoteric and secret Kabbalah Doctrine whereby the world of matter and existence is held together as a “matrix” of symbology which may be viewed through “divine sight” by a worthy Kabbalah initiate using “entheogens” or sacred hallucinogenic drugs. A common symbology of “hallucinogenic entoptic phenomena” is seeing circles or wheels “within the fabric” of the sky, land or water, similar to the “visions” of drug induced writings for thousands of years.