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  Kabbalah - LoveToKnow 1911
Hence Wisdom, the second Sephirah, and the beginning of development, when it proceeded from the Holy Aged (another name of the first Sephirah) emanated in male and female, for Wisdom expanded, and Intelligence, the third Sephirah, proceeded from it, and thus were obtained male and female, viz.
Among the best-known non-Jewish exponents of the Kabbalah were the Italian count Pico di Mirandola (1463-1494), the renowned Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim (3487- '535), Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493-1541), and, later, the Englishman Robert Fludd (1574-1637).
Thus the Kabbalah linked the old scholasticism with the new and independent inquiries in learning and philosophy after the Renaissance, and although it had evolved a remarkably bizarre conception of the universe, it partly anticipated, in its own way, the scientific study of natural philosophy.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kabbalah   (4110 words)

  
 Understandings of Kabbalah
Kabbalah comes from the Hebrew word kbl and this means to receive or accept, so it demonstrates that Kabbalah is about revelation or knowledge but it also needs tradition.
Kabbalah in some contrast to magick is suggesting pathways to travel, to make ethical decisions, at least in terms of the Tree of Life if not in the numerology, which could be regarded as diversionary as a way to search meanings.
Kabbalah is its own tradition of pursuing meanings of the Jewish faith, deepening its concepts of revelation, the divine light, the divine sound, the holiness and organic nature of language that has numerical depth, and the divine root of the created universe.
www.change.freeuk.com /learning/relthink/kabbalah.html   (3139 words)

  
 Kabbalah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kabbalah is part of one of these mythologies, having its own peculiar system of metaphysics, cosmology, magic, and, most importantly, initiation.
The world Kabbalah comes from the Hebrew word "to receive." It is believed that a student of a mystery tradition like Kabbalah cannot reap the benefits of study and practice unless he "receives" direct instruction from an adept.
The Literal Kabbalah is concerned the mystical attributes of the Hebrew alphabet.
home.earthlink.net /~lyam/KABBALAH.htm   (968 words)

  
 Qabbalah - Tree of Life - Crystalinks
Kabbalah is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, "soul" of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature.
The term "Kabbalah" was originally used in Talmudic texts, among the Geonim, and by early Rishonim as a reference to the full body of publicly available Jewish teaching.
Kabbalah, according to the more recent use of the word, stresses the esoteric reasons and understanding of the commandments in the Torah, and the occult cause of events described in the Torah.
www.crystalinks.com /kabala.html   (2149 words)

  
 Nexus, Colorado's Holistic Health and Spirituality Journal
It is generally thought that the classic Kabbalah took shape in the 12th and 13th centuries in the south of France and in Spain, with Isaac the Blind considered its founder.
The Kabbalah text proposed a diagram of the divine, which is known as the tree of life—a symbolic representation of the Kabbalah.
The 10 sephirah are connected by 22 paths on the tree of life, which represent the reciprocity of divine spirit connecting with human beings in the material world and human beings connecting with divine spirit.
www.nexuspub.com /journeys/kabbalah.htm   (1872 words)

  
 Sephirot (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The left column is headed by Binah and is called the "Pillar of Severity." It is associated with Hebrew letter Mem, the water element and the female aspect.
Additionally (and this applies to both Jewish and Hermetic Kabbalah), each sephirah is seen as male in relation to the following sephirah in succession on the tree, and female in relation to the foregoing sephirah.
On The Kabbalah and its Symbolism, Gershom Scholem (1996).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sephirah_(Kabbalah)   (1973 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:Kabbalah
Main article: Sephirot (Kabbalah) Tree of life is an important concept within the Kabbalah of Judaism and it was later adopted by some Christians, Hermeticists, and even some pagans.
He is widely regarded as the modern founder of the scholarly study of Kabbalah in academic circles, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero or Moshe Cordevero (1522-1570), known by the acronym the Ramak, was a pre-modern rabbi and one of the greatest scholars of Judaism's Kabbalah.
www.qwika.com /rels/Kabbalah   (1466 words)

  
 New age / kabbalah
Kabbalah, according to the more recent use of the word, stresses the reasons and understanding of the commandments in the Torah, and the cause of events described in the Torah.
Kabbalah itself could only be taught to a very small group of select individuals who had mastered the other branches of Torah - for these reasons, the English word "cabal" came to refer to any small, secretive and possibly conspiratorial group.
Kabbalah tended to be rejected by most Jews in the Conservative and Reform movements, though its influences were not completely eliminated.
www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/kabbalah.htm   (7356 words)

  
 Hermetic Order of the Morning Star Inc. - Kabalah, Qabalah, Cabala - Qabalistic Dictionary
The third Sephirah on the cabalistic Tree of Life; Binah is at the top of the Pillar of Severity and is associated with the planet Saturn.
It is the Sephirah of manifestation wherein all Elements and all energies from the Tree are received.
It is the Sephirah of intense desire, associated with the Element of Fire, the Planet Venus, the Isis of nature and Hathor.
www.esotericgoldendawn.com /mysteries_qbldictionary.htm   (3900 words)

  
 Kabbalah
Kabbalah, the Hebrew word for tradition, originally designated the legal tradition of Judaism, but it was later applied to the Jewish mystical tradition, especially the system of esoteric mystical speculation and practice that developed during the 12th and 13th centuries.
The speculative aspects of Kabbalah (Kabbalah iyyunit) were stressed in southern European schools; more practical, socioethical, and sometimes magical themes (Kabbalah maasit) were emphasized in northern European circles.
The sexual imagery of Kabbalah treats Shekhinah (the word is feminine in gender) as the female aspect of divinity; it symbolically expresses the idea of the restoration of harmony (tikkun) as the reunion of the male and female aspects of the divine, that is, as the reunion of divine transcendence and immanence.
mb-soft.com /believe/txo/kabbalah.htm   (1025 words)

  
 KABBALAH (late Hebrew ... - Online Information article about KABBALAH (late Hebrew ...
Kabbalah has become the exclusive appellation for the renowned system of theosophy which claims to have been transmitted uninterruptedly by the mouths of the patriarchs and prophets ever since the creation of the first See also:
Hence the Crown, the first Sephirah, which unites Wisdom and Intelligence to constitute the.first triad, is by itself denominated the Intellectual World.
expanded, and Intelligence, the third Sephirah, proceeded from it, and thus were obtained male and female, viz.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KABBALAH_late_Hebrew_kabbalah_g.html   (5835 words)

  
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Kabbalah teaches there are only four Spheres outside of the unity, which says to me that the three lower spheres, the root energy center, the second energy center, and the third (the belly) that they are so far down compared to the height of God that they are not even dealt with in Kabbalah.
Kabbalah just teaches with the four higher centers, the heart center, the throat center, the brow center and the crown center.
Kabbalah teaches that these Spheres have to rotate and they have to be facing each other to transmit their energy from one to the other so Malkhut (that is in us; Abel in us) for Yesod to impart his seed.
www.christ-centeredkabbalah.org /K-Tran2/Mercy5382.html   (23006 words)

  
 Kabbalah
Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical doctrine that dates back to the origins of the Torah.
The Kabbalah was developed for the Hebrew alphabet and is used by many numerologists to interpret future events.
Meditation is used in Kabbalah to cleanse negative influences from your body and soul helping you to reach a greater understanding of yourself and the world.
www.exploringpsychics.com /kabbalah.html   (483 words)

  
 Qabalah - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה; "reception", Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah) is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, "soul" of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature.
Kabbalah stresses the reasons and understanding of the commandments, and the cause of events described in the Torah.
Neon Genesis Evangelion utilised the Kabbalah imagery heavily and implied a secret portion of the Kabbalah contained within the Dead Sea scrolls and maintained through time by various individuals and operating in a group currently known as SEELE (the leader of whom is believed to be either Cain or the Wandering Jew).
www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Kabbalah   (5623 words)

  
 The Magician's Kabbalah by Frater PPE
This is the "active" transmitting aspect of the Sephirah, by which it governs the nature of the next Sephirah in the process.
Obviously, the transmission or outflowing of a Sephirah is bound to shape the next, although in the networked nature of the Tree, each of the Sephiroth is more truly created by a conflux of prior Sephiroth, and result as their convergence.
This complex sub-system within each Sephirah was developed by Cordovero and is known as the doctrine of the behinot, the infinite number of aspects which can be differentiated within each of the Sephiroth.
wolf.mind.net /library/magic/kabbalah/kab2.htm   (1797 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: Qabalah/Kabbalah
Kabbalah means "to receive" or "to accept." It is believed that when Moses brought the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai he also brought with him oral law, or Kabbalah.
Therefore, the main principles of Kabbalah are a belief in the divinity of the Torah and that by studying the Torah you can understand the creation of the world.
Kabbalah began in the first century A.D. when Isaac the Blind formed a scholarly group based on mystical traditions.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/kabb.html   (2426 words)

  
 Glossary - ExWitch Australia (formerly 'Born Again Pagan Ministries')
According to legend, the Kabbalah was taught by God to a group of Angels, who, after the Fall, taught it to man in order to provide man with a way back to God.
The Kabbalah holds that God is both immanent and transcendent; God is all things, both good and evil; all things make up the whole of an organized universe; and letters and numbers are the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the universe (see GEMATRIA).
Beginning in the late 15th Century, the Kabbalah was harmonized with Christian doctrines to form a Christian Kabbalah, the proponents of which claimed that magic and the Kabbalah proved the divinity of Christ.
exwitchaustralia.com /Glossary/KABBALLAH.html   (1112 words)

  
 The Magician's Kabbalah by Frater PPE
Tiphareth, the Sephirah representing human self-awareness, is the key-stone on which this balance rests.
Equally, the role of a mediator is often that of translation, and it is in translation we find Tiphareth functioning as the Sephirah of sacrifice, the "translation" of one state to another by release of the old pattern.
However, by Kabbalah, this phrase embodies the Mystery of Tiphareth in its analysis as Yod, Nun, Resh and Yod.
wolf.mind.net /library/magic/kabbalah/kab9.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Joy's Essay
The Kabbalah is the mystical and hidden tradition of the Jews.
The kav continues and expands into the second Sephirah or Hokmah, or Wisdom, which is the divine spark of revelation or genius in humans.
These three Sephirah comprise the great supernal triangle of the Divine Spirit, the purest aspect of the God and Goddess which both evolve and reflect from.
www.dancinghummingbird.com /joyw/essay2.html   (1680 words)

  
 Essays - The Tree of Life: The Ten Sephirah
The 10 Sephirah of the Tree of Life may be considered as the intermediate stages or states of being between the Prime Emanation of the Creator to the manifest existence of all things.
The progression of the Sephirah along the flow is specific, following a pattern referred to as the "Lightning Bolt" by many Kabbalistic scholars.
The earliest teachings of the Kabbalah did not include Daath, referring only to the Great Abyss between the lower 7 Sephirah and the abstract and subliminal upper 3.
www.covenantoffire.com /writing/es_tree2.htm   (377 words)

  
 Kabbalistic Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
These beings are visualized in the Kabbalistic scheme as angels and archangels, or the "fish" and the "fowl" (Genesis 1:26) who swim in the Waters of Yetzirah and fly in the Air of Briah.
The Shekinah is held captive by the Qlippoth which surround Malkuth and she is either freed or kept in bondage by the physical activities initiated by Zair Anpin.
The Kabbalah teaches that the ten Sephiroth became reconstituted as five parzufim when the divine "breaking of the vessels" took place.
home.earthlink.net /~lyam/KABDICT.htm   (4094 words)

  
 Spiritual Growth - Morning Star Institute -- Kabbalah
The original and pure Kabbalah, not influenced by either the matriarchal or patriarchal systems, is the reflection of the Oneness and a “map” of the Kingdom of God outside of us as well as the Kingdom of God within us.
Number symbolism is important in the study of Kabbalah and the realization of the power of numbers is essential for an in-depth understanding of the Tree of Life.
The number two is one of the numbers that Kabbalah places in a seat of high esteem and refers to the true cross of equality and symmetry—masculinity and femininity expressed in the form of perfect duality.
www.divinehumanity.com /custom/Kabbalah.html   (1230 words)

  
 W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": Cabbala
Originally deriving from the Torah (especially Genesis) and the Vision of Ezekiel (the Chariot of God), a large body of thought is arranged through a schema based on the names of God, the Hebrew alphabet and the digits, and these themselves can be organised into a diagram called "The Tree of Life".
Kircher attributes the lowest Sephirah, Malkuth, to the Moon, Yesod to Mercury, Hod to Venus, Netzach to Mars, Tiphareth to the Sun, Geburah to Saturn and Chesed to Jupiter, so that the planets are not connected with the three highest Sephiroth.
The Portal Ritual was not assigned to a Sephirah, but to the Paroketh or the Veil separating the lower part of the Tree from Tiphareth, the sixth Sephirah.
www.yeatsvision.com /gdn.html   (2108 words)

  
 Kabbalah World Center - "The Letters Mem & Lamed"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Mem" symbolizes the Sephirah "Chesed" (Mercy) of "Z.A", which receives her light from the upper source "Chesed" of the Sephirah "Binah" (Intelligence) which is opposite to the light of the Sephirah "Chesed" that pervades the entire body of the Sephirah.
Consequently, the Sephirah "Chesed" of "Z.A" rose to the Sephirah "Chochmah".
"Lamed" is a symbol of the Sephirah "Binah" which, when entering the "Keter", the Sephirah "Crown" of "Atzilut", the head of "Arich Anpin" becomes transformed into the light of "Chochmoh" and delivers this light to "Z.A".
www.kabbalah.info /engkab/zohar/MEM_LAMED.htm   (981 words)

  
 The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ® / Experiencing the Kabbalah
Experiencing the Kabbalah is a beginners guide to the subject, which emphasizes learning the concepts through personal hands-on experience.
Kabbalah, a spiritual system grounded in symmetry and logic, is rarely addressed in a format that is suitable for beginners.
Experiencing the Kabbalah goes against the trend, however, by presenting both historical and practical information on the Kabbalah that focuses on experiencing this ancient spiritual system rather than just reading about it.
www.hermeticgoldendawn.org /Experience.htm   (936 words)

  
 artofkabbalah.net/treltc.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It puts people in touch with the interconnectedness of all life at a level which is beyond physical, emotional and intellectual occurrences.
Passing from Tiferet upwards to Keter, the Crown, the goal of psychological endeavour, is the path of fear and awe.
To operate fully at this level, people need to draw on the functions of the ninth sephirah, Binah, which is Understanding, and the tenth, Hochmah, which is Wisdom, or Revelation.
artofkabbalah.net /treltc.htm   (340 words)

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