128: Wisdom Traditions 2: Kabbalah

The weird things, Weird, weird, weird. Yo, greetings, earflings. This is the Kabbala episode. Actually, no, no, no, scratch that scratch that we're gonna rewind it. This is the Wisdom Tradition's volume two where we're gonna talk about Kabbala. So, yeah, like I put a lot of thought into this, like what do we want to do this in some actually Nick inspired this. It was like, do we want to

do this in a sort of chronological order? Do we want to like try to look back in history and discuss these groups as they popped up, you know, in their respective centuries in order? And we were like, nah, uh, let's just talk about which ones we find interesting. And honestly, dude, that that's kind of like the only way it should be done really, because you gotta you gotta like go with what's pulling you. It's like what what sounds? You know, because everything happens for a reason.

We're being pulled in a certain direction. Yeah, speaking of getting pulled, can you before we dive in, can you just explain this hat really too. It's it's what we talked about before the last one. Okay, No, no, I just I just wouldn't inform. It's it's just informed. It's something I got in a Chinese flea market when I was in Florida, man like, and I thought it was cool. It is because I love it. It's a brimless hat, but it's kind of got like the templar

cross and it's got like the the heat bro. Here's the thing. I'll be perfectly clear and concise and honest. The first moment that I looked at it, I was like, yikes. And then very quickly after that, I was like, I was wrong. It actually goes hard. Well that's the thing, man, you but you you buy a funny hat because the

yikes is transformed into something much more profound. And and I will go one step further and say, oftentimes, uh, good fashion choices are something that at first glance is like what, But then the more you digest it, you're like, that's pretty sick. Yeah, I dig it. I think you you fly. Yeah. I wasn't even gonna explain it, but that's

okay. It's probably best that we did, thanks Alex. So Yeah, it's like, I just love the idea of doing the Wisdom Tradition series because my goal here is to try to like illuminate the hidden spiritual undercurrent that has existed throughout history. You know. The idea is that there are these ancient, secret traditions that have been connected, right, they all have basically the same or similar points of wisdom trying to explain how we relate to the divine.

There's only one there's only one source of reality. There's yeah, there's only one God. You know, there's there's only one. I mean people could say, well, hey, that's disrespectful of what i believe. I'm a wicked or I'm a I'm a classical Egyptian commission or I'm still hellenised like we talked about in the last episode. That's fine, but you know those are those are all deities, you know, if you want to believe that, that's cool. But above them, there's still only some there's one source.

Yeah, No, that doesn't even it doesn't even invalidate those other religions at all. It's just saying that, like, whatever the truth is, it is all coming from the same one source, right you know. Yeah, so it's not even invalidating those other things. I think I think people get offended when you say there's one God like that sounds really Christian. Well not really, it's just objective, right, Yeah, we don't. It doesn't mean there's one deity that is in control. It's not like that.

It's like, what whatever the source is, it's all the same thing. All these cultures, they're all talking about the same thing. It's just their own artistic, creative interpretations and symbologies of that one source. Yeah exactly,

it's yeah. So that that's that's what I want to cut to, is like, it's just it's interesting to talk about these different traditions because you find as you dive into them that they have separated by some of them millennia describe the higher spiritual reality in a very similar way, you know, and that's that's where it gets fascinating. So, like we started off withes scenes that was really cool, and we had just been talking about it and we were

like, you know, Kabbala is the natural next place to go. So Kabbala is pretty wild. It's one of the first, uh you could call it wisdom traditions, you could call it secret. I wouldn't call it a secret society. It's more like a body of knowledge, like a secret practice. Yeah, yeah, it's it's like a secret belief. It's not like it's not quite like you know, Freemasonry or Rosicrucianism, where it's like the

belief is simultaneously in order, you know what I mean. It's it's a little different, like you're not necessarily going to go out there and find very many like Kabbala churches. Yet Kabala is used in these secret groups, right, it's it's it's taught, it's you know what I mean. And so it started popping up historically in the medieval period, like around the I think like one thousand, eleven hundred, twelve hundred, thirteen hundred something like that.

Let me find the name of the text here. Well, that's when the first like evidence of of like historical texts being found, Yes, was around that time. Yeah, so it could. And somewhere around one thousand to fifteen hundred it starts popping up in Spain, France, Italy, and Germany, and there's these texts that are coming out that the I can find the official first text. It might even been in the Zohar, but it basically the texts were attributed to a writer who would have lived around the year

two hundred. But there's a catch there. There's there's no genuine proof for evidence that these texts were actually written in two hundred, because they started popping up, they started being mass well I say mass, you know, secret they started being distributed in around one thousand. Whoever authored this text, they're like, we're just transcribing the secret teachings of this dude from two hundred.

You see what I'm saying. So there's like there's an actual historical origin of these texts, and then there's sort of like the claim that they're far older. And then when you read some of these texts, just like with the esscenes and their bodies of knowledge, you'll find certain little phrases where they're talking about reading ancient texts. I found it. It is the Zohar that's the

foundational and yeah, it looks like it's the one I read. By the way, it was first publicized by Moses de Leon around twelve forty, who claimed it was a tenetic. Do you see that tatic work here? Let me see a work recording the teachings of Simeon ben Yohai, which would have been written around the year one hundred, one hundred. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's a claim, but what we know is that it came from you know, Delayon or whatever his name, Moses

DeLeon. Yeah, yeah, so that that's as old as we can historically date these texts either way. Bro, we're talking a thousand years Oh yeah, crazy, We're not talking about some new age Hippi dippy. No, No, these texts are authentically dated to be bare minimum a thousand years old. R Right, that's my point. Yes, it's an ancient secret tradition. And what we know about Kabbala, and just like generally the tradition is it was like the fourth level of understanding for Judaism. So in Judaism you

had four levels of understanding. I actually had written down these four levels because there are a bunch of terms that obviously I I I'm not Jewish because you yes, I am. That was my secret point in wearing that. But let me find this real quick, the interpreted here we go. Okay, so you have four levels of Torah knowledge, right, Torah meaning like the body of knowledge of Judaism, the text, the biblical texts and so on.

The Torah is the name of their book, yes well, and the Talmud gotcha and the Zohar, right, So the first level is pest shot, which means the plain or literal meaning of the text. So that's like, bro, Like, I don't mean this disrespectfully, but think of like your average basic believing religious person, like a Christian who goes to church and they read the Bible and interpret it literally, and they think that's all it is, word for word is literal. Yes, that's level one, right,

that's level one understanding of the Torah. And then you have level two,

which is rims, which means the hint. This refers to the interpretations of the Torah that are not explicitly stated, but are rather only hinted at in the text contextually, Like, for example, there's a verse in the Book of Genesis that describes Abraham sitting at the entrance of his tent when God appears to talk to him, and Abraham is sitting while God is standing, which this is a hint at the future, indicating that when a Jewish court

decides Halasha obviously have been a butcher, the pronunciations here there in God's presence, and they must be seated while the Almighty stands above them. So it's like this little subtle context clues like that the only devouted seekers of the Torah would catch up on you, and then the The third level is drash, which means home aletics. An example of josh is like the story of Abraham discovering God at the age of three and having his faith tested by throwing into

a fiery being thrown into a fiery furnace by King Nimrod. This story is not found in the Bible at all, but it's an integral part of the Torah. It's like a story that's passed down, that's accepted as a part of the body of knowledge, but it's not written, you know what I mean. Oh, so that could like a parallel to that could be like the stuff that is in the Dead Sea scrolls that didn't make it into the Bible. Yes, like stuff that has been passed down orally or by tradition

or whatever, but is not necessarily written in the book. Right, Okay, that's interesting. There's an entire book. There's an entire literature of drosh called midrash. Some Midrashic texts are actually kabalistic text too, which I didn't read those. I didn't cover those, but I mainly covered the Zohar. Is there a lot is there like a ton of mid texts out there, or is it kind of scarce? I'm not one hundred percent sure. I mainly focused on the kabalistic texts, and there's quite a bit of that.

I mean, it's not like, you know, it's not like the Bible or the Talmud that has like fifty or sixty plus books in a thousand pages. It's it's more like the Dead Sea scrolls. Like there's a pretty decent finite number of these texts. But it's it's a big, it's sizable, it's it's it's real, it's tangible. So that's interesting. Would would then, like the entirety of the Kabbala not be considered midrash? No, it's the fourth level. I'm going there. Okay, it's the fourth level.

Got it? Okay, there's an I was just saying. I'm picking up on what I was reading here. There's an entire literature of Josh called Midrash, which contains many fantastical tales relating to the Bible. The story of Abraham mentioned above is one. The story of Moses fleeing Egypt and becoming an African king years before he encountered got it. The Burning bushes. Another the tricky element is that the tale seems so simple and straightforward, but in truth they're

not. Only an expert train in the study of midrash is able to understand and their deeper meaning. And there's always a deeper meaning. It's a form of allegory. This is important. I want to emphasize allegory here in this episode today in a certain parts. But according to I don't know how to read this, my monitas, I don't know you're the Greek one. Oh yeah, manitas, what my monitas? Only a fool would confuse the tale with the message the four Okay, so you get what I'm saying. Yeah,

there's there's a there's a message in allegory. Don't take it literally. Take the message. Yes, right, just like all the stages teach an allegory and the New Testament, Jesus is teaching an allegory. There's there's profound wisdom in allegory. Remember the Esscenes of Wisdom tradition episode one. They would get together on the on the you know, the seventh day or whatever, and they would have their sermons where they would teach an allegory. Yes,

emphasis on allegory for the Kabala things. Yeah, and and it seems like there's a through line with allegory. I mean, that's what theosophists believe exactly. There's a lot of these traditions that believe that, like the most effective way to incept this information into the subconscious of whoever's reading it is through allegory

exactly, because the higher realities are abstract. Yeah. Yeah, you know, your brain couldn't comprehend it anyway, so it might as well try to convey the feelings to you rather than the literal like what happened, right, because the higher realities are not literal. They're not they're not bound by a form, you know what I mean. They're formless. It's ineffable, which is really cool because like the the subconscious like it kind of behaves creatively.

It's like and so allegory is like almost like art. It's like it is like art. Yeah, it's a poetry. It's poetry. That's so sick, dude. Like the most effective way to get it in somebody's brain is to make it art and then they'll get it right. That's so sick. Yeah, So emphasis on that because in in the Book of Zohar, there's a part I'm gonna get to it in a little bit that they actually in their ancient text describe how the wisdom was taught through allegory. So yeah,

we're gonna get there. So then the fourth level of of Torah knowledge is sod meaning secret. It's the esoteric dimension of the Torah that relates to the divine in the higher worlds. This is the realm of Kabbala. This is the highest level initiates of Torah. You know, because again we're focusing on Jewish literature today, we're focusing on you know that that specific body of thinking. Yeah, yeah, we're casting out other mystery schools for the time being.

So the highest level of of of Torah, disciple or student or whatever they are studying Kabbala, it's the secret that the worthy. We're allowed to study the elite, right WHOA Okay, I always maybe I misunderstood. I always thought that like Kabbala practice was kind of like an offshoot of Judaism that

wasn't necessarily it seems like that at first recognized by all of Judaism. But what that sounds like is all of Judaism if they recognize those four phases, then the fourth one is Kabbala. So it's like, I don't know, maybe I was wrong in that assumption to it. I thought that too, and I'm starting to think that maybe that's not the case, you know, Like that's interesting. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Like Judaism is one of the most mysterious things in the whole world. It's complex.

Honestly, it's very complex. Like it's it's very complicated. I mean the Talmut alone is like two thousand pages or it's like it's like twenty volumes, you know, like it's it's impossible to understand, I think anyway. So it's the esoteric dimension of the Torah that deals with matters of a higher world. It is concerned with the deepest questions regarding the creator, the universe and the soul of man. It's this sex of the Torah that is also known

as Kabala, meaning the received tradition. That's also the literal. That's the literal translation into English of the word kabala. It means to receive, like like like a download. Yeah, like like the received tradition. Whoa right. It was never taught publicly and there was it was only taught from master

to disciple. Again, we're talking the Middle Evel, the medieval ages, right a thousand years ago, and there was some point in history where it was only allowed to be taught to men who were like at least in their forties because the Kabbala was such a very and you're gonna see, we're gonna

read from some of it, and you're gonna be like, damn. It's kind of like remember the Essene texts where where they're talking about stones and and and really like deep stuff and meditation, and we're like, oh my god, this is two thousand years ago. How they know about this stuff, you know, cy ration and yeah, the Kabala texts are kind of like that, and like it's it's definitely it definitely stimulates the imagination. I was.

I was very inspired reading the Book of Zohar yesterday, which means the Book of Radiance or the Book of Splendor. It's about the light Oh yeah, creation. I just saw something and it was talking about like the light of God, like the Book of Radiance, Yeah, the Light of God. Yeah, it says the Zohar contains discussions of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of soul's redemption, the relationship of ego to darkness and true self to the light of God. Yes,

yes, I highlighted my favorite parts. So it's crazy, And like I could see where back then people who had access to this text would be controversial, you know, or like just the texts in general, especially during the times of like medieval Catholicism, it would sound like witchcraft, oh for sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, And like there was an ancient legend that there were these four master rabbi in history, and one of them we

covered in the Metatron episode, Rabbi ben Akiva. He wrote the texts that we were reading from about Metatron. The heck a lot body of literature. I think it was Third Eoch, those those mystical texts where they're talking about their celestial visions where Metatron was bringing them. That that was purportedly written by Rabbi ben Akiva. But the legend goes that there were four rabbinical stages in history who delved into the highest levels of kabbala. One of them died,

he he like, I think he killed himself. Whoa one of them went crazy, one of them lost his faith, and Rabbi Ben Akiva came back

unscathed, like enlightened, like because the text was so high level. That's just a legend that the text was so high level that it's like initiates be warned, Like you probably should only delve into this material if you're at least forty years old, you're mature, you've lived a very long life, and you've spent your entire life dedicated to studying the Torah, then you should proceed

with caution into this body of literature. Today reading this stuff would have had that effect, probably not, you know, No, we're talking about the medieval ages where they're sitting and little buildings made of like stone or whatever with candles in the middle of the night, and they're reading this shit. And you know, if they know their neighbor finds out they're reading it, they're

probably going to be killed for heresy. It's a different world. I also think there's something to be said about you know, we talk all the time about how like the spiritual energy of the world must have been so much higher and more potent back then with all right, you know, without all the distractions and stuff. So I mean, yeah, they might have been reading it and like real, actual spiritual things were happening with them and like they

just couldn't handle it. Yeah, I think that's definitely possible. I found the part about the legend, by the way, so let's get it right. So it is hold on, you're gonna like this, okay. So remember we talked about the four levels of Torah knowledge, the Peshot, the rimeg, Josh, and Sod. They give rise to the acronym par Des, which in Hebrew means an orchard. So the idea of like the highest level of cabalistic knowledge or like the perfected wisdom, is like an apple orchard.

Think of like the apple of e Yeah, the garden of Eden, Yeah exactly, so, or like Elun from Norse mythology, same thing. Yeah. Sure, the orchard of the Torah is one unity. And just as both the written and the oral Torah were given at Sinai, so too was the par Des. The meaning that this this wisdom of the orchard. Right, So the idea was that, oh, there's actually a story in the Talmud that's a warning to the initiated uninitiated against entering the deepest levels of

the part as, which is like the orchard of wisdom. From these bodies of knowledge. So the Talmud, which is like again it's a it's a real, it's not a secret text. You know, it recounts how four scholars, Rabbi Akiva, ben Zoma, ben Azai, and Elisha ben Avuya entered the part as, meaning that together they delved into the most hidden secrets of the Torah. As a result, ben as I lost his life, ben Zoma lost his mind, Elisha been Ayuva Avuya lost his faith, and

Rabbi Kiva emerged unscathed. So yeah, so that's the point. There's all this mystique around kabbala in the medieval ages. So let's get into what some of the actual text is. So we have some Papa Papa, yeah, I know, right, my brain's going to mile a minute, popular texts vision of the chariot that like classical Ezekiel's story, you know, like the vision of the wheel within the wheel that was regarded as like an esoteric cabalistic

text as well. So like you have that in the Torah, you have it in the Bible, and then you have the Kabbalistic literature where they're studying it more deeply and they're like divulging what it actually means, right, because like it's so funny, like you read the Bible and so much of it is just like seems straightforward, normal stuff, and then out of nowhere, there's like a burning wheel within a wheel in the sky. It's like, right, well, you know what it's like, where did that come from?

It's extremely high mystical stuff out of nowhere. So then those people obviously see that and they're like, mmmm, there's something we got to dig into it exactly. Yeah. And then we also have the heck a lot body of Knowledge, which is what we covered in the Metatron episode at not at length, but like you know, kind of lightly, but it's the celestial chariots and visions. It was like they were also known as the Merkaba mystics,

remember the Merkaba, Like this is the Merkaba. Any of those bodies of knowledge or ten actually were cabalistic texts as well, so they were esoteric. They're studying them, meditating on what you know, these symbols mean, and they're trying to reach enlightened states to like see Mirkaba and Celeste visions and things. You know, you have effort for those who might not know merka, but you want to just real quick. But they're like, yeah, well, if you could see me, if you're watching, this is the

shape of the Merkaba. It's it's the Markaba is like I don't know how to describe it because it's very abstract metaphysical thing, but it's the concept that like you have this archetypal spiritual dimension that is permeating everything, and like you have at the basic level, you know, we're all made up of like the union of masculine and feminine forces that are symbolized in the archetypal dimension as

like the upward pointing uh pointing triangle and the downward pointing triangle right masculine. Yeah, you form them together and it makes the star, the six pointed star, which is a But then when you take that and you add another level of dimensional reality to it, it becomes three D. It's the Merkaba. The idea is that each one of us are represented in some metaphysical dimension by a merca. But like our soul is like our soul, yeah,

like we're connected to it. It's like the light body. Yeah, exactly, like a I mean you've you've said in the past before that you could think of the lights that you see in the sky as markaba. Yeah, it's like the soul. It's like your right and and and there's belief that the word mirkaba actually comes from three different words. Mirr kaba which is like spirit light body, like like cause the Egyptian word for soul bah, I'm not sure which that means, and then mirr one of it's like spirit light

body. I could look that up, but yeah, yeah, yeah, just for people who didn't know, I just wanted to give a quick little that's what the marka but is. It's like a three D six pointed star that is used to represent like the light body of the of human consciousness or the soul. Right, the cherity derived from the Hebrew word chariot. And again, like this is an old concept. You see it a lot in New Age stuff, but it's it's really an ancient concept I was trying to

find. I always find it so fascinating, but I always forget where the word comes from. But it's really cool. It's it's something like spirit light body, but I think it translates too. But the mirror and the ka and the ba are all different root words from different languages, you know, I just I can't. I can't remember. But we have the Cephir yet Sarah, which I read that one many years ago. I did not read

it for this episode today. But the Sepher Yets is really cool. It's like, no, I just when I first ever learned about Kabala, I read it, got it many years ago, like back when I lived in Faetteville, seven or eight years ago. It's very cool. It's like the Kabbalistic creation myth. You know, you have creation myth. Oh, yeah, and the and the Zohar talks a little bit about that. We're going to get into that. And then the Sephir the Cephir Habba here, which

is like the more mystical teachings of the Book of Genesis. So it's like a complete revisiting of Genesis entirely from a Cabalistic les. So really cool. But there were way too many texts for me to read to like pull from them and and streamline into one episode, so you know, I focused on the Zohar and yeah, so let's get into that. The cosmology of Kabbala

is pretty cool. It's the idea that there are ten emanated realities right in total and that includes the einsaff, which is like the highest, the highest, uh version of reality where the source comes and the sources described as being like a ceaseless, limitless, lossless, endless fountain of ocean or of fire that never is consumed, but doesn't need to consume and can't be. It's described as this unlimited, ineffable, all powerful, all radiant, all shining,

endless, limitless force. It's like consciousness. Yeah, it's like the the limitless body. But it's like it's not even just described as consciousness. It's described as like the source, right, Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, it's the source of consciousness. It's the light, it's the true light. It's you know, it's it's described in terms that are deeply imaginative. It's like kingdom hearts. Yeah, it's the source of all.

Well remember in remember in the Metatron episode, we talked about that book of I can't remember the name of the text right now. It's let me think about it. It's it's uh damn. It's the one where it's like they're trying to overwhelm the mind of the initiate. Oh yeah, I mean, I don't think I remember the name of it. But that was the one where they had all like the anagrams and the weird letter yes, yes, yes, yeah, trying to think of the freaking name of it was?

Was it the sepher something? No, No, I can't, I can't. I'd have to go look at it later. Let me well, you go ahead and talk. Let me see if I can find it. It might be in the episode description, Okay, if you go find the episode okay. Anyway, So yeah, the kabalistic texture really cool because they use a lot of language that's intentionally trying to stimulate the imagination to reach new

heights, to fathom the higher reality. Right, So, like, for example, I'm gonna read some excerpts from the Zohar, which is the first ever foundational text of Cabala. It's the one that we were talking about that popped up at around one thousand a d and was believed to be from one hundred and eighty right, yes, so let's talk about the first light. This is how this is pretty wild. This is how the Zohar begins. You ready, Yes, I'm ready? Also that were you able to I

couldn't find it. It's gonna kill me if I don't find the name of that text. I'm trying to find it. Yeah, I gotta get out in front of it and just say it. When my brain starts thinking about these kinds of topics and things, it starts going a mile a minute and I start crashing over myself, you know. So it's like I I the the word is on the tip of my brain. Yeah, I can't, I can't. You You wanted me to go to the description of what the Metatron episode. Yeah, that text is. Let me see it's it's it's

killing me. I'm gonna find it. It's okay. If it's in the episode description, I'm about to find it right now. We can cut the silence if there's a little bit. No, it's okay. I'm gonna keep going. All right. This is how it begins the so Hard the Book of Radiance in the beginning, and it's a quote of Genesis book one,

verse one. It's important to note that because this was written after, you know, the Torah, or you could say the Old Testament in Christian terms, was written, they make a lot of official references to those texts. So it says in the beginning, in quotes Genesis one to one, when the will of the king began to take effect. He engraved signs into the

heavenly sphere that surrounded him. Within the most hidden recess, a dark flame issued from the mystery of einsoft, the infinite, like a fog forming in the unformed enclosed in the ring of that sphere, neither white nor black, neither red nor green, of no color whatever. Only after this flame began

to assume size and dimension did it produce radiant colors. From the innermost center of the flame sprang forth a well, out of which colors issued and spread upon everything hidden, everything beneath, hidden in the mysterious hiddenness of einsoft. So einsoft is like the all. It's like, did it describe it as a flame? Oh yeah, we're gonna We're gonna go into that, okay.

So einsoft is the cop the official Kabbala word for like what the Gnostics would call the pleroma, the the the Kybalian would say, the all, you know, the source, the highest God, whatever you want to conceive, the one above all, that's Einsoft. Well, it's also crazy that it's described as a flame or a fire, because that sounds like the Holy Spirit is, you know. It is also described as a fire. That's

that's interesting. So iinsoft is regarded as the realm above all realms, from which the lower realms are emanating from, like layers, like discrete layers, and the terminology used as like first you have the original layer, and then a layer comes off of it, wearing the preview. We're talking about realities, we're talking about dimensions, yeah, and then the next layer comes off and it's clothed in the previous layer, and then a new layer comes off,

and it's like it's describing it. It's like fractal. It's describing as like the highest reality emanating the lower ones down to where we are here today, you know. So and following this same thing, is that still referring to the ten distinct realities or is it like more of like an infinite reality all ten together is ice off like the tin tails beast, yeah, or or like the cephar you know, the oh, we didn't even talk about

that. So these these realms in Kabbala are known as the Sepharat, which you know, if you're gaming fans or whatever, you know Cepharath from Final Fantasy. That's obviously a reference to that Full Metal alchemist. You know. Oh yeah, the first in the first level when when they do the ritual to try to bring their mother back from the dead, that they see a door and it has the ten. It actually says the words cept and it's

you know, it's the Tree of Life. That's the thing is, it's the dimensions are symbolized by the Tree of Life, and they're the ten Sepharat, and the realms mean something like the crown. I think the crown is I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher this. I think it's Chokma, Chakma, let's look that up. And and each of the sepharat have a different name that symbolized different layers of reality. And you know, it reminds me a lot of Igdrasil. Yeah. Yeah, nine realms, right, and it's a

tree exactly. Yeah, there's nine realms. I mean, sure, the Tree of Life is ten, but technically like the tenth is like the material world anyway, so it's basically talking about the same thing. Oh, I was wrong. Chakma is not the highest realm. The highest realm is Einsalt. Chakma is the sepharotic crown. You have kept there been the Holy Spirit chakma. Okay, so you were saying in the crown, and it's in the crown. This is I'm trying to get the image to pop up,

but it's very blurry. But anyway, moving on, we can revisit the tree of life. So I'm gonna keep reading a little bit on that text. So we left off at from the innermost center of the flame sprang forth a well, out of which colors issued and spread upon every everything hidden hidden the mysterious hiddenness of einsoft notice, they say hidden in the mysterious hiddenness. There's a lot of redundant language to try to like make you fathom the unfathomable.

The point, you know, it's like they're using this allegorical word play to try to like hit imagery in your mind. It's very intention There's actually a thing in here I highlighted that talks about like the power of allegory to fathom God. You know, the well broke through, and yet did not

break through the ether of the sphere. It could not be recognized at all until a hidden supernal point shown forth under the impact of the final breaking through this prime and then this is a footnote, this primordial point is identified by the Zohar with the wisdom of God, the hulk Ma the ideal thought of creation. The idea is that it's all thought forms being thought into reality by the highest layer. You know, beyond beyond this point nothing can be known.

Therefore it is called rash beginning the first word out of the ten by means of which the universe has been created. The universe this I'm still reading the text The universe, the shell and the kernel. So the idea is that the universe is the shell and the colonel. Remember we're talking about the

layers of reality emanating. So when King Solomon penetrated into the depths of the nut garden, as it is written, I descended into the garden of nuts, he took up a nut in a shell, and studying it, he saw an analogy and its layers with the spirits which motivates the sensual desires of humans, as it is written, and the delights of the sons of men are for male and female demons Ecclesiastes two and eight. You know, it's like the whole belief that the fallen angels and all that the Holy One be

blessed. Anytime they ever mention the Highest God, or they call it the Light of the Light of the presence, the Holy One, the einsoft. Anytime the Kabbalist mentions God or the highest Realm, they always praise. They always say, be blessed. That's fine. That their respect on the name. So they say, it's like Islam. It's like it's like, you know, like, what is it Mohammed Pi upon him that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, it's like an honor like blessed is got you know,

they always do that. I find it interesting. So it says the Holy One be blessed. Saw that it was necessary to put into the world all of these things so as to make sure of permanence and of having, so to speak, a brain surrounded by numerous membranes. The whole, the whole world, upper and lower, is organized on this principle, from the primary mystic center to the very outermost of all the layers. Primary mystic center. A thousand years ago at least, this was written God, that that

that that's important. You know what I mean to that? It just it sounds like something that you would hear written like by by some New Age thinkers in like the nineteen hundred, exactly like early theosophical stuff exactly. Yeah,

this is this is minimum a thousand years old. And I was thinking about this earlier a little bit, like, how how did you know if they didn't have the technology that we have and the scientific instruments to conduct all these studies and all this stuff, how do they know about energy and frequency and vibration? And if it wasn't via some sort of spiritual connection, right, there's no other explanation. But and yet these ancient philosophers and like deep thinkers

have known this for thousands of years. It's wild, huh. God. The whole world, the upper and the lower, is organized on this principle, from the primary mystic center to the very outermost of all the layers. All are coverings, the one to the other. Brain within brain, spirit inside of spirit, shell within shell. The primal center is the innermost light

of a translucence, subtlety, and purity beyond comprehension. That enter point extended becomes a palace, which acts as an enclosure for the center and is also of i radiance, translucent beyond the power to know it. The palace vestment for the incognizable inner point, while it is an unknowable radiance in itself is nevertheless of a lesser subtlety and translucency than the primal point. The palace. It always has palace in quotes, the palace extends into a vestment for itself,

the primal light. From then outward there is an extension upon extension, each constituting a vesture to the one before as a membrane to the brain. I looked up what vesture meant because I didn't know, and that meant clothes.

So that's what I was. That's what I'm trying to say. They're describing that the original light, the original primal force of creation is thinking these layers into reality like a brain with all these membranes or like clothes, like vesture, like the lower you go into the emanated worlds, it's just like a shell to the higher world, right, okay, yeah, the nut allegory things. Now, it's like world within a world within a world exactly

world. Yeah, and it's infinite down all the way up to the original supernal primal light God, the hindsight, the original existence that we can fathom because there's no form, there's no nut, there's no shell. It's the origin of everything. Yeah, from then outward there is extension upon extension, each constituting a vesture to the one before as a membrane to the brain. Through membrane first, each extension becomes brain to the next extension. Likewise,

this is the fractal part. Likewise does the process go on below and after this design man in the world combines brain and membrane, body and spirit, all to the more perfect ordering of the world. When the moon was conjoined with the sun, she was luminous, But when she went apart from the Sun and was given governance of her own hosts, her status and her light were reduced, and shell after shell was fashioned for investing the brain, and

all was for its good. So it's important to note anytime they make mention of any of the three types of soul here, which that's interesting. They have different versions of the soul, kind of like the astrobody, the mental right stuff, but they have different words for it. But anytime they reference the soul, they say she was always like in the text, it's the soul, is she? The soul is actually likened to a godlike primordial mother.

Important to note, bro remember then, come, yes, remember the holy spirit we talked about that in the Metatron episode, it was believed to be a feminine word. And uh, you know, obviously my dad had doesn't count with the lady. She said, you know, I'm the Holy Bearer. You know I'm the lady. Yeah, she didn't sound the lady, but you know what I mean. Anytime in this text they referenced the soul or the great Spirit, it's she, dude, and it's talking about

like the marriage of body and spirit, like that's awakening. Yeah, that's like this a thousand years ago. Also also a lot of that sounded like Hindu, Like a lot of that sounds very Hindu as well, like the whole like moon in the sun, yin and yang sort of thing like that. And then you know, when one was without the other, it was like chaos. It's like it's like very there's a lot of that in here.

I skipped because the Zohar was it was decently long. I mean it took me several hours to read it, which you know, for for like, for example, if you pick up the Bible and you read like the Book of Genesis or really any book, the Book of Numbers, the Gospel of Matthew, it's not gonna take you that long to read it. They're not very individually, they're not long texts. Now, the Zohar took me three to four hours to read. It's big. It's pretty big. It's

not a full book, but it's it's freaking huge. Yeah, And there was a lot of texts in here that I skipped because I was like, there's no way we can cover this all, and also I just found some stuff to be more interesting. But there's entire sections devoted to like you see here it says male and female about those forces. Wow, it's they're explicitly talking about those forces being the creation of reality, the same with the body and the soul, and how that's in all of us. I mean,

it's it's pretty in depth, damn dude. Like, for example, it's like, how would the man who makes a journey and away from his wife ceases to be male and female such a one before starting, and while he still is male and female, must pray to God to draw unto himself the presence of his master. And it's just it's just stuff like that. It's

talking about like transmuting both of those energies within you. Fine, right right right, yeah, Okay, so this is this is the first part of it that I read that I was like, holy shit, you know what I mean. So it's talking about God in the concept of being the consuming fire, which is very interesting because when you think about like first century Jews

and even beyond that, what were they known for animal sacrifice? So you have to understand, you know, this is a culture of people who believe that anytime they had to atone for their sins, they had to ritually sacrifice

the actual animal. Yeah, so they had a lot of time under their belt, like slitting the throats of goats or sheep or lamb or whatever and actually burning their fucking flesh on a fire, and they're sitting around and they're thinking about the deep meaning of this and what it means, right, I mean, this is just daily practice in their culture, in many cultures back then. So just keep that in mind. Rabbi sent This is in the

text. Rabbi Simeon said, in one place it is written for the Lord that God is a consuming fire, and Deuteronomy four twenty four and elsewhere. But ye that cleave unto the lords your God are alive, every one of you this day Deuteronomy four and four. The Companions have already discussed the seeming inconsistency between these texts, but I offer yet another interpretation has been it has been affirmed by the Companions that there exists a sort of fire which is stronger

than other fire, and the one consumes and annihilates the other. If we continue this thought, it could be said that he who cares to pierce into the mystery of the holy unity of God should consider the as it arises from a burning coal or candle. There must always be some material substance from which the flame thus rises, and the flame itself may be seen two lights, the one white and glowing, the other black or blue. Of the two,

the white light is the higher and rises unwavering. Underneath it is the blue or black light upon which the other rests on a support. The two are conjoined, the white reposing upon the throne of the black. The blue or black base is likewise connected to something beneath it, which feeds it and makes it cling to the white light above. At times, this blue or

black light turns red. The light above remains constantly white. This lower light, at times black, at times blue, at times red, serves to link the white light above it with the material substance below to which it is bound and through which it keeps kindled. This lower light is in its nature an instrument for destruction and death, devouring whatever comes near it. But the

white light above neither consumes nor demolishes, nor does it ever change. Therefore, Moses said, for the Lord thy God, meaning you talking to the people, For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, consuming actually all that is beneath him. For this reason he said, thy God, and not our God. And as much as Moses stood in the supernal light, which does not consume and does not demolish, so again Moses is saying, thy God is a consuming fire. Your god God is the blue and the

black light. Right, my God is the white light. Whoa, but it keeps going exactly. But also like also think about how you know, how many billions of people throughout history have read, you know, for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, and thinks Moses is, you know, But then you read this ancient text and they're like, well, that's why he's talking about your God. He's actually not claiming your goal. You see what I'm saying, Like, there's a different there's a different lens through

which they're explaining what this means. Yeah, why would he say thy God? Yeah? But also we've never questioned that, right. You know, that's the example of what's in Kabbalah. They sit around and they're like, this is what this really means. This is what this really means. You know what I mean. So it says and Moses stood in the supernal light, which does not consume and does not demolish. Remark further, it is Israel alone which impels the blue light to kindle and to link itself with the

white light. Israel who cleave to the blue light from below. And though it be in the nature of the blue or black light to destroy whatever it touches beneath, yet Israel, cleaving to it from beneath, are not destroyed. So it is said, but either cleave unto the Lord your God, are alive, every one of you this day, your God and not our God. That is to say, it is the blue or black flame, consuming and annihilating whatever cleaves to it from below, and still you cleave and

are alive. Only just perceptible above the white light and encompassing it. Is yet another light, what this one symbolizing the supreme essence. So does the aspiring flame symbolize the supernal mysteries of wisdom. So it's the concept that even when you see the flame, there's there's a secret flame that is the real God. You know. Oh, okay, that is that's some Lord of the Rings ship, because the exact same thing is in Lord of the Rings.

There's basically Illuvitar, the like god over everything. He gives a secret fire to all of his like most loyal mayar like you might remember this. But when Gandalf is on the bridge and he's about to fight the Bowrog, he tells him the fires of Un. What does he say? No, no, no, no, He says flame of Udun, which is he's bowrog is the flame of Udun. Dun is like a hellish like this, Oh, the secret fire. I am a wielder of the secret fire, the flame of honor. That's what he says. I'm a wielder of the

secret fire. That's crazy, dude, secret fire, that's what he's talking about. It's it's a power that like Illuvitar God only gave to his most loyal like soldiers. Basically, I'm a wielder of the secret fire that is. But that's also kind of deep because when you think about it, there's so much rich, religious and even esoteric symbolism behind the flame. This little line of mine, I'm gonna let it shine fire flames. Fire is light, yeah, but but like, but there's you know, sure fire is

like also pure energy, Yeah, for sure. But it's like, you know, when we're looking at a flame, the Kabbalists are like, you know, you guys, get the exoteric part of the flame that's consuming the flesh, it's consuming the wood, right, but like we are observant of the secret part of the flame that doesn't consume. It consumes the lower flame, right, you know, the lower flame feeds it the lower the lower material substance is devoured by the lower flame, but the higher flame is free

of all of it. It's just it's deep, you know what I mean. It's so deep that hit me and I was like, damn, listen to this. So the four letters of the Name of God, which is known as the Tetragrammatan, there is a whole conspiracy theory. It's like a legend. It's like, you know, the Philosopher's Stone, the Lost Arc, the Holy Grail, there's all these legends throughout history, are they real or not. Whatever. There's a legend about the tetragrammatin, and that's literally

just the name of God. And there was a belief that even if you said it, you would die. You know. Like if you notice when you read actual Jewish texts, when they write the word God, they just put G underscore D. They don't say the vowels. Yeah, they're afraid to speak the name of God. That's why there was the commandment never used the Lord's name in vain. They didn't think that you should ever just say the name God without some sort of purpose period. That's why they're like the

Holy One, blessed be He, you know. But anyway, so the four letters letters of the name of God represent the four stages of ever increasing divine manifestation. A lot of sores, yeah, a lot of fores, yeah, for corners, for cardinal directions. I mean we're talking about like a material structure for the four priests that tried to read the Kabbalah. Yeah, ages. And then there was the four understandings of the Torah that you

were talking about, like a lot of fours. I didn't think about that so many that the some of the serapheme have a numerology, guy, what's up with the force? Law and order? Oh? Okay, damn. I think a four is like material reality, like you know, like yeah, like, I mean you think about it. You live in a house. It's a square. The real symbol of the philosopher's stone. There's there's a square in it. Yeah, inside it. They say circle the square. You know. It's like, I think I think of the square as

symbolizing like material reality or material structure. Anyway, what do I just it? Structure? Yeah, structure, order, structure, law in numerology. In numerology, the number four is like work stability, Yes, like don't break the law on a four day? Ah more app to get on a four day? Right, yeah, the order falls into place on a four day that kind of thing. Yeah, give me one second, I have Okay, I have given the description I have given. Maybe take I'm just

picking up after the flame thing the description always said. When they had returned, Rabbi Simion spoke the description I have given maybe taken as a symbol of the holy unity of God in the holy name Yahweh, which is the tetragrammaton. It's the four symbols. The second letter he is the blue or black light attached to the remaining letters yad he involved, which constitute the luminous white light. But there comes times in this blue light is not he but let,

which is to say poverty. This means when Israel fail to cleave to it from beneath it, and it fails therefore to burn and cleave to the white light, the blue light is dollt. If male and female are not together, then he is erased. But it's saying he as in the letter of the tech with Hebrew letters that it's not just like A B C.

They have like you know, their letters are words. Does that make sense, yes, like syllables kind of yeah, it's I can't explain it, but like they have a very intricate that's how Greek is too, Like the letters are like at yes, yes, that's here, like like words. Yeah. If male and female are not together, then he is erased and

there remains only dollt poverty. But when the chain is perfect, the heat, the letter of the Tetragramitan cleaves to the white light, and Israel cleave to the he and gives substance for us light and are not yet destroyed. And this we see the mystery of the see sacrifice. The rising smoke kindles the blue light, which then it joins itself to the white light, whereupon the entire candle is wholly kindled. A light with a single unified flame.

Yeah, that's pretty crazy thinking about like secret flames, you know, and like these allegories of the fire. I mean that makes me think of Game of Thrones. That makes me think of you know, any any sort of cool reference where you see these societies like uh, like hoarding a secret knowledge about a flame, right, you know things like that. Oh, dude, dark souls. Yeah, that's what dark So it comes from a real think about it, dude, that like the the whole like like lore of

dark souls is like before the flame, everything was gray. There was no color baptized by fire, right, there was no color light to anything. And the furtive pigmy found the flame and kept it secret and like all this stuff that it's like but even the pop stuff everywhere, even the flame there. They're saying though that like even the flame is not the essence. It's

the secret light behind them, behind the flame, which is deep. It's like it's like the author or you could say the author of this text or just the wisdom traditions in general are trying to convey like, Oh, no, you're looking at the flame, I'm looking behind the flame. Oh you're looking behind the flame. I'm actually looking behind that further. That's what it always is. It's like the mystery is always more mysterious. You know.

God is so ineffable, meaning we truly can't comprehend it. It's only we can only imagine. That's all we can ever do is imagine God. That's why there's that Christian song. I can only imagine. Yeah, that's a good song, bro, But also like not really because that rocked our town. Angel shaking his head. Yes, everybody everyone knew that everything. Yeah, they was singing it in church all the time. So we've got the three strands of spirit, and Noah begot three sons Genesis six and ten.

Rabbi he Is said to Rabbi Judah about this text, I will tell you what I have heard. This may be compared to a man who went into the recesses of a cave and two or three children emerged together, widely diverse in character and comportment, one being virtuous, a second evil doing a third ordinary. Likewise, there are three strands of spirit moving hither and thither,

and they are drawn into three different worlds. Nashama the super soul, or if you you know, look at the footnote of it, it's the Holy soul. The super soul is the deepest intuitive power which leads to the secrets of God in the universe. Nashama issues forth and goes into the mountain passages, and there is joined by Rua ring a bell. Yeah, whoa ring a bell goes into Rua or is joined by Rua the spirit. Then it descends below and here Nephe, the vital soul, joins Rua, and the

three are linked into a unity. So yeah, trinity, right, the trinity of souls. But the Nefeche is believed to be like I have a soul, you have a soul, You have a soul, you have a soul. The Rua is like, I guess, like the holy Spirit. It's like the it's like the force that's everywhere. Then, yeah, rather than a bunch of separate souls. That yeah, because that's then the feesch right, that all of our separate souls. And then the Rua is like the force, and then then the Shama. I'm not quite sure. I

mean, that's a new concept to me. It's like, it's like, I don't know, it's like the super soul that enlightens our intuition. According to the words of it, huh, it says, then the Shama is the Holy soul or the super soul, the deepest intuitive power which leads to the secrets of God in the universe, the super soul. But then U is the spirit. So maybe there's a layer behind that. I don't know, dude, it's infinite layers. I know. The nutt and show never

ending. Rabbi Judas says, Neffche and Rua are conjoined, while Nashama has its abode in the character of a man, which place remains unknown and discovered. If a man strived to a pure life, he is therein assisted by holy Nashama through the which he has made pure insaintly entertains to the name of Holy. But if he does not strive to be righteous and pure of life, there does not animate him holy n Shama, but only the two grades

Nephesh and Rua. You know what I think according to this, I think just my interpretation of this I think Rua would be generally more like the breath of life that animates all things, and I think Nashama would be more like the Holy Spirit just in this terminology, you know what I mean? Okay, Like the nephesh would be like my soul, your soul, your soul. Yeah, the Rua would be like the force the animal's life. And then the shama would be like the Holy spirit, the super soul, like

the god soul. I don't know, I mean, yeah, ruacud. This almost sounds like the breath of life, right, whereas the what was it? The shama, well, the nashama what was the third one? Nafeesha is the individual? Oh yeah, that's more like the creative soul, like the the intuition, you know, the consciousness, right, Like one of them is like breathing life and animating living things. The other is giving them consciousness and like critical thinking and intuition and stuff like that. Maybe that's

what it's saying. I don't know. So it says he who enters into impurity is led further into it, and he was and he is deprived of heavenly aid. Thus each has moved forward upon the way that which the way which he takes. I thought that was extremely important because it's like, the concept here is that if you are just trying to be a better person, if you're trying to be good, the spirit of God will assist you.

If you're not trying to be good, if you're not trying to be pure righteous, I think that changes, you know, it's like the will. Yeah, if you if you don't have the intention to better yourself and to seek a better life of compassion, then you won't be assisted by God. Why would the higher powers want to help you if you don't want to try. But it's like, if you want to try, then yes, the spirit will help you. I find that extremely fucking interesting because in Theosophy they

said the same exact thing. It's the will. Yeah, it's your desire to be good that matters. Yes, exactly. It's like, again, it's not about being perfect, it's not about being Christ or Buddha. It's about having about trying the desire to be like them. Yeah, it's about it's about it's the intention. I want to be like that. I want

to be better. Okay, well that's step one. You're you're on the path, yes, yes, exactly, you're on the path of initiatives like manifestation, or like the law of attraction, like you know, you put out there what you want, the universe will give it to you. No one will be perfect, right, But how can you ever get there if you don't even want to? But when you want to, the spirit will come down and it's like, let's light this shit up. Yeah, yeah,

you know what I mean. The study of these three grades of the soul yields an understanding of the higher wisdom. And it is in such fashion that wisdom alone affords the linking together of a number of mysteries. It is an the fesch, the lowest stirring to which the body adheres, just as in a candle flame, the obscure light at the bottom adheres close to the wick, without which it cannot be. It needs some sort of material.

Then remember it's our individual soul. The nefesch needs the material. The material the body. Yes, when fully kindled, it becomes a throne for the white light above it. And then when these two come into their full glow, the white light becomes a throne for a light not wholly discernible, an unknowable essence reposing on the white light, and so in all there comes to be a perfect light. It is the same with the man that arrives at perfection and is named holy. As the verse says, I was just about

to say, this is like someone reaching enlightenment. Yeah, to the light. Wow, to the light. Whoa, that's crazy. It's like I used to think this was evil, Like, oh, cabala, that's you know what I mean? Yeah, dude, that is blowing my mind. I mean, that's literally talking about striving to be better, striving to let go of the material ego, and then in doing that you are creating a

throne for a new flame to arise within you. It's like your it's like your ego truly dies and is replaced by something else, a pure that is someone who reaches true enlightenment. Yeah, that's crazy, So check this out. Sitting one day at the gate of Lita, Rabbi Abba saw a man approach and seat himself on a ledge which jutted out over the hollow ground far

beneath. The man was weary with travel and fell asleep. Rabbi Abba beheld a serpent crawling toward the man, and it had almost reached him when a branch hurdle from a tree and killed it. Now the man awakened, and seeing the serpent before him, he jumped up. At this instant the ledge collapsed and crashed into the hollow below. Rabbi Abba approached the man who was sleeping and said, tell me, why has God seen fit to perform two

miracles for you? What have you done? The man answered, whosoever wronged me at any time, always I made peace with him and forgave him. And if I failed to affect peace with him, then I refrained from going to take my rest before I forgave him, and along with him forgave any others who had vexed me. At no time did I brood on the injury the man had done to me. Rather, I made special efforts of kindness from then on to such a man. At this Rabbi Abba wept and said,

this man surpasses even Joseph in his deeds. That Joseph should have been forbearing towards this brethren and shown them compassion was only natural. But this man has done more, and it is meet that the Holy One be blessed work successive miracles for him. So I think the the the mystery hidden within this allegory is like we talk about christ consciousness all the time. It's like the kinder and more loving and and and Christ like I said, I say Christ

like. I know that Christ is not in these texts. It's not a Christian text, but I just think, I just think the example is, you know, be be like that and and beate. Yeah, And it's like the mysterious forces of the universe will they'll help you more. The kinder you are, the more merciful, the more loving, the more free spirited, and and and selfless, just unconditional love. The more the more you are like a white light, the more the forces of the universe will have

your back. God will help you. You know. That makes me think about you know, like the old like when video games were becoming open world, but they weren't quite open world, so it was like if you went along with the missions and the storyline, everything was easy, right. The world was like, yes, this is what you're supposed to do. You're on the path. But when you fought against it and tried to go into this like semi open world, we're having such a hard time. That's what

it makes me think of. It's like when you're going along with all of the energies and the synchronicities and and the way it's supposed to be. It's easy and doors keep opening. But when you fight it, when you swim against the current, everything that is, God makes it harder. Gently down the stream, dude, just flo I'm gonna get through just a little bit more here, let's see the tense. Okay, here we go, here we go. This is the tin cept for rot as written about in the

Zohar, the Book of Radiance, Don't Mess with the Right. But but he's referencing this crazy part. Yeah, you know, we grew up watching Don't Mess with the Zohar, and it's like, well it's called Sohan. Oh, Sohan. I remembered it. So Har, you treat me. I saw that movie like almost twenty years ago, like when it came out. I couldn't remember. Yeah, I guess it is. Sohan is dang He like disassembles a pistol in like half a second. Like that movie's insane.

Bro. The funniest part is, uh, the the cage of puppies. Oh, he's gonna blow them up because I'm gonna blow up you and these puppies. Yeah, the movies unhinged. It is so. Okay, so check this out. I'm skipping forward a little bit on the the part of the ten sept rot. However, let me go back one little phrase here. Okay, one second, I highlighted a little bit forward. I might need to go back a little bit just so this will make sense.

We about to describe the ten different realities that are on the tree of life. Basically basically, Okay, very basically. But when he had created the shape of supernal Man, it was to him for a chariot, and on it he descended to be known by the appellachian Yahweh, so as to be

apprehended by his attributes, and in each particular one to be perceived. Hence it was he caused himself to be named el Eloheim, Shaddai, Zevaut, and yah Yahweh, of which each was a symbol among men of his several divine attributes, making manifest that the world is upheld by mercy and justice in accordance with man's deeds. If the radiance of the glory of the Holy One be Blessed had not been shed over his entire creation, how could even the

wise have apprehended him? He would have continued to be unknowable. The words cannot be verily said. The whole earth is full of his glory. However, woe to the man who should make bold to identify the Lord with any single attribute, even if it be his own. And the less so any human form existent whose foundation is in the dust, and whose creatures are frail,

soon gone, soon lost to mind. Man dares project one sole conception of the Holy One, be blessed that of his sovereignty over some one attribute, or over the creation in its entirety. But if he be not seen under these manifestations, then there is neither attribute, nor likeness, nor form in him, as the very sea, whose waters lack form and solidity in themselves, having these only when they are spread over the vessel of the earth.

From this we may reckon it. So one is the source of the sea, A current comes forth from it, making a revolution, which is yad. Okay, this is the part where's describing the realities. Ok So let me redo that from this may we may reckon it. So one is the source of the sea, A current comes forth from it, making a revolution, which is yad. That's the y in the tetragrammatin the yah way. You know, it's like YVH W or whatever the order is. Yeah,

Okay. The source is one and the current makes two. Then has formed the vast basin known as the sea, which is like a channel dug into the earth, and it is filled by the waters issuing from the source, and the sea is the third thing. This vast basin is divided up into seven channels, resembling that number of long tubes, and the waters go from the sea into seven channels. Together, the source, the current, the sea, and the seven channels make the number ten, the ten cepharro.

If the creator who made these tubes should choose to break them, then would the waters return to their source, and only broken vessels would remain dry without water. And the same wise has the cause of causes derived the ten aspects of his being, which are known as cepherot and named the crown. The Source, which is a never to be exhausted fountain of light, wherefrom

he designates himself iron soft, the infinite. Neither shape nor form has he, and no vessel exists to contain him, nor any means to apprehend him. This is referred to in the words refrain from searching after the things that are too hard for thee, and refrain from seeking for the thing which is hidden from thee. Then he shaped a vessel diminutive as the letter yad, and filled it from him, and called it wisdom gushing fountain. And he

called himself wise on its account. And after he fashioned a large vessel named c and designated it understanding the Bina. These are all the different names of the Sepharat, the Bina, the chok Ma, the iron soft, etcetera, et cetera. Both Wise and understanding is he in his own essence, whereas wisdom in itself cannot claim that title, but only through him who is

wise and has made it full from his fountain. And so understanding in itself cannot claim that title, but only through him who filled it from his own essence, and would be rendered into an aridity if he were to go from it. And this regard it as written as the waters fell from the sea

and the river's dream dry. So two things here. First off, the first part of this excerpt that I read was like, basically like shame on you if you try to describe, if you even think you can get close to describing a single aspect of God is basically what it was, like, shame on you. Yeah, yeah, you're full. You're not gonna understand it, right. Yeah. There's even a commandment don't make a graven image,

right, it's pointless. Yeah. And he even like likened God to like the formless and shapelessness of the ocean, like yeah, you know what I mean. But then he said, uh, and never to be exhausted. Fountain of light right right, the iron sooft, the infinite right crazy. Yeah, I think I'm approaching the end here, which which is great. Okay, the destiny of the soul. This might be the part that

references reincarnation. Oh I'm not sure if I took a note of that, but I can explain that there's a part that talks about the migration of the soul, which the transmigration of the soul, which is like okay, it's left this body, now it's in another one, you know. So this is the destiny of the soul. At the time that the Holy One be Blessed was about to create the world, he decided to fashion all the souls, which would in due course be dealt out to the children of men.

And each soul was formed into the exact outline of the body she was destined to tenant see she the soul. She yeah. Scrutinizing each he saw that among them some would fall into evil ways in the world, each one in its due time. The Holy One be Blessed bade come to him, and then said, go now descend into this and in this place, and into this in this body. Yet often enough the soul would reply, Lord of

the world, I am content to remain in this realm. I have no wish to depart to some other where I shall be enthralled them and come stained. Wait, excuse me, I just thought that was funny. Excuse me. Where where upon the Holy One be Blessed, it's every time would reply, Thy destiny is and has been the day of thy forming, from the

day of thy forming, to go into that world. So we're talking about like when souls were formed, before material reality existed, was the infinite was like I made this whole fucking thing just for you to go there to the world. You gotta go there, And and our souls are like, I don't want to. We're gonna suffer. I don't want to go there. And God's like, no, no, that's that's why I made you the point that the whole point to go there. Then the soul, realizing it

could not disobey, would unwillingly descend and come into this world. The Torah Council of the entire world saw this and cried to mankind, behold, see how the Holy One be Blessed takes pity on you without cost. He has sent to you his costly pearl, that you may use it in this world. And it is the Holy Soul. And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid servant Exodus twenty one seven, I guess about five thousand

years ago they sold their daughters to be servants. That is when the Holy One be Blessed gives over to you his daughter, the Holy Soul, for your maiden servant, to be held in bondage by you. I adjure you.

In her time, she shall not go out as the men servants do that is stained with sin, but in freedom and light and purity, so that her master may rejoice in her and in rewarding her exceedingly with the glories of paradise, as it stands written, and the Lord will dot satisfy they soul for brightness that is when she shall have ascended back to that sphere,

right and pure, remember the seth. Yeah, So, so it's basically saying, like, treat the soul with like kindness, goodness, Like if you're gonna, if the soul is going to incarnate into a body, it's your responsibility to treat it, right. Yeah, that's cool exactly. Yeah, and to be like I mean again, it's anachronistic to say Christ like they're they're not referencing Christ here, But I just think that's the same saying Yeah, I think saying Christ consciousness. You could say rainbow body, you

could say Buddha. I don't care. It's just the concept of being pure to others, being being kind, being humble, you know. But talks a little bit more about the nature of the soul. The names and grades of the soul of man are three. Nephesh, the vital soul rue all the spirit in the shama. The innermost soul is super sol. The three

are comprehended one within the other, but each has its separate abode. While the body in the grave is decomposing and moldering to dust, Nephesh tarries with it, and it hovers about in this world, going here and there among the living, wanting to know their sorrows and interceding for them at their need.

There's another passage I skipped earlier. I actually skipped a few of these passages, and it talked about when you die, you're greeted by all your loved ones and your ancestors, and your family and friends, and they help

you to the next world. Because it is written here, Rua betakes itself into the earthly garden of Eden. This spirit, desiring to enjoy the pleasures of the magnificent garden, vest itself in a garment, as it were, of a likeness as semblance of the body in which it had its abode in

this world. On Sabbaths, New moons and festival days, it ascends up to the supernal sphere, regaling itself with the delights there, and then it goes back to the garden as it is written, and the spirit Rua returneth them to God who gave it. That is, at the special holidays in times we have mentioned halloweenbro spirits traveling through the portal. There's more references here

of Sabbath's new moons. That's a moon cycle and festival days which are you know, there's star alignments for the holidays, the equinoxes and the solstices. Again, it's just more evidence here that we're onto something, that that there really is some sort of spiritual energy at these times. And they believe that the souls travel between their elms and these times. You know, but Nashama ascends forthwith to her place in the domain from which she emanated, and it

is on her account that the light is lit to shine above. So heavy emphasis on the soul or the spirit being feminine and light. Yeah yeah, yeah, again it's like male and female like or more so, uh, masculine and females. Yeah, but but but physical and spirit or or like I mean, see and yang. It's it's dual, right, when they say male and female, that's what they're That's what they mean. It's the duality. It's the nature that we are. God is man, we are

divine in material. You see what I'm saying. I just think that's very interesting that they reference the spirit as she Oh yeah, me too. I mean I've never heard that before. And until such time as Nashama has ascended to be joined with the throne, Rua isn't able to be crowned in the lower garden, and the fesch cannot rest easy in its place, but these find rest when she ascends. It gets me every time. Now when the children of men, being troubled and sorrowful, we take themselves to the graves

of those who are gone. The Nephesh is wakened, and it goes out to bestir Ruat, which then rouses the patriarchs, and after Nashama, whereupon the Holy One be blessed. Has pity on the world. But if Nashama has for some reason been prevented from ascending to her proper place, then Rua, coming to the gate of the garden of Eden, finds it closed against

it and unable to enter, wanders out alone and dejected. While the fest Tu puts from place to place in the world, and seeing the body in which it was once tenant, eaten by worms and undergoing the judgment of the grave, it mourns for it, as the scripture says, but it's flesh greath for him, and his soul mourneth over him. So do they all undergo suffering until the time when Nashama is enabled to reach her proper place above. Then However, each of the two others become attached to its rifle place.

This is why I wrote all this down. This is because all three are one, comprising a unity embraced in a mystical bond. So what I got from that was the threefold triune aspect of the soul. Right, we have the physical soul that's tied to the body in the material realm. And they said that when you die, your nephesh, your individual soul, you could say, your ego, whatever is, it's tied to you here. But then you have the rua and the nishama, which are like higher spiritual

forces that are flowing between the realities. But all three are one. It's like if you look at the mystical metaphysical body of human consciousness. On the lowest level, we have the physical form. Then as you go through the realities, we have these higher grades of spiritual bodies higher and higher. Yeah yeah, yeah, the emotional body, the mental body, the light body, yeah, the astral the light body, or you know in their terminology,

it's like the physical soul, the vital soul. Then you have the spirit. Then you have the super spirit. They're saying the same thing. You know what I mean. Yeah, And it's also really interesting because there's a lot of similar thoughts of like you have three voices in your head.

Yeah, you have your conscious voice, you have the voice behind that one that kinda is is sort of subconscious, and like the thoughts sort of just pop into your head not necessarily, you don't necessarily know where they're from. It's just kind of like is that me talking? Is it not? And then there's another one behind both of those that sees it all happening. It's like three. Let me and Casey had a long conversation about that the other

day. It's like three layers of consciousness or awareness, Like there are there are many thought patterns that believe that same thing. And to me, that's how I'm interpreted interpreting that within this one body, we we have three layers, right, It's like it's like one of them is actually bound to this body. The other two are things that we can They're like streams that we can access and even potentially manipulate or or not manipulate, but observe, observe

the best way to put it. It's crazy. It's it seems to be all across the board. There's some aspect of the threefold nature of creation. Yeah, you know, all right, this is my actually my last bit of notes and then and then we can piece out after this. But this was It's funny that it accidentally was safe for last. But remember in the very beginning of the episode, I said, emphasis on allegory. Yeah, okay, so this is the allegorical explanation of Jonah. This is important,

okay because again here we are in twenty twenty three. You know it just as good as me. You know, you go to any church in the South or yeah, I guess it's twenty twenty four. Yeah, we're recording this December twenty twenty three, you fucking egghead. Yeah, why you got the popeyead on. No, it's nothing like it. It's nothing like it at all. It's important to me this this part because you know, we're taught to understand religion or I say, you know, religion, but really

Christianity. I'm trying to be nice towards Christianity. I got a lot of hate. Oh you're into a Christian Well, no, Christians are anti bloodsoe. Yeah. And also you know, you guys just got to remember, like that's the religion we grew up with and we got some trauma associated with it. That's all. It's not it's we're not saying it's wrong. We're not saying you are wrong for it's you know, it's just it's just us, you know what I'm saying. It's just my opinion, you know what

I'm saying. Yeah, But I just think this is so important because you know, in the last thirty years that I've been alive, I've had a few old timers in my life, you know, tell me how to think

and how to believe about this Bible. But then here I am, like a thousand years ago this text was written, and they're a thousand years closer to when you know, the original texts were written, right right, So I feel like the context of their society, you know, as time goes on, we might lose touch and forget more and more about the origin of you know, some sort of body of knowledge. I feel like they probably had a closer ear to the ground. Yeah we did. Yeah, And

this guy is telling you. The story of Jonah may be construed as an allegory of the course of a man's life in this world. Jonah descends into the ship. This is parallel to man's soul descending to enter into his body in this world. Why is the soul called Jonah for the reason that she comes subject to all manner of vexation when once she enters into partnership with the body soul. Is she Thus a man in this world is as in a ship crossing the vast ocean, and like to be broken, as it is

written so that the ship was like to be broken. And then two man in this world commenced transgressions, for he supposes the Master to be disregarding the world, and his presence able to be eluded. Thereupon the Almighty stirs up a raging storm. That is the judgment of a man which stands always before the Holy One be blessed, and relentlessly seeks his punishment. Is this it is then that strikes at the ship, and, remembering man's sins, seizes

him. Then the man is caught, and the tempest and illness fails him. But as Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he lay and was fast asleep. Though the man thus lies failed, still his soul makes no move to return to his master, to return in a tone for his sin Hence the ship master came to him, that is he who is the all around helmsman and the good inclination, and said, unto him, what meanest thou that thou sleepest? Arise? Call upon that

God. This is no time for sleeping. You are about to be taken up to stand trial for all your deeds in the world. Repent of your wrongdoing. Bend your mind to these matters, and return to your master. So, like, I just find that so deep that we're having like real authentic texts. Be like, but what if this story wasn't literal, What if it was an allegory about the soul? You know how many people do

bro. You know how much have we thought around as a kid and heard conversations about freaking the jon a whale and we're told that, you know, a large fish like actually swallowed this dude up. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. But like I like that version. Yeah, That's what I was saying earlier, Like there are these things that stick out in the Bible that you learn about and you're like believe it. Yeah, yeah, it's like all right, So a snake was talking to this chick and

got her to eat an apple, an apple and cursed us. Okay for okay, that's cool. It's like, all right, that guy killed a giant with a sling shot. Okay, all right, there's burning wheels in the sky. It's like, you know, it's a lot of it's like normal, seems normal, straightforward, and then you get hit with some weird stuff and you're told to take it literally, and it's like your intuition always tells you like that obviously didn't really happen. So what are they actually trying

to tell me? And that's what Kabbala is doing. It's it's it's seeking to understand the allegory, right, which is so amazing. I mean, I love that. I think that's sick. I will say that the the wheels within the wheels was the orbs, oh yeah, oh yeah, but the fish, you know it swallowing the dude, like this has come on. I don't know. I do think that a lot of these stories in the Bible are alec oracle and like it's not hard to believe when you understand

the history of how the Bible was fashioned. That's what we should do, bro. We should honestly, like I would love to sit down and go through the actual history of this, and we can do an entire episode just detailing how the Bible was even printed, and it's it's really eye opening, you know, and like when you know the history of when these texts were like actually written. You know, like I grew up learning that Abraham wrote

Genesis, you know, five thousand plus years ago. But you know, you ask any scholar, anybody who's like a part of this field who actually studies these manuscripts and stuff, they're going to tell you those those oldest Biblical texts were written It only around the six hundred s BC by a bunch of

anonymous, no name Jewish mystics who were actually in prison in Babylon. It's like it was not written anywhere near close to like what they yeah, like what the what the conventional belief is, there's a giant misconception about these texts. I think that a lot of people's minds are very literally latched on to this this body of knowledge in these texts, and I think it's like it's it's very damaging to the soul to be like so latched on to something when

you don't even truly understand where it comes from. The rig I mean, we talked about in the Stream of Consciousness episode that I was kind of feeling that way about God. I was kind of like feeling that like detachment because I was trying to believe it literally and it was damaging. It was very damaging, you know what I'm saying, And that actually it pulls you further

away from the truth. Yeah, yeah, it is damage. It's like they just said, basically, like shame on you for even trying, yeah, to to to describe trying to pretend that you know something about what God is. How can we sit here and say the Bible is all of it

right exactly. Even as a child, even as a child, I always thought to myself, like, wait a minute, but what about two thousand years between now, Like did God and the angels and all these like crazy miracles just kind of like stop happening when you close the Bible and that story's done, and then there's been nothing supernatural, nothing mystical, no God, no angels, none of that. We just were supposed to believe it existed then, but it doesn't now, and there's no explanation as to why it

doesn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's like I don't know, man, I think there's a lot more to the universe than one one book. Yeah, yeah, I don't understand how people can't get past that. Yeah. Yeah, it's comfortable. It's you know, it's comfortable to be in that one thing and believe that that one thing is the real thing. You know, it's just comfortable. It's like, you know, you can you can literally, like you just said, you can close the book. Not to mention as easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure it

is. Yeah, it's easy, exactly comfortable. So yeah, that's kabala, I mean, like there's so much more to it too, was pretty cabaler if you asked me. We didn't even I'm blessed, be blessed, but we didn't even get into like the geometry of the Tree of Life. I mean, there's a there's a lot of stuff that like, hey, we'll have to do part two in the Mystery Traditions. Uh heck, yeah yeah we can. We can series revisit it later. But yeah, I

hope you guys enjoyed that you enjoyed. Yeah, blessed, be blessed, Be blessed, be and bye, guys, blessed be. Weird things happened in the backyard of Lessoe House got so weird, kind of clun like smiring on the inside of it. No one of that Wow miscome I ever thought a sad and happy