Chapter 1

The Revelation of Kabbalah

          Chapter 1

A Basic Overview

There’s a lot of information written about Kabbalah "Parables" that causes a great deal of confusion among believers. There are even thousand of books published every year on the subject and almost none of them have anything to do at all with Kabbalah; they’re just some kind of a uninformed opinion of people’s imaginations, who lack the spirit of understanding of what they think it could be, or what it should be, their intuition, and their imagination.

There are surface: understanding, knowledge and wisdom, and there are deep understanding, knowledge and wisdom which comes from the Holy Spirit. A man can put a man on the moon with surface knowledge, yet he or she is impervious to the Deep knowledge that knows the purpose of all created object.

There is a renewed longing to know what Kabbalah actually is because there is a spiritual sensation that it is important, that it is powerful, and that Kabbalah has a grasp of something deep that is hidden from us in this world.

Kabbalah is called “the hidden science” for this Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. :10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why do you speak to them in parables?
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever have understanding, to him shall be given knowledge, and he shall have abundance wisdom: but whosoever do not understanding, from him shall be taken away even the wisdom he hath.
Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in "Kabbalah" parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Mat 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 

Mat 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. In this verse Yahushua "Jesus" said to His disciples that anyone who believe in Him will have a spiritual eye to see and a spiritual hear to hear.

You have read about the many Parables that Messiyah Yahushua taught His Disciples; well it was Kabbalah, He was teaching them. Parables is the English word for the Hebrew word Kabbalah. Even the many stories of Abraham, sitting by the door of his tent and welcoming travelers to come in, and he would show his hospitality. Well, what he was actually doing was that he was feeding them and he was teaching them about the wisdom of Kabbalah. The type of souls that lived at that time in this world were a little bit more refined than the souls that live now and they understood it more profound.

But something occurred at the beginning of the Common Era, at the destruction of the second temple that made it impossible for people of that generation and for the two thousand years that followed to really understand anything in Kabbalah. That is the point at which Messiyahnic Judaism appears and was rejected; that is the point at which speculation about how this world works, what the universe is, what the CREATOR is, grew up in the imaginations of religious people according to their own understanding of Scripture.This particular teaching became a part of the Great Commission found in Matthew 23:18  And YAHushua came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in the heaven and on the earth. 19  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Like every good teaching an equally dark teaching of religion also appear. This particular principle that leap to the forefront of our spiritual life is called religion and in our secular society as Evolution. This religious mindset within humanity prevented them from understanding Kabbalah, so the Kabbalah is hidden from secular humanity.

In 324 when the Christian Church became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Catholic church was born, with the commandment to reject anything Jewish. This includes all the Hebrew Names of the Creator YAHVEH, His Son Yahushua, and anything Hebrew such  as Passover, Sabbath, The Torah, the Feast days and of course Kabbalah. 

We might not have access to a Kabbalists teacher, yet we still have their books. The problem is that it is also called the hidden wisdom because the books themselves are written in a very special language unbeknown to the people who are reading them.

 All the books of Kabbalah are written in a language called “language of branches and roots” in which they use words from our world, objects, fish, water, rocks, trees, travels, wars, animals, even money, all of these things that you see in the five books of Moses, the Gospel and all the other Kabalistic books, but they’re not speaking of anything in this world. Not a single word of any Kabalistic book or the Parables of the Renewed Covenant “the New Testament” is referring to anything in this world. It only refers to the forces above, which create and sustain the things that appear in this world. The New Testament teaching of Yahushua is loaded with Kabalistic teaching, using ordinary things found in nature to describe a spiritual message, as the story of the Sower and the Seed.

The Kabbalists used a special language that would indicate what they are speaking about, and only a student who had attained certain wisdom would be able to understand and hear the way that the teacher speaks and the principles each object in the story portray. That was why our Messiyah told His Disciples that He spoke to them in Parables for it was given for them to understand.  

Kabbalah student understand that the world that we live in is not a world of causes, it is a world of outcomes. There is nothing that we do in this world that has any affect whatsoever on the Upper World, where our entire source comes from, where the things that we see in this world have their roots. No physical action has any effect on it, and that is why none of the things that we do in order to solve our many problems here in this world have any affect whatsoever on their outcome. Only a connection to the roots, to the causal level of things can have any effect whatsoever and this is what Kabbalah deals with.

Our reality as a whole is structured in such a way that there is a world that exists above, and a world that exists below; The Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of darkness; a world of clarity and a world of chaos. Kabbalah speaks to us in a language of branches which points to what exists in the world below. It speaks about this object, let’s say “a family”; you’ll read about it in the Torah. The Torah appears to be the story about the Hebrew people, about a family will move to a location called “a land,” but the Kabbalists are not speaking about this at all.

They are speaking about the abstract forces above, that actually creates these things and makes them occur. Only a wise student can understand what is really going on here.  There is a branch level, and there is a root level; our physical worlds is the branch, the seventh Heavens and above are the root. Unless a person learns how to read and understand the key to this language called “the language of branches,” they will continue to see things only as they exist in this world.

As a result of those two aspects of hiddenness of Kabbalah and because of a lack of contact with the teaching lineage and the real methodology, people still have needed to know, but they’ve had to fantasize, they’ve had to make concoctions or religion out of things, and they’ve gone according to what they could understand without the correct teaching and without the proper inner properties of the Spirit of Understand, that would allow them to understand the spiritual nature of Creation.

Languages are systems of symbols which points to concepts, arranging them in patterns that communicate meaning. What is meaning? For human sensations is meaning, at our core, sensations is the only thing we understand or do not understand about what we read. The words about every language on earth are about communicating sensations that comes from relating to daily objects. Even our word is about things, if we are hungry, it is a desire for a particular item. However, if we are communicating sensations that come from the Upper Forces that manage this world? Force that are not things; Forces we cannot see. By definition Force is an influence above, beyond the things that influences. What if you are writing a book about Kabbalah, it is because you want to communicate the sensation you experience with the spiritual world. 

How do I make it possible for people in this world to enter the sensations of the Upper World? The Kingdom of Heavens is a kingdom of light, and we know that the perfect visible light is made up of the six colors of the rainbow.

These six colors are the six level of understanding, like the six days of Creation. We create a perfect illumination when we experience the six level of illumination given to us when we experience the six days of creation.

To understand those forces that cannot be describe by every day words, the only way to cross that dimension is to used words that people can relate to, by using words from this world, but used them and work backwards to the root of the Spiritual influences. This is the meaning of Kabbalah or Parables, using a cross dimension languages called the languages of Branches, or Parables.

Everything that happens in this lower world called the Earth, already happen in the Upper-world or in the Heavens. The world we live in is a world of outcomes: everything we see or happens here is a result of what already happen in the Heavens. In the lower world we have time and space, people places and things, the object and things of this world, including your feelings and thoughts known as the Branch level of reality.

The upper World is the root level of reality, the cause of reality, the forces that governs the Lower level. There is nothing on the branches level, the lower world that is not a result of the Upper Force. These forces are the expression of a single giving field of intention that never changes. This type of intention is the only thing that can create. The branch has no power in its self, it is the wax that the seal imprint on, the only thing it can be is what the seal imprint on it.

This branch level is the will to received, the raw material, it does not determine its own existence, it only exists because of the Upper Force. The only way it can change anything is if it rise to the root level, but until it start to sense the fix upper intention I cannot escape this branch level.

All the Names of the Great men and women of Torah are description of people who have escaped the branch level to the Root Level. We have been condition by our religious conviction making it hard for us to respond to life this way. Kabbalah was design to undo this process. The only way to connect to the Upper Forces is through, desire in faith.

A lot of myths have been spoken about Kabbalah, and we will deal with these in more detail when we talk about some of its basic concepts. Just a couple of the major ones are that Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. Well, it is neither a religion nor is it mysticism. Kabbalah predates religion. Religion is a phenomenon of disconnection from the Upper Force, of speculation, and a misunderstanding of Kabbalah, even though it has a formal similarity with it because the Kabbalists created Halacha, they created the books that we study and consider to be holy books. 

Moses was one of the greatest Kabbalists that ever lived. Our traditions and so on come from them, but their purpose, the meaning of them, what the books are actually written for and what they speak about; we are not in touch with these things. The relationship we have with Judaism is like Kabbalah and amnesia. Example, the Greek sees the Commandments as Laws to be rationalize, a set of legal frame work that restricts humanity. The Hebrew sees the commandments as a set of principle a set of desire to be achieved. Therefore, they learn them in order to gain perfection, while the Greeks learn the commandments in-order to be able to argue or rationalize about religion.

As far as mysticism goes, Kabbalah is a science, it is not mysticism. It is a way of making a direct connection with things that are natural, that seem to us magical and unfathomable only because we, in our current state of awareness, do not understand how they work. It is the same as if you brought a flash-light to some tribe that lived on a desert island that had never seen any technology at all; you would be the god of light, some mystical creature that can produce light out of your hand. It is simply a matter of what is hidden and what is revealed. I Cor 2:14 But the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of YAHVEH: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. I Cor 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

So uninformed people says that it is magic? Magic implies the use of hidden upper forces, the spiritual world in order to manipulate people, to get what you want and to cause certain outcomes for your benefit or against other people. But it is impossible to make any contact with the Upper Forces at all, unless a person changes their moral inner nature. This attainment according to Kabbalah is a matter of inner transformation and it is impossible to be in contact with the Upper forces without that. This understanding has nothing to do with anything except somebody’s dramatic flamboyant imagination.

In the past, only a few people are allowed to study Kabbalah and there are conditions, the conditions being that you have to be Jewish. This was because the Yisraelites were given the Torah to be given to the world, because the Kabbalists all along taught people who were not Jewish by birth. Some of the great Kabbalist were Messiyah Yahushua, the Apostle Paul, in fact many great Kabbalist were gentiles, people such as Ancholos, Rabbi Akiva, and the list goes on. All Kabbalists took students who were worthy students, not based on some kind of physical attribute, but on an inner attribute that is called “Yechud,” and we’ll explain that later.

The idea that one had to have mastered certain preliminary wisdom such as: Gmarrah, Mishna and so on before one could study Kabbalah. If you don’t understand what is written in Torah or Gmarrah, then you’re not going to understand Kabbalah either. It is not that one need these preliminary wisdom, it is that if you cannot find spirituality in these preliminary wisdom, you must read books that talk directly about spirituality in a way that they can’t be mistaken about things of this world, like the language in which the Torah is written, or the language of stories, Haggadah, and so on. It is the Holy Spirit, in-particular the spirit of understanding that enable us to grasp the spiritual concepts.

Amulets, lucky charm, the use of special letter and number in order to protect people from evil; Well, this is the complete and total opposite of what Kabbalah deals with. In fact it is considered idolatry if one should use the Upper Forces for any selfish reason. Besides, there is nothing to be protected from. So holy water, amulets, red strings and so on are psychological things and they have absolutely nothing to do with Kabbalah.

Finally, there is a mixture of Kabbalah and Eastern Religions, that make us association it with Buddhism or with certain aspects of Hinduism that deal openly with spirituality, and that this is only because teaching from the books of the Kabbalists were not available.

In 1995, when all main stream Kabbalah books were open to all. The only requirement to study Kabbalah is to be accepted as a student, and that you should feel safe and comfortable in looking at Kabbalah and seeking the thing that you need. The only requirement for true Kabbalah is that you believe in Messiyah Yahushua, and show that we have a need for the Holy Spirit; Isa 11:2  And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh; 3  And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of Yahweh: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor in spirit, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

That your may answers as to why things happen and to the meaning of your life and your role in it. If these questions cannot be answered anywhere else, that is the requirement; and all the great Kabbalists have said so.

Finally, my favorite comment by uninformed people is that if you study Kabbalah you’ll go mad. It is my favorite because it is like everything else; it is just the way that things appear. There are surface understanding and there are deep understanding. inner development that a person goes through is a result of deep understanding, as a result one will acquire the spirit of deep knowledge the attainment of Kabbalah, of the understanding and connection with spiritual realty, the pleasure that they get, the source of the pleasure that they get is very different from a normal way of thinking. It is opposite because it is the kind of thought that exists in the spiritual world. So to somebody who has an opposite goal from spirituality, this person may appear insane, but not really.

Another reason that Kabbalah is called “the hidden science” is because it deals with what is hidden from our five senses. It is a matter of perception, awareness for perception is to obtain knowledge by our five senses. Kabbalah answers questions that can’t be answered any other way. It answers, basically, “What is the meaning of life?” This is a deep and difficult question, because a person, who asks this question, cannot find the answer in what their religious traditions tell them, or in what their science tells them, or in what art and literature tells them, or in what psychology tells them, and finally in what their culture tells them. A person who simply cannot be satisfied with anything, but the answer to this question; “What is the meaning of my life?” Is a person who is ready to sense or go beyond the five senses?

The books of Kabbalah teaches us that we live in the whole of physical and spiritual reality simultaneously. MessiYAH YAHushua and His Disciples were in the boat on the Sea of Galilee, and a storm developed, His disciple became reactive, while He remain proactive. There is a totality of reality and that is where we actually exist, except that we have no perception of it. We have a completely restricted perception of what we are and where we are, so much so that we don’t know what will happen in the next moment of our lives. We do not know why things happen, when they happen, where we came from, where we are, and where we’re going. The reason for all of this is simple because we have not built our Menorah, Isaiah 11:2.

There exists a complete and total spiritually reality and this reality is divided and reduced into a system called “worlds.” By means of five worlds, this complete reality, an unending Light, becomes reduced to a brightness by which we can perceive, the six color of the Rainbow. This first world is called “the world of Adam Kadmon,” the next world is Atzilut, the next is Beriyah, then the world of Yetzirah, and then Assiyah. You can think of these as levels of consciousness, awareness, closeness or distance as it descends from this complete reality, from connection and awareness to it, until finally we reach a point of disconnecting called “the Machsom” or “the barrier.”  

These are spiritual worlds beyond our perception; below that barrier is our world, and we have absolutely no sensation of it, or the place that we actually live and where we came from. In our present existence we have limited sensations that are called “corporal” or “physical.” Beyond this existence is a complete Light, a light that illuminate the whole of reality, by which, if we knew this and had built our Menorah we would be connected with it, we would be able to direct our destiny more efficiently, we would stop making mistakes, we would understand the forces that guide us, and we would become connected with them to such a degree that we would be able to live life in its fullest and for the benefit of all life.

Yet, just as Kabbalah itself has been hidden from us, so has this Light, this force, and our complete reality is purposely hidden from us by the actions of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. It was hidden or reduced through various levels called the system of 125 steps into this world. What Kabbalah is meant for is to allow a person to trace their steps from the descent into this world back through the 125 steps, all the way back to our root in the spiritual world, our source and connection with the totality of reality, the seventh Heaven. The seven days of Creation is one such principle, the color of the rainbow is another.

In order for us to be able to achieve this benevolent force which we call “the CREATOR or PERFECTION” a system has purposely created for us. In other words, this point of creation that we lived and function in, is not the end of creation, it is the halfway point; it is a process by which we descended from our roots in the spiritual world, to the state that we’re in now in order to fulfill the plan of creation ourselves in free will, in order to rejoin this original totality of reality. This what our Messiyah called carrying our Cross.

All of the books of Kabbalah, including our Torah, Mishna and Gmarrah, speak only about the states that are found at these levels, both of the reduction as our soul fell from this complete connection, and of the states that we find on the rise back up. The method of Kabbalah is the means by which a person can begin to sense and enter the spiritual world, step by step as we experience the six days of Creation. The Life of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are all a case in point.

Now, in order to do that, a person needs to be taught what they are made for, what is it that is preventing them from re-entering into this world, and how they can gain a sense of the spiritual again. This takes a very special teaching, and it varies directly from one individual to another, depending on the type of correction each soul requires, and it was created for the purpose of allowing a person to enter the spiritual world.

The books of Kabbalah are written in the language of branches and they are very difficult for us to understand, without the spirit of understanding. It is no wonder that we have great difficulty in being able to use them on the surface level, to learn anything about how we can re-enter this higher reality. But the great gift of Kabbalah is that in our generation, since 1995 when the wisdom was reopened to the world as a whole and to those who really need it; special books have been prepared for us. These books were written, commentaries written by Baal HaSulam and by Rabash, his son and his disciple, that for the first time were not written for Kabbalists already in the spiritual world. They were written for people who wish to enter the spiritual world. They are written in a special language that allows a person to get a foothold on the first rung of the ladder.

It is from these books, and in the books of the New Testament, that we are going to take our sources. We are going to look at what the quality is that keeps us out of the spiritual world, what it is that allows us to enter the spiritual world, and the method revealed in the science of Kabbalah through the works of Baal HaSulam, and Yahushua. 

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a practical method of attaining the Upper world and the source of our existence. Much like when a Parable is used to teach a principle of the Kingdom of Heavens. By realizing our true purpose in life, man can attains perfection, tranquility, unbounded enjoyment, and the ability to transcend the limits of time and space while still living in this world.

The purpose of Kabbalah is to make every soul counts.  An idea that is not dangerous to our physical understanding, is not worthy of being called an idea.