Understanding Kabbalah's Essence
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generator8What is Kabbalah?
Although its origins are rooted in deep antiquity, from the time of ancient
Babylon, the science of Kabbalah has remained virtually hidden from humanity
since it appeared more than four thousand years ago.
This very concealment has sustained Kabbalah’s undying allure. Renowned
scientists and philosophers of many countries, such as Newton, Leibniz, and Pico
della Mirandola, have investigated and tried to understand the science of
Kabbalah. However, to this very day only a few know what Kabbalah really is.
The science of Kabbalah does not speak about our world, and therefore its
essence escapes people. It is impossible to comprehend the invisible, the
imperceptible, and that which has not been experienced. For thousands of years,
humanity was offered a wide variety of things under the name “Kabbalah”:
spells, curses, and even miracles, all except for the science of Kabbalah itself.
For over four thousand years, common understanding of the science of Kabbalah
has been cluttered with misconceptions and misinterpretations. Therefore, first
and foremost, the science of Kabbalah needs to be made clear. Kabbalist Yehuda
Ashlag defines Kabbalah in the following manner in his article The Essence of
the Wisdom of Kabbalah:
This wisdom is no more and no less than a sequence of roots, which
hang down by way of cause and effect, in fixed, determined rules,
weaving into a single, exalted goal described as “the revelation of His
Godliness to His creatures in this world.”
Scientific definitions may be complicated and cumbersome. Let’s try to examine
what is being said here.
There exists the upper force or the Creator, and governing forces descend from
this upper force into our world. We do not know how many forces there are, but
this is actually unimportant. We exist here in our world. We are created by some
upper force that we call “the Creator.” We are familiar with various forces in our
world, such as gravity, electromagnetism and the power of thought. However,
there are forces of a higher order that act while remaining hidden from us.
We call the ultimate, comprehensive force—“the Creator.” The Creator is the
sum of all of the world’s forces and the highest level in the line of the governing
forces.
This upper force gave birth to the upper worlds. There are five worlds in total.
The so called Machsom—a barrier that separates the upper worlds and our
world—follows them. From the upper force—the Creator, also known as “the
world of Infinity”—the forces descend through all the worlds, giving birth to our
world and human beings.
The science of Kabbalah does not study our world and humans in it, as traditional
sciences do. Kabbalah investigates everything that exists beyond the Machsom.
Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag says that “this wisdom is no more and no less than a
sequence of roots, which hang down by way of cause and effect, in fixed,
determined rules...” There is nothing other than forces descending from above in
accordance with precise laws. Moreover, these laws, as Ashlag writes, are fixed,
absolute and omnipresent. Ultimately, they are all directed so that one can reveal
the ultimate governing force of nature while being in our world.
Until a person fully reveals this force, until one knows all the worlds one has to
climb, obeying the same laws as the descending forces, and until one reaches the
world of Infinity, such a person will not leave this world. What does “will not
leave” mean? This person will continuously be reborn into our world, evolving
from one life to the next until reaching the state where the desire to attain the
higher force emerges.
