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Occult Mechanics
Part One
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok
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We have all heard about them. Magic, the
occult, Wicca, Voodoo, Santeria, the evil eye
and curses; while faith in Biblical teachings has
crashed to its smallest following ever, belief in
these arcane dark arts has skyrocketed to never-
before seen levels. Western society is in a love
affair with the arcane and the occult.
The popular media is filled with books, movies,
television programs and computer games all
about sorcery, magic and witchcraft. While
many believe these to be benign forms of
entertainment, the followers of the occult
themselves, recognize no such limitations. One
of the grand rules of the occult is the law of
attachment. In brief, the occult law of
attachment states, “once one has any contact with a thing, however small or benign,
that contact leaves an indelible spot which serves as a point of connection for further
contact and acts as a bridge and an opening to get deeper into the person, even without
the person’s awareness or consent.”
This occult law of attachment is also found within Torah. The slightest contact with
something tumah (Biblically impure) can render whatever it has contact with equally
tumah. The negative tumah energy is contagious and contaminates on contact. Even in
modern medicine, we understand this concept with regards to bacteria and viruses. What
we fail to recognize is how the powers of the occult can contaminate and infect in the
same ways as does Biblical tumah and as medically recognized bacteria and viruses.
Therefore, we have an entire generation that opens themselves up to a psychic infection
without even being aware that they have been infected and what damage such infection
is causing. Because almost everyone turns a blind eye to this infectious spread, it jumps
leaps and bounds to never-before seen heights of proliferation. Unfortunately, like with
all other disease, the occult kills.
We have only begun to see the initial stages of its poison in our society with the random
acts of violence and murder perpetuated by those under the occult spell. We have not
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yet realized how many physical and psychological illnesses suffered by the masses have in
fact been caused by occult influences more than by physical circumstances. Indeed,
many physical ailments that have inflicted people have done so because of personal
choices these people have made. Little do those people realize that their choices (or
lack of choice) are a direct result of subtle occult influences upon their minds.
Another grand rule of the occult, similar to the “law of attachment,” is the “law of
greater influence.” Simply stated, this laws postulates that “with an open connection
between two points (people, places or things), the influence of the stronger will always
dominate the weaker.” Therefore, in the occult, there is always an ongoing battle for
control. In Torah, this law is reflected in the laws of Kashrut and is called “tatah gavar.”
Masters of the occult has since ancient times used methods similar to military warfare in
order to place themselves into a position of ultimate dominance and control over others.
These psychic, occult manipulations are almost identical to the subtle and deceptive
movements found in political and military maneuvers. Indeed, the modern military term
and practices of psychological warfare can be historically shown to have their origins in
the teachings of the occult. Simply stated, the occult seeks to control the mind of the
individual and through control of the mind, controls the person’s body and actions.
Manipulations of the mind to control behavior are certainly not limited in scope. Our
entire western civilization is based upon and built upon the public entertainment media,
all of which is built upon the premise of entering the individual mind, for the sake of
manipulating individual behavior. Why else do you think companies spend billions of
dollars each year on advertisements? Their sole purpose is to create a performance that
will grab your attention with the intent that it persuades you to purchase their product.
Modern advertisement uses the ancient art of subtlety, placed ever so cautiously
throughout all forms of public entertainment (movies, television, radio, computers) to
silently persuade us to accept and embrace what it is they are selling, whether this be a
product for money, or ideas and beliefs to influence our thoughts and behavior. We so
proudly proclaim how we live in a free society. We are so terribly blind to the truth as to
how much we are really enslaved.
In order to understand the mechanics of how the powers of the occult work, we must first
understand some standard laws of natural physics. The fundamental principle of all is
that the occult operates by manipulating the laws of nature, both those commonly known
and those less commonly known. Ultimately, all the occult does is manipulate natural
law. Although some will refer to occult powers as supernatural, the term supernatural
has to be understood as a relative value. In other words, we define the term
supernatural to refer to those things that operate outside of the forces of nature.
However, there is nothing in creation that operates outside of nature.
Everything is in nature; it is just that our definition and perceptions of nature might be
very limited. For example, two centuries ago to have spoken about airplanes, computers
and cell phones would have sounded supernatural because the technologies underlying
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them were completely unknown and unimaginable. Today we can speak about, what for
us may be fantasy/supernatural inventions, but in another two hundred years time might
be everyday reality.
Much of modern psychology and mind manipulations used daily in the media have their
source in the occult. What was understood by a very few long ago is today understood by
many more. Instead of guarding the secrets of how the human mind works and interacts
with impressions of sound and light, these once secret occult teachings are now taught
openly in universities under the names of science. The results are unfortunately the
same today as they were centuries ago. Those who learn the ways of manipulating the
human mind take control of human behavior.
The human mind, house of consciousness and the soul, still operates within the organic
chemistry of the physical brain. The brain is an organism like all others. It is influenced
by stimulations coming from outside of it. Brains are influenced by sounds, lights and
brain wave projections, all emanating from outside. The human brain cannot turn itself
off; it is always open to receiving these stimuli.
An adept trained in recognizing how his brain works makes great efforts to recognize all
influences to which he may become subject. This training requires an adept to delve
within the recesses of his mind to explore whatever thoughts and feelings reside there.
He is taught techniques how to investigate without emotion and to analyze with clear and
coherent rationale what is actually happening within his own inner space. Inside his own
mind the adept comes into contact with his/her own true self and becomes conscious of a
reservoir of information and knowledge that has flowed into one’s mind (usually at the
unconscious level) from sources other than the normal external stimuli accessed through
the consciousness centers of the brain.
Adepts learn, even as later Jungian psychoanalytical research has discovered that the
human mind/soul actually has access to realms beyond the limitations of the physical
brain and thus can travel freely in time and space. In other words, an adept can train his
mind to travel into realms detached from physical reality. This does not make such
experiences supernatural. On the contrary, this is very natural, it is simply an aspect of
nature that has not yet been cultivated by and incorporated into the masses.
Adepts learn that while exploring the recesses of their own inner space that they can just
as easily access the inner space of the minds of others. Therefore, with the proper
alteration of consciousness and directed focus of thought, the adept of the occult can
project his own thoughts into the minds of others, all the while making that other think
that the new thoughts or feelings are their own. The adept is able to conceal his tracks
and thus he can influence other minds from a distance completely undetected. The one
under such influence has no idea that he/she is thinking thoughts not his own. The one
under such influence may sometimes feel compelled to act in certain ways, often out of
one’s character. Only afterwards does one wonder what “possessed” them to act in such
a way. This can be true on both the individual and collective level, depending on the
force of influence.
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The exploration of the inner workings of the mind takes the consciousness of the adept
into new and previously unknown places. A full explanation and description of these is
beyond our present scope. However, one point every adept learns very early along his
path is that in his travels, he is certainly not alone. Just as our physical world is
inhabited by numerous others, so too are the other realms into which the mind travels
also inhabited by indigenous beings of those places. In religions, these others are given
names like demons and angels, yet these mythical terms do almost nothing to describe
the actuality of the different races that one can encounter.
We live in a large universe and all that great distance in outer space is easily and quickly
traversed by traveling through a medium different from space. Travel at the speed of
thought is instantaneous throughout physical space. When one travels into the inner
space of the mind, one accesses doorways that actually enable one to travel through
consciousness to other places in the universe as well as into other dimensions of parallel
being.
While all this will sound mystical to many and nonsensical to others, the occult adept just
responds with a coy smile, knowing how uneducated such comments are and how easily
he can enter into the mind of the ignorant and cause them untold havoc. Indeed, occult
adepts usually train by picking an unsuspecting victim and project thoughts into that
one’s mind until that one succumbs and does as commanded, all the while completely
unaware that he/she has fell victim to such a psychic attack.
This type of behavior is ancient. We even find references to this in the Bible. In the days
of Jeremiah the prophet, there were witches living in Jerusalem. These occult adepts
would hire out their services and use their psychic training to tap into the souls of the
unsuspecting and slowly but surely drain out of them life and the will to live. Today, with
the growing proliferation of psychological depression and baffling diseases like Chronic
Fatigue, one should ask just how much of an occult component is active here.
Knowledge of occult activity is a closely guarded secret. One who has an advantage
never lets others know of his advantage. He guards his knowledge and thus protects his
secret. If everyone else knew what he was doing and how, they would be able to learn to
do the same and protect themselves from the malicious attacks from others. Such
knowledge and defense would break the back of most novice occultists. Of course, the
masters have even greater knowledge along with allies and associates to support and
reinforce their activities.
The reality of the occult is often dismissed and even mocked by the ignorant.
Unfortunately, we have no shortage of ignorant individuals amongst us. Even more
unfortunate is that the ignorant are often leaders in academia who believe in the
supreme value of their logic and rationale. They have no idea what they are missing and
how open they are to the very powers they deny exist. Judging from the despicable
behavior we often see coming from members of the overly rational academic community
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we can wonder how many of them have already fallen victim to the ire of some offended
occultist.
In religious circles, almost all Rabbis are ignorant of the occult. In Biblical and Talmudic
times, mastery of occult knowledge was a prerequisite for an elder to take a seat in the
Sanhedrin. This knowledge was at one time required learning by all Sages, to recognize
and know how to combat malevolent occult forces. Unfortunately as Torah learning was
transformed into an exclusively rational endeavor, knowledge of the occult fell to the
wayside. As such, entire communities were left powerless to recognize occult forces
working to destroy them. In the end, as we all know, European Jewry, the crown of
religious rationalism, fell victim to the Nazis, a movement founded in the occult and
dedicated to enacting its tenets.
Amongst Rabbis of Middle Eastern and oriental origins, where the infection of European
rationalism had little sway, knowledge of the occult and how to deal with it has remained
intact since Talmudic day. Numerous books on the various subjects are available in many
Jewish bookstores. However, even those who buy them and read them seldom
understand them.
Some knowledge however accessible can remain a closely guarded secret until one is
taught how to understand it properly. For this one needs more than just the book, one
needs a teacher. The teacher passes on knowledge that no book can provide. The
student’s job is to receive it; he is the receiver. Does not Kabbalah mean, “to receive?”
Now you know where I am coming from and to where we will be going in future lessons.
Future lessons will take us into the Laws of the Occult, found in the Shulkhan Arukh,
Yoreh Deah 179 and their foundations in earlier Torah literature.
Let me conclude by assuring you, if you think you are safe and have nothing to worry
about, then it is probably already too late to save you. Only those who are open can
receive. Those who are closed will have to be opened with a pry bar, just as was the
case in Europe. You do have something to fear. Acknowledging it is the first step to
defeating it.
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