Kabbalah-Blog

At the moment, we see a drastic downfall of the current patterns of society. In my country, in Austria, about 7000 companies will have gone bankrupt at the end of the year. We see political systems fall. Coalitions are less and less capable of working together. The separation in society is drastically increasing. We observe how corruptions of the mighty and rich are uncovered. Neither a right nor a left-winged politics seemingly can bring any solutions.

When we want to attain the infinite, vast spaces of our own inner, we must get rid of any heavy baggage that draws us down to earth. Gravity is something connected with the desire to receive for the self alone. The body is the expression of this desire. We must elevate our body consciousness as high as possible. The first step to this is the reduction of our habits of eating and drinking. Mostly we don't eat out of hunger or real need, but only because we need stimulation or because of habit. The first thing we must learn is to achieve an awareness of the real needs of the body. The body is the temple of the soul. When our body is heavy, our soul cannot rise.

In a hard and opportunistic world, Kabbalah is like a gate that opens up to lead someone out of a life of bondage. In this world, only the will to receive governs, which means that everyone wants to stand over the others. Everyone wants to win something. But winning means to take something away from others. When I win on the stock market, I take the money away from someone else. If I win in a tournament, I'll cause pain to others.

The influence of the other side is ever present. How can we protect us from it, and how can the side of the 'occult' have an influence over our lives? What is the difference between the side of the occult and the true holy Kabbalah? Has the occult stolen elements of Kabbalah to present it anew in their own self-made package?

We must come to understand that Kabbalah has a very different conception of God than most religions. We're trained to believe that God would sit on a throne to judge people and the world in a voluntary manner. And then religious people begin to wonder why good people have so many difficulties but why the evil ones have much success.

We live today in a time when all becomes mixed up. Where people think that all would be absolutely the same, but it is not so. When we approach the Kabbalah, we must attain a proper discernment between truth and lie. We must stick to the authentic scriptures as close as possible. When we deviate only a hair's breadth from the right path, we won't arrive at the palace of God. All in creation is structured according to the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton. We must achieve an awareness to keep always God's name before our mind's eyes, as King David proclaimed, 'I'm having always the Lord before me' (Psalms 16:8).

At the edge of this world he is born at the Bethlechem (house of bread) — numerical value 490. And from there he arises, right at the very border to the 500, which is the other world. And from there he makes fishers of men, which means he draws humans out from this world of time, which is a water world in comparison to this other world. And then he is here, the law of physics alternate, the blind become seeing, the lames walk, but people of this world don't accept him, because they see everything in the confinements of time and space. And they think messiah will come with a protocol of certifications — here I'm born, and this religion I have, and this genealogy I'm having. But the real messiah won't arrive this way. Those places, that are called Galil or Bethlechem in the other world, don't always fit into the measures of our world. That's why also all end time calculations of different cults failed, because the Bible isn't speaking only from physical days, months or years. When you draw the timeline of the Bible down into our world, everything will fail, because the Bible speaks not just of our world, but of all the worlds and lives our soul is going through. And then suddenly he is here, the man of the 8th day, our world only reaches till the 7th day. And the lame will suddenly walk, the blind see, the dead resurrect, but the authorities won't and can't accept him. Because they're imprisoned in the concepts of this world. And in their view of things, messiah will always have to accomplish several courses, certifications, donations to be welcomed in their world view. But the messiah will break all the world you're familiar with. He brings you into this other world. And here he is, and as long as he is here drink and eat from him, because he is the true well of wisdom — he is life itself, and your life will be anyway better off when you follow him.

Pretty all spiritual pathways are pathways for warriors, for soldiers. A soldier does not have to be conscious. A soldier just has to obey. And so we see that most pathways are giving you certain regulations into the hand you have to stick to, but they're not really coming from an inner awareness, an elevated consciousness. They're only very narrow-minded pathways, while the great path of being demands of you nothing less than to be aware. And so we see it in religion for example, that they only do deeds, because they're commanded to do so. In Kabbalah, it is opposite, we do deeds to become more aware, not because the deeds would be the goal themselves. When we become more and more aware we figure out, that every commandment or regulation comes from ego and not the soul, and that's why the Zohar calls the word commandment idolatry. Rather, are the precepts of the Torah according to the Zohar more recommendations than commandments of a dry religiosity. They lead you to the highest precepts of loving your God, and thy neighbor as yourself because this is the whole Torah. Fulfilling these two highest precepts means to leave the world of duality behind. Now you don't do anymore because you're instructed to, but because your inner awareness guides you this way. A normal person thinks before he does, an enlightened being does not think first, but does first. A path of conscious light does not give you a life program of this you must do and this not, but it gives you guidelines to raise your awareness to the maximum. That's why the Zohar calls Mitzvot recommendations and not commandments, they are here to purify our evil urge. And when we have accomplished this we might continue to pray, meditate, study, etc. but not out of an order or commandment, not an imposed program.

Going with the whole means to become timeless, decisionless, because every time we make a choice we fall for the world. Being without decision means not being part of the world. Going with the ocean of existence means to enter a flow of being, whose direction you never determine. Being in the flow means to become effortless, because every effort comes from the ego. When you think you can earn something through effort, you will hit only the walls. Effort is like a medicine in the beginning of the spiritual process, because we think being effortless would mean to be lazy. We only exist in extremes of diligence or indifference. The middle is not graspable, not understandable by us, because being in the middle means to be egoless, mindless. Being in the middle means to enter eternity. But we for now exist only in extremes, because all we think we are are elements of extremism. One day we eat until our stomach bursts, the next day we go into extreme fasting. Either we condemn alcohol or we drink until we get drunk. Or we indulge into our sexuality to excess, and after the disappointment we think suddenly we must live like a monk. All our spiritual pathways and techniques consist of extremes, in the same way as the world exists only out of extremes, but being exactly in the middle means to be effortless, pathless, flowing naturally with the whole, knowing intuitively what to do at every given moment, and the objective is always nothing else than this very moment.

Before the sin fall there was no real separation between mind and matter, but after Adam has sinned, the light of the world to come was concealed, and all that we now perceive normally is the world of our five senses. But before Adam's and Eve's two eyes were opened, there was another sight where Adam could perceive the universe from beginning to end. We all still possess those powers Adam once had before the fall, where he ruled over everything else in creation. Our purpose is even to ascend beyond the domain of the angels, which means that man has the power to influence the providence of God. And this is the true meaning, that one can ascend to the level of an Elohim, that he can even change the decrees of the supernal court. But this doesn't mean that we ourselves would be God the Almighty; we can ascend to a partnership with Hashem, which means that when we pray and desire, God will fulfill our requests, because of the paths of holiness we underwent. But those people who always proclaim, that they themselves would be God and that the universe will always have to obey their will instead of the will of Hashem will be just thrown against the walls. Humbleness is the first step to true wisdom - fear or awe of Hashem, because he is the ruler of all, and he can anytime take away all your blessings, but the humble ones, he will lift, while those full of pride he will lower.

We must come to a state of unity, where everyone is ready to work for the common good instead of his own advantages. A spiritual community should encourage its members to care even for the weakest chain of it. There should be no coercion in spirituality, and that's why to be part of a community shouldn't be dependent upon how much one donates or volunteers. We must get rid of the cult structures, that most of today's religions and spiritual communities have in common. A leader or teacher of a spiritual community should not lead in an authoritarian style as being infallible in all his decisions, but he must be someone the community respects because it sees that it is better off with him than anyone else. A leading persona must be able to stand and even appreciate any sort of criticism or opinion expressed by his students, while students must be encouraged to apply criticism whenever they think it is of necessity. This follows the principals how Yehuda Ashlag thought, that a spiritual community must look like.

People are lured to many cults or even Kabbalah courses, that promise them that they could get very fast abilities to control all their circumstances in their lives, that they could get billionaires in a few months etc. This sounds too good to be true, and it actually is. Mind over matter is real, it functions, but when one will approach the path of Kabbalah it's not about getting big results in a short-term. One who wants to serve God must undergo many tests in life, and in the beginning stages of the process it often seems as all one's prayers would be answered in the opposite direction. The reason therefore is, that God doesn't want us to become better Egyptians in the sense, that we could enslave and beat others in a more effective way as in the story where Moses saw the Egyptians beating his fellowmen.