Kabbala

Kabbala: Mystical Dimension Of Jewish Thought

The word Kabbala originally meant �reception' and related to the oral Jewish tradition handed down by Rabbis from generation to generation. The mainspring of the Kabbala is a deep rooted belief in a perpetual inter-relationship between God as the infinite power and man in the physical world as we know it.

Man can get close to God by subduing his own negative inclinations and bring about spiritual regeneration of mankind, through prayers, meditation and interpretation of the divine mysteries hidden in the Torah. Kabbalists emphasise the importance of mystical formulas in the recitation of prayers.

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KABBALA: Mystical teaching from the Jewish-Gnostic tradition. Ceremonial Magick and the Alexandrian traditions are based in these teachings. Also, Qabala.

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KABALA, KABBALA: A body of occult philosophy, doctrines, and magickal and mystical lore derived from certain Jewish rabbinical texts, probably originating in early Chaldean and other Mesopotamian cultures, possibly including ancient Egypt. Also known as Cabala, Cabbala, Qabala, Qabbalah.

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The Hebrew 'Kabbala' or 'Science of Prophets' is a book containing the ancient mysteries. The mystic diagrams in it have an esoteric meaning. The Solomon's Seal is one such mystic diagram. It helps to bring two people together. But there's a price to pay. You must be willing to let the person leave if that is his or her will. The Seal will not control. It can only send an irresistible attractive force to bring you together ... that simply means ... it can bring you together, but cannot keep you together.

Here is how to use it:

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What is the Law of Attraction?

Law of attraction has many different labels, "Success consciousness", "Law of Magnetism", "Power of Thought" etc.

What it says is; all your thoughts, all images in your mind, and all the feelings connected to your thoughts will later manifest as your reality. In other words; everything you have in your life - now - has been attracted to you thru your mind.

This means that both the things you are happy with and those you are not - is your own creation.

Most importantly it means; you can from now on create your life consciously. You can start attracting only those circumstances that creates happiness for you - and leave out those you do not desire.

As The Law of Attraction is the most important law in the universe - there is a lot to say about it! Here you will find over 100 links to articles related to the Law of Attraction sorted under different topics. Indulge in all the knowlwdge and inspiration and learn how to become your own Creator!

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Numerology

The divination art of numbers based upon qualitative values given to letters of the alphabet which are interpreted in shaping one's destiny as well as offering guidance in daily living. Often associated with the Kabbalah,

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Merkabah

(also Merkabah) Developed from Jewish mysticism:

(1)  the divine light vehicle used by the Masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms. The Mer-Ka-Ba is the vehicle of Light mentioned in the Bible by Ezekiel.

(2)  the soul / body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of Light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports soul / body from one dimension to another.

(See also: Merkabah, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children. In Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is a kind of night-demon or animal, translated as onokentauros; in the Septuagint, as lamia; "witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia; and as screech owl in the King James Version of the Bible. In the Talmud and Midrash, Lilith appears as a night demon. The idea of Lilith as the first wife of Adam arose in the Middle Ages. Lilith - Etymology. Hebrew לילית lilith, Akkadian līlītuIncluding:

• Lilith - Etymology
• Lilith - Akkadian mythology
• Lilith - Kiskil-lilla
• Lilith - The Burney relief
• Lilith - Babylonian Lilitu
• Lilith - Lilith in the Bible
• Lilith - Christian Bible
• Lilith - Jewish tradition
• Lilith - Dead Sea scrolls
• Lilith - Talmud
• Lilith - Kabbala
• Lilith - Lilith as Adam's first wife
• Lilith - Modern magic
• Lilith - Lilith in popular culture

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Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914), Jewish scholar, was born in Warsaw on 25 December 1831. Coming to England shortly after the completion of his education in the Rabbinic College at Warsaw, Ginsburg continued his study of the Hebrew Scriptures, with special attention to the Megillot. The first result of these studies was a translation of the Song of Songs, with a historical and critical commentary, published in 1857. A similar translation of Ecclesiastes, followed by treatises on the Karaites, the Essene ...

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Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה "reception", Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah, Kaballah) is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, "soul" of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature. Kabbalah is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God, God's creation of the universe and the laws of nature, and the path by whic ...

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• Kabbalah - Origin of Jewish mysticism
• Kabbalah - Mystic doctrines in Talmudic times
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the early Middle Ages
• Kabbalah - Lurianic Kabbalah in the Middle Ages
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the Sefardim and Mizrahim
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the Maharal
• Kabbalah - The failure of Sabbatian mysticism
• Kabbalah - Spread of Kabbalah during the 1700s
• Kabbalah - The modern world
• Kabbalah - Primary texts
• Kabbalah - Theodicy: explanation for the existence of evil
• Kabbalah - Kabbalistic understanding of God
• Kabbalah - Sefirot
• Kabbalah - A Greek Orthodox theological view
• Kabbalah - The human soul in Kabbalah
• Kabbalah - Foretelling the future
• Kabbalah - Practical applications
• Kabbalah - Textual antiquity of esoteric mysticism
• Kabbalah - Gnosticism and Kabbalah
• Kabbalah - Criticisms
• Kabbalah - Dualism
• Kabbalah - Debate about Kabbalah in Judaism
• Kabbalah - Early critiques
• Kabbalah - Within Conservative and Reform Judaism
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah Centre
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah in non-Jewish society
• Kabbalah - Hermetic Kabbalah
• Kabbalah - Fictional representations
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah personalities
• Kabbalah - Footnotes

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Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on June 24, 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism. Along with her two husbands, Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone, Farrar has published "some of the most influential books on modern Witchcraft to date"[1]. According to George Knowles, "some seventy five percent of Wiccans both in the Republic and North of Ireland can trace their roots back to the Farrar's [sic]"Including:

• Janet Farrar - Life
• Janet Farrar - Bibliography
• Janet Farrar - With Stewart Farrar
• Janet Farrar - With Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone
• Janet Farrar - With Virginia Russell
• Janet Farrar - With Gavin Bone
• Janet Farrar - Notes and references

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar. Most famous for the events of 1486, when at the age of twenty-three, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man which has been called the "Manife ...

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• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Biography
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Writings

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Alchemy is an early protoscientific and philosophical discipline combining the elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in ancient Egypt, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic Empire, and then in Europe up to the 19th century — in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years. The alchemists did not follow what is now known as the scientific method, and much of the "knowledge" they p ...

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• Alchemy - Overview
• Alchemy - Alchemy as a proto-science
• Alchemy - The changing goals of alchemy
• Alchemy - Alchemy and astrology
• Alchemy - Alchemy in the age of science
• Alchemy - Alchemy as a subject of historical research
• Alchemy - Etymology
• Alchemy - History
• Alchemy - Alchemy in Ancient Egypt
• Alchemy - Chinese alchemy
• Alchemy - Indian alchemy
• Alchemy - Alchemy in the Greek world
• Alchemy - Alchemy in the Roman Empire
• Alchemy - Alchemy in the Islamic world
• Alchemy - Alchemy in Medieval Europe
• Alchemy - Alchemy in the Modern Age and Renaissance
• Alchemy - The decline of Western alchemy
• Alchemy - Modern 'alchemy'
• Alchemy - Alchemy in art and entertainment
• Alchemy - Literature
• Alchemy - Music
• Alchemy - Other alchemical pages
• Alchemy - Related and alternative philosophies
• Alchemy - Scientific connections
• Alchemy - Substances of the alchemists
• Alchemy - Other resources

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The word Abraxas (or Abrasax or Abracax) was engraved on certain antique stones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms by Gnostic sects. It was believed that Abraxas was the name of a god who incorporated both Good and Evil (God and Demiurge) in one entity, and therefore representing the monotheistic God, singular, but (unlike e.g. the Christian God) not omni-benevolent. Abraxas has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon, sometimes even being associated with the d ...

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• Abraxas - Meaning
• Abraxas - Quotes

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The Tree of Life, in the Book of Genesis, is a tree whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. After eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, the story goes, Adam and Eve are exiled from the Garden of Eden. Fearing Adam and Eve will also eat of the tree of life and become immortal, God sets angels to guard the entrance to the Garden. In the story, the serpent had tempted Eve into partaking of the Fruit of Knowledge by promising they would become as wise and powerful as God. The unstated but implied moral is ...

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• Tree of Life - Analysis
• Tree of Life - Interpretation within the Western Church

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Chabad Lubavitch, or Lubavich, is one of the largest branches of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi . It is one of the largest Jewish Orthodox organizations worldwide, especially in the United States and Israel. It is also known simply as Chabad (חבד) a Hebrew acronym for "חכמה Wisdom- בינה Understanding- דעת Knowledge", or as Lubavitch (ליובאוויטש), the town that served as the movement's headquarters for over a centur ...

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• Chabad-Lubavitch - Early origins
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Origin of name
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Chabad
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Lubavitch
• Chabad-Lubavitch - History of the movement
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Chabad today
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Emissaries
• Chabad-Lubavitch - The Chabad House
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Mitzvot campaigns
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Outreach activities
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Customs of Chabad
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Influence on the Jewish world
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Controversies
• Chabad-Lubavitch - History of controversy
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Controversy during the seventh Rebbe's life
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Relationship between God the Rebbe and his followers
• Chabad-Lubavitch - Various forms of messianism
• Chabad-Lubavitch - References and further reading

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CABALA/KABBALA/QUABALA - 1. Hebrew magickal system. (TRASB)

2. spelling usually employed when discussing the spread of Kabbalistic teaching and symbols into Christian circles during the Renaissance. (NAD)

3. KABBALA - traditional Jewish mysticism; chain of inter transmission of the secrets of esotercism (Hebrew)

Soul aspect:

• yehida.....archetype
• hayah.....divine emanation
• neshamah.....thought, principles
• rv’ah.....spirit
• nefesh.....species, animal soul.

(See also: CABALA, KABBALA, QUABALA, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

A Theosophical definition of Qabbalah, Kabala or Kabbala :

Qabbalah (More frequently spelled Kabala or Kabbala.)

The Hebrew word for what the Jewish theosophical initiates called "the Tradition," or "the Secret Doctrine"  - meaning something which is handed down or passed down from man to man by tradition; from a Hebrew word meaning "to receive" or "to take over."

Unquestionably the Jewish Qabbalah existed as a traditional system of doctrine long before the present manuscripts of it were written, for these are of comparatively late production and probably date from the European Middle Ages; and one proof of this statement is found in the fact that in the earliest centuries of the Christian era several of the Church Fathers of the new Christian religion used language which could have been taken only from the Hebrew theosophy, that is, the Hebrew Qabbalah. The expressions here are in some cases identic, and the thought is in all cases the same.

The Zohar may be called the original and main book of the Qabbalah.

The basis of the Jewish Qabbalah was the archaic Chaldean secret doctrine which was a system of occult or esoteric philosophy handed down in part by oral, and in part by written, transmission  - and mostly by oral reception, wholly so in the case of the deeper mysteries of the Qabbalah. The Jewish Qabbalah, such as it exists today, has been disfigured and distorted by the interpolations and mutilations of many Western occultists, especially by mystics of strong Christian bias. The Qabbalah, therefore, is essentially the theosophy of the Jews, or rather the form which the universal theosophy of the archaic ages took in its transmission through the Jewish mind.

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An 18th or 19th century Persian amulet, a protective charm for a newborn boy, kept in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, depicts Lilith in chains, with "Bind Lilith in chains" written under each arm. Lilith appears as a succubus in Aleister Crowley's De Arte Magica. ...

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Lilith, Lilith - Etymology, Lilith - Akkadian mythology, Lilith - Kiskil-lilla, Lilith - The Burney relief, Lilith - Babylonian Lilitu, Lilith - Lilith in the Bible, Lilith - Christian Bible, Lilith - Jewish tradition, Lilith - Dead Sea scrolls, Lilith - Talmud, Lilith - Kabbala, Lilith - Lilith as Adam's first wife, Lilith - Modern magic, Lilith - Lilith in popular culture

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A Hebrew tradition exists in which an amulet is inscribed with the names of three angels and placed around the neck of newborn boys in order to protect them from the lilin until their circumcision. This practice lends weight to the argument that Lilith had existed in earlier Hebrew mythology and is not the creation of later medieval authors. There is also a Hebrew tradition to wait a while before a boy's hair is cut so as to attempt to trick Lilith into thinking the child is a girl so that the boy's life may be spared. ...

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Lilith, Lilith - Etymology, Lilith - Akkadian mythology, Lilith - Kiskil-lilla, Lilith - The Burney relief, Lilith - Babylonian Lilitu, Lilith - Lilith in the Bible, Lilith - Christian Bible, Lilith - Jewish tradition, Lilith - Dead Sea scrolls, Lilith - Talmud, Lilith - Kabbala, Lilith - Lilith as Adam's first wife, Lilith - Modern magic, Lilith - Lilith in popular culture

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