Article Contributed on: 5/21/2009 7:31:23 PM
Along with my New Testament reading I study the Qabalah. If I were to bring my study book to church, I don't think they'd look at it with the same reverence I do. They might even think it's evil because if truth be told, this book is about the
occult, a word associated with devil worship and evil spirit conjuring.
But I hold this book in such high regard, why? Because it answers questions I have inside me in a way the Bible does not. The Bible is about my brother, Jesus. It tells his story and it passes on His teachings. It is something that I know will enrich my life as I follow it. The Qabalah is a map of the types of forces that weave together to form our existence.
It is something I'm born to know. I believe this because I am a descendent of a learned Jewish man, the first Jew to be baptized into theLDS Church, a freemason, and a participant in the Church's mystical underpinnings. Now, maybe you could say I have delusions of grandeur about myself, but I have been aware of the Qabalah since I first heard mention of it as a child. It is part of that whole Age of Aquarius thing that was going on in the sixties. I took note and wondered what it was, and when I grew up it got introduced to me in an offhand way by a friend who said you could use it to learn tarot card reading.
When I first got my book,
The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune, I couldn't understand her pithy, erudite language or the way she put her thoughts together. It wasn't until I began to read the Bible in a concerted way that suddenly, the writings made sense and I began to get it.
Here is an example of what the Qabalah teaches: The first thing there ever was can only be referred to as IT. It is called The Unmanifest. It can't be known. It is pure potentiality, undifferentiated.
See, isn't that interesting? IT is all there was and wasn't. I don't know why nobody would want to talk about this stuff. It could be thought of as interstellar space. And out of it comes something else indescribable. And as you go down the levels, things become more and more distinguished and eventually more concrete.
I'm the only person I know who's ever wanted to look at the universe this way.
Also, when I try to talk about it I get it wrong. That flag just doesn't fly. It gets garbled, almost like the Universe prevents me from telling about it. Somehow I managed to say something about it just now. Does this make you want to run out and get a book on the Qabalah? Nobody is into it but me.