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According to the world's leading scholar on the Kabbalah, Gershom Sholem, Kabbalah is gnostic. The definition of Gnosticism that ties all the many different Gnostic sects together is their belief that the creator God of this world is in fact an evil demiurge, and that this demiurge created this world only in order to trap our souls here, and that by gaining gnosis, a word which means ‘knowledge’ in Greek, one can escape the prison of the world, and not have to be reincarnated here. One gained gnosis primarily by doing magic.
With the advent of Baconian Scientism, many Gnostics today believe they can instead wrest the world away from God, “conquer the universe” and take complete control over life and death, with artificial wombs, lab created embyros, fetus and babies, lab grown replacement organs and lab-made breast milk. Today with the “New Universal Church” of Science and Scientism, modern Gnostics think they will live forever, some even sincerely believing that their minds will live forever, digitized in ‘the cloud’.
These sorts of Gnostics are building the technocracy. They hate the world and believe it a prison and gain their freedom by making a prison of the world.
Kabbalah is all about doing magic, often with imagination exercises and breathing techniques. Sex magic is a part of Kaballah as well, and sex magick can easily lead to amoral offenses such a pedophilia. No problemo, Gnostics of all types (not all, some simply reject the world and live as vegetarian monks) consider themselves above mere morality and any human law.
Amongst Chabad and other Kaballah-based ultra-orthdox Jews, pedophilia is a major problem. “The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community historically has forbidden the reporting of child sexual abuse to the non-Jewish authorities.”
Gnosticism is the ultimate religion of elitism because not everyone, you see, has the capacity for gaining Gnosis. Only a precious few are capable of such a feat.
There all are kinds and sects of Gnosticism but they are all elitist, which appealed to actual elites like the British aristocracy that formed early Freemasonry in the late 1500’s. Kaballah and Freemasonry are deeply linked. To hear a Gnostic talk about God he really means the God beyond god, symbolized by the sun and linked to the Goddess Sophia who they believe gave birth to the demiurge.
Freemasons are taught that non-Freemasons are “profane”. Kaballah teaches that a Jewish soul is superior to a Gentile soul. Gnostics teach that that those with Gnosis are superior to those without it.
“The Gnostics considered themselves an “elite” group, the spiritual members of humankind, and the only ones capable of redemption.” Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age Antonia Tripolitis, p.117
Kabbalah is Gnosticism with a Jewish veneer, and has little to do with real Judaism, having been created for ceremonial and ritual magic. The Torah (the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible) expressly and repeatedly forbids the practice of magic.
Magic can make you mad. Magic can make you think you are non-ordinary and better than common folk, even going so far as to make you think that you are God rather than just a part of God. That’s Gnosticism. Gnostics believe that they can become God! They are thus in fact, completely insane.
The Hebrew Bible has no conception of a soul. Biblical Jews believed their bones would rise back from the earth at some unspecified time after death. Hellenized Jews took the idea of an immortal soul from the Greeks.
Kaballah is essentially and basically a modified form of ancient Egyptian magic, with Neo-Platonic, Pythagorean and Hermetic elements coupled with Medieval magic all consolidated into the Kaballah and formed in 13th c. medieval Europe. ‘Ka’ and ‘Ba’ are Egyptian words for ‘life essence’ and for ‘soul’. It is believed in the initiatory mystery schools that the esoteric elements of all the Mysteries originated in Egypt.
It is taught to practitioners that Kabbalah originated in 2nd century Levant, at the very time the Talmud was being written and Gnosticism was being born, but the evidence shows Kabbalah to have been written primarily in 13th c. Spain. Kaballah’s ancient origin story is a hoax. Refer to the leading scholar of Kaballah Gershom Scholem again.
Kaballah has a long history of breaking brains. It is ultimately a bunch of crazy non-Jewish occult bullshit that can and has driven it’s practitioners mad. There is a long history of major Kabbalists who came to believe that they were the Messiah, meaning that they are God.
This Gnostic form of madness happened to Abraham Abulafia, one of the original writers of Kabbalah, Isaac Luria, Sebbetai Sevi, Jacob Frank and today the recently deceased Rabbi Schneerson is believed by many of his followers in Brooklyn to be the messiah even though he’s dead. All completely mad from Kaballah.
Zionists are Gnostics. Just sayin’. Very few of them are Torah Jews.
The Soul of a Jew and the Soul of a Non-Jew: An Inconvenient Truth and the Quest for an Alternative
Taken from the Hakira Journal, this article by Hanan Balk states:
The view expressed in the above heading—that The Soul of a Jew is Superior to that of a Non-Jew, as uncomfortable and racially charged as it may be…[is] the prominent position maintained by authorities of Jewish thought throughout the ages, and continues to be so even today. While Jewish mysticism is the source and primary expositor of this theory, it has achieved a ubiquitous presence not only in the writings of Kabbalists, but also [those] who hardly consider themselves followers of Kabbalah. Clearly, for one committed to the Torah and its principles, it is not tenable…
Maimonides and others of the Rationalist School of Judaism, strongly disagreed with the Kabbalistic School that teaches a Jewish soul is superior to a Gentile soul. Kabbalah teaches that Judaism is not a superior culture, but that every Jew is superior to every non-Jew because a Jew has a superior soul. This is clearly insane. But, it’s a key part of Gnosticism, not Judaism.
Maimonides asserted that there is no distinction between the soul of a Jew and the soul of a non-Jew.
Magical meditative and breathing practices are taught by Kabbalists, and not just Jewish Kabbalists. Magic breaks brains.
Kaballah is sorta like LSD. It can make you insane. Leave it alone.
Freemasonry and Kaballah are closely linked. LSD, which I believe to be a source of much of our current cultural ills, was probably developed by Masonic groups. There is evidence for this. See Leo Perutz and the Mystery of St Peter’s Snow. St. Peter’s Snow is a great 1930’s novel about an early form of LSD created by who else, scientists.
From “Forbidden Magic” by By : Ismar Schorsch, The Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish History and Chancellor Emeritus, on Magic and the Bible:
“In the Torah magic is forbidden–not because it is ineffective but because it does violence to the sovereignty of God. Exodus commands: “You shall not tolerate a sorceress” (22:17). Deuteronomy elaborates: Let no one be found among you . . . who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead” (18:10-11). The length of that list mirrors just how widespread the practice of magic was in the ancient Near East. It’s underlying premise was the pagan idea that the gods, like humans, were subject to fate, a meta-divine realm that predated and transcended them. Magic exploited divine weakness by activating meta-divine forces to induce or compel the gods to heed the bidding of mortals. The Torah bristled at such contamination of its overarching monotheism. “You must be wholehearted with the Lord your God,” is the way Deuteronomy summed up its indictment of magic (18:13). Our faith is to be pure and undivided.”
Gnosticism is born of resentment and fear and based on the idea that the God of this world cannot be a true God because of evil, pain, suffering and death. This a deeply flawed theology. Evil is the result of the pain required to be human. Evil is the result of free will. Death is the mother of Beauty. It appears that Gnosticism was born of the pain and suffering imposed by Rome on the Hebrews according to scholar of Gnosticism Robert Grant.
Gnosticism appeared simultaneously with Christianity at the birth of a new understanding of God, distinct from the God of the Old Testament. Two new Gods were born then, in the hearts of man. A God of forgiveness and love joined to the knowledge of an eternal soul, and an evil god of deception, the demiurge.
God bless, stay strong, stay healthy, love the world. ~RF