Kabbalah Course Discussion Group

Ob1, feel free to watch (or speed through.. they stall a lot) the course video if you want.

Have you studied Kabbalah before?

Also, thanks for those thoughts! I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this.

Edan wrote:
The question about the purpose of studying the Kabbalah was interesting, about whether attaining greater pleasure was the sole purpose. I don't think I've ever come across the idea of 'spiritual pleasure'... the end purpose is becoming as the creator, but this spiritual pleasure is entirely new to me.

I have heard something like this before: we are here in our life to transform from misery to happy, the purpose of being alive.
Mostly, out of east - Indian wisdom traditions.
Maybe the idea of heaven in the New Testament was never supposed to be an after-life concept.
Maybe that was a mutilation of the older wisdom traditions?

spiritual pleasure:

present day words we hear: being in the now, being in the flow . . . just adding a few to Connor's

Mareeka wrote: Maybe that was a mutilation of the older wisdom traditions?

Also possible, I doubt it would be the only time something was mistaken over time.

Connor L. wrote:
Why do you take method to mean path? Do you feel method is a collection of totality? So, it defines how we view everything?

I take method to mean process.

i havent, no

i was introduced to the kaballah tree of life many years ago (probably around 1996 or so when someone i knew introduced me to the works of aliester crowely but when i began to follow up on kaballah i found that it was a secret system (turns out i would have been just in time if id have looked further lol life is funny!) and so i made the judgement call that the people who really understand the kaballah arent talking about it and basically just disregarded whatever i may have encountered on the subject for that reason

also i meant to say that when he talks about how we arent in touch with the full picture of higher spiritual truth that this basic idea is fundamental to all paths

that might be in a later video
i have only my cell phone for most of the day and it isnt compatable with flash player

i had actually given up on being able to participate in the thread but i basically highjacked the laptop for a couple hours and so i watched as much as i could while i had the chance lol

anyway, on the idea of seperation from higher truth there are parallels all over

maya is a common word
mamon is usually taken to mean only money but imo the idea is much bigger than that

but im impressed with the quality of the system so fa
i do see a sort of scientific approach and i like that

Mareeka, Nice.

I also see it as "instruction manual".

I also like how the instructor went through what Kabbalah was not:

Satan
Mysticism
Religion

Any others? I didn't write them down.


I have wanted to know what the Kabbalah was for a long time.
I am glad the books were opened in 1996.

Mareeka wrote: I also like how the instructor went through what Kabbalah was not:

Satan
Mysticism
Religion

Any others? I didn't write them down.

I have wanted to know what the Kabbalah was for a long time.
I am glad the books were opened in 1996.

Poor Satan, blamed for everything that people don't understand!

I've done a bit of study on the Kabbalah previously as I am also studying the Qliphoth.. will be interesting to see how much I've picked up so far.

We're lucky that they believe that it should be free in order that we may learn.. tuition of this kind is often paid for.

What do you guys think about Mysticism's place in our modern world? Is there merit?