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Elias Gewurz

• Herausgeber: Elias Gewurz
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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The MYSTERIES OF THE QABALAH


PART I

THE HIEROGLYPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET

EXPLANATORY NOTE ON THE LETTERS

THE QABALISTIC DEFINITION OF THE SNAKE NACHASH (‏שחנ‎)

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WHITE LODGE

INITIATION ACCORDING TO THE QABALAH, FROM A SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW




PART II.THE MYSTERIES OF THE QABALAH

CHAPTER I.THE QABALAH

CHAPTER II.THE SOUL OF THE QABALAH

CHAPTER III.EXAMPLES OF PERMUTATION AND NUMERICAL VALUATION

THE LITERATURE OF THE QABALAH THROUGHOUT THE AGES




The Hidden Treasures of the ancient Qabalah


WHAT IS THE QABALAH?

I. THE VESSEL IN WHICH TRANSMUTATION TAKES PLACE

II.THE FEMININE ELEMENTS IN MAN AND THEIR REDEEMING POWER

III.SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN

IV.THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD OBTAINABLE THROUGH LOVE PURE AND UNDEFILED

V.THE MYSTERY OF TIME AND SPACE

VI.THE PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING

VII.JUSTICE AND MERCY

VIII.ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE SANCTUARY

IX.THE ETERNAL LIGHT ACCORDING TO THE QABALAH

X.REGENERATION ACCORDING TO THE QABALAH

QABALISTIC PRAYER

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The best of Elias Gewurz: The Mysteries of the Qabalah - The Hidden Treasures of the ancient Qabalah

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The MYSTERIES OF THE QABALAH

PART I

THE HIEROGLYPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET

EXPLANATORY NOTE ON THE LETTERS

THE QABALISTIC DEFINITION OF THE SNAKE NACHASH (‏שחנ‎)

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WHITE LODGE

INITIATION ACCORDING TO THE QABALAH, FROM A SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW

PART II.THE MYSTERIES OF THE QABALAH

CHAPTER I.THE QABALAH

CHAPTER II.THE SOUL OF THE QABALAH

CHAPTER III.EXAMPLES OF PERMUTATION AND NUMERICAL VALUATION

THE LITERATURE OF THE QABALAH THROUGHOUT THE AGES

The Hidden Treasures of the ancient Qabalah

WHAT IS THE QABALAH?

I. THE VESSEL IN WHICH TRANSMUTATION TAKES PLACE

II.THE FEMININE ELEMENTS IN MAN AND THEIR REDEEMING POWER

III.SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN

IV.THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD OBTAINABLE THROUGH LOVE PURE AND UNDEFILED

V.THE MYSTERY OF TIME AND SPACE

VI.THE PEACE THAT PASSETH UNDERSTANDING

VII.JUSTICE AND MERCY

VIII.ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE SANCTUARY

IX.THE ETERNAL LIGHT ACCORDING TO THE QABALAH

X.REGENERATION ACCORDING TO THE QABALAH

QABALISTIC PRAYER

EXPLANATORY NOTE ON THE LETTERS

The uses to which this science of the Hieroglyphical meaning of the Hebrew letters can be put are manifold. First and foremost, by its aid the student can reinterpret the Scriptures for himself by analyzing each word and then synthesizing the meanings of the letters entering into the composition of the word he wishes to understand esoterically.

The results which this process will yield to the really serious student will more than reward him for his initial trouble. It will open his eyes to see wondrous things in what hitherto have been meaningless Shiboleth and empty phrases. Every Hebrew word thus examined will reveal some truth of the inner life which will serve to guide the student in his quest for knowledge.

In The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, Dr. Franz Hartman tells us that the Great Teachers enjoin upon their pupils never to express things quite openly and clearly because of the danger that the knowledge might be abused for unworthy ends. The methods of the sages was, and is, and ever will be, to give a hint and an outline or, as the Qabalists used to say, "Give him the Head of the Chapter." In accordance with this advice of the Great Ones we leave it to the serious students to find all the help they need out of the letters in their own meditation and study.

THE QABALISTIC DEFINITION OF THE SNAKE NACHASH (‏שחנ‎)

The word according to the secret tradition designates the deep interior feeling binding an entity to its own individual existence, making it ardently desire to preserve and enlarge it.

Nachash, the snake within man is the radical egotism which causes an individual being to make of itself a center and to relate everything else to it. Moses defines this sentiment as the seducing passion of elementary nature and the secret spring with which the Creator has provided all (animate) things in nature; we know it by the name of natural instinct. Nachash is not to be understood as a separate being, but rather as a central movement given to matter, a hidden spring acting in the depths of things. The self-seeking elements within man, the blind passions common to us all in our early stages of evolution are the offspring of this snake—Nachash. This word stands for an unreasoning self-centered instinct in all the oriental languages, it means an internal ardour, a centralized fire, agitated by a violent movement and seeking to extend itself. The Chaldaic derives from it all ideas of fear, sorrow, anxiety and evil, and painful passions. In the Arabic, Syriac and Ethiopian it signifies a tormenting affliction.

The Lesson of Nachash (The Snake).

All love emotions are expansive, all emotions of hatred are restrictive. Hope and faith are of the nature of love and expand the soul, while fear and doubt and despair are of the nature of hate and contract our souls, making us feel uneasy, and unhappy. The snake stands for contraction, for tightness and indrawing; while men fight and quarrel with one another they always resemble more or less the old snake, each drawing to its side, anxious for self-preservation. Freedom from the snake's anguish can only be had by ceasing from the snake's ways, and learning to obey the law of love, the first dictate of which is self-sacrifice.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WHITE LODGE

There is no death, there is no destruction, all is but change and transformation, first the caterpillar, then the chrysalis, then the beautiful butterfly. Likewise, first physical man, then the mighty mind, and at last a noble soul.

In the days of old, when physical force was the chief arbiter between man and man, those that loved knowledge were compelled to abandon the affairs of this world and to retire to the forests and hills in order to pursue their studies. They could never maintain their position among fighting and cruel tyrants, and were obliged to live solitary lives, contenting themselves with a few morsels of bread to satisfy their hunger and plain water to quench their thirst. They slept on the bare earth and from early morning till late at night they meditated and studied and prayed. These were the Gnanis and Bhaktas of the past. Nowadays there are schools and colleges and societies and institutions where the ancient wisdom can be studied quite comfortably in easy chairs, with the use of electric light and central heating systems to keep us oblivious to the hardships of the outside world.

In themselves these blessings of modern civilization are quite harmless, but in an indirect manner they do injure us. The pure consciousness of man is not enriched by study per se, and the increase of knowledge is not the highest aim of man, it is only if knowledge is made subservient to love that it fulfills its mission. Therefore when the acquisition of learning is made possible in the midst of comforts, and even luxury, the danger always exists of hardening the mind and making it miss the beautiful lessons of charity, forgiveness and forbearance, while those who are trained by hardships and have to learn their lessons on empty or half-filled stomachs are more accessible to the appeals of suffering and want. Consequently the deprivations which the poor students had to undergo in olden times taught them as much (if not more) as their books, whereas the well-off students of today are ever in peril of losing their souls while enlarging their minds.

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