Whether we are influenced by many forces or by one force has been the topic of much discussion and dispute.
Polytheism is the belief that many forces influence us; and monotheism is the belief that one force influences us.
Everyone who thinks that they have to do as their boss, their school teacher, their friend, their mother or their associate commands...if these people stand in the way of thinking that there is one force governing you, then you are considered to be polytheistic. That is, you submit to the belief that you are being influenced by authoritarian forces other than the one force that stands behind them all.
If, however, you are able to look behind all of these influences, and see that there is only one force operating everything, and you always aim to relate to these seemingly different influences around you as one single, perfect entity—then you are called monotheistic.
In such a state, you relate to just one force that governs all the other forces: love.
And this force is perfect and eternal, while every other force that we perceive with our five senses is transient and leads to death.
Achieving the perception and sensation of this force—love—unobstructed by all other forces is the aim of studying Kabbalah, and along with it comes peace and a pleasure that doesn’t have to submit to the restrictions of our five senses: an unbounded, always increasing pleasure emanating from existing in love in its unrestricted form.
The question is, how do we achieve this sensation of unbounded love?
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Dec 19, 2006 2:22 PM
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. So, are you going to get involved in any discussions? .
Dec 19, 2006 8:40 PM
Markos Zografos
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Only on this forum.
Kabbalah (i.e. authentic Kabbalah) is an ancient wisdom that describes spiritual laws (note: "laws" - not philosophies, theories or beliefs), and exists to help us attain the perception of these during our lifetime in this world.
It's not about philosophizing, blending with others' opinions, being politically correct and nice, and you cannot coerce anyone into this study. It describes the laws of nature--what operates our reality--and these cannot be compromised.
You can only "put it there," and if a person's desire leads him or her to it, then they take from it according to how much their desire dictates to them how much they should take from it; in other words, how much they want it.
Dec 20, 2006 6:55 AM
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. Are you saying there is no discussing of views among persons involved in this understanding? .
Dec 30, 2006 11:12 PM
Markos Zografos
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One involved in "this understanding" means one who has attained spiritual degrees.
If there are two who have attained them, then they can communicate to each other through the Kli (vessel/tool/receptacle) they have attained and which they share together.
In our understanding, we can best think of this Kli as an additional sense capable of perceiving a wider reality than our current five senses.
Thus, they don't discuss views, because there is nothing to discuss. A Kabbalist is one who works in this newly attained sense; working in affecting nature and people in ways we can't understand with our inborn senses.
In relation to us (in our inborn senses), they pass down books and have assigned teachers to pass on the methodology of how we can work to develop our desire into a Kli, and also share in the same perception as them.
For more about the Kli, see chapter 3 of this e-book "Kabbalah Revealed": http://www.kabbalahmedia.info/mekorot/eng_o_ml-sefer-kabbalah-revealed.pdf
