Look... Think about it when I point this thing out.
The Zohar that is widely discussed by semi-occultists today, and that has a section devoted to it in Wikipedia, is categorically not the actual 'Zohar.'
Everyone everywhere widely jams up the Kabbalah with the Zohar and the two things are quite different - although you will in a moment see why there is this combination of the two pursuits of the understanding of esoteric matters.
'Kabbalah' means whatever is received from others of the esoteric wisdom of the hidden past.
The Zohar was not ever written down by any person that can be identified and authenticated historically and the plain fact is, being an extremely hidden body of knowledge in the first place, it was never intended to be 'given' to just anyone. It was handed over only to an extremely select, hand-picked and very secretive one or two followers - not large numbers of followers...
It's only a small light on a dark street... |
Thus it was not ever kept as a written-down large body of work, of explanatory text and so on.
But today we find that is what we are told is the Zohar, or at least constitutes that essential knowledge itself.
That cannot in fact be, but that is what everyone says (that it is)...
Today both the Zohar and the Kabbalah as it exists in the hands of largely Jewish and some Christian Kabbalists - claim to deal with 'correct' interpretations of the Hebrew traditional sacred writings.
Now, leaving aside for the moment that in any case both the Zohar (as known popularly today) and the Kabbalah were first discussed by esoteric writers in Spain post the Arabic and Islamic occultist influence there - the actual core of it all was a direct experience of and with a living 'light' that was from the Divine Realms (hence the very word 'Zohar' which means 'the Radiance').
So in fact there also is 'Islamic Zohar' and 'Islamic' and definitely Arabic 'Kabbalah': in the Arabic this is largely in the hands of the Shi'a occultists who use the term 'Noor' and 'Zahar' to describe a Sacred and Divine Light. As there is indeed a completely non-typical religious Spanish occult Kabbalah tradition - to say nothing of the Spanish Christian 'Templars' who also use the Zohar and Kabbalah in their own forms and formulations of the whole affair.
The fundamental proposition though, of ancient sacred scriptures, is that they teach or show enough about a real God for the dedicated reader to attain both a true and accurate complete knowledge of God and what it is God desires (of them) - yet these ancient texts and traditions are (were, during the early times of the modern Zohar) widely viewed as flawed, broken (especially in all of their translation forms), and missing key bits.
The very reason people tried to 'interpret' what it is that is contained in them (the Old Testament/Pentateuch/Torah, for example) is that they are flawed, broken, not understood, and missing key parts.
Now but what is the logic of this, though:
The mind (minds of some humans!) of man can manufacture amazing arrangements of light. |
You have a way by which you get a direct, immediate, instant, manifestly real, experience and interaction and communication with some kind of 'Divine Light...' But then you use that 'Zohar' to go back and interpret or re-interpret ancient texts that never gave you that immediate manifest experience at all - all while you are supposed to already have that relationship (through the Zohar itself).
What's the sense of that?
No. What is going on is that people who never had any actual connection to Zohar let's call them 'adepts' at this moment - but who had enough third-hand and hearsay idea about what the Zohar might have been -, in the absence of anyone who was prepared to go public with the actual Zohar, picked up the word and ran with it claiming that they knew what it was all about and then used the term and its associated esoteric terminology that they knew superficially about, to say they had the way to interpret old sacred books.
It doesn't make logical sense what they claimed (and what they still do claim) but they can get away with it because people are silly and don't use logic anyway, mostly.
Zohar is categorically not what the common popular 'teachers' all say that it is.
That 'tree-of-life' symbolism is just hearsay which approximates something that was talked about inside the genuine esoteric circles.
'Zohar' is when you literally have a direct connection with a living, actual 'Otherworldly' medium - just like the air we breath down here in this world - and that medium is taken to be Light.
When humans act honestly, they can do honest things which are amazing. |
There is no reason at that point to go back and turn over stuff that has no authentic further current functional present-moment purpose.
All the modern 'experts' (in the Zohar and the Kabbalah and esoteric Islam too) exert rule and power over other people.
...A Living, actual, Otherworldly, intelligent medium that is used like we use air to breathe down here.
Is there any religious place on Earth, any mosque, temple, cathedral or church, in which you can genuinely witness something actually Otherworldly, not of this world...?
If not then they are all masquerading as angels of Light - aka they are 'Satan.'
All. All of them. Period.
Or they are museums; artifacts of the past.
It's very disrespectful (by humans) of the Divine to start placing rules and conditions and limitations on what the Divine can or wants to do.
If it is truly Divine it knows everything about you.
It knows what your intentions are. It also knows you are a human.
'John the Baptizer came to you fasting and in rags and you called him possessed by a demon, and crazy; Jesus and His Disciples ate and drank and you called them gluttons...'
Of course you can restrain yourself and moderate your behavior. Of course you can celebrate if you feel like doing that.
The Divine is a Now thing; instant - instantaneous.
If you address a god, it is there, in front of you.
Or else it is not a god.
And if it is there in front of you, it must respond to you right away. And no amount of the pressuring of you by other people around you, should dissuade you about the facts of the matter. Or persuade you to think in the wrong direction.
On the whole, what we as humans down here have, is a line of communication, rather than a direct physical interaction one-on-one, right now.
And that is because these beings of past narratives, written down as ancient sacred literature, as Mauro Biglino rightly points out - these 'Elohim' - are material physical beings, in 'locations' not here on the planet. But they come... ...when they come.
And when they do come it is a concrete (Mauro's terminology), material fact. If you are Moses, you hide behind rocks - because the craft are material, physical, and hard concrete facts and things.
US Navy filmed a thing, not a spiritual concept, or a theological metaphor.
And these things are on their way back. And you can communicate with them right now.