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KABBALIST RAV BERG
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FOREWORD
It is with great reverence that I introduce you to the complete manuscriptof Rav Bergs Immortality , available with this new edition for the very rsttime.
The Rav began to channel and record this incredible book in 1996. Infact this was the last document that the Rav wrote longhand, a documentthat recorded the Ravs thoughts about spiritual awakening and how anew era was dawning in which the power of death would come to anend.
At that time the Rav was very present in our daily lives, and we hadgrown accustomed to, and even in some ways complacent about, his
brilliance. When the Rav decided that The Centre should self-publishImmortality as our rst book, those of us who were involved in suchdecisions believed that the original words might have been too powerfuland perhaps even too visionary for the average person. We, therefore,edited much of the Ravs original language and created from it the rstfoundational book for beginners on the wisdom of Kabbalah.
What I understand today, in retrospect, is that by doing so we may haveundermined the Ravs prediction that the year 2000 would mark the arrivalof a worldwide consciousness of immortalityif the number of peoplewho received this wisdom should reach a critical mass.
Today the Rav is more concealed and less present with us since hisstroke in the year 2003. Keenly aware of how much we all miss the Ravscertainty and unquestionable genius and warmth, we have beenarchiving all of the Ravs teachings from the last three decades. Duringthis process we stumbled upon the original manuscript of Immortality ,and as I read it, I realized with such considerable pain that perhaps,by dumbing down the Ravs words in the rst edition of this book, we
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postponed the opportunity for immortality consciousness to take anascendant place in the world.
It is, therefore, with the greatest of humility and excitement that I offer youthe Ravs original manuscript in its purest form. Other than very minorcopyediting, what you hold in your hands is the true essence of theRavthe conviction (which he shared with all of us) that immortality andthe removal of death are imminent.
In this version of the book a true seeker of Kabbalah will nd the raw,uncomfortable reality of Satan, the negative force that plays havoc inour lives in this physical realm, as well as the counter-consciousness toght him. The reader also should be warned that a kabbalist has anobligation to conceal as he reveals because of the kabbalistic principlethat anything unearned cannot be kept. So as kabbalists do, the Ravtakes the readers consciousness on a journey. This is why some of thelanguage in this text seems abstruse and convoluted. But if you have atrue desire to understand and connect to the essence of a living kabbalist,reading and rereading difcult ideas will result in great illumination.
According to Kabbalah, a persons writing is imbued with their essence,which means that reading the handwritten text of a kabbalist can imbuethe reader with the essence of the sage himself. This is our motivationfor including in this book a reproduction of a portion of the Ravs originalhandwritten text.
I pray with all my heart that the Ravs words will penetrate your heart andconsciousness and that enough people will be changed by the power ofthose words that, as the Rav predicted, the promise of immortality willenter the landscape of all humanity.
I apologize to the world that it took so long, and to the Rav for my hearingwithout truly listening.
Yehuda Berg
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For my wife, Karen. In the vastness of cosmic space and the innity of
lifetimes, it is my bliss to be your soul mate and to share a lifetime with
you.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1
Immortality! What's That?
Chapter 2
ImmortalityThe Experience
Chapter 3
Mortality
Chapter 4
The Origin of Mortality
Chapter 5
The Restoration and Aging Process
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t all started one day back in June of 1962, the day I rst met my
master. Little did I dream nor have the slightest inkling that this one
day of my life would become the most eventful and most important
one that I had ever experienced. Now one might wonder and certainlyask how one moment in a lifetime could stand out so signicantly when
so many eventseven amongst unexcited individualshave made
an important and lasting impression along the way, in the journey of
human existence. However, that is exactly the way it was.
By the time I met him, my master had become famous by publishing
the only translation and commentary on the Tikkune Zohar , the
mystical body of kabbalistic thought that ostensibly contained all of
the secrets of the universe awaiting to be revealed in the Age of
Aquarius. While the origin and rst work to contain these secrets, Sefer
Yetzirah , also known as the Book of Abraham , was already recorded
and written down some 4,000 years ago by the biblical Patriarch
Abraham, it was unfortunately considered to be couched in
incomprehensible wording and too abstruse to be understood.
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Some two thousand years later, the grand master of kabbalistic
information, Rav Shimon bar Yochai, formulated a more comprehensive
edition than that of his predecessor, and he called his work the Zohar .
The section referring to the mysteries that were to be revealed in the
Age of Aquarius is known as the Tikkune Zohar edition. One giant step
forward in assisting humanity to again achieve control over existence
and life.
However enlightening and informative, the Zohar was still limited and
conned to a small segment of humankind. Its revelation and
understanding would still have to wait for the twentieth century and my
master, the now very famous Kabbalist, Rav Yehuda Brandwein and
his teacher Rav Yehuda Ashlag. Their writings and discussions on
topics pertinent to the ultimate removal of all the familiar forms of
chaos that have ravaged humankind since time immemorial promptedthe technological explosion of the twentieth century.
As we see with breakthroughs in areas such as relativity, space travel,
medicine, and a host of others that have affected the well-being of
humankind, as we share this moment together, we are beginning to
witness, and indeed some of us are already participating in it, a
peoples revolution of enlightenment.
These two individuals, my master and his teacher, were responsible
for the dramatic shift in human consciousness and thinking. They
broke away from a 4,000-year tradition of sealing this vital
information in an ancient vault. However, at that moment in time, the
world paid little if any attention to their profound influence, and that
included myself.
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I was groomed, from early childhood, to be what my parents believed
was appropriate to their own background, a conventional rabbi with a
rabbis conventional status. This was tradition, and I was destined to
carry it forth appropriately without any signicant change. And so my
consciousness from the age of three remained programmed as one
might have expected within the frame of a time-honored, sometimes
antiquated, tradition that had not met the challenges of a modern-day,
rapidly changing civilization.
During this period of normal upbringing, life was extremely uneventful.
Unlike the normal Judaic experience, my master along with his master
were undergoing a very strong abusive, intolerant, and sometimes
violent reaction from the conventional, organized system within
Judaism. Now that I look back at what took place in their lives, I cannot
help but ask, what was that all about?
To set the record straight, the only crime of which they were accused
and for which they were ostracized was their determination to make the
wisdom of Kabbalah accessible to the layperson, to remove its secret
contents from a vault that had its combination tossed away some
4,000 years before. This was the violation for which they were being
condemned. After all, who gave them the authorization to tamper with
a teaching that no one over the past millennium had ventured to
release to the public?
However, this was not the rst time a kabbalist broke the conventional
vow of secrecy surrounding this life-enhancing compendium of
knowledge. Many kabbalists from the sixteenth century onward, the
most famous of whom was Rav Moses Luzatto, were threatened with
excommunication if they did not disavow and deny the truth of their
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published manuscripts. Furthermore they were to be denied any of the
usual rites at their death if they did not destroy their unpublished works.
This was the background when Rav Yehuda Ashlag, founder of The
Kabbalah Centre, received the divine instruction that he was chosen to
channel the universal knowledge of our existence and its secrets to
remove chaos, pain, and suffering from our midst. Ever since the sin
of Adam 5,767 years ago, man has been helpless in the face of thereality that sooner or later Murphys Law would create some form of
chaos in our world, albeit one of a temporary nature. For the truly
irreversible conditions of the past and present brought on by Murphys
Law, those individuals who suffered were classied the unlucky ones
struck by random chaos.
Who could be counted amongst the lucky ones? This luck we speakof is indeed relative. Absolutely no human being can be considered to
be one of the fortunate ones, for if one is lucky enough to escape the
wrath of illness, nancial or family chaos inevitably sets in. And of
course this does not even take into consideration the ultimate chaos
of all, the nal scenario of all humankind, the death of an individual, the
mortality of the human body.
Suddenly, after a peaceful and uneventful acceptance of our ultimate
fate, along comes Rav Yehuda Ashlag and wants to change all this.
The nerve of this radical pioneer, wanting to upset our snugly conned
approach to the misfortunes and chaos in our daily lives, or better
stated to change our attitude from lay down and die to ght back!
Who gave him permission to reveal these jealously guarded secrets?
If God was so desirous of relieving mankind of human bondage, then
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the Creator would have intervened. It is quite obvious that, with all the
pain and sickness that have aficted mankind down through the
millenniums, people are not worthy to be the recipients of this
knowledge that could resolve mankinds dilemma. These and similar
remarks have been heard for centuries until the present time. It is
Gods will. Do not tamper with it.
The kabbalists were socially, mentally, and physically beaten by thekeepers of the faith. They were forced to leave Jerusalem or face
daily harassment. They were threatened to be deprived of all social
contracts with the established community if they continued in their
sinful ways.
I am reminded of the time when my master, Rav Yehuda Brandwein,
was still a young man and lived a far distance from his master, Rav Yehuda Ashlag. He took an hour-long bus ride each day to study with
his master. When the zealots found out about this sinful journey, the
entire bus system and its drivers were alerted and instructed to refuse
him entry onto the bus and thus Rav Yehuda Brandwein was forced to
walk between two and three hours a day just to study with his master.
In the past when science was on a collision course with the accepted
doctrines of the church, scientists such as Galileo and Copernicus
were encouraged and sometimes even coerced to abandon their
newly revealed discoveries. However, in the case of Rav Ashlag and
Rav Brandwein, their teachings originated in a source of wisdom and
acceptable principles established long before there was any concept
or formal tradition of religion of any kind. Why would or should there be
opposition to or condemnation of revealing to the layperson these
accepted universal laws and principles? After all, this wisdom answers
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many of the gnawing questions people always raise concerning
religion. The teachings and wisdom of Kabbalah would only lay to rest
the arguments and open opposition to certain religious doctrines
raised by Newtonian and quantum physics that seemed to directly
contradict many church principles. The answers and responses
traditionally given by established religion only tended to alienate the
scientic establishment.
The attitude of formal religion toward science has left scientists and
open thinkers with no other alternative but to reject the teachings of
religion as wholly unscientic and baseless. The gap this created
merely hardened the positions of the church on one side and the
skeptic and scientist on the other.
Then along came Kabbalah with an attempt to bridge the differencein such a way that religion could live comfortably alongside science.
Nothing wrong so far, except that Kabbalah proposes to address
what science and religion have failed to address, namely the why
of things.
Kabbalah takes life that one step further by providing insight into why
things are as they are, rather than merely understanding how they
function. Rather than accept as fact the conclusions of science as to
how these summations were arrived at, Kabbalah insistsno,
demands!that a thinking person ask why the particular or peculiar
condition exists in the rst place.
A familiar supposition in physics is Maxwells Second Law of
Thermodynamics, which states that everything in this universe must
eventually undergo decay and entropy. Every human being and every
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aspect of physical existence must eventually die. This is the final
conclusion of this law, which has found no disagreement within the
confines of science. What science, with its former and present tools
of observation, has come to realize in its exploration of entropy is the
hard-core fact of cemeteries and worn-out clothes and furniture. Its
proof and hard evidence was the visual reality of things around us.
Have we not discarded our old clothes and furniture and attended
the funerals of friends and relatives? Let me state here and now thatthese findings and conclusions are in direct opposition to the
teachings of Kabbalah and even some medical research that has
never been taken seriously.
However, with the entry of twentieth-century physics and quantum
mechanics, our reliance on visual reality has also become suspect.
The eye no longer is believed to be objective.
Quantum theory dismisses as wholly unreliable the idea that what the
eye sees, I believe. Science indeed is nally catching up with
Kabbalah, which has always maintained that what I believe is what I
see.
But I am running ahead of myself. I shall return to a very important and
intriguing concept, which will lead us to the entrance of that signicant
and elusive understanding of immortality.
Inasmuch as Kabbalah, its teaching and ndings, were not in
opposition to religion or science, the burning question for centuries
has remained unanswered, namely, why the informed and uninformed
were so terried to approach its teachings.
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Closer to home, I would like to mention some of the personal
experiences that occurred for both Karen and me when we entered
the world of Kabbalah, for me in 1962 and for Karen in 1965. The most
virulent took place when a zealot came from behind Karen with a
baseball bat, struck her, and sent her to the hospital with a brain
concussion. Although we did le formal charges with the police, when
we were told that this individual might face a ve-year prison sentence,
we dropped the charges. We shall never know whether this display offorgiveness on our part was perhaps the trigger for much of the
harassment that was to follow in the next thirty years. In truth, guiding
The Centres activities was rough going, following the departure of Rav
Ashlag and Rav Brandwein from this physical world.
Rav Ashlag had broken with tradition. He provided the rst ever
translation of a major section of the Zohar , the compendium ofkabbalistic knowledge written some 2,000 years ago by Rav Shimon
bar Yochai. In addition, Rav Ashlag created a sixteen-volume textbook
to permit the layperson to explore, in a systematic way, the discipline
of this heretofore-concealed knowledge.
The word spread like wildre: there is a heretic in our midst! Rav
Ashlag was attacked and beaten in the synagogue. He was branded
a sinner; no mercy was shown to his soul or his body. Nevertheless,
he persevered and completed several introductory texts for students
of Kabbalah, in order to facilitate their understanding.
However, one concession that both Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein
made to the establishment was in their agreement not to alter the
status quo regarding who could and would receive this formal,
newly designed education in Kabbalah. The restrictions and
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requirements were many. To mention a few, only males over the age
of 40 were permitted to attend classes. This select group was
required to have a Talmudic education; they were required to be
traditional Orthodox Jews in practice and observance. In addition,
their knowledge of Jewish Law had to undergo extreme scrutiny to
determine whether they were fully knowledgeable in every facet of
Judaic laws and customs.
Another requirement was their certainty of heart; students must feel
that the lack in their life could only be fullled by the teachings of
Kabbalah. How this determination was made is not quite known except
that it was the master who made the decision. They were also
compelled to maintain a distance from irreligious and atheistic
individuals for fear of becoming polluted with strange or foreign ideas
and concepts. To this very moment in time, many sects of Judaismstill exist that adhere to the traditional prohibition of mingling with
foreigners to their way of belief and tradition.
This last requirement placed on the student and practitioner of
Kabbalah was breached by Rav Brandwein when he formally accepted
the position of Chief Rabbi of the 1,000,000-strong labor organization
known as the Histadrut. This organization was not only irreligious but
was composed of conrmed anti-religionists. Their annual dinner and
dance festival took place on the Holiest of Holy days, Yom Kippur, still
revered by most Jews, religious and non-religious alike.
This provocative action created an uproar in all traditional circles:
Orthodox, Conservative, and Reformed Jewry. Here was a Rabbi
garbed in traditional clothing, certainly not from the circle of non-
believers, literally conrming and in a way condoning the sinful ways
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of this atheistic Israeli organization. How dare he, Rav Brandwein,
provide this heretic organization with a Rabbi, when traditionally there
was an unwritten doctrine for Rabbis to maintain their distance from
such groups?
Even more alarming was the fact that he was a kabbalist, required
to maintain the highest degree of purity and withdraw from any
contact with the polluted world out there. I remember quite wellthe fears of his wife when she exclaimed that their children would
never marry, as a result of his actions. No traditional family could
even dream of entering their children into marriage with the children
of a heretic Rabbi.
Unbeknown to me at the time, was the true meaning behind my
masters acceptance of this position and the resulting hostilerepercussions. My master was laying the groundwork for what would
become, sometime in the future, the complete break with kabbalistic
tradition. His teacher, Rav Ashlag, was destined to open the sealed
vaults of kabbalistic tradition so as to make its teachings accessible to
the masses. Rav Brandwein would become the rst kabbalist to
fraternize with the people, albeit not within a formal educational
structure. He did share at functions and conferences some of the basic
principles of Kabbalah, although his sessions were not customarily
billed as lectures or conferences on Kabbalah. He was moving in
through the back door.
However, what struck me as nothing short of a miracle was the
interaction between my master and his ock. As I mentioned
previously, his appearance dispelled any question that he was not fully
immersed in the extreme Orthodox tradition of observance and dress.
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Coming from a similar background, I asked myself how in the world
these people could feel comfortable with his presence. Furthermore,
the relationship took an astonishing turn. The same heretics and anti-
religionists were actually embracing my master with a love I had never
seen expressed before. What seemed to be emerging in the
relationship was a complete tolerance and sensitivity of one individual
toward another, with a complete disregard for what each represented
socially, culturally, and otherwise.
The lesson learned from this encounter has never left me. Little did I
realize where this experience would lead me. At the time, I was
mystied beyond any logical reasoning. Just think about relationships
between people of different cultures, or even those within the same
culture and socioeconomic climate. Rarely will we witness the uniting
of people of different persuasions. Those moments are few far andbetween. In any one country where different political parties exist, it is
an uphill battle to try to achieve agreement on an issue unless a
common enemy has emerged that threatens their existence. This
situation arises in the most democratic of countries where the political
process has set one party against another.
So here is Rav Brandwein, stemming from a background of legendary
Rabbis, never having left the connes of his centuries-old environment,
meeting up with a culture that represents the antithesis of his own, and
yet he nevertheless nds himself at home and at one with these people.
For Rav Brandweins colleagues and cultural environment, the people
of the Histadrut were beyond salvation, the epitome of an enemy
within. Which made it all the more confusing to observe these sinners
not only feeling at home with this Rabbi, but on the contrary, displaying
a deep love for him rarely seen among their own friends and neighbors.
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On one occasion when my master was to meet with the Secretary
General of the Histadrut, I asked if I could be taken along to this
meeting. I was yearning for an answer as to why in heavens name this
organization chose a Rabbi that had nothing in common with this
heretic body of people nor any common ground for dialogue.
Furthermore, there were certainly many other Rabbis more appropriate
to fullling the task of its objectives and who represented a more liberal
approach to the whole idea of religion and Judaic law.
When I met with the leader of this labor organizationhimself coming
from a long line of the ultra-religious right and now himself so alienated
from his background that he literally despised the very existence of
religion in general, I raised my question. To my surprise, his response
to me was so far out that I simply did not comprehend what he was
trying to say.
His answer was matter-of-fact: Rav Brandwein was not a Rabbi, at
least not for him; Rav Brandwein was a kabbalist. This was the very rst
time I had even heard the distinction between Rabbi and kabbalist
and this coming from a person where the very thought of mentioning
the word Rabbi was foreign, if not evil. Sufce it to say, my curiosity of
the meaning of this response was heightened to the highest level. I
had never in all my years had one respond in such a cryptic manner.
I asked for further explanation.
His next response was again mystifying, coming from an individual so
divorced from anything religious or spiritual. Why cant you
understand what I am trying to say? Its so simple. This man
symbolizes the perfect human being with extreme dignity, irrespective
of his social status or religion. Jew or non-Jew, rich or poor, a person
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of high position or low position, for Rav Brandwein they are all human
beings and their souls are part of the Creator. He considers the precept
of love thy neighbor unconditionally to be as strong as the
observances of his religion.
Amazing words coming from an individual who openly displayed his
disgust with anything that smacked of religion. This is a lesson that I
have never forgotten. His behavior toward my master was to be myguiding light in directing the path that The Centre would take. My own
life and all my activities were to become guided by this
uncompromising principle of unconditional love, sensitivity, and
tolerance to everything that God brought into existence, whether it be
owers, ants, ormore important, albeit more difculthuman beings.
I gradually began to understand why these laborers had suchcompassion and good feeling for my masters presence. They felt the
warm and compassionate light of my masters being and essence. It
was indeed so wonderful.
This experience brought back to me the inexplicable connection of my
rst encounter with my master. Being a Leo and far from anything of a
spiritual nature, I could not understand how I just melted away when I
rst met him. It just wasnt my nature. Furthermore, when the question
has been asked of me numerous times as to how I became involved
in spirituality in general and Kabbalah in particular, my response is
always unexpected, not at all tting the role that one expects of me
today. It is this: I never desired spirituality because I never knew what
it meant. Being drawn to Kabbalah for me was a matter so foreign it
was as if I had suddenly developed a desire to be on the moon. In fact
my background not only frowned on the study of Kabbalah, but I was
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Laureate who nally declared that time and the real nature of existence
are consciousness, and that the physical realm represents nothing
more than an interference or blip on the screenstartling words
coming from a man of science, which is the methodology of
understanding the observable.
This is what Rav Ashlag accomplished by unveiling the subconscious
realm of the universe, by revealing the concealed wisdom of Kabbalahand thus turning on the Light. The wrappings, limitations and trappings
over the conscious mind now began to disappear. The Light began to
take its rightful place in our universe. This prompted the remarkable
and wondrous theories, discoveries, and revelations of new
technological achievements with which we have recently been
blessed. The limitations of the physical worldnamely time, space,
and motionbegan to be reduced and are continuing to be reduced.
This may be somewhat difcult to understand or accept, but the facts
speak for themselves. When the Light goes on, all heretofore
unrealized and unseen objects become noticed. They were there all
the time. We just couldnt see them.
This is the lesson my master taught me. When the power of Kabbalah
is unleashed into the universe, things we did not know existed
suddenly appear before our very eyes. We do not trip over the furniture
in a room once the light goes on. This is what we experience as we
stumble through lifes journey; falling, becoming bedridden, and not
knowing what to do, we can just switch on the light and the
interference of this physical realm disappears. The furniture which
once interfered with us as we made our way through the dark room,
when the light goes on becomes a comfortable piece of physicality.
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Too simple to be true. These are the famous last words of Murphy
when he repeats in our consciousness that we should deny or reject
outright anything that is too simple to be true. After all, once we realize
that we are being unfortunately programmed to live our lives along the
road of chaos, we can begin to reroute our journey onto a more joyous
highway of living. It is our minds and consciousness that determine
our fate. Turn the Light on and the curtain of darkness will move to the
side, unveiling a wonderful, beautiful world out there.
This was the power of Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein. They were
jump-starters to turn on the Light of the universe. This rubbed Satan
and Murphy the wrong way. Satan and Murphy responded by
unleashing a barrage of unreasonable, illogical energies into the
cosmos to be picked up and channeled by evil people of all sorts.
The last thing these two emperors of the dark world would ever havewanted was to have their dark kingdom disappear when the Lights
go on. This is what has taken place throughout the history of mankind.
The forces of darkness were threatened by the Light infiltrating the
dark domain.
The one thing darkness feared most was the possibility of the Light
removing the reigning glory of its power and dominion, the conditions
of decay and mortality. The idea of immortality sent a shiver up the
spine of darkness. It knew that, with the spread of Kabbalah, the
people of the world would become enlightened.
The cosmic struggle between good and evil found its way into our
familiar world of existence. The battle lines were drawn. This was to
be the nal play for empirical power. The kabbalists had red the rst
salvo by making the wisdom of Kabbalah accessible to the people.
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For they knew and understood that, without the participation of the
people, Murphy would remain in control, as he had throughout the
history of civilization.
Murphy/Satan enlisted his best as well. He knew all too well that, for
the most part, he could keep the worlds population under control
with social, political, and economic systems such as feudalism and
dictatorship, systems that throughout the millenniums createdchaos by leaving a trail of human suffering along the landscape of
history. National pride, freedom, and other catch phrases were
all that was necessary to keep the people from seeking real peace
and contentment.
Then, for good measure, Satan also threw in disease, plagues, oods,
and earthquakes. This was his guarantee that peoples bodies wouldbe busy while their consciousness remained asleep. With so much
chaos all around, how could anyone believe that the real source of all
our problems was a dark force? No! For the faithful, chaos was Gods
reply to the misbehavior of the evil ones. So the question remains:
Why were the virtuous, the genuinely good people also subject to
and responsible for the actions of the wicked? Well, it was said, God
works in mysterious ways. Who are we to question God? Yes, the
kabbalist asks, but who said this is His response?
Why would a kind, compassionate God embody such an evil
consciousness and desire to punish anyone, let alone innocent
children, while permitting criminals to go free?
And what about the non-believersthose who either reject the notion
of an Almighty or simply pay no attention to a God? To what do they
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attribute the suffering? Satan doesnt miss a step; he devised a cloak
of deception for those people as well by infusing our consciousness
with two words: lucky and unlucky. When one individual develops
an illness and others around do not, the usual interpretation is that
those that are healthy are lucky. When a young person dies, leaving a
family behind, the familiar refrain is that it was an unlucky tragedy, while
if an elderly retiree dies at age 120, we say he/she lived to a ripe old
age. He or she was lucky.
We can even justify the slaughter of over 6,000,000 people during
World War II by declaring that it was all worth it to destroy that
menacing dictator and rid the world once and for all of all dictators.
This was the war to end all wars. It never happened. Not after World
War II or for that matter anytime in history.
Am I trying to make a point that we should approve of dictators or
reject the idea of freedom? Of course not. My intention is to raise our
awareness /consciousness to the fact that chaos, whether justied or
not, remains just thatchaos. To not remove the chaos is precisely
what Satan also has in mind. If there were no solutions to the problem
of chaos, then the world would go out of existence and Satan, too,
would be out of the business of creating and manifesting chaos. Even
the clichs we use for accepting chaos under non-violent conditions
are still part of Satans lexicon. Expressions we use for the justication
of mortalityripe old age or lived a useful, long liferemain as
strong as ever.
In the twentieth century, Satan has been forced to change his strategy.
Throughout civilization, including the time of the Exodus and Moses,
Satan had his bag of tricks, which has worked for him around the
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clock throughout the years. He had locked the consciousness of the
people securely into believing that mortality, since the sin of Adam,
had become a permanent fixture, never to be removed from our
earthly premises.
Suddenly, this all changed. A complacent Satan did not take notice
that a certain young, unassuming kabbalist had provided for the
layperson the necessary text of Kabbalah and that, by this action,Kabbalah had found its rightful home with the people. Without a
peoples revolution, Satan had no reason to fear that he might be out
of a job. This is precisely why the peoples study of Kabbalah became
a requirement. Originally, the kabbalists believed that Kabbalah was
too far-reaching for the layperson. With the arrival of the twentieth
century, all this was to change.
In the 16th century, Rav Abraham Azulai, had already declared that the
prohibition against the study of Kabbalah would only last until the year
1490, the approximate time of the Spanish Inquisition. And from the
year 1540, the same year as Rav Isaac Lurias induction into the world
of Kabbalah, there was a strong recommendation that everyone
every man, woman, and childstudy Kabbalah, because only through
the teaching and knowledge of the Zohar could humanity ever hope to
achieve the elimination of chaos and mortality from this physical realm.
Just a note to explain the word prohibition as it appears in kabbalistic
texts. As understood from the kabbalistic perspective, the Big Bang,
the origin of the universe, already included within its structure and
design the program for free will. Consequently, the interpretation of
scriptural prohibitions were always meant as a warning or word to the
wise, that either one may be subject to negative energy or, as in the
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case of Kabbalah, the learning pursuit would result in an exercise of
futility because the time and environment were not ripe, nor were the
cosmos sufciently open for revealment. The support apparatus and
machinery were not yet in place, despite the declaration of Rav
Abraham Azulai that the Age of Aquarius had begun with the year 1490.
One might return to this signicant date, amongst the rst steps toward
removing the anesthetic state of mind then prevailing over all of humanity.Things were very stable around the globe at that time. There was no need
to prepare for the attack that Satan would suddenly unleash, which would
be unlike any chaos known in the world since some 1500 years earlier
when the Temple was destroyed. Whole nations of people were
displaced, as was the case in the 1490s during the Spanish Inquisition
and then again in the 1940s with World War II. If there is a preferred state
that all of mankind has a desire to maintain, it is the state of motionlessexistence. Even when one may be on the go for a worthwhile purpose,
nonetheless, the ultimate desire is for an inactive state.
When the upheaval and displacement took place in 1490, the people
began to question their ability to control their environment and their
own lives. There is nothing like being forced to be on the move to set
off a chaotic state of mind. The setting in motion of an ultimate change
in consciousness has its roots in the displacement of people. Our
consciousness then breaks out of its slumbering, bovine state of
illusionary security and permits mankind to view our existence as one
of chaos and mortality.
The problem has always been that, within our chaotic experiences, we
can still latch onto our physical place and nd some aspect that will
convince us that we are still essentially in control. Being ill and
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physical, material universe as the only living, workable vehicle by
which man can achieve his objectives and, more importantly, govern
his existence. To consider a replacement of this vehicle by a
metaphysical, supernatural, immaterial entity such as the Lightforce
would be difficult to accept, as illustrated by the Golden Calf incident.
The Calf was to replace Moses, the superman of the generation. He
could accomplish anything and everything and had complete
dominion over the material world.
It was Moses who restored the peoples consciousness of mankinds
dominion over the material world. However, this incident was short-
livedforty days to be exactafter which humanity reverted back to
the former prevailing consciousness that the material, physical world
has dominion over the consciousness of man. The idea that Moses
shared with the people at the time of the Exodus was that there is aforce in this universe that supersedes and reigns over the material
world and that, when the Lightforce of God is properly and
harmoniously applied to the material world of our daily existence by
the consciousness of man, then man becomes the equivalent of God
and consequently assumes dominion over the physical realm in
every aspect.
However, so long as the consciousness of humankind remains locked
into the paradoxical frame of the physical, retaining its dominion over
man through the concepts of time, space, and motion, and the ego
feeds us the illusion that we are in control, there is no hope for man to
achieve an elevated state of consciousness over and above the visual,
material world. And without the awareness and certainty that mankind
can control the physical environment and all it contains, even the
Lightforce of the Creator and the secret codes of Kabbalah will in no
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way help the practitioner achieve dominion over chaos. As was the
circumstances with Adam when he was removed from the Garden of
Eden, it is unfortunately the displacement of people that creates the
opportunity to elevate our consciousness to reign over physicality.
Nothing else seems to work for us. Therefore, only because the Age
of Aquarius made its entry into the cosmos did the opportunity,
although at times tragic, creep its way into the daily lives of mankind.
This displacement of human cargo was to continue until the middle
of the nineteenth century. In the interim, during the sixteenth century,
the revealment of the secrets of Kabbalah was beginning to take place
in the cosmos as well as below in our familiar physical world. In the
year 1528, a child was born who was destined to shed light on the
mysteries of the Lightforce and bring about the rst comprehensive
understanding of the Kabbalah. His name was Rav Isaac Luria. By theyear 1540 he was already investigating the secrets of the universe as
a recluse on the river Nile. There is no doubt amongst the kabbalists
that the Ari, Rav Isaac Luria, The Lion as he was characteristically
called, was brought into this world to infuse the cosmos, with the
assistance of the Age of Aquarius, to balance the holocaust and
torment that was about to be unleashed on this terrestrial level of
human existence.
Hundreds of students gathered around The Lion and became imbued
with the secrets of Kabbalah. While the study, knowledge, and practice
brought about an increasing revealment of the Lightforce into the
universe, the teachings were extremely difcult to understand and, as
a result, the people were excluded from its benecial powers. However,
until the twentieth century, the select few individuals of each generation
who were able to study maintained some balance and harmony in the
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world, so the universe did not blow itself up despite the extremity of
mans intolerance and cruel behavior to his fellow man.
So when Rav Ashlag came upon the scene, the cosmic balance was
clearly in Satans favor. Satan was enjoying the human carnage of a
senseless World War I, which he had brought about with no more effort
than arranging for the assassination of a single person. It was truly
remarkable how gullible and asleep the consciousness of mankindhad become. Without as much as a second thought, the entire world
was drawn into a chaotic battle that brought about the maiming and
death of millions of innocent people. This was the work of Satan
destruction of life and property.
With minimal effort to orchestrate the assassination, Satan reaped the
rewards of millenniums of hard work. He did not even have to employthe usual imprints of his tradethe enormous resources of his army
of evil entities. The usual forms of chaos brought on by earthquakes,
plagues, landslides, volcanic eruptions, oods, drought, and a host of
other forms of destruction were not necessary to cause a great deal of
human suffering, economic hardship, and of course the steady use of
the mortality factor.
With World War I, Satan with a single stroke brought on devastation
that involved the entire world, creating economic hardship that thrived
on itself like a cancer. There was little doubt that Satans goal, the total
mortality of all humankind as a never-ending sequence of destruction,
would be realized sooner than expected. For the consciousness of
humanity had approached the level of justied, legitimized murder.
Satan furnished humanity the proper slogans so man would not have
to ponder the decision for too long. Whether the cause was for the
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sake of freedom or removing the despicable dictator, Satan would
lead us toward chaos for the most noble and honorable reasons ever
devised. Slaughtering the Name of God for the reason of removing the
indels, Satan sadly wired mankind into assuming the role of God.
Mankind, now, after millenniums of incompetence in mending daily
chaos and mortality, suddenly became the protector, savior, and
overseer over human esh. And the universal laws and principles of
this universe were justiably and completely ignored.
Things changed later in the twentieth century. We arrived at a moment
in time that would usher in what appeared to be mankinds nal
dominion over the material world. Centuries-old traditions would come
tumbling down. The limitations of time, space, and motion no longer
limited the scientic establishment as they did for millenniums. Man
could now y in the sky and even walk in space. The boundaries ofcommunication no longer applied.
The medical eld expanded its knowledge and scope by leaps and
bounds, to the extent that mankind had now achieved its most
explosive and far-reaching feat to date, an achievement that rocked
the entire world and suggested even fartherreaching implications:
the cloning of a living creature, a sheep. Not since the birth of Adam
had such a feat been accomplished. It was the crowning glory of the
super-human mind of man.
With this scenario at hand, one might believe that mankind had indeed
reached an incredibly high level of consciousness. The future had
never looked brighter for achieving a stable and harmonious universe.
Satan must have felt defeated.
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necessarily now. Remain connected with the Tree of Life, and He
shall assure immortality.
This is exactly the game Satan plays with all of us, all the time. Hell
toss a small dose of chaos at us and then permit us to remove chaos
to lead our consciousness into believing we are in control of this
physical reality. Near-death experiences are Satans most delightful
tricks of the trade. An illusionary condence overcomes us and webecame totally oblivious to the reality of death. Our behavior toward
our fellow man generally disregards the fact that we are here in this
universe for a limited time. Were we to consider the glaring fact of
mortality, our attitudes in disagreements, arguments, hatred, and
intolerance would assume another character.
As a beggar or someone who has lost identity, the mind is thoughtlesswith its bickering, wrongdoing, and confrontation. If mankind paid
attention to the reality that the chaos of mortality could set in any time
Satan had the desire, then I believe we no longer would be that
concerned about whats wrong with others and pay more attention to
what may be wrong with ourselves.
Following World War I, Satan had positioned the world into a
complacency that chaos could not strike again. What no one seemed
to take notice of was the bickering between nations following the
victory over the aggressors. When there is a common enemy, the
thought of killing each other leaves us. The common enemy is another
of Satans maneuvers. After the war, the common cause disappears as
if it never existed. Satan is back at work again, intensifying the
separation between once-allied nations. This is another trademark of
Satans ingenuity. He can manipulate leaders of nations without their
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even knowing who is really behind the sudden about-face of their
former allies. Satan provides all the appropriate reasoning so that we
never discover his most formidable opponent: unity and tolerance
among people.
Satan was preparing for the next big one , World War II and its
holocaust. His strategy was always the same. Shower the entire world
with as much chaos as possible without letting on that he is behind itall. Present the chaotic package in such a way that mankind does not
attribute the chaos to its rightful source. Instead, we let it evolve and
then attribute it to others and not ourselves. The moment we can come
to grips with self-criticism and realize that we are directly responsible
for the chaos around us because of the choices we make and the
actions we take, then we have crossed a major bridge to immortality.
However, at the time of World War II, Satan had blinded the entire world
with isolationism and nancial catastrophe, with the culprit identied as
the other person or other country. When I raised the question earlier
as to why Satan did not take notice of Rav Ashlag and what he was
destined to accomplish with his revelation of wisdom, the answer that
I believe makes the most sense is that the entire world was so fully
entrenched and engaged with the machinery of chaos that Satan
permitted his own ego to get the better of him. He already foresaw, as
did Rav Ashlag, the black cloud that would surround the entire world.
By the time World War II ended, former companions and allies were
enemies, to the amusement of Satan. Because he was so
preoccupied, Satan did not notice the powerful wisdom being revealed
about how to beat him at his own game.
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Well, this is where his strategy changed. Satan realized he had lost an
important battle and shifted into high gear by employing the same
strategy that had worked for him in the eigtheenth century against the
famous Kabbalist Rav Moses Luzatto. He enrolled scholars to ban for
all the right reasons any kabbalistic texts so they did not fall into the
hands of the indels or unlearned laymen. The word spread like
wildre. To strengthen their positions, Satan impregnated the minds of
the authorities with scare tactics, claiming things like:
Anyone reading and studying Kabbalah will assuredly
go crazy and wind up in a mental institution.
The books were too holy for the average person to even
touch them.
Here were already other (non-kabbalistic) books that were far
simpler and could better benet the reader.
And because these so-called scholars spoke with such authority,
the entire worldalready anesthetizedlistened intently and
with subservience.
However weighty their arguments may have been, however deeply
they permeated throughout the ranks of people regardless of their
personal background, the wisdom kept coming. There was no
stopping it. This is not to say that the battle did not intensify. The
ridiculousness of the criticism was so outlandish that it made me
question what was going on. Where in academic history was the
opposition so intense and factually so incorrect?
I once served as a part-time chaplain in a very large mental hospital
and, behold, I never found there a book on Kabbalah. I did come to the
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conclusion (in jest) that since I observed all of the patients eating eggs
for breakfast, there could be no doubt that the eggs contributed to
their insanity. As for the argument that the books were too holy to
touch, who is to determine who is or is not holy enough to study?
This was the scenario for me, after the death of my master in 1969
when I took over the helm of The Centre. The necessary material was
already available for mankind to take control and go after the big prize,the removal of that ultimate in chaosmortality. I knew then that my
mission was to spread and disseminate this knowledge to every
human being in whatever language they could understand and read.
This was the straw that broke the camels (or scholars) back. Like Rav
Ashlag and my teacher, I was defying every accepted traditional
dogmatic prohibition. The barrage of criticism and accusations ran thegamut from my operating houses of prostitution to owning castles all
around the world. The presence of Kabbalah Centres around the world
became the rallying point for the antagonists of Kabbalah. This
onslaught brought on by Satan persevered over the past 28 years and
continues to the present day.
In my years as co-director of The Centre, I have been uncompromising
in my mission that Kabbalah can bring about the removal of chaos
from this universe with the ultimate objective of achieving immortality.
However, I do have to admit that, when it came to the education of our
children, Karen and I did compromise. When we were threatened that
our children would be denied access to the proper educational
facilities, we did somewhat compromise in our efforts to spread the
knowledge of Kabbalah. Our strategy was one of maintaining a very
low prole. Our Centres had a very unassuming presence and
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appearance. In this way we were not too disrupted in our mission. We
knew that education was essential to our childrens leadership abilities
that they would need to administer the vast and varied programs of
The Centre (if they so chose) when they came of age. The Light more
than compensated for our compromise.
When the time came, Kabbalah and The Centres made their presence
known to the entire world. Our opposition was so overwhelmed withwhat they saw and read, they became lled with such anger, that a
world conspiracy was organized to smear our efforts with whatever
means and tools were available.
We know this was Satans final offensive. He was really feeling
threatened. What he saw infuriated him. He now took notice of all the
participants involved in Kabbalah. No longer was his focus on justthe rabbinical scholar, the Sufi master, and the Christian kabbalist. He
took notice of the simple, uneducated people plowing through the
mysteries of Kabbalah. Professionals with absolutely no Talmudic
education, with no connection to anything religious, were
experiencing the joy and certainty of kabbalistic teachings. This was
dangerous. If Satan permitted this to continue, it would bring down his
entire kingdom of darkness, which he was committed to perpetuating
at any cost.
He red up the systems with all he had. Scholars who opposed
Kabbalah were acting in an irrational way. There was no logic to what
they had to say. They even wove half-truths and sometimes outright
lies into their stories in order to spice up the case against the teaching
of Kabbalah. They were forced to give up their previous with the
arguments that students of Kabbalah were going crazy or that
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Kabbalah was too holy to touch, too difcult, as these arguments were
falling on deaf ears.
The new line of attack was to discredit the people whose mission it
was to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah, to spread rumors that the
people were being brainwashed. Yet the teaching of Kabbalah dictated
that no kabbalistic principle become accepted without questioning and
careful scrutiny on the part of the student. Rav Shimon bar Yochai, thegreat master kabbalist and author of the most comprehensive work of
Kabbalah, The Zohar , stated in his writings that the information offered
in his work was never to be accepted simply because he was the
author. The why of everything must be stated and the answers to
every why must be forthcoming before one accepts or takes as truth
any of its teachings.
Pressure was mounting against supporters of The Centres around the
world to discontinue their study, nancial support, and commitment.
Friends of our students who had no idea what The Centre was about,
who had no knowledge whatsoever of the wisdom of Kabbalah, who
did not visit a Centre nor speak to any of the teachers, inexplicably
became violent antagonists of Kabbalah and spent much time and a
great deal of effort dissuading our students.
This was absolutely the signature of Satan, for there was no rationale
or logic to this behavior or action. The material, physical human was
now acting in accordance with the consciousness perpetuated by
fears and lies. There was no sense in his reasoning. It is certain that
Satan has chosen Kabbalah as his battleground. Since the creation
of man, he had never been as threatened as now with the awakening
of human consciousness. However, the Lightforce of God, when
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brought to bear on Satan, will make him disappear as easily as the ip
of a switch turns on the light and removes the darkness.
This is the nature of what the Lightforce is prepared to do at a
moments notice. Just ip the switch, whispers the Lightforce. You
need not concern yourself with the fears of chaos and mortality or how
to rid your existence of the scourge of pain and suffering.
Kabbalah teaches us how to turn on the Lightforce. Thats it in a
nutshell. That is the purpose of Kabbalah, to live is the switch to say
goodbye to chaos and mortality and hello to immortality.
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strange thing happened to me along the journey of Kabbalah
toward somewhere. Where the journey was to take me, I must
confess, I didnt have the slightest idea. The notion or even
the word immortality was foreign to me. Just ask a person on the streetif they believe anything about immortality. I am sure their response
would be, Cant you nd someone else to bother? So what prompted
me 31 years after my introduction to Kabbalah to accept this principle?
Why was I so receptive to the idea of immortality when it presented
itself? Do you believe I had never attended a funeral? Do you think I
had never been to a cemetery? I lost many that were close and dear
to me. I was unfortunately all too familiar with mortality and the pain
and suffering that follows the death of someone you love. So I asked
myself, when that moment of truth presented itself: Why am I taking
the challenge? Am I not aware of the awful and nasty things that are
constantly being thrown at me? This will be the icing on the pastry of
never-ending abusive and virulent attacks that have come my way.
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Where did I get the nerve to present so far-out a concept as immortality
without considering the consequences of another all-out barrage? How
would our students take to an idea that literally seems to contradict
lifes experience? The teachings of Kabbalah have always appealed to
the rational thinking mind. Its wisdom has stimulated individuals into
change. But when you begin to tamper with the very foundation of
reality, that is quite another matter. You are now taking on the entire
world. We have been taught that all aspects of the illusionary physicalreality are here today and gone tomorrow. Death follows the rules of
entropy and Maxwells Second Law of Thermodynamics. Everything
consisting of a physical, material nature must terminate in decay or
death. Yet what emerges from the idea of immortality is that death is
but an illusion.
Lets begin from the earliest moment that the seed of immortality wasset in my mind. Before my entry into the world of Kabbalah in 1962, I
was an Orthodox Jew, an adherent of Judaism. In the Orthodox
program of observance, one Jewish holiday seems largely identical to
the next aside from the customs distinguishing them. But the one
holiday where we observed the giving of the Ten Commandments,
known as Shavuot, stood out in particular from the rest. This holiday
required that we study biblical or Talmudic text all night until sunrise,
then we would pray the traditional holiday service and go to sleep. This
was the way I performed the holiday from the time that I could affect
my body to stay awake all night. What I understood then was that we
observed this holiday in commemoration of the event on Mount Sinai.
The reason for studying was to display our connection to the event. And
that was all there was to it. It was an observance, a traditional ceremony
for one who felt akin to his/her Judaism. Was there anything in it for me?
No, other than registering brownie points with God.
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So you can imagine the confusion I experienced when I shared my rst
kabbalistic Shavuot with my master. It seemed by strictly practicing
observation that we were practicing the holiday no differently than
when I was a child. However, the why, the explanation of the
Revelation event, and more importantly why it is relevant to any person
today, 3,500 years later, was truly a revelation. I was amazed at what
my master was telling me.
He rst reminded me that anyone referring to this holiday as the giving
of the Ten Commandments, as the start of a new religion, specically
Judaism, was completely mistaken. Furthermore, he explained that
the entire traditional practice omitted the most signicant aspect of the
event. Those were strong words and certainly foreign to one who had
been steeped in the religious and traditional practice of this event. I
believed that I had been taught all there was to know about the TenCommandments.
What had Jewry throughout the millenniums missed? Firstly, my
teacher said, Never, ever, again refer to the event as the Creators Gift
of the Ten Commandments. There was never a remark nor an event
that signied commandments. If my master had not been such a
great rabbi, scholar, and kabbalist, I might have said, Have a good
day. I really do not want to hear any more, and departed for good
from his presence.
He began reciting from the Talmud a statement which I faintly recalled
that what happened on Mount Sinai was the Revelation of the
Ten Utterances. Now why would the Talmud make use of the word
utterances when most of the world considered the Revelation on
Mount Sinai the Revelation of the Ten Commandments?
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Every movie-goer is familiar with the spectacular movie by Cecile B. De
Mille, The Ten Commandments . He literally immortalizedthis pun is
intended, as reference to immortality is frequently used in the lmthe
Revelation event. However, once I learned that the term
commandments was incorrect, I asked my master how such a
misunderstanding could take place and, furthermore, why this
mistaken interpretation has been permitted to persist for millenniums.
The answers to both questions were shockingly concealed but
profoundly informative. After all my years in rabbinic study, my masters
response came as a complete deviation from the existing
methodology used in explaining the more important events of
Scriptures. He replied that behind every misunderstanding of the
signicant event of Revelation lay the sinister hand of Satan and it was
his continued presence and effort that perpetuated this grossdistortion. Understandably so, continued my master, since Satan
places great emphasis on maintaining this mistaken interpretation. His
very essence is on the line. He knew the real meaning of Revelation
and the Ten Utterances. The Thought of God and the purpose for
revelation is Immortality, stated my master.
I know, he continued, that this kind of explanation is a complete
departure from what you, traditional Judaism, and all established
religions have believed about this great, memorable event in history. It
is radical and revolutionary. With that, he began to prepare me for the
time in the very near future when I would be called upon to deliver this
message to the entire world.
What was more jolting and yet powerfully revealing was this new
concept that attributed every evil act of mankind to the armada and
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forces of Satan. As I mentioned earlier, for me and other adherents of
religion, all religions, it was easy to believe that any act or event that
embraced the forces of evil was actually an activity of Gods wrath
upon the sinners. The tragic inclusion of good, honest people within
the holocaust was a matter of the Creator, which we had no right to
question. This way of thinking was something my master completely
rejected. And further he explained the universal rule of holocaust: when
Satan is given permission to unleash his violence upon mankind, hesweeps through in all areas without discrimination. Anyone in his path
who does not know the secret of how to create a protective shield
around themselves becomes a part of the group. It is here that another
universal law applies, the law that Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.
The recent holocaust that brought down the wrath of Satan upon six
million Jews also saw Satans evil hand of destruction and deathswallow up fty million people of various religions and cultures. The
culprit in this heinous massacre of human esh was the originator of
death and violence, Satan.
So what was the truthful, kabbalistic explanation of the Revelation
event, I asked, if not to provide mankind with some moral and ethical
guidelines? The idea of forming a religion or separation between
people was the furthest idea from the nature of the Creator, my master
explained. The theme of revelation is universal despite what we have
traditionally been taught or led to believe.
I asked my master what his words The theme was universal meant.
My master then threw the ball back in my court: Dont you
remember that the Talmud specifically made much of the fact that
the entire Decalogue (Ten Utterances) was translated into every
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language, seventy to be exact, so that every nation would participate
in its revelation?
Yes, I replied. However, I did not understand the point my master
was making. So the Creator wanted all nations to be aware of what
the Jewish people were receiving, I responded. What is so unusual
about that?
You still do not understand the Revelation aspect of Mount Sinai. You
remain with your programmed education, he replied, becoming a little
impatient with the delay in my grasping the point. Revelation was not
about the Ten Utterances, it was about the revealment of the total
embodiment of the Lightforce in our universe, he explained. It was a
complete and universal communion with the Light which left no space
where darkness could conceal itself. The result was the demise ofdeath, which had ruled and affected every universal entity including
man since the sin of Adam. The world had achieved the most sought
after gift mankind could ever have longed and hoped forimmortality.
Then what was the Decalogue or Ten Utterances about? I wanted to
know, now that I had discarded the remnants of a corrupted Ten
Commandments. The Ten Utterances, stated my master, were
nothing more than the instrument by which the Immaterial Lightforce
of God became physically expressed in our universe. No different than
a light bulb which reveals the concealed potential of electric current,
or for that matter the physical body which reveals and makes manifest
the immaterial, eternal soul.
The Hebrew letters in the Utterances, the conguration of words made
up of these letters, together with the verses, were nothing more than
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a vehicle whereby the full impact of the Lightforce made its presence
known and felt in the universe and more specically directed towards
Satan/Murphys Law of Chaos and mortality.
The Hebrew letters were no ordinary letters. They were the building
blocks or blueprint for Lightforce expression. I understand this today
as no less than the microscopic DNA with its varied sequences which
channel, on a much lesser scale or degree, the life force of anindividual. The Hebrew letters were the building blocks of the entire
universe, continued my master, citing a 4,000 year-old kabbalistic
book, the Book of Formation or Sefer Yetzirah , that I was entirely
unfamiliar with. I was dumbfounded. Is this what the Hebrew letters
were all about?
To the best of my knowledge, the Hebrew language was just that, alanguage for the Hebrews. However, when I was confronted with the
Book of Formation authored by Abraham, the Patriarch of Bible fame
who lived around 2000 BC, I immediately realized that this work existed
almost 300 or 400 years prior to the Revelation of the Ten Utterances.
Of course, I said to myself, this language existed long before there
were Jews. Furthermore, continued my master, the Zohar gleans from
the biblical text that prior to the Tower of Babel incident, the language
spoken by all peoples around the globe was Hebrew. I then
remembered the interesting fact I had come across that when the
forefathers of the United States were considering revolution from
British dominance, they wanted to sever their ties so completely that
they preferred to no longer speak English. One of the languages
considered for the new land was Hebrew. Today, most people,
including myself, consider the Hebrew language to be Jewish
because it is mostly Jews who presently speak Hebrew.
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Let us now again return to the matter of Revelation. What seems to
emerge from the Zoharic interpretation is that Revelation was about
the Lightforce becoming fully and totally manifested and revealed.
The instrument by which the realization of Revelation came to
manifestation was the Scroll, or the Torah. This was indeed a very
dramatic and beneficial moment in the history of human civilization
which brought to an end the chaos and mortality that had afflicted
mankind since the sin of Adam approximately 2200 yearspreviously. Death and chaos no longer remained a part of the
human landscape.
The full radiance and benecence of the Lightforce permeated every
nook and cranny of the entire cosmos. There was no room left for
darkness. Immortality had again been restored to its place within the
world community. Therefore, to assume that Revelation was a Jewishtrip is an unfortunate missed opportunity. The benets accrued to all
living beings including the kingdom of the inanimateclothing and
physical items were no longer subject to the laws of entropy. The
miracle of Revelation was the miracle that enabled the Israelites
walking in the dessert to possess clothing that never wore away. Was
that just a miracle that Moses was responsible for? Moses never lost
his consciousness and consequently maintained full dominion over
Satan/Murphys chaos-producing agents.
As a result of his connection with certainty, with consciousness and
the Lightforce, Moses never severed his relationship with the Tree of
Life reality. This afnity and bond is the reason the Zohar remarks,
Moses never died. This matter will be more fully explored later on.
Therefore the awesome power of Moses described in Scriptures came
as no surprise to the kabbalist. However in my early years studying
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holiday? I queried my master. Yes, he replied, within this section
of the Zohar , the Ari, Rav Isaac Luria, learned the secret of one
aspect of immortality.
Once Light is revealed within this universe, it remains forever. However,
the Light stays in a potential state, like an electric current in the case
of a wall socket or a switch. When the appropriate stimulation, in
kabbalistic terminology a proper vessel, is applied to the Lightforce,then the Lightforce, as with electricity, is once again revealed.
Inasmuch as the Lightforce of Immortality on Mount Sinai had once
become revealed, continued my master, this energy of immortality can
always be accessed again.
Rav Luria, in his voluminous work Gates of Meditation , provided the
necessary vessel or switch for revealing once again the state ofimmortality originally revealed on Mount Sinai. However, this process
or procedure, Rav Luria reveals, can only accomplish the revelation of
immortality when applied at the appropriate cosmic time, its original
revelation. The guidelines were included within the biblical code as
deciphered by the Zohar . Eternal events are as cosmically guided as
the appearance of the sun, moon, and all other celestial entities. The
constellation of Leo does not make its appearance in the heavens in
the winter time any more than Capricorn appears in the heavens during
the summer months.
Glancing up into the sky with a high-powered telescope reveals each
sign of the Zodiac congured by billions of stars appearing at their
usual time of the year. Just as a TV guide is necessary for the viewer
to know the exact time of a favorite program, so too does the Bible
provide the exact calendar time when the cosmos is prepared to put
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on its particular program of events. The moment for the immortality
event is the 6th day of the Lunar month of Gemini, the opportunity for
mankind to view and tap its energy.
Similar to our TV sets, just turning on the set will not permit me to
access prime time news at 7:00 PM Our sets have the potential ability
to provide prime time news. However, if I turn the set on at 6:00 PM or
8:00 PM, I will obviously not see the news. If I turn on the set on a daywhen this program does not appear, again the TV set, as good as it
might be, cannot access the program.
Therefore, explained my master, the Zohar states that the appropriate
time to tune into the awesome energy of immortality is in the evening
of the 6th day of Lunar Gemini. This is the incredible information that
only the Zohar can furnish. The entire evening up to and including theearly morning after sunrise must be completely devoted to accessing
this unbelievable energy. The body must undergo deprivation and go
without any sleep whatsoever. That, together with the special codes
for accessing immortality provided in detail by Rav Luria, guarantees
that a person shall not die at least for the next 3 or 4 months until Rosh
Hashanah, when we have a chance to rewrite our destiny.
Frankly, I had never heard words or thoughts of this nature. This is
too good to be true, I remarked to my master. Has this ever been
proven or substantiated before in history? I asked.
No, answered the master, but that will be your task.
What, I muttered, do I have to do with this? How am I going to prove
such an outlandish idea when everything around us stands as a
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testimonial that death cannot be avoided, other than perhaps if a
Governor stays a prisoners execution? In the case of a criminal, I can
understand delaying or canceling an execution. That is a human
construct. But how can one speak to the Angel of Death and tell him
to get lost? I queried.
Furthermore, who knows when someones time is up so that we can
substantiate that it was this spiritual, immaterial, unheard-ofmethodology that performed the unthinkable feat of bringing about
this immortality? I questioned. All my master said was that I had to
wait and sometime in the near future the proof would appear.
To be honest, if it had been anyone else but my master, I would have
considered this reply a perfect cop-out. However, this was the master
speaking and, as with all master kabbalists, the concepts of yesterday,today, and tomorrow simply do not exist. They were merely repeating
what the automatic computer printout was showing. Everything was in
the here and now.
The master went on to teach me another important lesson concerning
computer printouts. At the time, most people were still unfamiliar with
this term. When you speak or listen to someone speaking, are either
of you thinking or considering each word spoken? queried the master.
We may have gathered the thoughts or concepts prior to the words
leaving our mouth, but if it is not a prepared speech written on paper,
how did these precise words come out without the person having
uttered them or having them in their consciousness? The only
explanation that I have ever heard for this phenomenon has been from
my master.
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The master kabbalists already knew that which would take science
until the twentieth century to gure out: that tomorrow is already
included in the past. After all, where did the tree come from if not from
the seed? Most of us cannot look at the seed and see the tree. So,
too, for the present, most of us cannot read the computer printout of
tomorrow and are therefore subject to the difculties that emerge from
tomorrows uncertainty. Science knows this, but unfortunately only in
theory. On a practical level, scientists are like the rest of us, they cannotimplement their theory in their daily lives. Can you imagine if scientists
had brought what they knew theoretically into a practical arena? They
would all become very wealthy people. They could purchase certain
stocks today knowing that prices would go up tomorrow. Unfortunately,
as of the time of this writing, scientists cannot bridge the gap between
that which has been conrmed to them in theory and the practical use
of it in their daily lives. Science will have to wait for the kabbalist toreveal this information.
Assuming with certainty that this incredible phenomenon of accepting
and utilizing the secret to immortality will assuredly see the light of day,
the master smilingly patted me on the shoulder and said, All it takes
is the wisdom and a certainty consciousness to bring this
phenomenon to fruition. I then and there made him a promise that I
would never falter in my certainty consciousness and I would not let
him down.
Following on the heels of this new revelation, I recalled an amusing
and yet strange illusion that had overcome all peoples of the western
world. There is rarely an adult that has not been asked to purchase
life insurance so as to provide for his/her dependent children in the
event of his/her death. I chuckled to myself and said to my master,
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Why do the insurance companies call this type of insurance life
insurance, when its proper name should be death insurance,
inasmuch as payment of this policy will only occur when the insured
dies? Here, in the case of the Revelation on Mount Sinai, the insured
will actually be acquiring life insurance, a guarantee that he will survive
for the next three or four months.
The Master smiled and nodded in agreement, adding, One dayyou shall share with the world the secrets of how to achieve
permanent immortality.
For the present, humankind will gradually accept this small dose of
immortality, since it will take time for mankind to grasp and accept the
challenges that immortality presents. The elevation of human
consciousness will not take place overnight. Heightened awarenessmust undergo an evolutionary process. Being young to Kabbalah, I
could not see why there would be objections to a good thing. Why
would some even go so far as to reject the whole idea in its entirety?
I would learn what it means to be patient and begin to listen to the
music and strings of the universe.
The universe has a beat and a rhythm, said the master. You will have
to pay careful attention to its sound and only then will you become
familiar with its printout and the information that is available to us all the
time, if we only listened.
A sweet tune to the distraught ear and yet the masters prediction had
an ominous ring to it. Did he mean painful difculties along the spiritual
path? Just what did the master have in mind about listening carefully
to the musical strings of the universe? Little did I realize then the
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