I was getting really into it around March but I kinda let loose for awhile. Are there any kabbalists out there who can tell me how they can get Kabbalah to relate to things in real life?
2007-11-01 09:30:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've studied "Qabalah" as I spell it. Actually, you can tell a lot about a guy by the way he spells Qabalah...lol. The "Q" spelling is used mainly by "occultists" and Hermeticists. The "K" spelling is used by many scholars and, on the other hand, Madonna. It's also spelled "Cabala" sometimes.
Basically, the drill of the Hermetic Qabalah is to get all the correspondences of the Tree of Life by memory, and then begin analyzing everything you see in terms of those correspondences. So you see a door, that's the Hebrew letter Daleth, which refers to the planet Venus, the alchemical principle of Salt, the Tarot card The Empress, etc etc. All these correspondences eventually become the automatic background of your thought, a means of categorizing every new impression according to this scheme of symbolism; and even though it sounds crazy, this really enables you to order and manipulate your thought as you never could before. From a purely practical, everyday standpoint, it's the best mnemonic for memory you can find.
The "mystical" aspect of it is harder to get into in a Yahoo answer, but I'd recommend Aleister Crowley's "777," not only for the tables of correspondences, but also for the many brilliant essays on the Qabalah that are included with it.
For the history of "Kabbalistic" thought from a scholarly standpoint, see the great Gershom Scholem, especially his "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism" and "On Kabbalah and its Symbolism."
By the way, whatever the hell Madonna and Demi Moore and all those idiots are doing, it's not Qabalah in any important sense of the word. It's basically "Ancient Jewish Scientology." It's a nutty feel-good nonsense religion with exotic terms.
2007-11-01 09:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are very few true Kabbalists in the world, and those that are would very likely not be online and definitely not on this site.
2007-11-01 09:41:06 · answer #2 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Jewish tradition, nobody under the age of forty is meant to study Kabbalah, as it can prove a bit disconcerting. In my experience, very few Jews, and very few non Jews - bar Madonna! - devote much if any time to it.
2007-11-01 09:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm dabbling in Kabbalistic numerology, but that's the extent of my knowledge.
2007-11-01 09:33:45 · answer #4 · answered by Cheryl E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋