I recently helped someone on Facebook to understand how one is supposed to read all things with God in mind. This is the foundation of understanding our reality in many ways. Often we get caught up in the minutia of our own designs instead of letting go and allowing the light to flow through us and thus into our own understanding. Through this discourse I came up with some simple rules to see me in all works. The me of, I Am, as I am. I pray this helps you on your path to oneness to join me <3
From Facebook : I have a question on something I’ve been struggling with that I hope I can articulate.
If the Torah is the product of man, as many who study the Zohar believe (not sure where I hold on this personally yet), and not divine in origin, and the Zohar of course is the product of man, I wonder what’s the point of studying a fanciful interpretation (Zohar) of a work written by man (Torah)? It almost seems to me that Zohar almost necessitates a belief of the divinity of Torah for it to have any power or meaning. Otherwise what makes the Zohar any different than a fantasy novel like say lord of the rings?
Consequently, how can Kabbalah have any true meaning at all if its foundation (Torah) is simply the work of man?
It all seems to add up to one big fantasy novel/work of literature that’s fun to read but nothing more.
Not a challenge here. This is a sincere inquiry by someone struggling to make sense of it all. So I’m hoping someone can shed some light on this for me?
The Response (Mine):
So this is very simple and something one has to do with all religions. One has to recognize that The All, God, is within all things. Then when one reads a work to help elucidate and illuminate God through the work, it is the onus of the reader to remove the fingerprint of man. Now this is testable in many ways. The first is to practice the yoga of each religion and see what the results are (in Torah this is called Devekut). In Torah, this would be learning the psycholinguistics of the language if it isn’t your first language (key as language is evolved through from the beginning of time to communicate reality between humans and other beings such as dogs and other animals). It also gives the basis of understanding what is actually being communicated of what was experienced in the past, so we can relate it to our experience in the present. On top of that physical exercises such as head movements, mantra/permutation and such being forth something to experience even if one has or has not read Torah (just how indian yoga brings effects with or without reading the works such as the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, etc.).
We go further by looking for how The All would manifest through reality (ie. Yesod) and how that manifest through us for tying to the universals. A simple one is aleph separates mem from shin, nose separates mouth from eyes on us and most animals. Lungs separates, stomach from head in most animals, especially us. Air/space separates the planet from the sun – and thus we see the sacred geometry of The All outside and in – and this is only one example. The other types of meditation being other wisdoms on these things as well as the ability to speak with God more deeply vs. how we speak with God before we know God.
There is more and I would point you to the Sefer Yetzirah and the book Initiation into Hermetics to learn the tools of how one must do this for oneself or else never really be connected with Source/God/The All/YHVH (Oneness) and so on. Once one is with God / Meets God (As God is True, and that’s key to understand) it’s much easier to look at the ways humans have communicated this forward through time to their later incarnations and understand the who, what, where, why and how of each version and put them back into oneness as a single tapestry of light and love within all that brings us to be human beings and not something less in the first place ❤️
Further – the tools to read Torah (Truth) of all things
- One must know Truth in all things – this means seeing the truth of that which is not true as something against the Truth as well as something that Truly exists
- One must know Love in all things – Knowing Love one can understand the Truth, without love one is unable to know Truth. This love is the love of giving, without any attachment – just as God created now, which is ever giving in its permanent life and death as love, we must love this way inside and out.
- Knowing Truth and Love one then is Free – The real freedom, not the illusion of self control and free will but the chosen free will to be True and Love and thus only limited by what is loving and nothing less. To be less is to be enslaved to that which is not Love or Truth and thus attached to what is not real
- This works on our life, the Torah of our life, which is the book of God, as well as every written, played, performed or creative expression ever through an incarnation of God. These tools lead to right judgment and seeing what is human and yet refined to being pure and what is God divine.
