Pat, do me a very big favour, please, and don't forget to hear what Binah is saying also. There have been so many bad examples of imposed post-colonial mindsets at work here, that your detachment from the profane comes in as a bliss. Mind the Native American spirituality. Thanks.
Welcome Binah! :) I'll try my best to protect you from the sharks here. ;) On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 9:00 pm, Binah Hochma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you all for the many welcomes. I have been gone for the week and > see > > I have a lot of reading to do. > > Pat, I will have many Q's for you. I have only been looking at Kabbalah > for > > three or four years now. It is a many faceted philosophy and I have found > so > > many different opinions, it is difficult to understand some of the > > teachings. But I find that this is true for everything. > > > > Most of my friends would consider me a Christian (as long as I keep all > > those disputable matters between me and G-d) but am no longer involved in > > what would be considered "traditional church". I have study some eastern > > spirituality and Kabbalah, but mostly Native American spirituality. > > I am looking forward to learning from all of you. The first thing I > really > > need to know is the most efficient way to use this site. I have all your > > post coming up in my email, which is fine. I hit "reply to all" at the > > bottom of the last post, which was Pat's. Will it show up at the bottom > of > > the list? I guess I will see after I hit send. Maybe it would be easier > to > > just go to the group site instead of using my email??? > > Binah > > > > It DID show up at the bottom of the list, but I suspect that was > because you replied to me, and my response was, prior to yours, at the > bottom. But, yours is also indented under mine to show that it was in > direct response. I come in through 'Google Groups' and just Google's > format for displaying the messages. It's really a matter of personal > taste ultimately. > > As far as any questions go, fire away; I'll do my best. > > I noticed you left the 'o' out of God (unusual for a Christian), which > is a Jewish tradition--note that I'm only noting it, not criticising > it. I'll do it if I know I'm conversing with Jews out of respect but, > for the most part, I write the word with all the letters. There's > nothing in the Torah forbidding the use of ANY English term for the > Supreme Being anyway (or, in fact, any reference to English at > all...if there were, you'd KNOW it was an anachronism), so the usage > of the word, in full, does NOT break any of the 613 comandments in the > Torah anyway. It's purely done, as you know, out of respect FOR the > Supreme Being and a sincere effort to try to not use the name in > vain. > > Just as an example of a known anachronism in the Torah, there's the > comment in Genesis that says that Abraham was from "Ur, of the > Chaldees". Abraham lived, according to the text of Genesis, in the > early part of the second millenium BCE (i.e., 2999 BCE through > 2500BCE), yet the Chaldeans weren't in control of 'Ur' until the sixth > century BCE--a difference of, at least, 1900 years. It becomes > obvious from that point that Genesis was 'redacted' DURING or AFTER > the Chaldeans were in Ur. In other words, the words 'of the Chaldees' > could NOT have been an original part of of the 'revealed Torah' as the > term is a huge anachronism. > > If you've been looking at Kabbalah for 3-4 years, you've probably > already discovered that the Tree of Life is a great methodolgy for > categorising information. If I'm correct, it's also a schematic for > how the universe's various dimensions relate to one another. Each > sephira is a dimension and the paths are the ways in which those > dimensions communicate. > > Anyway, I'm all ears when it comes to your questions. I look forward > to hearing them!! > > Cheers, > > Pat > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Pat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Mar 2, 5:40 pm, Binah Hochma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I just thought I would say hi. I joined the group a couple of day > ago > > > and > > > > am still reading over the latest post. Some interesting thoughts on > the > > > > existence of God and the soul. > > > > I am new to the whole internet community thing and don't spend a lot > of > > > time > > > > on the computer so bare with me. > > > > To the Moderators, thanks for creating a safe place to exchange > thoughts > > > and > > > > ideas and to encourage each other to grow spiritually. > > > > Binah > > > > > Great Name..Binah Hochma!! I'll translate it for the others...it's > > > Hebrew for 'Understanding Wisdom'. Obviously, you have a background > > > in either Judaism, Hebrew itself or, most likely, the Kabbalah, as the > > > two words are Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. Welcome aboard. I've > > > been studying Kabbalah for around 35 years, now; thus your name came > > > screaming out at me. Anyway, welcome aboard!!- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -
