Bible and cabbala
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apparently the Bible (Old testament) is full of cabbalistic imagery and gematria. Do you know any good website reference points that elucidate this? Is the Bible vaguely related to actual historical events or where the scholars basically just Cabbalistic magickians spinning yarns of hidden occult wisdom based around the 10 sephira and 22 paths?
e.g the Lord's prayer which christ borrowed is an "as within so without" concept (Kingdom(Malkuth) come (from the inner planes)
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@gerry456 said
"apparently the Bible (Old testament) is full of cabbalistic imagery and gematria. Do you know any good website reference points that elucidate this?"
www.eng.utah.edu/~spiegel/kabbalah
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Is the Bible vaguely related to actual historical events or where the scholars basically just Cabbalistic magickians spinning yarns of hidden occult wisdom based around the 10 sephira and 22 paths?
"From my understanding, Kabbalah was the oral interpretation of the the old testament passed on from generation to generation.
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@Uni_Verse said
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Is the Bible vaguely related to actual historical events or where the scholars basically just Cabbalistic magickians spinning yarns of hidden occult wisdom based around the 10 sephira and 22 paths?
"From my understanding, Kabbalah was the oral interpretation of the the old testament passed on from generation to generation."
Seeing as how the printing press came about 2 millenia after the beginning of Judaism (if you arbitrarily say its around ~500 BCE), most traditions were orally passed down. Kabbalah is especially known as an oral tradition because of its esoteric import. My point is that it wasnt 'the oral interpretaiton' since most religions were passed down orally. The whole point is that it was an esoteric oral tradition.
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@aum418 said
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Seeing as how the printing press came about 2 millenia after the beginning of Judaism (if you arbitrarily say its around ~500 BCE), most traditions were orally passed down. Kabbalah is especially known as an oral tradition because of its esoteric import. My point is that it wasnt 'the oral interpretaiton' since most religions were passed down orally. The whole point is that it was an esoteric oral tradition.
"You are correct. What I should have said (and meant to say, but was lost in translation) :
From my understanding Kabbalah is the esoteric interpretation of the materials presented in the Old Testament.