[David25927]

Kabbalah was the occult (hidden or secret) inner teachings of Judiasm. It was the secret teachings of the temple priests, and was passed down only to the eldest son. It is a system of understanding how to decode the Bible and of things like the Tree of Life, which is supposedly the pattern of not only the creation of the universe, but, through the principle of 'as above, so below', a pattern which reappears in human beings and throughout the created world. Certainly one of the parts of it is gemetria, which is the numerological stuff that an earlier poster wrote about. Kabbalists believe that the actual 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet predate the creation of the universe, and that God created the universe through these letters, in the pattern known as the Tree of Life. Using a more modern metaphor, one of the things that Kabbalah, or any magical system is about is 'hacking' into the underlying code of the universe. The belief is that by understanding these teachings, we can affect the universe around us. The story is told that the first teachings that God gave Moses on the Mountain was the Kabbalah, but after the incident with the Golden Calf, he was so convinced the people were unworthy of it, he went back up and got the list of 'Thou shalt nots' that are the 10 commandments, and kept the 'Thou shalt' teachings of the Kabbalah hidden and secret, only for the initiated to know. It is really only in the second half of the Twenthieth Century that these teachings have become popularized. They have been around for a long time, but other than Jewish mystics, or Alchemists or Magicians who sampled several magical systems (Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Alchemy, Yoga, etc.), it was only an inner Jewish teaching. So, it's not a religion, a cult or a fad (although I suspect that it may be a fad for some), it is magic. Which is to say, a way of interacting with the spiritual realm actually and with results.

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Name : David25927, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 33, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Film Maker, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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