On The Nature And Purpose Of Kabbalah...

Kabalah, Cabala, Qabalah? What's The Difference?

The following excerpt can be used to provide more context to some of the concepts discussed by Richard Willett and myself on Episode #2 of “Syncromystic”, which will be releasing later today:

The Q.B.L.: The Hermetic Tradition.

The action of a Hebrew verb is defined by three letters or

consonants which are called its root letters, and it is the middle one of these root

letters that defines the mode of the action. For example, QaaHâL with the outer

root letters Q and L and the middle root letter H, means "to call together to

assemble".

But if the middle root letter becomes a V, then QaaVâL means, "to complain, to

cry out." And with that middle letter missing, there is the noun, QowL, which

means "voice, sound."

The outer letters specify a calling (indeed, "QowL" is our English, "call") while

the middle letter specifies the mode of this calling, like whether it is a calling to

the public in order to assemble, or a calling for help.

Now if the middle letter is intensified, for example if QVL becomes QBL - V is

the aspirated or weak version of B and is also spelled Bh, like F = Ph is the weak

version of P, or Th is the weak version of T (the seven letters which admit such a

double pronunciation also are called, the Double Letters) - then here the action

of the verb, too, becomes intensified: The crying out for something will become

the really crying out for something.

And somebody who really cries out for something with all his might shall in the

end receive the object of his crying out. Therefore, QBL defines the things that

have been received after a prolonged and forceful crying out for them, like a

young bird in its nest which cries the loudest and longest, and opens its beak the

widest, and raises itself up, and wiggles its wingstubs:

That bird namely will receive the worm.

And Moses had to go to the top of the hill, hold up his hands with the rod, and

had his hands stayed up by Aaron and Hur all day long, until sundown, before

the LORD gave Joshua and Israel the victory over king Amalek (Ex. 17:8-13).Moses had to really cry out for victory with uplifted hands and standing on a

mountain top, in order to turn the battle to Israel's advantage. So important is

this principle of really crying out as synonymous with receiving, that it was put

on record: "And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memory in a book"

(verse 14).

And in the Book of Ether the LORD says to Jared's brother, "And thus I will do

unto thee, because this long time ye have cried unto me" (Ether 1:43 from the

Book of Mormon). It did not suffice to just call onto the LORD; Jared's brother

had to really cry out with all his might and for a long time before the LORD did

hear him.

And in the Hebrew oral tradition Adam, after he was expelled from Eden, had to

build an altar to call upon the LORD for a long time, and not become involved in

Satan's false religion, and to keep all his covenants before he would receive the

object of his calling:

More light and knowledge from the LORD.

This therefore is the Q. B. L.: Light and Knowledge received from the LORD

after having really called out for it. And because that light and knowledge was

preserved through the ages by its practice and continuing revelation, it also is

called the Tradition, or the Ancient or Hermetic Tradition (its details were the

subject of the former chapters) which refers to Malkeezêdeq, whom the Greeks

had called, "Hermes Trismegistos", or the Three Times Great Hermes.

Malkeezedeq the Great High Priest (Gen. 14:18) was the supreme master of this

heavenly art.

The Q.B.L. also is called the Qabâlah, with the adjective quabalistic. But the use

of this noun must be discouraged because it can be mistaken for the like

sounding topics Kâbalah, Kâbbalah or Câbala which mean "confusion" and

which are confusions, and which in this manner have totally corrupted the

pursuit and study of western hermeticism. Please see the next section.

The Kâbbalah: A Confusion.

If the meaning of a Hebrew root with a middle consonant that's not a Double

Letter nor a gutteral must be strengthened, then this middle letter simply is

doubled. And the same rule applies for Arabic, which does not have any Double

Letters: The middle consonant always will be doubled there in order to

strengthen the meaning of the root.For example, the Hebrew root KVL, as well as the Arabic root KBL originally

meant, "to twist", as to twist strands of wire into a cable (which of course, is the

English, "cable" and the German, "Kabel"), and also to twist metal rods into the

links of a chain. And figuratively, to twist matters into an intrigue, which we call

a "cabal" or in German, "Kabale". The Jiddish verb, "kabbeln" signifies the

agitated but circumspect manner of talking while hatching out a scheme.

And if the meaning there is strengthened, "to really twist", to really make a cable

or to really twist matters, then the Hebrew root becomes "KBL", while the Arabic

root becomes "KBBL", and the product of this really twisting will be of a very

high quality: The chain or cable can be used to tie down things, while the cabal

will put people's minds in chains. Thus the strengthened roots as well as the

unstrengthened roots have taken on the meaning, "to put in chains", and this

means to put a person in chains, literally, as well as to put a person's mind in

chains figuratively with a confusion.

The Arabic root KBL, KBBL now would engender the nouns Kâbalah or

Kâbbalah, where the tone is on the first syllable in contrast to Hebrew, where the

tone is on the ultimate or, as it is in pause, on the penultimate syllable (though

these nouns are not used in Arabic, nor in Hebrew).

Whatever the case now would be, Kabbalah, Kabalah or Cabala can only mean a

confusion, and it has produced whole schools of pseudo-philosophical systems

and an immense pseudo-philosophical literature - from the Renaissance onward

to this present time.

And so it is this surrogate which has routed the philosophical roots of the

original biblical faith by fabricating and then passing off to the believers the

confusion of the Kâbbalah - in exchange for the divinely revealed science of

the Q.B.L., passing off mysticism and magic for revelation, and for the gifts of

the Spirit.

The two main sources for the Kabbalah are first the "Sêifer Yetsêerah" (the "Book

Of Formation") and second, the even more prominent "Sêifer HaZZôwhar" (the

"Book of the Splendor") which is referred to as, the Zohar.

The Seifer Yetseerah, a mystification, is readily known as a counterfeit by its

bloated style and is generally viewed today as such. And, besides it has the

correspondences between the planets and the Double Letters mixed up, and we

need therefore not comment on it any further.

But the Zohar is not the original document it claims to be, either. It was penned

in pidgin Aramaeic - a Hebrew, made up to appear as Aramaeic - in twelfth century Spain by one Moses de Leon, who had passed it off as the writings of the

legendary second century Rabbi Shim’on bar Yochai.

The major parts of the Zohar were translated into Latin by a Jewish scholar who

had accepted the Christian faith, Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, and who was

knighted for his merits therein. His KABBALA DENUDATA was printed in

Bavaria at the end of the seventeenth century. It is the source of most of the

kabbalistic literature in the West.

Please note that Rosenroth spells KABBALA (with a "K") - as on the cover of

Mathers' English Translation (page A4) and as a scholar of Hebrew, therefore, he

knew that this meant, "Confusion Unveiled" rather than "Tradition Unveiled".

He had a good sense of humour - poking fun at those stupid goyim who actually

would take this mysterious nonsense (the Zohar and the Seipher Yetseerah) for

the real thing, and spill their brains to elaborate on it through the following

centuries and should, at last, beget a torrent of attention, of discussions and

literature and of articles and books, right now in our modern age. As for

example, the so-called "Kybalion" (note the consonants K-B-L meaning a

confusion) where on page 22 we'll find the ubiquitous New Age garbage: "The

legends of the Philosopher's Stone which would turn base metals into Gold, was

an allegory relating to Hermetic Philosophy, readily understood (!) by all

students of true Hermeticism (!)".

Here we meet the fog, that must be cleared up, before rolling back the veil of the

age of a godless reason that has emerged in its shade.

- From the teachings of Frater Albertus, as conveyed by Herbert Kessler…