Avatar and the Shaar haNun of the Holy Tree

The fiftieth gate of Kedusha, The Shaar HaNun, is the most comprehensive stage of initiation for a mekubal/kabbalist. It roughly corresponds to what the ancient Sanskrit language would call an avatar initiate. The staged drama fantasy in the theatres by this name, Avatar, reflects the global transition we are experiencing. The protagonist fully becomes conscious of the divine after mastering the supreme red dragon creature and saving the kingdom of the Holy Soul Tree. He prays to the Holy Shechinah/Divine mother- Aiwa(a way of “pronouncing” the Name!)and she answers him with help and protection. In fact she protects him from the beginning of his adventure in the land Pandora. The people of this land are called the Navi and indeed the Earth has entered a new period of prophecy called navi in Hebrew. We too pray to the Divine One that the calamities and woes of a healed world struggling to be truly born will cease as in the quote from the sepher of 2Baruch in the last post. The Tree, the Etz Chaiim is on the big screen folks so this is another miracle to celebrate. As a theme of this blog, this film is another reflection of the transition of Olam haZeh, this world, into a humanity holding a fully integrated five-continuum world view. This is a world conscious of our interrelationship with the fifth continuum as a vast and beautiful dimension of oceanic being/soul. We are here in the shanah/wheel of the year that honors the roots of the Holy Tree of TuB'Shevat and parsha Beshalach. Here is the heart of Torah with the song of the sea, the origin place of the 72 names and Mosheh Rabbeinu with his very hand on the sacred ceso/throne. Baruch haShem!

2Baruch/the keitz/ the end of the Times of Calamities/Woes

2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphical text thought to have been written in the late first century CE or early second century CE, after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE. It is attributed to the Biblical Baruch and so is associated with the Old Testament, but not regarded as scripture by Jews or by most Christian groups. It is included in some editions of the Peshitta. It has 87 sections.(from wikipedia)
Below is a section from the scripture 2Baruch about the Keitz yomim, the consummation of times and it matches closely with the twelve years on Earth since the bright passage of the kochav/comet Hale-Bopp (and the 5757-birth of the red heifer in Judea)which left the inner solar system in 5758/1998 and had appeared last time during the life of Noach and the generation of the mabul/flood in 2200BCE.

From 2Baruch:
"25—26. Sign of the coming Judgment

25 1 And He answered and said unto me: 'You too shall be preserved till that time till that sign which the Most High will work for the inhabitants of the earth in the end of days. 2 This therefore shall be the sign. 3 When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the earth, and they shall fall into many tribulations, and again when they shall fall into great torments. And it will come to pass when they say in their thoughts by reason of their much tribulation: "The Mighty 'One doth no longer remember the earth"—yes, it will come to pass when they abandon hope, that the time will then awake.'

26 1 And I answered and said: 'Will that tribulation which is to be continue a long time, and will that necessity embrace many years?'


26-30. The Twelve Woes that are to Come upon the Earth:

27 1 And He answered and said unto me: 'Into twelve parts is that time divided, and each one of them is reserved for that which is appointed for it. 2 In the first part there shall be the begin­ning of commotions. 3 And in the second part (there shall be) slayings of the great ones. 4 And in the third part the fall of many by death. 5 And in the fourth part the sending of the sword. 6 And in the fifth part famine and the withholding of rain. 7 And in the sixth part earthquakes and terrors. 8 [Wanting.] 9 And in the eighth part a multitude of specters and attacks of the Shedim. 10 And in the ninth part the fall of fire. 11 And in the tenth part rapine and much oppression. 12 And in the eleventh part wickedness and unchastity. 13 And in the twelfth part confusion from the mingling together of all those things aforesaid. 14 For these parts of that time are reserved, and shall be mingled one with another and minister one to another. 15 For some shall leave out some of their own, and receive (in its stead) from others, and some complete their own and that of others, so that those may not understand who are upon the earth in those days that this is the consummation of the times."
Translation from the Syriac by R. H. Charles
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1913) 2: 481-524
Edited and adapted by George Lyons
for the
Wesley Center for Applied Theology
at Northwest Nazarene University
© Copyright 2000 by the Wesley Center for Applied Theology

If indeed the twelve part time of woes where various disasters ripple through the world are to last for twelve years and they began with the departing of one of the “swords” of Kerubim as comet Hale-Bopp then we are right now at the end of this transition period into the time of global awakening. Baruch haShem
Good Shabbos Bo!

HaTesha The Nine turbulent rivers(5-770 Heh-tav-shin-ayin)

From the Sepher haZohar for this weeks Torah parsha Bo:
“The great dragon reposes between nine rivers, the waters of which are turbulent; and there is a tenth river whose waters are calm, and into the depth of which the blessings of the waters of Paradise descend three times a year. Into this river the dragon enters, making there his habitation; and thence he sallies forth and swims down to the sea, and devours there fish of all kinds, and then returns again to the river. The nine swift rivers are banked by trees and fringed with flowers. The parent river issued from the left side(desire) and from it three drops fell into a certain channel, and each of the three was divided again into three, and every drop became a river. These are the nine rivers which flow through all the firmaments. And from the final moisture that remained when all the drops had issued forth yet another drop was formed, which issued gently, and of this drop was formed the tenth river, which flows calmly. Into this river also flows a drop from the blessings poured forth from the right side by the “perennially flowing stream”, and it is greater than all the rest.”(Zohar II34b-trans after Sperling)
We ask that the blessings of the eternal river of life flow to all those suffering due to the turbulence of olam hazeh, and in need, and in need of refuah sheleimah/healing.

Where is the Geulah? Finding the Center of all that Is

This weeks Zohar commentary of the Torah parsha Vaera contains a profound mystery. The four winds(directions),elements and metals are discussed as if in a wheel that generates the entire physical creation. The picture above is from The Sepher Eshel Abraham. It shows the four corners of the wheel with the twelve qualities that the sepher haZohar equates to the twelve tribes of Yisrael. We can not help but being aware of the center of the wheel, the thirteenth, which is the gematria value of the word Echad=one. The physical universe however does not contain a perfect circle or sphere anywhere and so the four continuum worldview posits that there is no center to the physical universe. Because of this prevalent worldview of the space-time continuum many people have no center to orient to and are in an illusory exile. The five continuum worldview of the wisdom tradition which is stated clearly in the small Sepher Yetzirah has a center. When a person internalizes a worldview that has the center then they become a stone in the temple so to speak that brings this Center into visibility in our world.
‘The first four elements have a deep significance for the faithful: they are the progenitors of all worlds, and symbolize the supernal chariot of Holiness. Also the four elements of fire, air, earth, and water have a deep significance. From them come gold,silver,copper, and iron, and beneath these other metals of a like kind. Mark well this! Fire, air, Earth, and water are the sources and roots of all things above and below, and on them are all things grounded. And in each of the four winds these elements are found-fire in the North, air in the east, water in the South, earth in the West; and the four elements are united with the four winds-and all are one. Fire, water, air, and earth: gold, silver, copper, and iron; north, south, east, and west-these make together twelve; yet they are all one.” Zohar II-23b(trans after Sperling).
If we add the four letters of the sacred Name to each direction which we are told in Zohar correspond to the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting then our wheel has the sixteen faces and qualities as Ezekiel saw manifested by the four faced Chayoth of the Merkava/Chariot. The world is only in a crisis at this time as much as folks are moving from a flat earth(four continuums/dimensions) worldview to the full five continuum worldview of the Sepher Yetzirah which has a center of the Shalom Shalem/complete Peace. Those finding the center find their Geulah/redemption!
Shalom

Sefer Shemot and recovering the Temple vessels

This week we leyn the parsha Shemot of the book of the geulah, the beginning of the story of Moseh Rabbeinu. Below are two excerpts from the aggadah/legends as retold by Louis Ginzberg. They hold a mystery that explains part of the need to be in mitzrayim/Egypt for according to the second story about the Scepter of Moses it was brought into Egypt by Jacob and therefore needed to be recovered by Moses. This scepter however is actually just a different form of the original holy sapphire Book given to the first Adam by the angel Raziel as detailed in the first story below. Each of these sacred items is given a descent through special individuals according to the legend and this also parallels the sacred kabbalah herself. The Sepher haZohar fills us in in the connections where in the commentary on terumah as stated in previous posts is the connection between the jewels and gold on the Choshen/breatplate of Aaron and the tail of certain kochavim/comets.
"and precious stones and fine gold, which forms within the breast of high mountains(breastplate), and under shallow water-which are ruled by those comets by whose influence they grow and increase"(Zohar II-171b-trans after Sperling).
The scepter of Mosheh is also said in Zohar to have two uses. One was to call in the 72 sarim/angel governors(In parsha Beshalach) and part the red sea and the other use is only hinted at. This use is as an interface with the celestials/angels and the humans by way of sacred kochav/comet as we read about here in Zohar. We have two pictures above, one of a hieroglyph from ancient Egypt showing the helical(serpent spiral) form of the scepters held by the Egyptian guardian of wisdom-Thoth(from the book "Egyptian Mysteries" by Lamy,Crossroad Pub.). The other picture is of a real form of the scepter with a crystal knob of the same gem substance(olivine) now recently discovered to be found in comets themselves(and on the Choshen/breatplate)!

"The identification of crystalline olivine in cometary silicates
Campins, H.; Ryan, E. V. Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 341, June 15, 1989, p. 1059-1066. Research supported by NASA and NSF.
An intermediate-resolution spectrum of the 8-13 micron region in comet Halley is obtained which shows a prominent silicate emission feature with structure not observed before in other comets or in interstellar silicates. The presence of a strong 11.3 micron peak reported by Bregman and coworkers is confirmed, and evidence is found for additional structure in the band. By comparison with spectra of interplanetary dust particles and laboratory silicates, it is concluded that small crystalline olivine particles are a major component of the silicates in this comet; other silicates (e.g., amorphous or hydrated) must also be present. The identification of crystalline olivine in this part of the spectrum is supported by the observation of four peaks in 20-50 micron airborne spectra of this comet which have also been attributed to olivine."

So science has now confirmed the connection between a crystal gem in the breastplate of Aaron and certain comets.

From the legends/aggadah about the “Holy Book”:
“Upon the death of Adam, the holy book disappeared, but later the cave in which it was hidden was revealed to Enoch in a dream. It was from this book that Enoch drew his knowledge of nature, of the earth and of the heavens, and he became so wise through it that his wisdom exceeded the wisdom of Adam. Once he had committed it to memory, Enoch hid the book again.
Now, when God resolved upon bringing the flood on the earth, He sent the archangel Raphael to Noah, as the bearer of the following message: "I give thee herewith the holy book, that all the secrets and mysteries written therein may be made manifest unto thee, and that thou mayest know how to fulfil its injunction in holiness, purity, modesty, and humbleness. Thou wilt learn from it how to build an ark of the wood of the gopher tree, wherein thou, and thy sons, and thy wife shall find protection."
Noah took the book, and when he studied it, the holy spirit came upon him, and he knew all things needful for the building of the ark and the gathering together of the animals. The book, which was made of sapphires, he took with him into the ark, having first enclosed it in a golden casket. All the time he spent in the ark it served him as a time-piece, to distinguish night from day. Before his death, he entrusted it to Shem, and he in turn to Abraham. From Abraham it descended through Jacob, Levi, Moses, and Joshua to Solomon, who learnt all his wisdom from it, and his skill in the healing art, and also his mastery over the demons.
Second story from the legends about the Scepter of Moses:
“One of the seven maidens whom Moses saw at the well attracted his notice in particular on account of her modest demeanor, and he made her a proposal of marriage. But Zipporah repulsed him, saying, "My father has a tree in his garden with which he tests every man that expresses a desire to marry one of his daughters, and as soon as the suitor touches the tree, he is devoured by it."
Moses: "Whence has he the tree?"
Zipporah: "It is the rod that the Holy One, blessed be He, created in the twilight of the first Sabbath eve, and gave to Adam. He transmitted it to Enoch, from him it descended to Noah, then to Shem, and Abraham, and Isaac, and finally to Jacob, who brought it with him to Egypt, and gave it to his son Joseph. When Joseph died, the Egyptians pillaged his house, and the rod, which was in their booty, they brought to Pharaoh's palace. At that time my father was one of the most prominent of the king's sacred scribes, and as such he had the opportunity of seeing the rod. He felt a great desire to possess it, and he stole it and took it to his house. On this rod the Ineffable Name is graven, and also the ten plagues that God will cause to visit the Egyptians in a future day. For many years it lay in my father's house. One day he was walking in his garden carrying it, and he stuck it in the ground. When he attempted to draw it out again, he found that it had sprouted, and was putting forth blossoms. That is the rod with which he tries any that desire to marry his daughters. He insists that our suitors shall attempt to pull it out of the ground, but as soon as they touch it, it devours them."
Having given him this account of her father's rod, Zipporah went home, accompanied by her sisters, and Moses followed them.
Jethro was not a little amazed to see his daughters return so soon from the watering troughs. As a rule, the chicanery they had to suffer from the shepherds detained them until late. No sooner had he heard their report about the wonder-working Egyptian than he exclaimed, "Mayhap he is one of the descendants of Abraham, from whom issueth blessing for the whole world." He rebuked his daughters for not having invited the stranger that had done them so valuable a service to come into their house, and he ordered them to fetch him, in the hope that he would take one of his daughters to wife.
Moses had been standing without all this time, and had allowed Jethro's daughters to describe him as an Egyptian, without protesting and asserting his Hebrew birth. For this God punished him by causing him to die outside of the promised land. Joseph, who had proclaimed in public that he was a Hebrew, found his last resting-place in the land of the Hebrews, and Moses, who apparently had no objection to being considered an Egyptian, had to live and die outside of that land.
Zipporah hastened forth to execute her father's wish, and no sooner had she ushered him in than Moses requested her hand in marriage. Jethro replied, "If thou canst bring me the rod in my garden, I will give her to thee." Moses went out, found the sapphire rod that God had bestowed upon Adam when he was driven forth from Paradise, the rod that had reached Jethro after manifold vicissitudes, and which he had planted in the garden. Moses uprooted it and carried it to Jethro, who conceived the idea at once that he was the prophet in Israel concerning whom all the wise men of Egypt had foretold that he would destroy their land and its inhabitants.
The Legends of the Jews
By Louis Ginzberg
[1909]

The Rabbinic sages have told us in the Talmudic and other writings that the technology of the Temple would return with the third temple and the geulah/redemption, which all has begun simultaneously along with the kibbutz golios and the techiyas Hametim, the enlivening of the dead. Baruch HaShem
A Good Shabbos Geulah

The covenant of the Maya?/and Abraham Avinu

The man who posted questions concerning the Maya relationship to the Hebrew wisdom tradition has some good points. Thank You, Vincent. Only part of the story is known about the indigenous Native Americans because of the crash of imperialism upon their cultures and teachings as well as the vast destruction of elders, codices and artifacts. The sacred calendar of 260 days called the Tzolkin is one of the few incredible achievements that has survived and this calendar when linked with the basic solar calendar is the core of their prophectic tradition so popular right now. I do believe I have found the connection between the Tzolkin and the Hebrew Kameas for the days and planets as mentioned in the last post. These people also had a culture hero and “lawgiver”, know doubt who had the neshama/soul root of their language group and taught against blood sacrifice and interestingly he introduced a form of ceremonial bloodletting from the male foreskin within the priestly lines. See the photograph above from the national geographic about the cave paintings of the maya recently discovered. Pictured ia a Mayan priest initiate circumcising himself! The man pictured crosslegged also on the wall is sitting in front of a nautilus seashell displaying the spiral of the Fibonacci series which connects this scene to the teachings of the Sepher Yetzira. This kabbalistic text speaks of the golden mean(Fibonacci series spiral) in the same chapter that it tells us Abraham Avinu studied the deep math of kabbalah and then “cut” the covenant between his toes(Brit Milah) and established the covenant of the tongue which is Kabbalah.
The meso-American culture hero who brought the more correct teachings and replaced the lethal blood sacrifice with the non-lethal use of blood in prayer was called Kulkucan by the Maya and Quetzalcoatl by the Aztec. This name means precious twin or featherd serpent and connects him to the Seraphim of the mekubalim. Tradition holds that he left teachings that warned the Aztec kings that if they do not end blood sacrifice then he would return from the east in the guise of his brother “Tezcatlipoca” and destroy the meso-american culture in the 1500’s ce. Montezuma, king of the Aztecs in 1519, knew this and therefore was expecting the great destruction of his people and Kingdom. You can study about these stories if interested. Read Tony Shearer’s incredible books. He makes the point that the Aztec calendar is only 28 years different from the Hebrew calendar in marking time. The Aztec calendar cycle ended on August 16th, 1987 - their year then being 5720 while the Jewish calendar just entered the year 5748 a few weeks later. This 28 years is one cycle of the planet Shabbatai/Saturn associated with the kamea of nine discussed in the last post and the planet associated with the Aztec deity called Tezcatlipoca, one of the special Twin brother heroes of the meso-american cosmology. When we see the picture of the guy in the cave performing his own priestly covenant, the prophecy from the Mayan book Chilam Balam takes on a knew meaning as to what the sign that the returning bearded white priests from the east would “carry”.
“Receive your guests, the bearded men, the men of the east, the bearers of the sign of God, lord.” page 168 from “The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel”(written in the 1400’s ce) Univ. of Okhlahoma Press 1967.
This week we finish the Sepher Bereishit and prepare for the Book of Shemot called the book of the Geulah. This full blue moon eclipse(Tevet15) on the eve of the Secular New Year holds the light of the geulah for those who see.

Kabbalah/wheel of time/gilgul and Mayan Tzolkin

A basic study of Kabbalah using the Sepher Yetzirah and the kamea/number grids of the weekly wheel will reveal the connection of the Mayan Calendar and the mekubalim. This is very important with all the false teachings and rumors out there. Above is the picture of the weekly sacred Hebrew wheel with the corresponding Kameas, the number letter boxes and associations. To understand one basic link with the Mayan sacred calendar called the Tzolkin we only need to first look at two basic Days and kameas. Each magic box has a number of smaller squares. The keynote number of each box is the number of small boxes plus the number of unity standing for the whole square. So the Kamea of Shabbatai/Saturn is 9 small boxes plus one which equals Ten. This kamea does equate with the basic holy Tree of the ten sephirot and the Sabbath day. When we look at the Kamea of meadim/Mars we see twentyfive small squares plus one which equals twentysix. This is the keynote number power of the kamea of meadim. Mekubalim will immediately recognize the 26 value as the gematria value of the name YHVH, the most holy name we call HaShem - the Name. When we multiply the value of the Kamea of meadim - 26 with the key number of the kamea of Shabbatai-10, we get 26X10=260. The 260 are the number of days in the Tzolkin - the sacred ceremonial calendar of the ancient Maya. We in a sense have joined Earth as temple(Shabbatai); and Sky as Heaven(Meadim), together to reveal the 260. This is one reason why the Maya used this very special count of days. We know that the value of each column in the kamea of shabbatai is equal to fifteen-Yah(Yod-heh), the most ancient name of deity for the Hebrews. Each column of the kamea of meadim equals = 65 which is the gematria value of Adonai-(Alef-daleth-nun-yod), the name that is YHVH in holy Earth, the name we say in prayer in place of the unpronouncable YHVH. the mekubalim will understand now why the Maya used the Tzolkin calendar and why they were able to predict the coming of the white bearded priests(Hebrews) to America from over the eastern ocean. In their sacred book "Chilam Balam" they prophesied these ancient priests to come and introduce the deity called Itzamna to the entire world. This is a name for the Mayan supreme divine One. Notice it contains the word Itz=tree in Hebrew and Amna=faith! We have found our relatives here in America!
" There was the word of the true God in the land. You shall await the coming forth, lord, of his priests who will bring it in time to come...On the day 13 Ahau the katun(cycle) will end in the time of the Itza...There is the sign of Hunab-ku on high... There has been a beginning of strife, there has been a beginning of rivalry, when the priestly man shall come to bring the sign of God in time to come, lord. ...A new day shall dawn in the north, in the west(from Yucatan-Mexico)Itzamna Kauil shall rise. our lord comes, Itza. Our elder brother comes, men of Tantum. Receive your guests, the bearded men, the men of the east, the bearers of the sign of god, lord. Good indeed is the word of God that comes to us. The day of our regeneration comes.... The first Tree of the world is restored, it is displayed to the world."From "The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel" University of Oklahoma Press 1967
This reflects only a very beginning study of the kameas, the days of the week and the sacred calendars. Enlarge and continue a look at the sacred seven day week and the Kameas. It is a bright mirror!

Full Moon of Tevet=Light of geulah/redemption

Here we are at the turning point in the year between the leyning of the Sepher Bereishis and the Sepher Shemot. We are approaching the full moon of the Hebrew month of Tevet in the deep choseych/darkness of the winter. This month of Tevet is given the letter ayin by the author of the Sepher Yetzira. This letter has the value of seventy(the sacred eye/fount) and these final parshot of Bereishis speak of the going down of the 70 souls(root-sparks) into exile in mitzrayim. Remember this year of 770 contains the root word of ayin=ayin-nun). Our work has been to bring the light into the depths of darkness and allow for an unfolding initiation of the individual and the collective relationship to HaShem It is the people ourselves who are as the levanah/moon and illuminate the night and we walk the oral torah and bring it to the entire globe. The week of the full moon of Tevet we read the parsha Shemot or the last parsha of Bereishis which leads to the beginning of the book of geulah/redemption and the making of a holy people. This is the illumination of the moon of Tevet. Tevet has traditionally been a month of suffering great calamities, the seige of Jerusalem by the Babylonians(tevet10), the death of the Navi Ezra(Tevet9) and the translation of Torah by the Greeks into the “70 languages”(Tevet8). This month holds the deep darkness that needed to be illumined. It kept great secrets hidden until the proper times. Aggadah/legends tell us that the moon is kept warm by Meadim and in the previous post was the explanation of how meadim/mars in the sepher Yetzirah has the letter gimmel, the quality of wealth, the color red and contains the word Adam in it’s Hebrew name. The understanding of this is the key to chockmah/wisdom for the value of gimel is equal to the value of wisdom=73. We needed the prayer form of Christianity and it’s Roman solar calendar to bring into the line of the priestly peoples, the Sar of Rome who is a chief of the celestials called the seraphim, the winged thunders by the native Americans. This way we have transformed the “lower” mem in the name samael(sar of Rome)into the mem of the upper waters(mayim), and left the letters Samech-aleph-lammed=Sael who is one of the 72 celestials of the world Yetzirah. This name Sael is the only three letter name of the Holy Shemamphores(name of 72) that is by itself an angelic name(no ending needs to be added to it). This transformation was the need for the four exiles, and the exile of Edom and the rise of the Christian story in the world. But hidden within the Christian story which did lead to much suffering in one way for the Jews was the light of the wealth of wisdom, the giftbringer in the red cloak, meadim/mars, who warms grandmother moon which lights the dark of the night. This form of the red morning star is called by the native American Skiddi Pawnee, the true peacemaker star. For in the world of Beriyah/throne the wealthy red Sar/chief is one of the holy sephirot called Kamael(Kaph-mem-aleph-lamed) whose name by the way equals in gematria the name Sael(91) which also has the value of AMEN(91) which by the way is the name of the one true hidden deity of the few righteous priests of ancient Mitzrayim! The root of the name Kamael=kem is an ancient name for the black earth of mitzrayim. The priests of mitzrayim had some very important wisdom to impart to Moshe Rabbeinu as the Torah tells us was versed in all the wisdom of Egypt. They had been made guardians of the technology that is used to unite the soul sparks and join sky to earth, Shamayim to Aretz. The Zohar tells us that the light in certain kochavim/comets(swords of the kerubim) is connected to certain gems and gold on the breast of high mountains(High priest). “In the book of the higher Wisdom of the East,it says, speaking of certain stars which form a tail(sceptre) in the firmament, that on the Earth there are herbs, of the kind that are called “elixirs of life” and precious stones, and fine gold, which forms within the breast of high mountains(breastplate-choshen), under shallow water-which are ruled by those comets by whose influence they grow and increase; it is the glance of that luminous tail which such stars trail after them across the sky that causes these things to flourish.”(Zohar II-171b-trans.after Sperling) This technology reappears in the technology of the mishkan and The seed of geulah is born now both historically and in the gilgul/wheel of the year. Moshe and Aaron have a new form of the sacred scepter that unites sky and Earth. This full moon of Tevet does contain the light of all the full moons including the next one we call TuB’Shevat and the holiday of the Tree of the mekubalim/kabbalists. Shlomo HaMelech tells us that the guardian of the Tree/Vine is Baal Hamon, the deity of plenty/wealth(eleph ceseph), the same one who warms the Levanah/Moon.

יא כֶּרֶם הָיָה לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּבַעַל הָמוֹן, נָתַן אֶת-הַכֶּרֶם לַנֹּטְרִים: אִישׁ יָבִא בְּפִרְיוֹ, אֶלֶף כָּסֶף.	11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he gave over the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof brought in a thousand pieces of silver.

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The form of the mateh/staff of Aaron is buried deep in the dark soil of mitzrayim and the remez/hint is in Bereishis 49:5 (mem-tet-heh=mateh/staff and 40-9-5)which blessings in the exile of Egypt end the book of Bereishis and set the stage for the geulah. This mateh connects heaven and Earth as hinted at in Zohar and is under the rulership of the Baal of precious wealth. The reappearance of this sacred mateh/scepter at this time was prophecied in Talmud/aggadah and changes the actual placement where the third temple meets the physical geographically. The golden menorah of dedication of the third holy temple lights the present full moon.
Good Shabbos

Meadim/Mars in the Lion/the NINTH day of Chanukah?

Today the red planet Meadim/Mars is staionary retrograde in the mazal of the Aryeh/Lion. It will remain in the Aryeh for an unusually long period of several months.
WE have entered the days of the third temple and there are traditions that have predicted that the festival of dedication would increase at this time. The decade whose date means The Nine-the 5770’s(HaTesha=5770) seems to be quite appropriate for adding a ninth day to the festival. The numbers are right for this. Nine more lights make 45 without the shameshim. This moves the number from 36 to 45. 45 is the value of the name Adam and the full value of the kamea square of Shabbatai/Saturn and the Sabbath(picture above). The value of the numbers from one to nine is =45.If we include the count of the shameshim we move from 44 to 54 and 54 are the number of the parshot in holy Torah! This means that the holiday of oral Torah(Chanukah) which comes three months after Rosh Hoshanah(Rabbinic new year) equals up with the holiday of Written Torah(Shavuoth) which comes three months after the ancient new year of kings in Nisan. With the times of the third temple encompassing the entire Earth we have oral Torah of all history catching up to the written Torah of Har Sinai - 54 candles equals 54 Parshot. This ninth day occurs on Yom Rishon(Sunday) which as previously discussed is actually now Yom Echad as the yom/day was first called in Sepher Bereishis where the night and day were a fully embraced unity before the actual descent and separation of the olam into the physical reality. The ninth day of dedication also parallels the ninth day of Simchat Torah, the written torah of the feast of Succot. In the full ten lights of this ninth day of dedication the Shamash actually comes to represent the Shemesh, the sun, and the nine candles the planetary bodies around the sun. The numbers are all right now. The full ten candles are the ten sephirot of the mekubalim who are all being felt at this time. This nine also turns the nine of Av into joy since it acknowledges the light of the beis haMikdash HaShleishi whose Ner tamid is lighting up the living rooms of people everywhere. This year the ninth day would be today, Sunday which also in a sense brings the light into the Yom echad which is the bringing in of the month of Tevet into Yisrael. The festival of the days of choseych brings the light from the latter days of kislev into the first days of Tevet which is traditionally the month “belonging” to the religion of Christianity and is rooted in the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia. The ninth day then celebrates the shamash becoming the Shemesh(sun) of Yom rishon(Sunday-Sabbath of Christianity) in the deep winter month of Tevet which was when the Babylonians first laid seige to Jerusalem and the first Temple. Another awesome connection that the mekubalim who are versed in the knowledge of the seven kameas/number grids will understand. The jolly gift bringer of Christianity is actually aligned fully with one of the seven day Sarim/governors and an ancient pagan deity. This is none other than the Baal of Wealth/Hamon mentioned in the last verses of Solomon’s holiest Song, Shir HaShirim. He is the keeper-guardian of the vine of Solomon. Only the wise Christians versed in their gnostic tradition will have any idea of the profundity of this santa and who he really is as the Red sar/chief of meadim/Tuesday. Study the grid of Mars/5X5-25 squares for the twentyfive letters of the shema proclaim the unity of the days and nights. The sepher yetzirah delineates the qualities of the Days and their Sarim/governors and herein lies a very big secret. Meadim/Yom Shleishi and the letter-gimmel rules Wealth. The gimmel on the dreidel wins it all and means-Gadol! The gematria of the word gimmel=73 which is the value of Chockmah. It has always been the function of Yisrael to bring the light into the Choseych and bring the 54 bright parshot of the Torah of Har Sinai to the entire olam/world. The other big religions have played crucial roles in joining the soul roots and making the oral torah complete to bring the shalom Shalem.
Happy Yom Echad! today

Qumran,Mayan Calendar/ The secret timing in the Song of Songs

The Sepher haZohar tells us that the holiest of the writings, Solomon’s song, carries a summary of the entire history of Israel including the final jubilee/Yovel.
“On the day this hymn was revealed, and Solomon sang in the power of the Ruach HaKodesh this song wherein is to be found the summary of the whole Torah…It contains the crowning of the Holy Name with love and joy, the prophecy of Israel’s exile among the nations, of their redemption, of the resurrection of the dead, and of all else until that Day which is “Sabbath to the Lord”. All that was, is and shall be, is contained in it; and, indeed, even that which will take place on the “seventh Day”, which will be the “Lord’s Sabbath”, is indicated in this song.“(Zohar II-144a-trans. After Sperling)If we take the hint from Zohar and count each of the 117 verses in Shir haShirim as a jubilee of 50 years it means that we finished the 115 verses in 5750(115X50=5750) and have entered the 116th verse which has the remez/hint to a shout from the heavens.

יג הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים, חֲבֵרִים מַקְשִׁיבִים לְקוֹלֵךְ--הַשְׁמִיעִנִי.	13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice: 'Cause me to hear it.'

The 117th verse has the word Tzvi/gazelle which by atbash code holds the name Moshe.(Tzadde=heh-beth=shin-yod=mem)

יד בְּרַח דּוֹדִי, וּדְמֵה-לְךָ לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָאַיָּלִים--עַל, הָרֵי בְשָׂמִים. {ש}	14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. {P}

Hebrew - English Bible
According to the Masoretic Text
and the JPS 1917 Edition
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In the Native American prophetic wisdom tradition two beings called Sweet Medicine and White Calf woman hold the soul roots of the Neshama and the Chayah level respectively, of the being world. They are like the Moses and Miriam of the ancient Hebrews. Sweet Medicine is called the Spirit of the animals(animal soul root- and horned with qeren ), and White Calf Woman, the spirit of the plants and the well of wisdom(like Miriam). On the circular native medicine wheel the spirit of the animals is in the north(gold and Hanukkah,oral Torah-Moses) and the spirit of the plants is in the south(silver-Shavuoth-written Torah-Miriam). This wheel can also be found in the Sepher Eshel Abraham with the metals , elements and directions in a circle(see picture above with aesh/fire and zapohn/north/gold to the left). The man Sweet medicine had the root neshamah of native America and brought sacred teachings to the Plains Indians as did The white Calf Woman as well who brought teachings to the Lakota. One sign, awaited by Native Americans for centuries, of the unified return of these beings to America came in 1994/5754 as the birth of a pure female white bison calf. The first ever white female heifer bison calf ever known. Then three years later came the birth of the pure red heifer in ancient Judea during the passing of the bright kochav/comet Haille-Bop. Thus two “shouts,” one for the native peoples as the white bison calf, and another for the Jews as the red calf. Now we have a third “holy Cow” as a shout to the billion people following Christianity
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34352408/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals
This says that the soul of all Humanity(Knesset Yisrael) is fully unified right to the nephesh(dam-blood) level of animal soul. The bovine “signs” relate directly to the left face of the chariot/Merkava as Ezekiel saw it with the face of the calf. This is gold and physical wealth and balance of Din reaching into the depths of the animal world in the physical creation. The rural village children have named this new calf after the first redeemer of Yisrael! Bringing us to the hidden name of Moses in the 117th verse of the holiest of the ketubim/writings and the hint at the global geulah/redemption.
In the Qumran scrolls we have an echo of the prophecy of great celestial chiefs/Sarim joining together as depicted on the meso-american stone calendar(see the picture above,the serpent angels surround the wheel). The two serpent dragons face each other with 22 special fires coming off their backs. The Mayan/Aztec calendar "ends”in our present times with these two beings joining each other. They are called by the Aztecs Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. Their corresponding planetary powers, metals and realms parallel exactly those of the angel princes Michael and Belial of Qumran. In Qumran we have this exact picture in the scroll called “The Testament of Amram”. It is a vision that comes to the father of Moses and he sees two great celestial angels that look like serpents and are arguing over custody of his-Amram‘s remains!
“(I saw Watchers)in my vision, a dream vision, and behold two(of them) argued about me and said….and they were engaged in a great quarrel concerning me. I asked them:”You, what are you...thus…(about me?) They answered and (said to me:”We have been made m)asters and rule over all the sons of men.” And they said to me: “Which of us do you (choose…).
I raised my eyes and saw one of them. His looks were frightening(like those of a vi)per, and his (garm(en)ts were multi-colored and he was extremely dark…
And afterwards I looked and behold…by his appearance and his face was that of an adder, and he was covered w ith…together, and his eyes…”from “The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls” by Geza Vermes
During these bright days of dedication of the holy temple we take refuge in the sacred stories and legends of oral Torah and the miraculous signs in our own times; and we say Happy Hannukah!!

Dead Sea Scrolls and the "imperishable Sepher"

The community living in the dead sea caves was organized around the understanding that the temple tradition was at the core of the great work to bring the entire globe into the shalom shalem/complete peace. Therefore, and based on the posuk in Chumash that all the tribes inherited land except for the Levites/priests who inherited YHVH, the priestly lineages were key to bringing in the era of the third temple. The nature and function of the precious vessels in Solomon’s temple were also of extreme significance to these people and hence the mystery and intrigue surrounding the famous Copper scroll that speaks of the places where the temple treasure were to be found. The last weeks blog post holds the scroll fragment that explains the vision of the sacred city in a new place related to nine hills and the elemental sarim/governors. It also hints that this new temple nexus will be set up while some of humanity slumbers in not even knowing about the great changes. and so some will do deeds not in line with a world in the presence of the third temple. The original Christian scholars who first translated the scrolls were not happy with the fact that the scrolls included the fact that the Hebrew priesthood had such an important role in bringing in the epoch of geulah/redemption since their own tradition they believed had long ago “replaced” the importance of the Kahuna of Yisrael. And so the scrolls kind of went underground again for a while. The people in Qumran were part of the line that knew that the vessels of the First Beit haMikdash had been reworked into heirlooms of a smaller size that were passed down through generations of people. The Talmud tells us that anyplace that has a consecrated item from Solomon’s temple is itself like the whole first Temple herself and so when the time was right the “foundations” of the Holy house would rise up from below the earth and reappear “ in a land far away” where much gold and silver would come(read the last post). The next fragment from Qumran show how these people were connected to the mekubalim/kabbalists since the physiognomies and astrological connections about the people involved as temple initiates, can also be found in the sepher haZohar especially in the parts about Yitro.Jethro and Terumah. In this fragment is a direct quote from the book of Kings regarding Solomon, “And his wisdom will go forth to all peoples”. This connects us to the temple mysteries and even to the Gnostic tradition of early Christianity that used the verse “let him who has Wisdom and Understanding” calculate the number of the Chayoth”, from the infamous line in the Gnostic poem that is so sorely misinterpreted. The words and number 666 refer directly to Solomon(666 talents of gold came to Shlomo in his census) and the temple mysteries as this blog has continually explained in details. The Jewish Aggadah/legends has told us that the vessels of the first temple will reemerge with the lineages of initiates and this has happened. In fact the upcoming holiday of Chanukah is directly connected to the reemergence of the Breastplate of the high priest, The Choshen which letters Chet-Shin-Nun also are the initials for Nur shel Chanukah-Nun-Shin-Chet which means Light of Chanukah. These letters also form Nachash/serpent and this is a secret key to the geometrical form of the Scepter of Aaron which secret can also be found in verse 49:Five of Sepher Bereishis. 49:5 gives the word Mem-Tet-Heh which is mateh, the word for scepter. In fact all the changes that Tanach(geulah, kibbiutz golios,techiyas hametim) has predicted has all begun simultaneously and people are awakening to what this means depending on their own path and place of initiation. The sepher mentioned in the fragment below, “the book that will not decay” relates this material to the initiation in the line of the Adam Baal Shem, who possesses the Crystal book of Raziel and the connection to the original Adam Qadmon of a Tikkun Olam. The person described is actually a “Baal Shem”. These scrolls are a call from thousands of years ago to the people of Yaakov. Awaken you have a new name You are Yisrael, a mighty Sar who proclaims the Shalom shalem.
Paraphrase of Qumran text:
4Q534
Col 1
1[...] of his hand, two [...] a mark. His | hair will be red and he will have moles on [...] | and small marks in his thighs. [And after t]wo years, he will know one thing from another[1]. | While he is young, he will be like ...[...like] someone who knows nothing, until he 5knows the three Books[2] [...] | Then he will gain wisdom and learn understanding [...] visions will come to him while he is on his knees. | And with his father and ancestors [...] life and old age. He will have wisdom and discretion | and he will know the secrets of man. His wisdom will reach out to everyone and he will know the secrets of all living things. | All of their plans against him will fail, and his rule over all things will be great. 10[...] his plans will succeed because he is the one picked by God. His birth and the breath of his spirit [...] and his plans will last forever. [...]
Col 2
1[...] which [...] fell in ancient times. The sons of the pit [...] | [...] evil. The spot [...] | [...] | [...] in order to go [...] 5 [...] flesh [...] | [...] | and his breathing out [...] | forever [...] | 10 | [...] | and the cities [...] | and they will destroy [...] | The waters will stop [...] they will destroy [...] from the heights. They will all come [...] 15 [...] | [...] and they will all be destroyed. His work will be like that of the Watcher. | Instead of his voice [...] he will establish his foundation on him. His sin and his error | [...] the Holy One and the Watchers [...] to say | they will speak against him [...].
4Q536
frag 1 Col 1
1[...] you will be [...] | [...] he will make you think of the holy angels [...] | [...] the lights will be revealed to him | [...] all of his teachings 5 [...] the wisdom of humanity, and every wise man | [...] in the region he will be great | [...] humanity will be troubled | [...] he will share God's secrets | [...] he will understand God's mysteries [...]
frag 1 Col 2
8 he made [...] | that you are afraid of [...] 10 he will strengthen its concealment at the end of your powers. His possessions [...] | and he will not die in the days of evil. And his words will contain great wisdom. I will praise you [...] | is sentenced to death. Who will write the words of God in a book that will not decay? And my sayings [...] |You will come to me and in the time of evil he will know you forever. A man who [...] your servants, [...] sons [...]
Footnotes:
[1] "[And after t]wo years, he will know one thing from another" has also been translated as" which will be different from each other."
[2] I feel that this refers to the three parts of the Hebrew Bible (the law, the prophets, and the writings).
[3] A shekel is defined as any of various ancient unit of weight; especially: a Hebrew unit equal to about 252 grains troy.
Bibliography:
Vermes, Geza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. The Penguin Press, New York. 1997.
Wise, Michael, Martin Abegg Jr., and Edward Cook. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation. Harper Collins Publishers, San Francisco. 1996.
12/98
prepared for Intro. to the Hebrew Bible
by Nick Flanigan
FlaniganN@albnet.alb.edu

Qumran/ swords of the Kerubim and HaTesha=NINE of 5770

Paraphrase, from the Dead Sea Scrolls Text:
4Q529, 6Q23
"1 Wording of text which Michael addressed the angels of God[...]2 Michael said, "I have located there an army of angels[1][...]3[...] nine big hills: two to the Eas[t...]4[and two to the] South. It was at this place Michael met with the Angel Gabriel [...][2] 5... During their meeting Michael translated a dream of Gabriel'. Gabriel then said to Michael:[...]6 It was written in his text that God, the all powerful,[...]7 the boys of Ham to the boys of Shem. And see my Supreme being, the god of the earth[...]8 When it rains freely[...]9 view a city Made to worship the Supreme being, Lo[rd Eternal...]10Anything that is bad will be performed before God[3], the Almighty Lo[rd Eternal...]11 God will remember his people[...]12 the Supreme being; to him the prizes and praises and to him[...]13 in a far away place there will be a man[...]14 the man will say to him: 'Observe this[...]15 bring to me silver and gold[...]... [...]16 the good man[4]
Footnotes
[1] The original text reads, "troops of fire". In certain texts the existence of fire has been understood to mean a Godly or angelic presence. [2] The Angel Gabriel is considered to serve as a guide in the Highest Heaven [3] A hint that the city that may be refered to is Jerusalem [4] From 13 to 16 Cook suggests a possible parallel to 4Q522 in which the nations bring things to Jerusalem for the Temple (WAC, 427). "
From the web: The Dead Sea Scrolls Collection at The Gnostic Society Library

We have just finished the time when the bright swords of the Kerubim would move past the earth and inaugurate a new temple age. These were the bright kochavim/comets that came by in the 5750’s/1990’s. These “swords” guard the entrance to Gan Eden according to Sepher Bereishis. The angelic chiefs spoken of in the Qumran text above are the elemental chiefs that the Native American Grandmother Twylah Nitsch describes in her book “Other council Fires were here before Ours”, which are associated with the comets that she calls the “Stars with Tails beings” who bring a new fire to the earth. The Sepher HaBahir tells us about these Sarim/chiefs of the elements. This fire from the Sarim, the aggadah/legends of Talmud tell us inaugurate the third temple. The text from Qumran is specific that this new sacred city is in a far away place(from Qumran). The scroll hints that the new Temple times will come secretly and many will not know just as in the Navi/prophet Malachi’s book about the coming of Eliyahu before the great day. The man described in the scroll above, in the faraway place is a good man to whom the precious wealth comes to build the sanctuary. Like the Greco-Roman deity of souls, the underworld also is the keeper of wealth so the “god of the earth” mentioned above is associated with precious metal. This connects us to the holiest of all the Ketubim/writings, Shir HaShirim where Solomon’s song tells us that the guardian of the holy vine/Tree is Baal Hamon, the ancient deity of Wealth/souls. The dance that Torah parshot teaches us in these days about the twins; Jacob and Esau, is about Love and wealth and the bringing the entire olam/world into the purifying stream from Gan Eden which breaks forth into the elements. We have entered the decade of the 5770's which in Hebrew is = Hatesha -Heh-Tav-Shin-Ayin; and means the "cosmic NINE which is pinpointed in the first verse of the scroll above as a place of NINE hills in all four directions of earth. As we approach the holiday that rekindles the light of the temple menorah of gold, we understood that Chanukah is the 620th mitzvah(613 of Torah and 7 of the Rabbonim)and this 620 equals the value of Keter, (caph20-tav400-resh200)the crown of precious metal and conscious awakening to the supreme temple.

Qumran, the kerubim, Jerusalem and 770

The scrolls buried in the Dead Sea Caves contain great razim/secrets of Torah and the new epoch of the third temple times we have entered. The scroll called originally "The Wondrous Child" or more recently the "Birth of Noah" gives us the direct connection to the mysteries of Solomon, Shlomo HaMelech and the Temple tradition. It tells us about the person mentioned that "his wisdom will go forth to all peoples". This is a direct quote from the Book of kings about Solomon. Then it tells us at the end of the short broken text that the waters will flood the world. This ending is why scholars have decided it was written about Noach. They are not privy to the vision of the mekubalim who know from Sepher haZohar(terumah) that these waters are the upper waters of lovingkindness that are flooding the world even now. Another key text is called the "Words of Michael" and this is about two angels, the kerubim, who are speaking to each other about a place on NINE mountains in a land very far away from Qumran where much silver and gold will come(new mishkan)). We have been discussing this NINE for several posts now since we have entered the decade of the NINE 770 meaning the word Tesha-Tav-Shin-Ayin which is part of the decade of 5770 we have just entered. This scroll hence predicts the precise decade that a true place, f a new center and city that shows peace to the enrire Earth will emerge from the flooding waters of love. Many people lost interest in the scrolls when they discovered that a main theme of the scrolls is the primacy and importance of the Kohanim. The fundamentalists of the large religions mostly have dismissed the Jewish prietly lineages and their importance in the unfolding flower of the millennium of peace. We will spend some time here in the coming posts on how the scrolls of Qumran give us the makom/place and time for the appearance of the Beith HaMikdash HaShleishi, the third temple of Earth. This light is brightening as we enter the month of Kislev=kes/throne of the Lev=36 and celebrate the light of the temple of Hannuakah. The Kamea of 36(above) is the box of numbers/letters given over to Sunday and representing the ohr/light of the Temple.

Machpelah and the new Gan Eden

The Torah parsha of Chayeh Sarah is exceptional in being the only part of Chumash named after a woman. This Mother Sarah is also a key to the raising up of the light of the moon who aggadah/legends tell us was reduced from being equal to the shemesh/sun. This darkening time of the yearly wheel when we move to the month that has the only holiday celebrated in the dark of the moon in Kislev, is when we discover how deep the gates of the true temple of wisdom have sunk into the depths of the material Earth. It is in this dark matter of the physical that we find the gateway to the cave of the ancestors, Machpelah, and the path to a renewed Gan Eden here on earth.
The basic theme of this blog is that the creation is a temple/school of initiation and the Hebrew wisdom tradition provides the maps and the keys that open the path of initiation to an individual. Much can be learned from other wisdom traditions apart from one’s own, that help a person within a specific lineage tradition find deeper understanding of their own path. The many great religious traditions needed to be successful as prayer forms utilizing specific sacred calendars over many centuries with large populations of adherents. Each religious tradition has been like a specific organ system of the human body and they all have been needed to bring us to where we are now. These various religions have been needed to bring the soul roots of the world’s language groups, 70 of them in the tradition of the mekubalim, together to recreate the Adam Qadmon within humanity. This work makes the Source of all that is available to us all in a brand new way. In a simple view we may understand that the universe of space-time, the 4 continuum world, the physical creation has no Center. As the sepher yetzirah teaches, there is a center but this cannot be fathomed without a five-continuum world view. This means the four dimensions/continuums of space-time and a fifth, the path of soul/being. The Sepher Yetzirah calls the vertices/endpoints of this fifth “road’ Tov v’Ra. The word Tov/good in Torah describes the 25th word in Torah which is ohr/light and this hints at the coming holiday of of Hanukkah on the 25th of Kislev when we experience the goodness of the original light of the creation. The kamea/box of the mekubalim of 5X5=25 is related to meadim/mars and the secrets of this hidden light. This being the only holiday celebrated in the dark of the moon. The hidden light in the dark of the moon is a secret to the geulah/redemption. Aggadah/legends tell us that it is Meadim/mars that warms the cold moon from within. This meadim has been mentioned concerning the prophecies of Nostradamus and the true essence of the red morning star is another secret key to the unfolding flower of the times of the third temple. We may discover the true Center of all that is by awakening to our own souls and the vastly larger olam/world of Five continuums. Five(and the letter heh) is the number in the center of the Kamea of Nine(see above) it is a key number to the kamea that is associated with mars, the 5X5 whose rows, columns, and diagonals all add to 65 which equals the value of the name, Adonai. The kamea of NINE is also related to the cave of machpelah with the Eight ancestors interred there around the central Five=Heh which is the second and last letter of the name haShem and the key to the enlivening of the dead, techiyas Hametim. The prophetic traditions and calendars point to a new awareness globally shaking all of humanity in our times as the true center/Source of all that is becomes more tangible. This is like the Mayan prediction mentioned in the last post regarding the descent and appearance of a deity called “Nine support foot” or Nine tree. The mekubalim will understand the significance of the nine vertices/endpoints of the five continuums becoming more “visible” as the center-tenth becomes known. We live in exceptional times!
The entire Earth is now awakening to internalizing the experience of a five continuum world and the vastness of the ocean of soul. We are making a quantum jump as in the times that the experience of the earth went from flat to round/spherical.It is all about the Center we call the Source and in the Hebrew mysteries known as HaShem. May this Be the Source of blessing for all peoples and life on earth.

Kabbalah, Mayan calendar, Nostradamus and the NINE

We have just finished the 576th decade of the Hebrew calendar(5760-5769) which according to the son of the Chida, Reb Abraham Azulai would be a decade of great purification leaving the entire globe covered with the waters of the mikvah of healing.
If we take the only Nostradamus quatrain that mentions a specific date:
"The year 1999, seventh month, A great king of terror will descend from the skies To resuscitate the great king Anglolmois, Around this time Mars will reign for the good cause."
In giving interpretations of Nostradamus original quatrain Century X, 72nd quatrain in Old French, one has to understand that a few words within the verse have many interpretations. The original French is as follows.
L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,
Du ciel viendra un grad Roi deffraieur.
Resusciter le grand Roi d’Angolmois.
Avant que Mars regner par bon heur.
“The SEVENTH month of 1999”
And we notice the kabbalistic pointers of the century number 10 and the quatrain number 72 and we therefore say that the SEVENTH month may refer to the Hebrew seventh month of Tishrei then the date the French seer is talking about is the Rosh HaShanah 5760!
This as previously mentioned is the famous date that Rabbi Abraham Azulai predicted would see the purification of the entire world by the flow of the upper waters as also mentioned in the Sepher HaZohar. The mikvah he explains has a volume equal to 5760 eggs.
The now very popular Mayan prophecies of their great calendar change has for those who understand the deeper level of calendar mechanics and prayer forms more great synchronicities with the Hebrew vision of the great Sabbath of the prophets. There is way more to all this then just one date. The great changes of worlds would be happening from the end of the Aztec count, on August 16, 1987 till the change in the Mayan count in 2012. This the mekubalim will see parallels a good part of the kibbutz golios/ingathering of exiles as the Zohar predicts to begin in the year 5750/1990.
We also have the only real written prophecy of the Mayan Calendar about the "end date" saying that at the consummation of the Mayan epic which Carl Johan Calleman says is actually October 28, 2011; NINE galactic deities/forces, will appear. From the writings of Carl Johan Calleman on his web page http://www.calleman.com/
“There are for instance those that believe that the end date of the Mayan calendar only marks the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new. On my own part I however think that we are approaching something much more profound than just a point in a cycle that again will be repeated. The only Mayan inscription from ancient times, the Tortuguero monument, which describes the end (http://calleman.com/content/articles/the_tortuguero%20_monument.htm) of their calendar says that nine cosmic forces will then manifest. Empirically, there is also overwhelming evidence from modern research that we are approaching a point in time when nine evolutionary levels (so called Underworlds) of the cosmic plan are simultaneously going to be completed. This would imply that we are approaching not another cycle or another shift, but the end to all shifts, which have been driving evolution since the beginning of the universe. Such an end to all shifts could conceivably provide the basis for a harmonious eternal peace on Earth.”

The "end date" given by Carl Johan calleman-October 28, 5772; is Tishre-5772 - notice the year SEVENTYTWO within the decade of 770=tesha=nine. 72 is the value of CHESED=Lovingkindness and the number of the Shemhamforash.
Being that the Hebrew date 770 is the decade we have just entered and it points to TESHA, The decade of tesha so to speak; tesha=770=the word NINE we have a great synchronicity showing how the geulah/redemption of a deep Shalom Shalem/complete peace is unfolding now.
The quatrain says at the end that Mars will reign happily before and after so if this does refer to the 576th decade of the Hebrew calendar then before means the geulah would have begun before - in the 575th decade as the Zohar predicts in Terumah, and the after is our present time, the 577th decade of many more initiates coming into the awareness of the global geulah.
Why is the NINE again significant for Hebrews and Mayans? We have mentioned before that the joining of the Earth/Malchuth sephira (10th or 2nd according to S.yetziara))to the upper NINE sephirot in a new way is bringing a global geulah/redemption . This nine brings us back to the kamea/box of nine which is a favorite of the mekubalim and corresponds to the level of the upper three sephirot and the “place” of birth of the continuums of time and space. The value of the entire box of nine numbers equals 45 which is the value of the word ADAM. In this box of threeXthree All columns, rows and diagonals add to 15 which is the value of the most ancient name of haShem; Yod-heh=Yah. This name is the name given to the sephirah of wisdom and the birth of the place, the fount of Ayin(70) from where the olamim/universes evolve out of according to the sepher yetzirah and other sources. In the sepher yetzirah this sephirah of Wisdom is the primal mother element of water(Torah is water) and the source of our world.

The name of Seventytwo and Nostradamus

This month of Chesvan is a month of mystery and deep secrets so we will address a topic along these lines in European and American history.
With all the doomers and gloomers and the famous French seer and his prophecies in the news cable TV lately let’s look at the side of the seer that shows the influence of the rabbinic sages on his predictions. There is ONLY ONE quatrain(four verse stanza) that actually contains a specific date. This is Century 10:quatrain 72. Look at these numbers themselves. We know that the mekubalim are fond of finding the mystery in the chapter and numbers of the posukim themselves. TEN and SEVENTYTWO speak loud about the Jewish mysteries for those who understand these things.
Century 10 Quatrain 72
Now Moira Timms in her book Beyond Prophecies and Predictions interpreted this quatrain into English as follows.
"The year 1999, seventh month, A great king of terror will descend from the skies To resuscitate the great king Anglolmois, Around this time Mars will reign for the good cause."
In giving interpretations of Nostradamus original quatrain Century X, 72nd quatrain in Old French, one has to understand that a few words within the verse have many interpretations. The original French is as follows.

L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,
Du ciel viendra un grad Roi deffraieur.
Resusciter le grand Roi d’Angolmois.
Avant que Mars regner par bon heur.

The usual translation/interpretation is the following:
The year 1999, seventh month, From the sky will come a great king of terror: To bring back to life the great Mongol king, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
Many books and websites interpret the French Roi d’Angolmois as meaning the blood-lion king, the word Angolmois being a French anagram for Sang Lion=Blood lion(some say for the word name Solomon) and Roi the word for King. So we have reference to the line of Judah.
We also know that the predictions of nostradamus about WW2 and the Amalek of that time played a significant role in the defeat of the Amalek and the end of the Holocaust. In fact Amalek would have looked at the quatrain we are studying now and figured that they had to work their “final solution”, destruction of the Jews ,way before 1999 because they would have probably have known as most astrologers and other occultists that the “King of terror” would mean the final weighing of souls. The line about Mars reigning happily could only be understood by the mekubalim/kabbalists who have not been swayed by Greco-Roman mythology, this mythology which for the deity and planet Mars only refers to the kelippa/shell level of this power as war and violence. The essence level of Meadim/mars is hinted at in that the Hebrew word meadim. It is the only planetary name that contains the word ADAM and the word mayim/water. the Native american elders have always referred to the red star as the true morning star and PEACEBRINGER! So this date and prediction aligns with the end of the Hebrew decade-5759, a decade that saw beautiful Kochavim/comets come close by the earth as the native Americans and the sepher HaZohar explained would happen at the time of the change in epochs.(Study terumah/Zohar). The Reb Abraham Azulai said in his l’Chesed Abraham that in the year 5760 (mikvah having the volume of 5760 eggs)we would begin a time when only the land of Yisrael would cover the entire earth, her borders having expanded to cover all the olam/world as the aggadah/legends also predicts.

The french seer may also have been told by the Rabbis that the Seventy Two part sacred name could be placed in a wheel and be used as a stellar/star clock which pinpoints the year 5750 and the 1990's as the time that the twin stars called Teomim(gemini) in hebrew would both finally move out of the 22nd quinary(5 degree segment/5X72=360) of the star clock =Yod-Yod-Yod. This name is equated to the mysteries of the Hebrew priesthood, the three Yod's beginning the three lines of the Birchat Cohanim. This star clock involves the 26000 year preccesional great cycle.
Basically the Frenchman who no doubt learned from Rabbis that the Sky/heavens and the Eretz/Earth would join in a new way to transform Yom rishon(day first) into Yom Echad(day unity) as the Sepher Torah calls Sunday. This would mean the gates to geulah would open to us all.

Chesvan and the Spirit lake/ Mazzal Akrav

From the words of Twylah Nitsch, the Seneca Grandmother in her book “Other Council Fires Were Here Before Ours”(1991): “Five stars with tails(comets) will pass by the Earth during the transition from the fourth to the fifth world of the Iroquoian creation story. One will bring a new fire which will purify the clan chiefs of the four elements.” This period of the Kochavim/comets corresponds to the Kibbutz Golios”, the ingathering of the exiles as described in the Sepher haZohar and by the great Jewish Sages. It would begin in 5750/1990. The Hebrew Aggadah/legends tell us that fire comes from heaven only rarely in the history of the people of Yisrael but the last time would be in consecrating the Beith hamikdash HaShleishi, the third Temple of Earth. It is in the month of Chesvan, the time of the falling leaves when the spider clan grandparents(mazzal akrav) awaken to the wheel of change. The chiefs who are the Sarim, the governors of the elements are making themselves known to the olamim/universes. This is an awakening to the lineages of initiation from the depths of the Kiva chambers below the Earth of the ancient aboriginal Americans to the shrines on the summits of holy mountains all around the globe. In the Hopi wisdom teachings, Grandmother spider(mazzal Akrav) mother Shechinah of the eighth month of Chesvan, has her twin grandsons WEAVER and ECHOER which hold the keys to the elemental clan chiefs and the twin Kerubim of the Jewish teachings. The mekubalim/kabbalists will see in the Weaver, the one who the aggadah tells us weaves the prayers of Yisrael into garlands for the Holy One, this Kerub is Sandalphon. The Sepher haBahir speaks of these two and the elements they wield. This is the deep pool of the great Mystery. The mystique of the fresh water lake in the eastern woodlands of America , the birth of the great statutes of natural law and her wheel where the ideals of the American government would be nurtured among the six nations of the Iroquois. The place in America that the Jews would find a free place of refuge to nurture our sacred ways. The wheel of natural law is echoed in the council of the eight judges and their chief, of the American Supreme court, the mysteries of the kamea of nine(3X3) and the planet Shabbatai. The Sepher Bahir tells us about the wheel of the 24 chiefs around their chief and the kamea of 25(5X5) and the only planet that holds the name of the element of the depths, the Mayim/water of Meadim/Mars. This planet who has rulership over the mazzal of Chesvan and the sacred blue lake that is home to the ancestors. As the Blue Spirit lake of the Taos Puebloans now reflect at midnight(only in Chesvan/November's first week) the starry seven beauties /Pleiades who are the muses of all that is good. Let their “Sweet influence”(Iyob/Job) hold the entire Earth and her peoples. In the yearly leyning of the Five books we now enter the love story of Abraham and Sarah, who loved so much that the divine presence took up rest in their tent and renewed the blessing for an enlightened peoples of the Earth.

770=tesha=NINE and the Solar calendar synchronicity

We are now in the eighth month of Chesvan, the month where Abraham ascends from the valley of the kasdeem to the mountain of Har Moriah(place of Yerushalyim) and begins the great journey that builds the world into a holy temple for all the peoples. Tishrei is the sacred seventh month of the great hagim/holy days and is the month of the high mountains but Chesvan which has known the great flood and the babel of the languages and nations is destined to be the month that the earth as the third Beith haMikdash is consecrated.. From the chosheyk/darkness and still depth of a deep valley lake, an apt metaphor for the dark month of Chesvan whose mazal is the akrav/spider-scorpion, humanity has been transformed for millennia to a people who honor life. Many awesome synchronicities are guiding people to understanding the sod/mystery level of this temple building lineage tradition. The square aspect between the planets, Shabbatai/Saturn and Pluto is coming into exact position in the beginning of the scales and the gedi/kid right now. As this is happening we are experiencing the NINTH time that a special synchronicity is happening with the solar Gregorian calendar. This Chesvan is the NINTH time that the first of November is falling on a Yom rishon/Sunday since 5708 and the establishment of the State of yYisrael.This has spectacular implications for those who understand the work of the sacred calendars, the various prayer lineages and the unfolding tradition of temple building. The first seven words of Bereishis/Genesis point to our sacred seven day week and the first 52 words of Bereishis/genesis hint at the importance of the solar European calendar at the tikkun/repair of yom rishon/Day first into the “original” yom Echad. These words Yom Echad end the first 52 words of Bereishis, Day One. 52 are the number of weeks in the secular and religious solar year. The Yom Echad/Day Echad holds the light of the original illumination of the creation “before” any division. This is the yom v’laylah/day and night fully embraced and in the unity of the original illumination. The consecration of the third holy temple is reconnecting our HaAretz/earth to this original light. The work of Abraham and Sarah is also to illuminate the world into a way of truth where individuals honor each other. The ancient peoples all over the world regarded the first of November(in Chesvan!) as the true holy day and new year. The Roman calendar switched the new year to January but kept the true ancient European new year on the first of November as a sacred holiday, all saints day. It the sign of a deep synchronous adventure unfolding that this Hebrew year whose number Tav-Shin-Ayin=770=the word tesha which means NINE and this is the NINTH time since 5708 that the ancient Solar Holy New year of November first falls on Yom Rishon/Sunday just as Shabbati squares(becomes physical/tangible)Pluto. Shabbatai as Time/Binah and Pluto as Depth/Omak become manifest in a new way. The origins of this time in Chesvan(November first) as sacred are connected to the stellar fact that the mazzal of the Pleaides culminates overhead at precisely midnight on the first of November and hence the reverence for this special constellation of seven stars that has been revered by mekubalim and other holy peoples for thousands of years. The seven sisters constellation is connected with the sacred seven day week and so her place at zenith at midnight marks a great shanah/cycle of transformation. The constellation of glowing pearls decorates the starry roof of the global succah of a new epoch.
Good Shabbos!

Chesvan and the 50th gate of Shaar HaNun

This month of Chesvan approaching is the eighth Hebrew month, the month of the octave that goes beyond the seven which are the schemittot, the great cycles of the year and of time and of ages. The letter for the month of Chesvan from the Sepher Yetzira is the nun. This has the value of fifty and so this coming eighth month holds the sacred fifty gates called the shaar haNun, and the 50th gate of holiness. Chesvan is the month that the first Holy temple was finished and is predicted in the writings of the sages to be the month that the third temple is revealed. The first word and words of Bereishit/genesis hold the secrets of creation, space, time, being and her cycles. The seven schemittot/cycles are hinted at the seven words of the first posuk/line. Bereishit Bara Elohim Et haShamayim Vet HaAretz. In these seven words are six letter alephs. Each Aleph has a value of 1000 and so the six millenia of this epoch reveal the seven cycles of time and the transition to the shemini/the holy eighth/octave of going beyond time and cycle and into the holy of holies of space and the Temple. We are now in the revealing of the mystery wisdom of the sixth Aleph of the first posuk, within the word HaAretz/ sacredEarth. We celebrate Time and the shanah/cycle, year and turn in the seventh month of Tishrei with the high holy days and Succoth/tabernacles. The seventh month ends with the holiday of the Tabernacle and introduces us to the sod/mystery of the eighth month which is so connected to the holy temple but is the only month that lacks any hagim/holy days apart from the Sabbath and Rosh Chodesh. Completing the year of cycle/time is celebrated in our time by the new temple of sacred earth being revealed in Chesvan. The 365 negative mitzvoth/commandments hint at keeping and guarding cycle of sacred time(365=days in a solar year and sinews of connectivity in the body) and this leads to the 248 positive mitzvoth of space(248physicality of bones in the body). The full shanah comes to completion in the month of Abraham, when we start to sing about Abraham and Sarah. Abraham’s name is = 248 by gematria and his accepting the covenant at eight days brings us into the possibility within history and cycle of “going beyond cycle” at the EIGHT/octave and building the Holy temple, another level of sacredness of spaciality in the physical. As mentioned in the previous post all the world’s great religions have been essential in calling in the Sarim, the celestial governors of the 70 nations so as to bring back the lineage of the original Adam, the Adam qadmon, complete human, with the unified soul sparks of all humanity. History and cycle has made this great working of a global temple building possible. The angel who has custody of the crystal book of the Adam Baal Shem is called Raziel and his name like Abraham also has the gematria of 248. 248 positive and 365 negative commandments= the total 613 which equals the value of the word ohrot/lights. The left hand pillar of the traditional Tree of the sephirot is the pillar of time, the 365(time and cycle) in the womb of the sphere of Binah(acharith=endings) at the top, great mother holding the left column. The right column is spaciality, held by the custody of the angel of secrets in the sephirah at the top of this pillar, called reshith(beginnings) angel Raziel(=248). This eighth month of Chesvan when the aggadah/legends tell us that Abraham Avinu was given custody of the crystal book of Raziel/secrets which was first given to Adam and then it went to Noach to light the ark and then to Abraham. The passing on of the secret book of sapphire encased in gold is also parallel to the true depth of sod/mystery of kabbalah and building the Temple.We are at the time in history of civilizations, cycles, eons and the shanah/year, that a new stage of the creation and holy temple and the secret crystal sepher/book is revealed to all the olamim/universes. The physicality of this revealing dedication of Holy temple Earth is synchronous with the coming in of an exact square(90degree)aspect in the next couple of weeks between the planets Shabbatai/Saturn(veils Binah/time) and Pluto(veils the other upper sephirot of space/omak/depth) in the mazzal of the kid/Capricorn and the scales/mozanim/libra. The tangibility of the third beis HaMikdash/temple is being revealed now. We call for the Shalom Shalem, the great blessing of Peace.

The Succah is the Third temple/ 5770

This season of the great joyous festival of Succoth/Tabernacles we are reminded of the building of the holy temple of Earth and her people which is the root of the mysteries of Shlomo Hamelech/king Solomon. Like all events and works in the Torah there are four levels of interpretation=PRDS - literal, metaphorical, analogical and secret and the understanding of these levels is the key to our own remarkable times. The Vilna Gaon hinted at these levels continually and the “work from below” that he mentioned repeatedly in Kol haTor/Voice of the Turtle” is the very secret level/sod of the physical mysteries of building Solomon’s temple which involves the special metals and gems that are at the foundation of making this physical creation, and the Tikkun/repair of the miraculous descent into the material world.
From a commentary on the Gra’s writing “Kol HaTor”: (from the internet www.yedidnefesh.com)
“For with the revelation of the Mashiach, and the 999 footsteps involved, the upper wisdom and the lower wisdom will be revealed, as written in the Holy Zohar: “In the 600th year of the Sixth Millennium, the gates of the upper wisdom and of the lower wisdom will be opened, the world will be repaired... in order to raise the Knesset Israel from the dirt, ” etc. All these are the mission of Rabbi Eliyahu, the Gaon of Israel, whose light will last till the day is established with the aid of the Rock of Israel and its Redeemer. Therefore, the Gaon tried to understand with his holy spirit also the seven wisdoms from below which are known to be like mixtures and samples at the bottom of the mountain, in order to explain the wisdom of the Torah and to hasten the Redemption -- whose great purpose is sanctification of God as is written: “and all the peoples of the earth will see the salvation of our God, ” also in order to repair the world in the Malchut of the Almighty, “
As mentioned above, the goal of our work is to promote the fulfillment of the commandment of ingathering the exiles and settling the holy land as the way of the beginning of the Redemption, as explained in the following chapters, -- in order to hasten the Redemption in deed with the awakening from below, and to rout the spirit of impurity from the land. Then there will be a unification of the Holy one blessed be He and the Shechina through the unification of the two meshichim in a union and strong, everlasting, bond, which is the mission of the two advocates of the Jews, Hanoch and Eliyahu -- Metatron and Sandal ) and together equal in gematria--a fact that is revealed in the great mystery of “Kol HaTor”). This is the path to our God so that the Shechina will return to Zion, and the Redeemer will come, speedily in our day, Amen. (from the internet http://www.yedidnefesh.com/)”

The ‘seven wisdoms” from below(mentioned above) include the knowlededge of the metals and gems which also correspond to the days of the week and the seven “lower sephirot”. So the period of Tikkun that we are in now involves two specific workings to have brought us to this awesome time.

1)The special prayers of the wisdom lineages through the various religions with their distinct calendars. This for the Jewish people especially involves a lunar calendar geared/ corrected for the seasons and the naming covenant, and ceremony at eight days. This special form of prayer is directly involved with the joining of the seventy soul sparks/roots of the nations especially in Europe, America and Africa; in order to bring the completed Adam Qadmon who has all the soul roots joined. Edom as Christianity needed to walk their special solar calendar for centuries so we could bring in the Sar of Rome by the distinct prayer forms of many generations and therefore unify the soul lineages by joining the sarim-the angelic governors of the nations(Yakov saw this work in his vision of the Ladder). The Tibetans and their distinct conscious reincarnating lineages have done this same aspect of the work in Asia and India. Both wisdom traditions were expected to be exiled and migrate to America as found in the prophecies of the meso-Americans and the Pueblo and Iroquoian Indians. The final unification of the lineages would occur with the distinct “help” of these two exiled populations of priestly peoples(Jews and Tibetans) in America according to Hopi and Pueblo prophecy. The Mayans recorded there take on this in the prophecies of Chilam Balam. The joining of the powerful sarim/chiefs of Edom/Esau and Yismael needed the development of very large religions-billions strong with their faith, and their ceremonial calendars(Christianity and Islam and Buddhism) in order for these celestial Sarim/Chiefs to be joined into the great Temple work. The pseudopigraphical writings and the aggadah about the magical king Solomon and how he built the Temple with the help of “called in spirits” is a remez/hint to this aspect of the work.
2)The unification of the soul lineages needed the prayer forms of the wisdom lineages as well as the “work of the seven from below” which means the vessels of Solomon’s Temple which are an interface with the soul realm(inteface is called sipapu by the Hopi Indians) needed to be reworked and passed on down through the generations as the people migrated around the entire globe.(Read Stefan Zweig’s ‘Buried candelabrum” to learn about this very secret part of the redemptive process.)The actual activation and use of the vessels of the temple were part of the secret practices of the mekubalim/kabbalists and Sufi lineages with their special forms of prayer, incenses and movement practices. To discover how to open the “Book of seven seals”(stone with seven eyes” from navi Zechariah) as the early gnostics called the crystal book of the Adam Baal Shem has involved the sod/secret level of Torah. It has been understood by initiates that different wisdom lineages were given different aspects of the special work and therefore all have been essential to the global tikkun/repair.
These two distinct lines of the building of the Great Succah we call the Earth as the Beit haMikdash ha Sheleishi/The third Temple has been ongoing for many, many millenniums.
There are numerous great socio-political miracles(fall of Soviet Block) that are obvious signs that the work of the building of the Great Succah temple is being completed now and we celebrate this during the Yomim tovim and the hagim such as this week of Succos. And also the next Hebrew eighth month of Chesvan. These two Hebrew months are always nine months(of pregnancy) from the planting of the sacred seed(conception) of the Kabbalists holiday at TuB’Shevat/ The sacred Tree. The actual "birth" month depends on if there is an extra Adar or not(Tishrei is nine months from shevat with an extra Adar and Chesvan is nine months from Shevat without and extra Adar, as this year). Tishrei and Chesvan therefore are destined to be the time that the “Third temple” of a healed earth is celebrated as the first two physical temples were very connected to Chesvan and Tishrei(we pray for a beautiful Etrog/citron at Tu’B”Shevat). The unification of the Holy One and the Shechinah mentioned above in Kol HaTor we celebrate in the beautiful succah by holding together the four species of plants as the four letters of haShem’s name and waving them to all directions of the spacial olamim/universes.
Have a great Festival of the Succah!