The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #21 August 2014 | Page 9

Moses (a.s) wrote down the
knowledge of the Torah in what
became known as the Five Books of
Moses (a.s). The Kabbalah, however,
was tightly guarded and concealed.
(Taqqiya) It was only transmitted by
word of mouth to a small circle of
sages in each succeeding generation.
The primary purpose behind
Kabbalah's veil of secrecy had to do
with its extraordinary power. If it
fell into the wrong hands, it could be
used for destructive purposes. Thus,
there was a prohibition against
learning this mystical wisdom.

The Kabbalah seeks to understand
the 'thought' behind creation, it is
not a spiritual or heart centered path
as such, but simply a metaphysical
vision of creation or the science of

the spiritual world beyond the
physical, which seeks to transform
our 'desires' from lower worldly to
the upper worlds. It invites us to
turn our attention to the language of
'root and branch' - the roots
initiating in the upper world of the
spirit and said to 'branch' out into
the lowers world - the 'Tree of Life'
and 'as above so below' is a
reflection of this. If the root is not
seeded correctly, which is the initial
'intention', then somehow the
branch which is the action or
physical manifestation into the
worldly, will be corrupt and chaotic.
The object is to understand the root
and understand the cause of an
effect, then to seek to correction the
'desire' as to influence the events in
our life, bringing back to balance
what is chaotic through correction of
'desire and intention'. It seeks to
bring order to life by transforming
the self, by changing intentions by
use of numbers and words, that
everything has an energy (light and
dark) words have power and when
we speak ill it creates a negative
entity or demon, when we speak
sacred words it creates Angelic
beings that fill our life with
blessings and influence our
environment positively.