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The Mystical Kabbalah

The Kabbalah is a collection of Jewish scripture dating back more than 4,000 years, concerned with a whole range of Jewish mystical activity. One of the main books mentioned in Jewish literature as a source for mystical endeavors is the Zohar, but others are also mentioned such as Sefer Yetzirah, Bahir, HaMalakh among others.

According to Rabbi David Cooper writing in Kabbalah and the practice of mystical Judaism, the central core of this mystical scripture is that, “… true wisdom does not come from outside of us, but from within. And, it does not come from within simply because we want it. It comes when we live in a way that invites wisdom. It comes from direct experience.” He goes on to say that in the school of Ecstatic Kabbalah, “through the use of meditative techniques, the student enters into a state of altered consciousness and receives insight from the Unknown and Unknowable [Transcendental

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Being].” We believe that Rabbi Cooper is describing direct experience of Transcendental Being through meditation, which allows for higher states of consciousness. And, that this practice produces the precise field effects seen in Transcendental Meditation, such as the Maharishi Effect. In this chapter, we try to show that the Jewish mystical tradition has fostered techniques to experience Transcendental Being. And, when combined with eastern

meditation techniques, the Kabbalah validates the techniques for the practitioners of the Ninth Siddhi. Perhaps more importantly, in the Jewish tradition, we see Being flower and bloom in the Torah validating the existence of Transcendental Being as the true Source of Thought. Finally, seekers of truth find what they have sought.

In the 1960s, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan published Meditation and Kabbalah.

The book is a vivid account of the teachings of Abulafia – founder of the school of Prophetic Kabbalah. Rabbi Kaplan demonstrates that the meditative practices that were attracting many Jews to the Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation program are present in Jewish scripture. For example, one of Abulafia’s simplest practices, popularized by Rabbi Kaplan, was a meditative technique that used the repetition of Hebrew vowels encouraging transcendence and the experience of Transcendental Being. He says, “When you practice, you will want to sit comfortably in a place where you will not be disturbed and allow the eyes to close. One begins with the first letter of the Divine name.” He goes on to describe breathing techniques and other words with sacred sounds that are used as Mantras to encourage transcendence. Some think it remarkable that the same techniques for establishing contact with Being is the same in the Jewish tradition as the eastern tradition. I do not. The techniques for this divine experience are perennial to all traditions, to all scripture, and as we shall see, even described in the New Christian Gospels discussed in the next chapter.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia reports that Abulafia was one of the earliest Kabbalists. When he was eighteen years old, his father died and two years later Abulafia began a life of ceaseless wandering.

One of his first journeys was to Palestine, but he never arrived due to the unrighteousness brought about by the Crusades. He traveled throughout the Holy Lands, Spain, Italy, and Greece. In obedience to an inner voice, he went to Rome to convert Pope Nicholas III.

According to scripture, the Pope heard of his approach and issued orders to “burn the fanatic” before he reached the gates to the city.

A stake was erected close to the gate for this purpose. Fortunately for Abulafia, the Pope succumbed to a stroke the night before his arrival. In the turmoil of the Pope’s death, he was captured and thrown into prison. He was released after a four week detention.

Next, he headed for Sicily, where scripture reports, he was received as a prophet and Messiah. However, this claim was laid to rest in a letter to the people of Palermo, energetically condemning Abulafia’s conduct. Others were more compassionate and wrote that Abulafia

“stove with all his power to guide men’s mind aright in a trying time of spiritual confusion.” Finally he picked up the pilgrim’s staff and settled on the small island of Comino, near Malta. Here, he wrote his best books describing techniques to experience

Transcendental Being. After writing these profound texts, all traces of him were lost.

Abulafia revived meditative techniques that brought about the direct experience of Transcendental Being, just as Krishna, Buddha, Sankara, and the Maharishi had done. Of course, the orthodox Jewish tradition had moved on and forgotten about these teachings until revived by Rabbi Kaplan in his book Meditation and Kabbalah.

It’s true that the war torn 1960s and the transcendental movement started by the Maharishi kick started interest in transcendence in the Jewish community. But, nothing prepared the Jewish community

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for the technological revelation found in the Torah. If millions of people were experiencing Transcendental Being before this

revelation, many more would rethink their position on the mystical and begin earnestly meditating after a secret code was found in the Torah. Because the Jewish community could feel comfortable meditating and experiencing Transcendental Being within their tradition, inspired by new technological revelations in the Torah, millions of Jews began to contact Being regularly. For the first time in human history, we had followers of the Kabbalah and the Torah experiencing Transcendental Being alongside the followers of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads. When this profound

abundance of Being entering the lives of so many is combined with the historically recent developments in Christianity – as we will see in the next chapter - profound changes in the world are sure to follow. We also believe that this abundance of Transcendental Being entering the hearts and minds of so many make the Ninth Siddhi a reasonable next step in the spiritual development of Seekers around the world.

The Torah

The Torah is the primary Holy Scripture in Judaism. The Torah is the name given by Jews for the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. According to Jewish tradition, the entire Torah was dictated to Moses by God, letter for letter, on Mt. Sinai around 1300 BCE. Since the time of Moses, Kabbalists have held that God instructed the Jews to copy the Torah exactly as given to Moses, letter for letter. Although they did not understand the reason for this precision, they committed to following this Divine instruction over thousands of years and to this day even the smallest mark such as a serif, or decorative marking, or repeated word are copied exactly. The Jews did not know the reason for this Divine instruction but some had an intuitive belief that a far greater message must extend beyond the mere words of

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the Torah. Some believed that in the exact sequence of letters, there is somehow encrypted information that only a divine hand could have placed there.

Since the time of Moses, there were hints that there was more to the Torah than meets the eye. For example, in the eighteenth-century, a rabbi and sage named Elijah Solomon was one of the greatest leaders and thinkers of his time. As a child prodigy, he memorized the entire Torah word for word. He was also accomplished in mathematics. In addition, he was an orthodox rationalist and was very hostile to the type of unrestrained mystical enthusiasm

sometimes seen in parts of the Kabbalah. Still, in one of his brilliant books, he made the following claim: “All that is, and will be unto the end of time is included in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.” This claim was completely out of touch with Elijah’s past writings and did not fit well with his orthodox thinking.

Nonetheless, Elijah continued to make it perfectly clear that he meant it literally. He wrote, “…and not merely in a general sense, but including the details of every person individually, and the minutest details of everything that happened to him from the day of his birth until his death…”

These claims were taken seriously by Elijah’s peers, but they did not go unchallenged. One day a scholar who had heard of Elijah’s claims sought an audience with him intending to put him to the test.

He asked, “If, as you say, the details of everyone’s lives are encoded in the Torah, then show me where I can find Rabbi Moses ben Maimon.” Rabbi Moses ben Maimon had been a 12th century astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, and physician. Both knew that two phrases are always linked to his name and only his name in Jewish lore: “From Moses to Moses there is no one like Moses”

and “the wonder of the generation.” Immediately Elijah had the scholar turn to Exodus 11:9. He had the scholar circle letters that

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were spaced evenly apart, sometimes up and down, sometimes on a diagonal, until the words Moses, wanders, Egypt, in biblical Egypt, and in medieval Egypt became apparent.

Similar accounts of sages being able to find encoded information in the writing of the Torah can be found throughout Jewish scripture.

For example, one day Nachmanides, another prominent sage, made a claim that all of Israel’s history could be found in the passages of the Torah. One of his students thought the claim to be incredulous and demanded that Nachmanides withdraw his extravagant

assertion. Nachmanides asked the student to test him. The student retorted, “Very well, where is my own fate spoken of in the Torah.”

The sage gave directions to go to Deuteronomy chapter 32, verse 26, and look at the third letter of each word. A chill entered the soul of the student when he read his own name encoded in the third letter of each word in the verse. It is written that this student became a devotee to Nachmanides, as well as a scholar of the Torah.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Rabbi Weissmandl – a child prodigy in the Torah and mathematics – began his own

investigation into the phenomenon. He became convinced that there was indeed a hidden code in the first five books of the Bible. He maintained a lifelong interest in this phenomenon, writing out the entire 304,805 letter sequence of the Torah on 10 by 10 grids. In this way, words that occur at equally spaced intervals would stand out.

His work was interrupted, however, by World War II. Nazism tore him away from his lifelong studies. During these dreadful years of the swelling Holocaust, his primary interest changed from codes in the Torah to saving as many Jews as possible from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Later in life, he wrote that he believed that if the Nazis had their way, the Torah and all its secrets would be lost forever along with the Jewish people themselves. Mostly, he

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fought disbelief in his fellow Jews. Who could imagine chambers disguised as showers into which were herded cultured citizens, woman, and little children, all naked, all noncombatants, killed in agony by cyanide gas. I cannot imagine the agony, the sense of loss, the desperation when his own wife and five children were sent to Auschwitz in a railroad cattle car. Especially knowing that

immediately upon arrival at the camp, the men would be separated from the women and children; that they would be kept alive only to be worked to death or to be tortured to death by Josef Mengele – the Angel of Death. Such was the suffering of the Jews by the violent and maniacal, the wicked and unrighteous. Soon however, an invisible force of nature would be made known to the Jews.

Transcendental Being would communicate directly through the Torah to inspire the Jews to a new vision and reestablish lives that fulfill man’s purpose.

The early work on the Torah that Rabbi Weissmandl accomplished set into motion a process that would eventually bring encoded information found in the Torah fully into the light of modern day.

It was truly through divine inspiration, through Transcendental Being, that the fascination in antiquity with Torah codes and other ancient ciphers in the Jewish community helped win the war for the allies and defeat the unrighteous. Throughout Jewish history this interest in Ciphers is evident. Jeffrey Satinover, M.D., in Cracking the Bible Code writes, “The earliest explicit use of a second layer of meaning (known in cryptology as “plaintext”) deliberately embedded in a text that reads properly on the surface (called

“cipher text”) seems to have been by the ancient Israelites. An excellent example of ancient crypto logic sophistication and its intimate connection to Kabbalah, is the work of Nechunya, a sage living in the first century AD. It is he that found in the Torah the 42 lettered name of God, the length of the lunar cycle and other time

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tested revelations. Throughout the next two thousand years, Kabbalists published treatises outlining advanced ciphers based on new theories of statistics and mathematics. Finally, in 1934, Jewish poles quietly broke the vaunted, supposedly indecipherable German “Enigma” encryption code. With this information the British and the Americans were able to crack every update and improvement to it, however advanced, without the Nazis ever suspecting. So, this fascination with ciphers caused in no small part by the suspected code in the Torah, brought about the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. In this way, Transcendental Being moves to correct man’s vision and establish a way of life that again will fulfill his high purpose.

Abstract for God

In 1994, Eliyahu Rips (Eli) submitted a paper to the prestigious journal Statistical Science, titled Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis. The abstract for the paper read, “It has been noted that when the book of Genesis is written as two dimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often appear in close proximity. Quantitative tools for measuring this phenomenon are developed. Randomization analysis shows that the effect is significant at the level of 0.00002.”

The spirit of the Torah was about to be revealed. Scientists using computer programs on the letters of the Torah were discovering some absolutely unbelievable coding in the first five books of the Bible. Nothing like this had ever been found before in the history of mankind. The fact that it took computer technology to find it only makes the findings that much more remarkable.

On September 1, 1994, Michael Drosnin author of The Bible Codes flew to Israel to meet with Yitzhak Rabin, then prime minister. He carried with him a letter to be given to Yitzhak Rabin. The letter

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said in part that, “An Israeli mathematician has discovered hidden codes in the Bible that appear to reveal events that took place thousands of years after the Bible was written. The reason I am writing you about this is the only time your full name appears encoded in the Bible, the words assassin that will assassinate crosses your name.” Mr. Drosnin went on to write, “This should not be ignored because the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and both John and Robert Kennedy are also encoded in the Bible.” In November, 1995 Yitzhak Rabin was shot in the back by a man who believed he was on a mission from God. This murder was encoded in the Bible three thousand years ago.

Many other examples of prophetic information have been found.

Six months before the 1992 election, the code revealed Bill Clinton’s victory. Connected to “Clinton” was the title “president.” Richard Nixon also gets mentioned in the Torah. In one of the greatest upheavals in the American politics the word “Watergate” appears with “Nixon” and the year “1974” the year he was forced to resign.

The great depression is encoded with the crash of the stock market.

“Economic collapse” and “depression” appear together in the Torah with the word “stock” and the year it all started, “1929. “

Eerily, “man on moon” appears with “spaceship” and “Apollo 11.”

Armstrong’s words “One small step for a man, one giant step for mankind” are echoed in the hidden text of the Torah. Where the date Armstrong sets foot on the moon crosses the word “moon,” the words “Done by mankind, done by a man” are clearly visible.

America’s entry into World War II when the Japanese unexpectedly struck Pearl Harbor is also vividly told in the hidden code of the Torah. Encoded with “Roosevelt” is his title “President” as well as his December 7, 1941, declaration of war: the Code clearly states,

“He gave the order to strike on the day of the great defeat.” In

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addition, “Pearl Harbor” is encoded with the words “destruction of the fortress“ running across it. The Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor is identified as the location of “the fleet.” It appears with

“World War,” “December 7^th,” and “Hiroshima.”

Also, where “Hiroshima” is spelled out, the date “1945” is found, the same date that the atomic bomb was dropped by the Americans.

The impact of the first atomic bomb is described in the hidden text as “Hiroshima to end shooting whole world.” This is found at a spot in Genesis where the actual text reads, “And it repented the Lord that he had made man upon the earth and it grieved him at his heart.”

Lincoln is encoded twice in Genesis and Deuteronomy. Gandhi is encoded in the Book of Exodus. I dare say my own name is in one of the first five books of the Bible, and perhaps yours is too.

These findings were published in books and journals all around the world, while both skeptics and seekers, wondered if it was truly information from a transcendental source. The Bible codes needed to be proved by the secular world of scientists, statisticians, and mathematicians. They needed to show beyond any doubt that this phenomenon was not possible by mere chance. So, Eliyahu Rips set about designing a statistical model that would prove that the technique used in the Bible codes of Equidistant Letter Sequences, when combined with related words in close proximity, was not just random fortuitous combinations.

Eli Rips, Doron Witztum, and Yoav Rosenberg published their paper in Statistical Science, a prestigious peer reviewed

mathematical journal – the abstract of which begins this chapter.

Their work set out to prove that the hidden information in the Torah was not a matter of chance. The only rationale explanation of