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The weird things, Weird, weird, weird. Yo, greetings, earflings.

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This is the Kabbala episode. Actually, no, no, no,

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scratch that scratch that we're gonna rewind
it. This is the Wisdom Tradition's volume

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two where we're gonna talk about Kabbala. So, yeah, like I put

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a lot of thought into this,
like what do we want to do this

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in some actually Nick inspired this.
It was like, do we want to

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do this in a sort of chronological
order? Do we want to like try

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to look back in history and discuss
these groups as they popped up, you

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know, in their respective centuries in
order? And we were like, nah,

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uh, let's just talk about which
ones we find interesting. And honestly,

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dude, that that's kind of like
the only way it should be done

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really, because you gotta you gotta
like go with what's pulling you. It's

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like what what sounds? You know, because everything happens for a reason.

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We're being pulled in a certain direction. Yeah, speaking of getting pulled,

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can you before we dive in,
can you just explain this hat really too.

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It's it's what we talked about before
the last one. Okay, No,

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no, I just I just wouldn't
inform. It's it's just informed.

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It's something I got in a Chinese
flea market when I was in Florida,

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man like, and I thought it
was cool. It is because I love

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it. It's a brimless hat,
but it's kind of got like the templar

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cross and it's got like the the
heat bro. Here's the thing. I'll

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be perfectly clear and concise and honest. The first moment that I looked at

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it, I was like, yikes. And then very quickly after that,

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I was like, I was wrong. It actually goes hard. Well that's

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the thing, man, you but
you you buy a funny hat because the

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yikes is transformed into something much more
profound. And and I will go one

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step further and say, oftentimes,
uh, good fashion choices are something that

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at first glance is like what,
But then the more you digest it,

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you're like, that's pretty sick.
Yeah, I dig it. I think

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you you fly. Yeah. I
wasn't even gonna explain it, but that's

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okay. It's probably best that we
did, thanks Alex. So Yeah,

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it's like, I just love the
idea of doing the Wisdom Tradition series because

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my goal here is to try to
like illuminate the hidden spiritual undercurrent that has

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existed throughout history. You know.
The idea is that there are these ancient,

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secret traditions that have been connected,
right, they all have basically the

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same or similar points of wisdom trying
to explain how we relate to the divine.

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There's only one there's only one source
of reality. There's yeah, there's

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only one God. You know,
there's there's only one. I mean people

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could say, well, hey,
that's disrespectful of what i believe. I'm

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a wicked or I'm a I'm a
classical Egyptian commission or I'm still hellenised like

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we talked about in the last episode. That's fine, but you know those

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are those are all deities, you
know, if you want to believe that,

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that's cool. But above them,
there's still only some there's one source.

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Yeah, No, that doesn't even
it doesn't even invalidate those other religions

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at all. It's just saying that, like, whatever the truth is,

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it is all coming from the same
one source, right you know. Yeah,

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so it's not even invalidating those other
things. I think I think people

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get offended when you say there's one
God like that sounds really Christian. Well

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not really, it's just objective,
right, Yeah, we don't. It

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doesn't mean there's one deity that is
in control. It's not like that.

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It's like, what whatever the source
is, it's all the same thing.

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All these cultures, they're all talking
about the same thing. It's just their

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own artistic, creative interpretations and symbologies
of that one source. Yeah exactly,

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it's yeah. So that that's that's
what I want to cut to, is

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like, it's just it's interesting to
talk about these different traditions because you find

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as you dive into them that they
have separated by some of them millennia describe

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the higher spiritual reality in a very
similar way, you know, and that's

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that's where it gets fascinating. So, like we started off withes scenes that

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was really cool, and we had
just been talking about it and we were

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like, you know, Kabbala is
the natural next place to go. So

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Kabbala is pretty wild. It's one
of the first, uh you could call

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it wisdom traditions, you could call
it secret. I wouldn't call it a

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secret society. It's more like a
body of knowledge, like a secret practice.

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Yeah, yeah, it's it's like
a secret belief. It's not like

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it's not quite like you know,
Freemasonry or Rosicrucianism, where it's like the

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belief is simultaneously in order, you
know what I mean. It's it's a

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little different, like you're not necessarily
going to go out there and find very

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many like Kabbala churches. Yet Kabala
is used in these secret groups, right,

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it's it's it's taught, it's you
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it started popping up historically in the
medieval period, like around the I think

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like one thousand, eleven hundred,
twelve hundred, thirteen hundred something like that.

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Let me find the name of the
text here. Well, that's when

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the first like evidence of of like
historical texts being found, Yes, was

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around that time. Yeah, so
it could. And somewhere around one thousand

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to fifteen hundred it starts popping up
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Germany, and there's these texts that
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the official first text. It might
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basically the texts were attributed to a
writer who would have lived around the year

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two hundred. But there's a catch
there. There's there's no genuine proof for

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evidence that these texts were actually written
in two hundred, because they started popping

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up, they started being mass well
I say mass, you know, secret

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they started being distributed in around one
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like, we're just transcribing the secret
teachings of this dude from two hundred.

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You see what I'm saying. So
there's like there's an actual historical origin of

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these texts, and then there's sort
of like the claim that they're far older.

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And then when you read some of
these texts, just like with the

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esscenes and their bodies of knowledge,
you'll find certain little phrases where they're talking

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about reading ancient texts. I found
it. It is the Zohar that's the

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foundational and yeah, it looks like
it's the one I read. By the

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way, it was first publicized by
Moses de Leon around twelve forty, who

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claimed it was a tenetic. Do
you see that tatic work here? Let

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me see a work recording the teachings
of Simeon ben Yohai, which would have

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been written around the year one hundred, one hundred. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, so yeah,
it's a claim, but what we know

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is that it came from you know, Delayon or whatever his name, Moses

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DeLeon. Yeah, yeah, so
that that's as old as we can historically

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date these texts either way. Bro, we're talking a thousand years Oh yeah,

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crazy, We're not talking about some
new age Hippi dippy. No,

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No, these texts are authentically dated
to be bare minimum a thousand years old.

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R Right, that's my point.
Yes, it's an ancient secret tradition.

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And what we know about Kabbala,
and just like generally the tradition is

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it was like the fourth level of
understanding for Judaism. So in Judaism you

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had four levels of understanding. I
actually had written down these four levels because

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there are a bunch of terms that
obviously I I I'm not Jewish because you

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yes, I am. That was
my secret point in wearing that. But

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let me find this real quick,
the interpreted here we go. Okay,

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so you have four levels of Torah
knowledge, right, Torah meaning like the

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body of knowledge of Judaism, the
text, the biblical texts and so on.

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The Torah is the name of their
book, yes well, and the

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Talmud gotcha and the Zohar, right, So the first level is pest shot,

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which means the plain or literal meaning
of the text. So that's like,

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bro, Like, I don't mean
this disrespectfully, but think of like

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your average basic believing religious person,
like a Christian who goes to church and

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they read the Bible and interpret it
literally, and they think that's all it

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is, word for word is literal. Yes, that's level one, right,

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that's level one understanding of the Torah. And then you have level two,

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which is rims, which means the
hint. This refers to the interpretations

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of the Torah that are not explicitly
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in the text contextually, Like,
for example, there's a verse in the

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Book of Genesis that describes Abraham sitting
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appears to talk to him, and
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which this is a hint at the
future, indicating that when a Jewish court

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decides Halasha obviously have been a butcher, the pronunciations here there in God's presence,

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and they must be seated while the
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like this little subtle context clues like
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would catch up on you, and
then the The third level is drash,

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which means home aletics. An example
of josh is like the story of Abraham

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discovering God at the age of three
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a fiery being thrown into a fiery
furnace by King Nimrod. This story is

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not found in the Bible at all, but it's an integral part of the

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Torah. It's like a story that's
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of the body of knowledge, but
it's not written, you know what I

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mean. Oh, so that could
like a parallel to that could be like

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the stuff that is in the Dead
Sea scrolls that didn't make it into the

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Bible. Yes, like stuff that
has been passed down orally or by tradition

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or whatever, but is not necessarily
written in the book. Right, Okay,

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that's interesting. There's an entire book. There's an entire literature of drosh

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called midrash. Some Midrashic texts are
actually kabalistic text too, which I didn't

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read those. I didn't cover those, but I mainly covered the Zohar.

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Is there a lot is there like
a ton of mid texts out there,

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or is it kind of scarce?
I'm not one hundred percent sure. I

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mainly focused on the kabalistic texts,
and there's quite a bit of that.

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I mean, it's not like,
you know, it's not like the Bible

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or the Talmud that has like fifty
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It's it's more like the Dead Sea
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finite number of these texts. But
it's it's a big, it's sizable,

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it's it's it's real, it's tangible. So that's interesting. Would would then,

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like the entirety of the Kabbala not
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the fourth level. I'm going there. Okay, it's the fourth level.

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Got it? Okay, there's an
I was just saying. I'm picking up

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on what I was reading here.
There's an entire literature of Josh called Midrash,

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which contains many fantastical tales relating to
the Bible. The story of Abraham

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mentioned above is one. The story
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king years before he encountered got it. The Burning bushes. Another the tricky

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element is that the tale seems so
simple and straightforward, but in truth they're

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not. Only an expert train in
the study of midrash is able to understand

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and their deeper meaning. And there's
always a deeper meaning. It's a form

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of allegory. This is important.
I want to emphasize allegory here in this

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episode today in a certain parts.
But according to I don't know how to

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read this, my monitas, I
don't know you're the Greek one. Oh

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yeah, manitas, what my monitas? Only a fool would confuse the tale

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with the message the four Okay,
so you get what I'm saying. Yeah,

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there's there's a there's a message in
allegory. Don't take it literally.

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Take the message. Yes, right, just like all the stages teach an

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allegory and the New Testament, Jesus
is teaching an allegory. There's there's profound

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wisdom in allegory. Remember the Esscenes
of Wisdom tradition episode one. They would

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get together on the on the you
know, the seventh day or whatever,

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and they would have their sermons where
they would teach an allegory. Yes,

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emphasis on allegory for the Kabala things. Yeah, and and it seems like

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there's a through line with allegory.
I mean, that's what theosophists believe exactly.

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There's a lot of these traditions that
believe that, like the most effective

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way to incept this information into the
subconscious of whoever's reading it is through allegory

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exactly, because the higher realities are
abstract. Yeah. Yeah, you know,

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your brain couldn't comprehend it anyway,
so it might as well try to

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convey the feelings to you rather than
the literal like what happened, right,

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because the higher realities are not literal. They're not they're not bound by a

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form, you know what I mean. They're formless. It's ineffable, which

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is really cool because like the the
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It's like and so allegory is like
almost like art. It's like it is

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like art. Yeah, it's a
poetry. It's poetry. That's so sick,

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dude. Like the most effective way
to get it in somebody's brain is

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to make it art and then they'll
get it right. That's so sick.

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Yeah, So emphasis on that because
in in the Book of Zohar, there's

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a part I'm gonna get to it
in a little bit that they actually in

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their ancient text describe how the wisdom
was taught through allegory. So yeah,

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we're gonna get there. So then
the fourth level of of Torah knowledge is

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sod meaning secret. It's the esoteric
dimension of the Torah that relates to the

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divine in the higher worlds. This
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the highest level initiates of Torah.
You know, because again we're focusing on

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Jewish literature today, we're focusing on
you know that that specific body of thinking.

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Yeah, yeah, we're casting out
other mystery schools for the time being.

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So the highest level of of of
Torah, disciple or student or whatever

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they are studying Kabbala, it's the
secret that the worthy. We're allowed to

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study the elite, right WHOA Okay, I always maybe I misunderstood. I

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always thought that like Kabbala practice was
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wasn't necessarily it seems like that at
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what that sounds like is all of
Judaism if they recognize those four phases,

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then the fourth one is Kabbala.
So it's like, I don't know,

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maybe I was wrong in that assumption
to it. I thought that too,

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and I'm starting to think that maybe
that's not the case, you know,

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Like that's interesting. Yeah, I
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is one of the most mysterious things
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Honestly, it's very complex. Like
it's it's very complicated. I mean the

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Talmut alone is like two thousand pages
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you know, like it's it's impossible
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it's the esoteric dimension of the Torah
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It is concerned with the deepest questions
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the soul of man. It's this
sex of the Torah that is also known

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as Kabala, meaning the received tradition. That's also the literal. That's the

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literal translation into English of the word
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like like a download. Yeah,
like like the received tradition. Whoa right.

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It was never taught publicly and there
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to disciple. Again, we're talking
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right a thousand years ago, and
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was only allowed to be taught to
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forties because the Kabbala was such a
very and you're gonna see, we're gonna

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read from some of it, and
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kind of like remember the Essene texts
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and really like deep stuff and meditation, and we're like, oh my god,

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this is two thousand years ago.
How they know about this stuff,

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you know, cy ration and yeah, the Kabala texts are kind of like

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that, and like it's it's definitely
it definitely stimulates the imagination. I was.

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I was very inspired reading the Book
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Book of Radiance or the Book of
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creation. I just saw something and
it was talking about like the light

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of God, like the Book of
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Yeah, it says the Zohar contains
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the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of soul's redemption, the

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relationship of ego to darkness and true
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yes, I highlighted my favorite parts. So it's crazy, And like

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I could see where back then people
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controversial, you know, or like
just the texts in general, especially during

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the times of like medieval Catholicism,
it would sound like witchcraft, oh for

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sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, And like there was an ancient legend

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that there were these four master rabbi
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covered in the Metatron episode, Rabbi
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we were reading from about Metatron.
The heck a lot body of literature.

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their celestial visions where Metatron was bringing
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Rabbi ben Akiva. But the legend
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history who delved into the highest levels
of kabbala. One of them died,

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he he like, I think he
killed himself. Whoa one of them went

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crazy, one of them lost his
faith, and Rabbi Ben Akiva came back

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unscathed, like enlightened, like because
the text was so high level. That's

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just a legend that the text was
so high level that it's like initiates be

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warned, Like you probably should only
delve into this material if you're at least

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forty years old, you're mature,
you've lived a very long life, and

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you've spent your entire life dedicated to
studying the Torah, then you should proceed

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with caution into this body of literature. Today reading this stuff would have had

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that effect, probably not, you
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medieval ages where they're sitting and little
buildings made of like stone or whatever with

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candles in the middle of the night, and they're reading this shit. And

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you know, if they know their
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probably going to be killed for heresy. It's a different world. I also

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think there's something to be said about
you know, we talk all the time

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about how like the spiritual energy of
the world must have been so much higher

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and more potent back then with all
right, you know, without all the

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distractions and stuff. So I mean, yeah, they might have been reading

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it and like real, actual spiritual
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just couldn't handle it. Yeah,
I think that's definitely possible. I found

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the part about the legend, by
the way, so let's get it right.

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So it is hold on, you're
gonna like this, okay. So

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remember we talked about the four levels
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rimeg, Josh, and Sod.
They give rise to the acronym par Des,

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which in Hebrew means an orchard.
So the idea of like the highest

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level of cabalistic knowledge or like the
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Think of like the apple of e
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Yeah exactly, so, or like
Elun from Norse mythology, same thing.

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Yeah. Sure, the orchard of
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as both the written and the oral
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was the par Des. The meaning
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the Talmud that's a warning to the
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the part as, which is like
the orchard of wisdom. From these bodies

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of knowledge. So the Talmud,
which is like again it's a it's a

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real, it's not a secret text. You know, it recounts how four

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scholars, Rabbi Akiva, ben Zoma, ben Azai, and Elisha ben Avuya

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entered the part as, meaning that
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of the Torah. As a result, ben as I lost his life,

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ben Zoma lost his mind, Elisha
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Rabbi Kiva emerged unscathed. So yeah, so that's the point. There's all

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this mystique around kabbala in the medieval
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of the actual text is. So
we have some Papa Papa, yeah,

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I know, right, my brain's
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vision of the chariot that like classical
Ezekiel's story, you know, like the

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vision of the wheel within the wheel
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text as well. So like you
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it in the Bible, and then
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it more deeply and they're like divulging
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like it's so funny, like you
read the Bible and so much of it

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is just like seems straightforward, normal
stuff, and then out of nowhere,

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there's like a burning wheel within a
wheel in the sky. It's like,

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right, well, you know what
it's like, where did that come from?

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It's extremely high mystical stuff out of
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see that and they're like, mmmm, there's something we got to dig into

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it exactly. Yeah. And then
we also have the heck a lot body

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of Knowledge, which is what we
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length, but like you know,
kind of lightly, but it's the celestial

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chariots and visions. It was like
they were also known as the Merkaba mystics,

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remember the Merkaba, Like this is
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of knowledge or ten actually were cabalistic
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They're studying them, meditating on what
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and they're trying to reach enlightened states
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things. You know, you have
effort for those who might not know merka,

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but you want to just real quick. But they're like, yeah,

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well, if you could see me, if you're watching, this is the

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shape of the Merkaba. It's it's
the Markaba is like I don't know how

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to describe it because it's very abstract
metaphysical thing, but it's the concept that

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like you have this archetypal spiritual dimension
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have at the basic level, you
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the union of masculine and feminine forces
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like the upward pointing uh pointing triangle
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star, which is a But then
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level of dimensional reality to it,
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The idea is that each one of
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by a merca. But like our
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like we're connected to it. It's
like the light body. Yeah, exactly,

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like a I mean you've you've said
in the past before that you could

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think of the lights that you see
in the sky as markaba. Yeah,

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it's like the soul. It's like
your right and and and there's belief that

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the word mirkaba actually comes from three
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spirit light body, like like cause
the Egyptian word for soul bah, I'm

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not sure which that means, and
then mirr one of it's like spirit light

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body. I could look that up, but yeah, yeah, yeah,

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just for people who didn't know,
I just wanted to give a quick little

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that's what the marka but is.
It's like a three D six pointed star

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that is used to represent like the
light body of the of human consciousness or

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the soul. Right, the cherity
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again, like this is an old
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New Age stuff, but it's it's
really an ancient concept I was trying to

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find. I always find it so
fascinating, but I always forget where the

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word comes from. But it's really
cool. It's it's something like spirit light

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body, but I think it translates
too. But the mirror and the ka

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and the ba are all different root
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I just I can't. I can't
remember. But we have the Cephir yet

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Sarah, which I read that one
many years ago. I did not read

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it for this episode today. But
the Sepher Yets is really cool. It's

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like, no, I just when
I first ever learned about Kabala, I

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read it, got it many years
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Faetteville, seven or eight years ago. It's very cool. It's like the

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Kabbalistic creation myth. You know,
you have creation myth. Oh, yeah,

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and the and the Zohar talks a
little bit about that. We're going

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to get into that. And then
the Sephir the Cephir Habba here, which

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is like the more mystical teachings of
the Book of Genesis. So it's like

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a complete revisiting of Genesis entirely from
a Cabalistic les. So really cool.

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But there were way too many texts
for me to read to like pull from

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them and and streamline into one episode, so you know, I focused on

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the Zohar and yeah, so let's
get into that. The cosmology of Kabbala

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is pretty cool. It's the idea
that there are ten emanated realities right in

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total and that includes the einsaff,
which is like the highest, the highest,

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uh version of reality where the source
comes and the sources described as being

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like a ceaseless, limitless, lossless, endless fountain of ocean or of fire

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that never is consumed, but doesn't
need to consume and can't be. It's

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described as this unlimited, ineffable,
all powerful, all radiant, all shining,

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endless, limitless force. It's like
consciousness. Yeah, it's like the

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the limitless body. But it's like
it's not even just described as consciousness.

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It's described as like the source,
right, Yeah, you know what I

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mean. Yeah, it's the source
of consciousness. It's the light, it's

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the true light. It's you know, it's it's described in terms that are

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deeply imaginative. It's like kingdom hearts. Yeah, it's the source of all.

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Well remember in remember in the Metatron
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of I can't remember the name of
the text right now. It's let me

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think about it. It's it's uh
damn. It's the one where it's like

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they're trying to overwhelm the mind of
the initiate. Oh yeah, I mean,

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I don't think I remember the name
of it. But that was the

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one where they had all like the
anagrams and the weird letter yes, yes,

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yes, yeah, trying to think
of the freaking name of it was?

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Was it the sepher something? No, No, I can't, I

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can't. I'd have to go look
at it later. Let me well,

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you go ahead and talk. Let
me see if I can find it.

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It might be in the episode description, Okay, if you go find the

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episode okay. Anyway, So yeah, the kabalistic texture really cool because they

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use a lot of language that's intentionally
trying to stimulate the imagination to reach new

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heights, to fathom the higher reality. Right, So, like, for

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example, I'm gonna read some excerpts
from the Zohar, which is the first

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ever foundational text of Cabala. It's
the one that we were talking about that

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popped up at around one thousand a
d and was believed to be from one

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hundred and eighty right, yes,
so let's talk about the first light.

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This is how this is pretty wild. This is how the Zohar begins.

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You ready, Yes, I'm ready? Also that were you able to I

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couldn't find it. It's gonna kill
me if I don't find the name of

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that text. I'm trying to find
it. Yeah, I gotta get out

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in front of it and just say
it. When my brain starts thinking about

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these kinds of topics and things,
it starts going a mile a minute and

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I start crashing over myself, you
know. So it's like I I the

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the word is on the tip of
my brain. Yeah, I can't,

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I can't. You You wanted me
to go to the description of what the

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Metatron episode. Yeah, that text
is. Let me see it's it's it's

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killing me. I'm gonna find it. It's okay. If it's in the

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episode description, I'm about to find
it right now. We can cut the

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silence if there's a little bit.
No, it's okay. I'm gonna keep

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going. All right. This is
how it begins the so Hard the Book

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of Radiance in the beginning, and
it's a quote of Genesis book one,

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verse one. It's important to note
that because this was written after, you

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know, the Torah, or you
could say the Old Testament in Christian terms,

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was written, they make a lot
of official references to those texts.

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So it says in the beginning,
in quotes Genesis one to one, when

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the will of the king began to
take effect. He engraved signs into the

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heavenly sphere that surrounded him. Within
the most hidden recess, a dark flame

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00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:21.400
issued from the mystery of einsoft,
the infinite, like a fog forming in

402
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.720
the unformed enclosed in the ring of
that sphere, neither white nor black,

403
00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:27.640
neither red nor green, of no
color whatever. Only after this flame began

404
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:33.039
to assume size and dimension did it
produce radiant colors. From the innermost center

405
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.200
of the flame sprang forth a well, out of which colors issued and spread

406
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:41.519
upon everything hidden, everything beneath,
hidden in the mysterious hiddenness of einsoft.

407
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.160
So einsoft is like the all.
It's like, did it describe it as

408
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.000
a flame? Oh yeah, we're
gonna We're gonna go into that, okay.

409
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:55.000
So einsoft is the cop the official
Kabbala word for like what the Gnostics

410
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would call the pleroma, the the
the Kybalian would say, the all,

411
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:07.400
you know, the source, the
highest God, whatever you want to conceive,

412
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.519
the one above all, that's Einsoft. Well, it's also crazy that

413
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it's described as a flame or a
fire, because that sounds like the Holy

414
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.960
Spirit is, you know. It
is also described as a fire. That's

415
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:23.279
that's interesting. So iinsoft is regarded
as the realm above all realms, from

416
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:30.119
which the lower realms are emanating from, like layers, like discrete layers,

417
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.480
and the terminology used as like first
you have the original layer, and then

418
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a layer comes off of it,
wearing the preview. We're talking about realities,

419
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:42.039
we're talking about dimensions, yeah,
and then the next layer comes off

420
00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:47.319
and it's clothed in the previous layer, and then a new layer comes off,

421
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:49.839
and it's like it's describing it.
It's like fractal. It's describing as

422
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:55.400
like the highest reality emanating the lower
ones down to where we are here today,

423
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:00.559
you know. So and following this
same thing, is that still referring

424
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.759
to the ten distinct realities or is
it like more of like an infinite reality

425
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:09.680
all ten together is ice off like
the tin tails beast, yeah, or

426
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.720
or like the cephar you know,
the oh, we didn't even talk about

427
00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:19.839
that. So these these realms in
Kabbala are known as the Sepharat, which

428
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.400
you know, if you're gaming fans
or whatever, you know Cepharath from Final

429
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.599
Fantasy. That's obviously a reference to
that Full Metal alchemist. You know.

430
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.759
Oh yeah, the first in the
first level when when they do the ritual

431
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:34.599
to try to bring their mother back
from the dead, that they see a

432
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:37.960
door and it has the ten.
It actually says the words cept and it's

433
00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:42.319
you know, it's the Tree of
Life. That's the thing is, it's

434
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.200
the dimensions are symbolized by the Tree
of Life, and they're the ten Sepharat,

435
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:51.039
and the realms mean something like the
crown. I think the crown is

436
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.920
I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher this.
I think it's Chokma, Chakma, let's

437
00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.480
look that up. And and each
of the sepharat have a different name that

438
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:07.079
symbolized different layers of reality. And
you know, it reminds me a lot

439
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:10.200
of Igdrasil. Yeah. Yeah,
nine realms, right, and it's a

440
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.359
tree exactly. Yeah, there's nine
realms. I mean, sure, the

441
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:20.119
Tree of Life is ten, but
technically like the tenth is like the material

442
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:24.799
world anyway, so it's basically talking
about the same thing. Oh, I

443
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:30.559
was wrong. Chakma is not the
highest realm. The highest realm is Einsalt.

444
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:37.839
Chakma is the sepharotic crown. You
have kept there been the Holy Spirit

445
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.119
chakma. Okay, so you were
saying in the crown, and it's in

446
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:44.000
the crown. This is I'm trying
to get the image to pop up,

447
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:47.279
but it's very blurry. But anyway, moving on, we can revisit the

448
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:52.720
tree of life. So I'm gonna
keep reading a little bit on that text.

449
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.000
So we left off at from the
innermost center of the flame sprang forth

450
00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.839
a well, out of which colors
issued and spread upon every everything hidden hidden

451
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:06.519
the mysterious hiddenness of einsoft notice,
they say hidden in the mysterious hiddenness.

452
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:12.480
There's a lot of redundant language to
try to like make you fathom the unfathomable.

453
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.000
The point, you know, it's
like they're using this allegorical word play

454
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:21.639
to try to like hit imagery in
your mind. It's very intention There's actually

455
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.079
a thing in here I highlighted that
talks about like the power of allegory to

456
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.440
fathom God. You know, the
well broke through, and yet did not

457
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.079
break through the ether of the sphere. It could not be recognized at all

458
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:39.199
until a hidden supernal point shown forth
under the impact of the final breaking through

459
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:44.920
this prime and then this is a
footnote, this primordial point is identified by

460
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.800
the Zohar with the wisdom of God, the hulk Ma the ideal thought of

461
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.320
creation. The idea is that it's
all thought forms being thought into reality by

462
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:58.000
the highest layer. You know,
beyond beyond this point nothing can be known.

463
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:02.679
Therefore it is called rash beginning the
first word out of the ten by

464
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:07.159
means of which the universe has been
created. The universe this I'm still reading

465
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:10.760
the text The universe, the shell
and the kernel. So the idea is

466
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:14.800
that the universe is the shell and
the colonel. Remember we're talking about the

467
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.079
layers of reality emanating. So when
King Solomon penetrated into the depths of the

468
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.599
nut garden, as it is written, I descended into the garden of nuts,

469
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:25.480
he took up a nut in a
shell, and studying it, he

470
00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:30.440
saw an analogy and its layers with
the spirits which motivates the sensual desires of

471
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.519
humans, as it is written,
and the delights of the sons of men

472
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.360
are for male and female demons Ecclesiastes
two and eight. You know, it's

473
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.199
like the whole belief that the fallen
angels and all that the Holy One be

474
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:46.360
blessed. Anytime they ever mention the
Highest God, or they call it the

475
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:51.199
Light of the Light of the presence, the Holy One, the einsoft.

476
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:57.880
Anytime the Kabbalist mentions God or the
highest Realm, they always praise. They

477
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:01.000
always say, be blessed. That's
fine. That their respect on the name.

478
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:04.679
So they say, it's like Islam. It's like it's like, you

479
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.519
know, like, what is it
Mohammed Pi upon him that kind of thing.

480
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.360
Yeah, yeah, it's like an
honor like blessed is got you know,

481
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:14.480
they always do that. I find
it interesting. So it says the

482
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.800
Holy One be blessed. Saw that
it was necessary to put into the world

483
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.719
all of these things so as to
make sure of permanence and of having,

484
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:27.239
so to speak, a brain surrounded
by numerous membranes. The whole, the

485
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:30.639
whole world, upper and lower,
is organized on this principle, from the

486
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:37.400
primary mystic center to the very outermost
of all the layers. Primary mystic center.

487
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.559
A thousand years ago at least,
this was written God, that that

488
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:45.039
that that's important. You know what
I mean to that? It just it

489
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:49.559
sounds like something that you would hear
written like by by some New Age thinkers

490
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:53.679
in like the nineteen hundred, exactly
like early theosophical stuff exactly. Yeah,

491
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:58.400
this is this is minimum a thousand
years old. And I was thinking about

492
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:01.159
this earlier a little bit, like, how how did you know if they

493
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:07.320
didn't have the technology that we have
and the scientific instruments to conduct all these

494
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.119
studies and all this stuff, how
do they know about energy and frequency and

495
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:15.679
vibration? And if it wasn't via
some sort of spiritual connection, right,

496
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:24.559
there's no other explanation. But and
yet these ancient philosophers and like deep thinkers

497
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.119
have known this for thousands of years. It's wild, huh. God.

498
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:34.719
The whole world, the upper and
the lower, is organized on this principle,

499
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.880
from the primary mystic center to the
very outermost of all the layers.

500
00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:42.760
All are coverings, the one to
the other. Brain within brain, spirit

501
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:46.920
inside of spirit, shell within shell. The primal center is the innermost light

502
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:53.039
of a translucence, subtlety, and
purity beyond comprehension. That enter point extended

503
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.920
becomes a palace, which acts as
an enclosure for the center and is also

504
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:01.159
of i radiance, translucent beyond the
power to know it. The palace vestment

505
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.239
for the incognizable inner point, while
it is an unknowable radiance in itself is

506
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:12.239
nevertheless of a lesser subtlety and translucency
than the primal point. The palace.

507
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.719
It always has palace in quotes,
the palace extends into a vestment for itself,

508
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.719
the primal light. From then outward
there is an extension upon extension,

509
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.360
each constituting a vesture to the one
before as a membrane to the brain.

510
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:25.400
I looked up what vesture meant because
I didn't know, and that meant clothes.

511
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:28.880
So that's what I was. That's
what I'm trying to say. They're

512
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:34.039
describing that the original light, the
original primal force of creation is thinking these

513
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:37.679
layers into reality like a brain with
all these membranes or like clothes, like

514
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:43.679
vesture, like the lower you go
into the emanated worlds, it's just like

515
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:46.880
a shell to the higher world,
right, okay, yeah, the nut

516
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:51.920
allegory things. Now, it's like
world within a world within a world exactly

517
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:53.639
world. Yeah, and it's infinite
down all the way up to the original

518
00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:00.920
supernal primal light God, the hindsight, the original existence that we can fathom

519
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.320
because there's no form, there's no
nut, there's no shell. It's the

520
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:08.079
origin of everything. Yeah, from
then outward there is extension upon extension,

521
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:12.159
each constituting a vesture to the one
before as a membrane to the brain.

522
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.599
Through membrane first, each extension becomes
brain to the next extension. Likewise,

523
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:21.679
this is the fractal part. Likewise
does the process go on below and after

524
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:29.599
this design man in the world combines
brain and membrane, body and spirit,

525
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:35.239
all to the more perfect ordering of
the world. When the moon was conjoined

526
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.880
with the sun, she was luminous, But when she went apart from the

527
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:40.440
Sun and was given governance of her
own hosts, her status and her light

528
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:45.079
were reduced, and shell after shell
was fashioned for investing the brain, and

529
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:51.199
all was for its good. So
it's important to note anytime they make mention

530
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:54.079
of any of the three types of
soul here, which that's interesting. They

531
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:59.960
have different versions of the soul,
kind of like the astrobody, the mental

532
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:02.239
right stuff, but they have different
words for it. But anytime they reference

533
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:09.400
the soul, they say she was
always like in the text, it's the

534
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:17.559
soul, is she? The soul
is actually likened to a godlike primordial mother.

535
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.320
Important to note, bro remember then, come, yes, remember the

536
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.519
holy spirit we talked about that in
the Metatron episode, it was believed to

537
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:30.280
be a feminine word. And uh, you know, obviously my dad had

538
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:31.320
doesn't count with the lady. She
said, you know, I'm the Holy

539
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:35.079
Bearer. You know I'm the lady. Yeah, she didn't sound the lady,

540
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:37.039
but you know what I mean.
Anytime in this text they referenced the

541
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.519
soul or the great Spirit, it's
she, dude, and it's talking about

542
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:45.880
like the marriage of body and spirit, like that's awakening. Yeah, that's

543
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:52.440
like this a thousand years ago.
Also also a lot of that sounded like

544
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.320
Hindu, Like a lot of that
sounds very Hindu as well, like the

545
00:40:55.360 --> 00:41:00.559
whole like moon in the sun,
yin and yang sort of thing like that.

546
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:02.039
And then you know, when one
was without the other, it was

547
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.119
like chaos. It's like it's like
very there's a lot of that in here.

548
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.119
I skipped because the Zohar was it
was decently long. I mean it

549
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.239
took me several hours to read it, which you know, for for like,

550
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.519
for example, if you pick up
the Bible and you read like the

551
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.960
Book of Genesis or really any book, the Book of Numbers, the Gospel

552
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.519
of Matthew, it's not gonna take
you that long to read it. They're

553
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.960
not very individually, they're not long
texts. Now, the Zohar took me

554
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:31.119
three to four hours to read.
It's big. It's pretty big. It's

555
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:35.119
not a full book, but it's
it's freaking huge. Yeah, And there

556
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.280
was a lot of texts in here
that I skipped because I was like,

557
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:38.840
there's no way we can cover this
all, and also I just found some

558
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:44.400
stuff to be more interesting. But
there's entire sections devoted to like you see

559
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:49.840
here it says male and female about
those forces. Wow, it's they're explicitly

560
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:54.320
talking about those forces being the creation
of reality, the same with the body

561
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:58.440
and the soul, and how that's
in all of us. I mean,

562
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:05.599
it's it's pretty in depth, damn
dude. Like, for example, it's

563
00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:08.000
like, how would the man who
makes a journey and away from his wife

564
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:12.880
ceases to be male and female such
a one before starting, and while he

565
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.320
still is male and female, must
pray to God to draw unto himself the

566
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.840
presence of his master. And it's
just it's just stuff like that. It's

567
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:24.280
talking about like transmuting both of those
energies within you. Fine, right right

568
00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:29.519
right, yeah, Okay, so
this is this is the first part of

569
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.039
it that I read that I was
like, holy shit, you know what

570
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:38.599
I mean. So it's talking about
God in the concept of being the consuming

571
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:45.159
fire, which is very interesting because
when you think about like first century Jews

572
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:50.920
and even beyond that, what were
they known for animal sacrifice? So you

573
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:53.119
have to understand, you know,
this is a culture of people who believe

574
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:57.840
that anytime they had to atone for
their sins, they had to ritually sacrifice

575
00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:00.559
the actual animal. Yeah, so
they had a lot of time under their

576
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:05.519
belt, like slitting the throats of
goats or sheep or lamb or whatever and

577
00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.400
actually burning their fucking flesh on a
fire, and they're sitting around and they're

578
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:12.400
thinking about the deep meaning of this
and what it means, right, I

579
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.760
mean, this is just daily practice
in their culture, in many cultures back

580
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:21.360
then. So just keep that in
mind. Rabbi sent This is in the

581
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:24.360
text. Rabbi Simeon said, in
one place it is written for the Lord

582
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:30.760
that God is a consuming fire,
and Deuteronomy four twenty four and elsewhere.

583
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:34.400
But ye that cleave unto the lords
your God are alive, every one of

584
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:38.559
you this day Deuteronomy four and four. The Companions have already discussed the seeming

585
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:45.760
inconsistency between these texts, but I
offer yet another interpretation has been it has

586
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:50.079
been affirmed by the Companions that there
exists a sort of fire which is stronger

587
00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:53.199
than other fire, and the one
consumes and annihilates the other. If we

588
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:57.159
continue this thought, it could be
said that he who cares to pierce into

589
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:00.639
the mystery of the holy unity of
God should consider the as it arises from

590
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:06.159
a burning coal or candle. There
must always be some material substance from which

591
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:08.960
the flame thus rises, and the
flame itself may be seen two lights,

592
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:13.920
the one white and glowing, the
other black or blue. Of the two,

593
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:17.119
the white light is the higher and
rises unwavering. Underneath it is the

594
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:22.000
blue or black light upon which the
other rests on a support. The two

595
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:27.000
are conjoined, the white reposing upon
the throne of the black. The blue

596
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:30.800
or black base is likewise connected to
something beneath it, which feeds it and

597
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:35.079
makes it cling to the white light
above. At times, this blue or

598
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:38.360
black light turns red. The light
above remains constantly white. This lower light,

599
00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:43.159
at times black, at times blue, at times red, serves to

600
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:45.880
link the white light above it with
the material substance below to which it is

601
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.519
bound and through which it keeps kindled. This lower light is in its nature

602
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:54.039
an instrument for destruction and death,
devouring whatever comes near it. But the

603
00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:59.679
white light above neither consumes nor demolishes, nor does it ever change. Therefore,

604
00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:02.519
Moses said, for the Lord thy
God, meaning you talking to the

605
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:09.079
people, For the Lord thy God
is a consuming fire, consuming actually all

606
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:14.920
that is beneath him. For this
reason he said, thy God, and

607
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:19.800
not our God. And as much
as Moses stood in the supernal light,

608
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:23.800
which does not consume and does not
demolish, so again Moses is saying,

609
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:28.800
thy God is a consuming fire.
Your god God is the blue and the

610
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.599
black light. Right, my God
is the white light. Whoa, but

611
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:40.039
it keeps going exactly. But also
like also think about how you know,

612
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:45.039
how many billions of people throughout history
have read, you know, for the

613
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:47.280
Lord thy God is a consuming fire, and thinks Moses is, you know,

614
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:50.599
But then you read this ancient text
and they're like, well, that's

615
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.320
why he's talking about your God.
He's actually not claiming your goal. You

616
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:58.880
see what I'm saying, Like,
there's a different there's a different lens through

617
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:01.880
which they're explaining what this means.
Yeah, why would he say thy God?

618
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:05.840
Yeah? But also we've never questioned
that, right. You know,

619
00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:09.559
that's the example of what's in Kabbalah. They sit around and they're like,

620
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.480
this is what this really means.
This is what this really means. You

621
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:17.079
know what I mean. So it
says and Moses stood in the supernal light,

622
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.760
which does not consume and does not
demolish. Remark further, it is

623
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:24.159
Israel alone which impels the blue light
to kindle and to link itself with the

624
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:28.800
white light. Israel who cleave to
the blue light from below. And though

625
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:30.480
it be in the nature of the
blue or black light to destroy whatever it

626
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:34.920
touches beneath, yet Israel, cleaving
to it from beneath, are not destroyed.

627
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.760
So it is said, but either
cleave unto the Lord your God,

628
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:39.920
are alive, every one of you
this day, your God and not our

629
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:43.440
God. That is to say,
it is the blue or black flame,

630
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:46.320
consuming and annihilating whatever cleaves to it
from below, and still you cleave and

631
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:52.360
are alive. Only just perceptible above
the white light and encompassing it. Is

632
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:59.320
yet another light, what this one
symbolizing the supreme essence. So does the

633
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:05.559
aspiring flame symbolize the supernal mysteries of
wisdom. So it's the concept that even

634
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:09.159
when you see the flame, there's
there's a secret flame that is the real

635
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:15.719
God. You know. Oh,
okay, that is that's some Lord of

636
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:22.119
the Rings ship, because the exact
same thing is in Lord of the Rings.

637
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:27.280
There's basically Illuvitar, the like god
over everything. He gives a secret

638
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:32.079
fire to all of his like most
loyal mayar like you might remember this.

639
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:36.840
But when Gandalf is on the bridge
and he's about to fight the Bowrog,

640
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:38.360
he tells him the fires of Un. What does he say? No,

641
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:42.960
no, no, no, He
says flame of Udun, which is he's

642
00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.960
bowrog is the flame of Udun.
Dun is like a hellish like this,

643
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:50.960
Oh, the secret fire. I
am a wielder of the secret fire,

644
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:54.400
the flame of honor. That's what
he says. I'm a wielder of the

645
00:47:54.480 --> 00:48:00.519
secret fire. That's crazy, dude, secret fire, that's what he's talking

646
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:06.840
about. It's it's a power that
like Illuvitar God only gave to his most

647
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:12.039
loyal like soldiers. Basically, I'm
a wielder of the secret fire that is.

648
00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:14.960
But that's also kind of deep because
when you think about it, there's

649
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:20.760
so much rich, religious and even
esoteric symbolism behind the flame. This little

650
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:25.039
line of mine, I'm gonna let
it shine fire flames. Fire is light,

651
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:30.800
yeah, but but like, but
there's you know, sure fire is

652
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.440
like also pure energy, Yeah,
for sure. But it's like, you

653
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.639
know, when we're looking at a
flame, the Kabbalists are like, you

654
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:43.840
know, you guys, get the
exoteric part of the flame that's consuming the

655
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:47.519
flesh, it's consuming the wood,
right, but like we are observant of

656
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.079
the secret part of the flame that
doesn't consume. It consumes the lower flame,

657
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.159
right, you know, the lower
flame feeds it the lower the lower

658
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.440
material substance is devoured by the lower
flame, but the higher flame is free

659
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:04.519
of all of it. It's just
it's deep, you know what I mean.

660
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:07.199
It's so deep that hit me and
I was like, damn, listen

661
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:13.360
to this. So the four letters
of the Name of God, which is

662
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:16.519
known as the Tetragrammatan, there is
a whole conspiracy theory. It's like a

663
00:49:16.599 --> 00:49:20.480
legend. It's like, you know, the Philosopher's Stone, the Lost Arc,

664
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.960
the Holy Grail, there's all these
legends throughout history, are they real

665
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:28.880
or not. Whatever. There's a
legend about the tetragrammatin, and that's literally

666
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:30.679
just the name of God. And
there was a belief that even if you

667
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.360
said it, you would die.
You know. Like if you notice when

668
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:37.880
you read actual Jewish texts, when
they write the word God, they just

669
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:43.599
put G underscore D. They don't
say the vowels. Yeah, they're afraid

670
00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:45.880
to speak the name of God.
That's why there was the commandment never used

671
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.760
the Lord's name in vain. They
didn't think that you should ever just say

672
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:53.039
the name God without some sort of
purpose period. That's why they're like the

673
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:57.840
Holy One, blessed be He,
you know. But anyway, so the

674
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:02.599
four letters letters of the name of
God represent the four stages of ever increasing

675
00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:07.119
divine manifestation. A lot of sores, yeah, a lot of fores,

676
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:10.760
yeah, for corners, for cardinal
directions. I mean we're talking about like

677
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:16.440
a material structure for the four priests
that tried to read the Kabbalah. Yeah,

678
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:21.800
ages. And then there was the
four understandings of the Torah that you

679
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:24.880
were talking about, like a lot
of fours. I didn't think about that

680
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:29.440
so many that the some of the
serapheme have a numerology, guy, what's

681
00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:34.639
up with the force? Law and
order? Oh? Okay, damn.

682
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:39.239
I think a four is like material
reality, like you know, like yeah,

683
00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:40.760
like, I mean you think about
it. You live in a house.

684
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:47.599
It's a square. The real symbol
of the philosopher's stone. There's there's

685
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:51.480
a square in it. Yeah,
inside it. They say circle the square.

686
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:53.320
You know. It's like, I
think I think of the square as

687
00:50:53.320 --> 00:51:00.360
symbolizing like material reality or material structure. Anyway, what do I just it?

688
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.639
Structure? Yeah, structure, order, structure, law in numerology.

689
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:10.800
In numerology, the number four is
like work stability, Yes, like don't

690
00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:16.239
break the law on a four day? Ah more app to get on a

691
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:21.440
four day? Right, yeah,
the order falls into place on a four

692
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:28.159
day that kind of thing. Yeah, give me one second, I have

693
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:31.159
Okay, I have given the description
I have given. Maybe take I'm just

694
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:36.760
picking up after the flame thing the
description always said. When they had returned,

695
00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:39.599
Rabbi Simion spoke the description I have
given maybe taken as a symbol of

696
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:44.159
the holy unity of God in the
holy name Yahweh, which is the tetragrammaton.

697
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:49.360
It's the four symbols. The second
letter he is the blue or black

698
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:54.960
light attached to the remaining letters yad
he involved, which constitute the luminous white

699
00:51:55.119 --> 00:52:00.159
light. But there comes times in
this blue light is not he but let,

700
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:05.199
which is to say poverty. This
means when Israel fail to cleave to

701
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.519
it from beneath it, and it
fails therefore to burn and cleave to the

702
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:12.920
white light, the blue light is
dollt. If male and female are not

703
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:16.480
together, then he is erased.
But it's saying he as in the letter

704
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:21.760
of the tech with Hebrew letters that
it's not just like A B C.

705
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:27.800
They have like you know, their
letters are words. Does that make sense,

706
00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:30.599
yes, like syllables kind of yeah, it's I can't explain it,

707
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:36.599
but like they have a very intricate
that's how Greek is too, Like the

708
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.559
letters are like at yes, yes, that's here, like like words.

709
00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:45.960
Yeah. If male and female are
not together, then he is erased and

710
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:50.559
there remains only dollt poverty. But
when the chain is perfect, the heat,

711
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:53.639
the letter of the Tetragramitan cleaves to
the white light, and Israel cleave

712
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:57.960
to the he and gives substance for
us light and are not yet destroyed.

713
00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:01.639
And this we see the mystery of
the see sacrifice. The rising smoke kindles

714
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:05.760
the blue light, which then it
joins itself to the white light, whereupon

715
00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:08.679
the entire candle is wholly kindled.
A light with a single unified flame.

716
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:14.679
Yeah, that's pretty crazy thinking about
like secret flames, you know, and

717
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:16.679
like these allegories of the fire.
I mean that makes me think of Game

718
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:21.480
of Thrones. That makes me think
of you know, any any sort of

719
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:28.840
cool reference where you see these societies
like uh, like hoarding a secret knowledge

720
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:32.079
about a flame, right, you
know things like that. Oh, dude,

721
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:36.559
dark souls. Yeah, that's what
dark So it comes from a real

722
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:38.960
think about it, dude, that
like the the whole like like lore of

723
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:44.719
dark souls is like before the flame, everything was gray. There was no

724
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:47.400
color baptized by fire, right,
there was no color light to anything.

725
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:53.199
And the furtive pigmy found the flame
and kept it secret and like all this

726
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:57.920
stuff that it's like but even the
pop stuff everywhere, even the flame there.

727
00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:01.360
They're saying though that like even the
flame is not the essence. It's

728
00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:06.840
the secret light behind them, behind
the flame, which is deep. It's

729
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:12.159
like it's like the author or you
could say the author of this text or

730
00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:16.360
just the wisdom traditions in general are
trying to convey like, Oh, no,

731
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:20.960
you're looking at the flame, I'm
looking behind the flame. Oh you're

732
00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:25.239
looking behind the flame. I'm actually
looking behind that further. That's what it

733
00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:29.159
always is. It's like the mystery
is always more mysterious. You know.

734
00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:34.880
God is so ineffable, meaning we
truly can't comprehend it. It's only we

735
00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:37.519
can only imagine. That's all we
can ever do is imagine God. That's

736
00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:42.119
why there's that Christian song. I
can only imagine. Yeah, that's a

737
00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:52.760
good song, bro, But also
like not really because that rocked our town.

738
00:54:53.760 --> 00:55:00.239
Angel shaking his head. Yes,
everybody everyone knew that everything. Yeah,

739
00:55:00.239 --> 00:55:01.920
they was singing it in church all
the time. So we've got the

740
00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:07.320
three strands of spirit, and Noah
begot three sons Genesis six and ten.

741
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:09.679
Rabbi he Is said to Rabbi Judah
about this text, I will tell you

742
00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:13.320
what I have heard. This may
be compared to a man who went into

743
00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:17.039
the recesses of a cave and two
or three children emerged together, widely diverse

744
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:21.800
in character and comportment, one being
virtuous, a second evil doing a third

745
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:25.320
ordinary. Likewise, there are three
strands of spirit moving hither and thither,

746
00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:31.639
and they are drawn into three different
worlds. Nashama the super soul, or

747
00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:36.320
if you you know, look at
the footnote of it, it's the Holy

748
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.119
soul. The super soul is the
deepest intuitive power which leads to the secrets

749
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:44.559
of God in the universe. Nashama
issues forth and goes into the mountain passages,

750
00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:51.960
and there is joined by Rua ring
a bell. Yeah, whoa ring

751
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:57.760
a bell goes into Rua or is
joined by Rua the spirit. Then it

752
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:02.119
descends below and here Nephe, the
vital soul, joins Rua, and the

753
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:07.920
three are linked into a unity.
So yeah, trinity, right, the

754
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:09.920
trinity of souls. But the Nefeche
is believed to be like I have a

755
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:12.800
soul, you have a soul,
You have a soul, you have a

756
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:17.159
soul. The Rua is like,
I guess, like the holy Spirit.

757
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.599
It's like the it's like the force
that's everywhere. Then, yeah, rather

758
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.480
than a bunch of separate souls.
That yeah, because that's then the feesch

759
00:56:25.719 --> 00:56:29.519
right, that all of our separate
souls. And then the Rua is like

760
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:32.639
the force, and then then the
Shama. I'm not quite sure. I

761
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:37.639
mean, that's a new concept to
me. It's like, it's like,

762
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:45.440
I don't know, it's like the
super soul that enlightens our intuition. According

763
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:51.880
to the words of it, huh, it says, then the Shama is

764
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:55.079
the Holy soul or the super soul, the deepest intuitive power which leads to

765
00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:59.880
the secrets of God in the universe, the super soul. But then U

766
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:04.280
is the spirit. So maybe there's
a layer behind that. I don't know,

767
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:07.119
dude, it's infinite layers. I
know. The nutt and show never

768
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:13.440
ending. Rabbi Judas says, Neffche
and Rua are conjoined, while Nashama has

769
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:19.519
its abode in the character of a
man, which place remains unknown and discovered.

770
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:22.360
If a man strived to a pure
life, he is therein assisted by

771
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:27.920
holy Nashama through the which he has
made pure insaintly entertains to the name of

772
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.159
Holy. But if he does not
strive to be righteous and pure of life,

773
00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:37.519
there does not animate him holy n
Shama, but only the two grades

774
00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:40.599
Nephesh and Rua. You know what
I think according to this, I think

775
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.800
just my interpretation of this I think
Rua would be generally more like the breath

776
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.800
of life that animates all things,
and I think Nashama would be more like

777
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:52.079
the Holy Spirit just in this terminology, you know what I mean? Okay,

778
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:57.079
Like the nephesh would be like my
soul, your soul, your soul.

779
00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.880
Yeah, the Rua would be like
the force the animal's life. And

780
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:05.000
then the shama would be like the
Holy spirit, the super soul, like

781
00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:07.559
the god soul. I don't know, I mean, yeah, ruacud.

782
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:13.119
This almost sounds like the breath of
life, right, whereas the what was

783
00:58:13.159 --> 00:58:15.960
it? The shama, well,
the nashama what was the third one?

784
00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:22.719
Nafeesha is the individual? Oh yeah, that's more like the creative soul,

785
00:58:23.079 --> 00:58:30.360
like the the intuition, you know, the consciousness, right, Like one

786
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:35.960
of them is like breathing life and
animating living things. The other is giving

787
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:42.719
them consciousness and like critical thinking and
intuition and stuff like that. Maybe that's

788
00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:46.320
what it's saying. I don't know. So it says he who enters into

789
00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:51.559
impurity is led further into it,
and he was and he is deprived of

790
00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:53.960
heavenly aid. Thus each has moved
forward upon the way that which the way

791
00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:58.559
which he takes. I thought that
was extremely important because it's like, the

792
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:01.440
concept here is that if you are
just trying to be a better person,

793
00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:06.320
if you're trying to be good,
the spirit of God will assist you.

794
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:08.719
If you're not trying to be good, if you're not trying to be pure

795
00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:12.239
righteous, I think that changes,
you know, it's like the will.

796
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.519
Yeah, if you if you don't
have the intention to better yourself and to

797
00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:19.840
seek a better life of compassion,
then you won't be assisted by God.

798
00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:23.719
Why would the higher powers want to
help you if you don't want to try.

799
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:27.719
But it's like, if you want
to try, then yes, the

800
00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:31.199
spirit will help you. I find
that extremely fucking interesting because in Theosophy they

801
00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:35.760
said the same exact thing. It's
the will. Yeah, it's your desire

802
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:38.480
to be good that matters. Yes, exactly. It's like, again,

803
00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:43.679
it's not about being perfect, it's
not about being Christ or Buddha. It's

804
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:49.280
about having about trying the desire to
be like them. Yeah, it's about

805
00:59:49.360 --> 00:59:53.480
it's about it's the intention. I
want to be like that. I want

806
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:58.159
to be better. Okay, well
that's step one. You're you're on the

807
00:59:58.199 --> 01:00:00.599
path, yes, yes, exactly, you're on the path of initiatives like

808
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:05.000
manifestation, or like the law of
attraction, like you know, you put

809
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:07.760
out there what you want, the
universe will give it to you. No

810
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:12.039
one will be perfect, right,
But how can you ever get there if

811
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:15.320
you don't even want to? But
when you want to, the spirit will

812
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.000
come down and it's like, let's
light this shit up. Yeah, yeah,

813
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:20.760
you know what I mean. The
study of these three grades of the

814
01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:23.480
soul yields an understanding of the higher
wisdom. And it is in such fashion

815
01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:28.440
that wisdom alone affords the linking together
of a number of mysteries. It is

816
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:32.199
an the fesch, the lowest stirring
to which the body adheres, just as

817
01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:37.280
in a candle flame, the obscure
light at the bottom adheres close to the

818
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:40.960
wick, without which it cannot be. It needs some sort of material.

819
01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:45.440
Then remember it's our individual soul.
The nefesch needs the material. The material

820
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:51.039
the body. Yes, when fully
kindled, it becomes a throne for the

821
01:00:51.079 --> 01:00:53.760
white light above it. And then
when these two come into their full glow,

822
01:00:54.039 --> 01:01:00.320
the white light becomes a throne for
a light not wholly discernible, an

823
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:05.760
unknowable essence reposing on the white light, and so in all there comes to

824
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:09.320
be a perfect light. It is
the same with the man that arrives at

825
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:13.599
perfection and is named holy. As
the verse says, I was just about

826
01:01:13.599 --> 01:01:17.280
to say, this is like someone
reaching enlightenment. Yeah, to the light.

827
01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:22.480
Wow, to the light. Whoa, that's crazy. It's like I

828
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:25.039
used to think this was evil,
Like, oh, cabala, that's you

829
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:29.440
know what I mean? Yeah,
dude, that is blowing my mind.

830
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:32.639
I mean, that's literally talking about
striving to be better, striving to let

831
01:01:32.679 --> 01:01:37.280
go of the material ego, and
then in doing that you are creating a

832
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:42.480
throne for a new flame to arise
within you. It's like your it's like

833
01:01:42.519 --> 01:01:45.760
your ego truly dies and is replaced
by something else, a pure that is

834
01:01:46.159 --> 01:01:52.599
someone who reaches true enlightenment. Yeah, that's crazy, So check this out.

835
01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:57.159
Sitting one day at the gate of
Lita, Rabbi Abba saw a man

836
01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:00.880
approach and seat himself on a ledge
which jutted out over the hollow ground far

837
01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:05.159
beneath. The man was weary with
travel and fell asleep. Rabbi Abba beheld

838
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:07.920
a serpent crawling toward the man,
and it had almost reached him when a

839
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.280
branch hurdle from a tree and killed
it. Now the man awakened, and

840
01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:14.880
seeing the serpent before him, he
jumped up. At this instant the ledge

841
01:02:14.920 --> 01:02:19.519
collapsed and crashed into the hollow below. Rabbi Abba approached the man who was

842
01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:22.639
sleeping and said, tell me,
why has God seen fit to perform two

843
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:28.559
miracles for you? What have you
done? The man answered, whosoever wronged

844
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:31.400
me at any time, always I
made peace with him and forgave him.

845
01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:36.719
And if I failed to affect peace
with him, then I refrained from going

846
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:42.679
to take my rest before I forgave
him, and along with him forgave any

847
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:46.000
others who had vexed me. At
no time did I brood on the injury

848
01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:51.519
the man had done to me.
Rather, I made special efforts of kindness

849
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:57.280
from then on to such a man. At this Rabbi Abba wept and said,

850
01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:01.039
this man surpasses even Joseph in his
deeds. That Joseph should have been

851
01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:07.079
forbearing towards this brethren and shown them
compassion was only natural. But this man

852
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:10.800
has done more, and it is
meet that the Holy One be blessed work

853
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:16.320
successive miracles for him. So I
think the the the mystery hidden within this

854
01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:20.880
allegory is like we talk about christ
consciousness all the time. It's like the

855
01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:24.400
kinder and more loving and and and
Christ like I said, I say Christ

856
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:28.079
like. I know that Christ is
not in these texts. It's not a

857
01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:32.000
Christian text, but I just think, I just think the example is,

858
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:38.159
you know, be be like that
and and beate. Yeah, And it's

859
01:03:38.199 --> 01:03:44.800
like the mysterious forces of the universe
will they'll help you more. The kinder

860
01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:50.360
you are, the more merciful,
the more loving, the more free spirited,

861
01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:54.239
and and and selfless, just unconditional
love. The more the more you

862
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:59.480
are like a white light, the
more the forces of the universe will have

863
01:03:59.559 --> 01:04:03.079
your back. God will help you. You know. That makes me think

864
01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:10.360
about you know, like the old
like when video games were becoming open world,

865
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:13.960
but they weren't quite open world,
so it was like if you went

866
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:19.960
along with the missions and the storyline, everything was easy, right. The

867
01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.360
world was like, yes, this
is what you're supposed to do. You're

868
01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:26.239
on the path. But when you
fought against it and tried to go into

869
01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:30.159
this like semi open world, we're
having such a hard time. That's what

870
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:35.039
it makes me think of. It's
like when you're going along with all of

871
01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:40.719
the energies and the synchronicities and and
the way it's supposed to be. It's

872
01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:45.519
easy and doors keep opening. But
when you fight it, when you swim

873
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:49.639
against the current, everything that is, God makes it harder. Gently down

874
01:04:49.679 --> 01:04:55.480
the stream, dude, just flo
I'm gonna get through just a little bit

875
01:04:55.519 --> 01:05:00.199
more here, let's see the tense. Okay, here we go, here

876
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.119
we go. This is the tin
cept for rot as written about in the

877
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:10.599
Zohar, the Book of Radiance,
Don't Mess with the Right. But but

878
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:14.280
he's referencing this crazy part. Yeah, you know, we grew up watching

879
01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:15.559
Don't Mess with the Zohar, and
it's like, well it's called Sohan.

880
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:21.480
Oh, Sohan. I remembered it. So Har, you treat me.

881
01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:28.840
I saw that movie like almost twenty
years ago, like when it came out.

882
01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.280
I couldn't remember. Yeah, I
guess it is. Sohan is dang

883
01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:38.480
He like disassembles a pistol in like
half a second. Like that movie's insane.

884
01:05:38.599 --> 01:05:41.519
Bro. The funniest part is,
uh, the the cage of puppies.

885
01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:45.880
Oh, he's gonna blow them up
because I'm gonna blow up you and

886
01:05:46.039 --> 01:05:50.320
these puppies. Yeah, the movies
unhinged. It is so. Okay,

887
01:05:50.360 --> 01:05:54.159
so check this out. I'm skipping
forward a little bit on the the part

888
01:05:54.199 --> 01:05:59.320
of the ten sept rot. However, let me go back one little phrase

889
01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:08.079
here. Okay, one second,
I highlighted a little bit forward. I

890
01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:10.360
might need to go back a little
bit just so this will make sense.

891
01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:15.239
We about to describe the ten different
realities that are on the tree of life.

892
01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:20.360
Basically basically, Okay, very basically. But when he had created the

893
01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:25.119
shape of supernal Man, it was
to him for a chariot, and on

894
01:06:25.239 --> 01:06:28.880
it he descended to be known by
the appellachian Yahweh, so as to be

895
01:06:28.920 --> 01:06:32.400
apprehended by his attributes, and in
each particular one to be perceived. Hence

896
01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:38.519
it was he caused himself to be
named el Eloheim, Shaddai, Zevaut,

897
01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:42.239
and yah Yahweh, of which each
was a symbol among men of his several

898
01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:47.480
divine attributes, making manifest that the
world is upheld by mercy and justice in

899
01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:51.199
accordance with man's deeds. If the
radiance of the glory of the Holy One

900
01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:56.760
be Blessed had not been shed over
his entire creation, how could even the

901
01:06:56.760 --> 01:07:00.480
wise have apprehended him? He would
have continued to be unknowable. The words

902
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:03.360
cannot be verily said. The whole
earth is full of his glory. However,

903
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:09.920
woe to the man who should make
bold to identify the Lord with any

904
01:07:09.960 --> 01:07:15.039
single attribute, even if it be
his own. And the less so any

905
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:19.480
human form existent whose foundation is in
the dust, and whose creatures are frail,

906
01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:25.599
soon gone, soon lost to mind. Man dares project one sole conception

907
01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:30.079
of the Holy One, be blessed
that of his sovereignty over some one attribute,

908
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:33.639
or over the creation in its entirety. But if he be not seen

909
01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:38.639
under these manifestations, then there is
neither attribute, nor likeness, nor form

910
01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.760
in him, as the very sea, whose waters lack form and solidity in

911
01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:45.280
themselves, having these only when they
are spread over the vessel of the earth.

912
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:47.719
From this we may reckon it.
So one is the source of the

913
01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:51.559
sea, A current comes forth from
it, making a revolution, which is

914
01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:56.159
yad. Okay, this is the
part where's describing the realities. Ok So

915
01:07:56.639 --> 01:08:00.360
let me redo that from this may
we may reckon it. So one is

916
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:03.880
the source of the sea, A
current comes forth from it, making a

917
01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:09.119
revolution, which is yad. That's
the y in the tetragrammatin the yah way.

918
01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:14.079
You know, it's like YVH W
or whatever the order is. Yeah,

919
01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:17.520
Okay. The source is one and
the current makes two. Then has

920
01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.479
formed the vast basin known as the
sea, which is like a channel dug

921
01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:25.640
into the earth, and it is
filled by the waters issuing from the source,

922
01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:29.720
and the sea is the third thing. This vast basin is divided up

923
01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:32.319
into seven channels, resembling that number
of long tubes, and the waters go

924
01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:35.880
from the sea into seven channels.
Together, the source, the current,

925
01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:41.600
the sea, and the seven channels
make the number ten, the ten cepharro.

926
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:44.520
If the creator who made these tubes
should choose to break them, then

927
01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:47.000
would the waters return to their source, and only broken vessels would remain dry

928
01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:53.239
without water. And the same wise
has the cause of causes derived the ten

929
01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:59.000
aspects of his being, which are
known as cepherot and named the crown.

930
01:08:59.880 --> 01:09:05.199
The Source, which is a never
to be exhausted fountain of light, wherefrom

931
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:12.039
he designates himself iron soft, the
infinite. Neither shape nor form has he,

932
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:16.680
and no vessel exists to contain him, nor any means to apprehend him.

933
01:09:17.199 --> 01:09:21.439
This is referred to in the words
refrain from searching after the things that

934
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:26.680
are too hard for thee, and
refrain from seeking for the thing which is

935
01:09:26.760 --> 01:09:30.239
hidden from thee. Then he shaped
a vessel diminutive as the letter yad,

936
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:34.279
and filled it from him, and
called it wisdom gushing fountain. And he

937
01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:40.439
called himself wise on its account.
And after he fashioned a large vessel named

938
01:09:40.520 --> 01:09:45.520
c and designated it understanding the Bina. These are all the different names of

939
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.439
the Sepharat, the Bina, the
chok Ma, the iron soft, etcetera,

940
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:54.239
et cetera. Both Wise and understanding
is he in his own essence,

941
01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:57.880
whereas wisdom in itself cannot claim that
title, but only through him who is

942
01:09:58.119 --> 01:10:01.960
wise and has made it full from
his fountain. And so understanding in itself

943
01:10:02.039 --> 01:10:05.840
cannot claim that title, but only
through him who filled it from his own

944
01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:10.520
essence, and would be rendered into
an aridity if he were to go from

945
01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:13.199
it. And this regard it as
written as the waters fell from the sea

946
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:16.079
and the river's dream dry. So
two things here. First off, the

947
01:10:16.119 --> 01:10:20.840
first part of this excerpt that I
read was like, basically like shame on

948
01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:25.760
you if you try to describe,
if you even think you can get close

949
01:10:25.800 --> 01:10:29.399
to describing a single aspect of God
is basically what it was, like,

950
01:10:29.399 --> 01:10:31.199
shame on you. Yeah, yeah, you're full. You're not gonna understand

951
01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:34.159
it, right. Yeah. There's
even a commandment don't make a graven image,

952
01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:38.920
right, it's pointless. Yeah.
And he even like likened God to

953
01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:42.960
like the formless and shapelessness of the
ocean, like yeah, you know what

954
01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:47.319
I mean. But then he said, uh, and never to be exhausted.

955
01:10:47.600 --> 01:10:54.560
Fountain of light right right, the
iron sooft, the infinite right crazy.

956
01:10:55.039 --> 01:11:00.520
Yeah, I think I'm approaching the
end here, which which is great.

957
01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:03.800
Okay, the destiny of the soul. This might be the part that

958
01:11:03.880 --> 01:11:09.479
references reincarnation. Oh I'm not sure
if I took a note of that,

959
01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:13.439
but I can explain that there's a
part that talks about the migration of the

960
01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:17.039
soul, which the transmigration of the
soul, which is like okay, it's

961
01:11:17.159 --> 01:11:21.920
left this body, now it's in
another one, you know. So this

962
01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:26.920
is the destiny of the soul.
At the time that the Holy One be

963
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:30.880
Blessed was about to create the world, he decided to fashion all the souls,

964
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:32.680
which would in due course be dealt
out to the children of men.

965
01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:38.560
And each soul was formed into the
exact outline of the body she was destined

966
01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:43.760
to tenant see she the soul.
She yeah. Scrutinizing each he saw that

967
01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:46.119
among them some would fall into evil
ways in the world, each one in

968
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:50.000
its due time. The Holy One
be Blessed bade come to him, and

969
01:11:50.039 --> 01:11:54.159
then said, go now descend into
this and in this place, and into

970
01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:58.319
this in this body. Yet often
enough the soul would reply, Lord of

971
01:11:58.359 --> 01:12:01.119
the world, I am content to
remain in this realm. I have no

972
01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:06.279
wish to depart to some other where
I shall be enthralled them and come stained.

973
01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:12.079
Wait, excuse me, I just
thought that was funny. Excuse me.

974
01:12:12.199 --> 01:12:21.560
Where where upon the Holy One be
Blessed, it's every time would reply,

975
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:27.920
Thy destiny is and has been the
day of thy forming, from the

976
01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:31.319
day of thy forming, to go
into that world. So we're talking about

977
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:38.880
like when souls were formed, before
material reality existed, was the infinite was

978
01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:45.359
like I made this whole fucking thing
just for you to go there to the

979
01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:49.720
world. You gotta go there,
And and our souls are like, I

980
01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:53.039
don't want to. We're gonna suffer. I don't want to go there.

981
01:12:53.039 --> 01:12:56.199
And God's like, no, no, that's that's why I made you the

982
01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:02.439
point that the whole point to go
there. Then the soul, realizing it

983
01:13:02.479 --> 01:13:09.279
could not disobey, would unwillingly descend
and come into this world. The Torah

984
01:13:09.399 --> 01:13:14.359
Council of the entire world saw this
and cried to mankind, behold, see

985
01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:17.840
how the Holy One be Blessed takes
pity on you without cost. He has

986
01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:20.279
sent to you his costly pearl,
that you may use it in this world.

987
01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:24.800
And it is the Holy Soul.
And if a man sell his daughter

988
01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:29.079
to be a maid servant Exodus twenty
one seven, I guess about five thousand

989
01:13:29.119 --> 01:13:31.960
years ago they sold their daughters to
be servants. That is when the Holy

990
01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:35.920
One be Blessed gives over to you
his daughter, the Holy Soul, for

991
01:13:35.960 --> 01:13:40.319
your maiden servant, to be held
in bondage by you. I adjure you.

992
01:13:40.399 --> 01:13:43.399
In her time, she shall not
go out as the men servants do

993
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:47.760
that is stained with sin, but
in freedom and light and purity, so

994
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:51.800
that her master may rejoice in her
and in rewarding her exceedingly with the glories

995
01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:57.880
of paradise, as it stands written, and the Lord will dot satisfy they

996
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:04.039
soul for brightness that is when she
shall have ascended back to that sphere,

997
01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:11.720
right and pure, remember the seth. Yeah, So, so it's basically

998
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:15.039
saying, like, treat the soul
with like kindness, goodness, Like if

999
01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:17.760
you're gonna, if the soul is
going to incarnate into a body, it's

1000
01:14:17.800 --> 01:14:25.800
your responsibility to treat it, right. Yeah, that's cool exactly. Yeah,

1001
01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:29.720
and to be like I mean again, it's anachronistic to say Christ like

1002
01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:32.960
they're they're not referencing Christ here,
But I just think that's the same saying

1003
01:14:33.239 --> 01:14:38.439
Yeah, I think saying Christ consciousness. You could say rainbow body, you

1004
01:14:38.479 --> 01:14:43.479
could say Buddha. I don't care. It's just the concept of being pure

1005
01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:48.520
to others, being being kind,
being humble, you know. But talks

1006
01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:51.880
a little bit more about the nature
of the soul. The names and grades

1007
01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:55.840
of the soul of man are three. Nephesh, the vital soul rue all

1008
01:14:55.880 --> 01:15:00.439
the spirit in the shama. The
innermost soul is super sol. The three

1009
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:02.920
are comprehended one within the other,
but each has its separate abode. While

1010
01:15:02.920 --> 01:15:08.359
the body in the grave is decomposing
and moldering to dust, Nephesh tarries with

1011
01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:10.800
it, and it hovers about in
this world, going here and there among

1012
01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:14.119
the living, wanting to know their
sorrows and interceding for them at their need.

1013
01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:16.000
There's another passage I skipped earlier.
I actually skipped a few of these

1014
01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:19.279
passages, and it talked about when
you die, you're greeted by all your

1015
01:15:19.399 --> 01:15:23.159
loved ones and your ancestors, and
your family and friends, and they help

1016
01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:29.119
you to the next world. Because
it is written here, Rua betakes itself

1017
01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:32.800
into the earthly garden of Eden.
This spirit, desiring to enjoy the pleasures

1018
01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:36.000
of the magnificent garden, vest itself
in a garment, as it were,

1019
01:15:36.039 --> 01:15:40.079
of a likeness as semblance of the
body in which it had its abode in

1020
01:15:40.079 --> 01:15:44.920
this world. On Sabbaths, New
moons and festival days, it ascends up

1021
01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:47.039
to the supernal sphere, regaling itself
with the delights there, and then it

1022
01:15:47.079 --> 01:15:50.720
goes back to the garden as it
is written, and the spirit Rua returneth

1023
01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:54.720
them to God who gave it.
That is, at the special holidays in

1024
01:15:54.760 --> 01:16:00.000
times we have mentioned halloweenbro spirits traveling
through the portal. There's more references here

1025
01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:03.840
of Sabbath's new moons. That's a
moon cycle and festival days which are you

1026
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:06.800
know, there's star alignments for the
holidays, the equinoxes and the solstices.

1027
01:16:08.039 --> 01:16:11.359
Again, it's just more evidence here
that we're onto something, that that there

1028
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:15.760
really is some sort of spiritual energy
at these times. And they believe that

1029
01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:20.279
the souls travel between their elms and
these times. You know, but Nashama

1030
01:16:20.279 --> 01:16:26.720
ascends forthwith to her place in the
domain from which she emanated, and it

1031
01:16:26.760 --> 01:16:30.479
is on her account that the light
is lit to shine above. So heavy

1032
01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:34.880
emphasis on the soul or the spirit
being feminine and light. Yeah yeah,

1033
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:45.840
yeah, again it's like male and
female like or more so, uh,

1034
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:50.000
masculine and females. Yeah, but
but but physical and spirit or or like

1035
01:16:50.319 --> 01:16:53.560
I mean, see and yang.
It's it's dual, right, when they

1036
01:16:53.600 --> 01:16:57.039
say male and female, that's what
they're That's what they mean. It's the

1037
01:16:57.119 --> 01:17:00.880
duality. It's the nature that we
are. God is man, we are

1038
01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:08.000
divine in material. You see what
I'm saying. I just think that's very

1039
01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:11.640
interesting that they reference the spirit as
she Oh yeah, me too. I

1040
01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:15.800
mean I've never heard that before.
And until such time as Nashama has ascended

1041
01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:17.520
to be joined with the throne,
Rua isn't able to be crowned in the

1042
01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:21.640
lower garden, and the fesch cannot
rest easy in its place, but these

1043
01:17:21.640 --> 01:17:27.079
find rest when she ascends. It
gets me every time. Now when the

1044
01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:29.880
children of men, being troubled and
sorrowful, we take themselves to the graves

1045
01:17:29.880 --> 01:17:31.079
of those who are gone. The
Nephesh is wakened, and it goes out

1046
01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:35.439
to bestir Ruat, which then rouses
the patriarchs, and after Nashama, whereupon

1047
01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:40.520
the Holy One be blessed. Has
pity on the world. But if Nashama

1048
01:17:40.520 --> 01:17:43.640
has for some reason been prevented from
ascending to her proper place, then Rua,

1049
01:17:43.760 --> 01:17:45.000
coming to the gate of the garden
of Eden, finds it closed against

1050
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.479
it and unable to enter, wanders
out alone and dejected. While the fest

1051
01:17:48.560 --> 01:17:53.000
Tu puts from place to place in
the world, and seeing the body in

1052
01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:57.199
which it was once tenant, eaten
by worms and undergoing the judgment of the

1053
01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:00.359
grave, it mourns for it,
as the scripture says, but it's flesh

1054
01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:03.199
greath for him, and his soul
mourneth over him. So do they all

1055
01:18:03.279 --> 01:18:08.760
undergo suffering until the time when Nashama
is enabled to reach her proper place above.

1056
01:18:09.079 --> 01:18:12.239
Then However, each of the two
others become attached to its rifle place.

1057
01:18:13.079 --> 01:18:15.560
This is why I wrote all this
down. This is because all three

1058
01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:20.479
are one, comprising a unity embraced
in a mystical bond. So what I

1059
01:18:20.479 --> 01:18:27.399
got from that was the threefold triune
aspect of the soul. Right, we

1060
01:18:27.479 --> 01:18:30.279
have the physical soul that's tied to
the body in the material realm. And

1061
01:18:30.359 --> 01:18:35.880
they said that when you die,
your nephesh, your individual soul, you

1062
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:41.159
could say, your ego, whatever
is, it's tied to you here.

1063
01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:45.920
But then you have the rua and
the nishama, which are like higher spiritual

1064
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:50.119
forces that are flowing between the realities. But all three are one. It's

1065
01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:58.520
like if you look at the mystical
metaphysical body of human consciousness. On the

1066
01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:01.640
lowest level, we have the physical
form. Then as you go through the

1067
01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:08.159
realities, we have these higher grades
of spiritual bodies higher and higher. Yeah

1068
01:19:08.399 --> 01:19:12.119
yeah, yeah, the emotional body, the mental body, the light body,

1069
01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:15.079
yeah, the astral the light body, or you know in their terminology,

1070
01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:18.720
it's like the physical soul, the
vital soul. Then you have the

1071
01:19:18.760 --> 01:19:23.439
spirit. Then you have the super
spirit. They're saying the same thing.

1072
01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:26.760
You know what I mean. Yeah, And it's also really interesting because there's

1073
01:19:26.800 --> 01:19:30.920
a lot of similar thoughts of like
you have three voices in your head.

1074
01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:35.720
Yeah, you have your conscious voice, you have the voice behind that one

1075
01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:41.359
that kinda is is sort of subconscious, and like the thoughts sort of just

1076
01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:45.720
pop into your head not necessarily,
you don't necessarily know where they're from.

1077
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:47.399
It's just kind of like is that
me talking? Is it not? And

1078
01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:54.239
then there's another one behind both of
those that sees it all happening. It's

1079
01:19:54.279 --> 01:19:57.359
like three. Let me and Casey
had a long conversation about that the other

1080
01:19:57.439 --> 01:20:00.760
day. It's like three layers of
consciousness or awareness, Like there are there

1081
01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:05.119
are many thought patterns that believe that
same thing. And to me, that's

1082
01:20:05.159 --> 01:20:11.960
how I'm interpreted interpreting that within this
one body, we we have three layers,

1083
01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:15.039
right, It's like it's like one
of them is actually bound to this

1084
01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:19.279
body. The other two are things
that we can They're like streams that we

1085
01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:27.800
can access and even potentially manipulate or
or not manipulate, but observe, observe

1086
01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:30.000
the best way to put it.
It's crazy. It's it seems to be

1087
01:20:30.119 --> 01:20:33.920
all across the board. There's some
aspect of the threefold nature of creation.

1088
01:20:34.199 --> 01:20:38.319
Yeah, you know, all right, this is my actually my last bit

1089
01:20:38.359 --> 01:20:41.039
of notes and then and then we
can piece out after this. But this

1090
01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.600
was It's funny that it accidentally was
safe for last. But remember in the

1091
01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:46.479
very beginning of the episode, I
said, emphasis on allegory. Yeah,

1092
01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:54.560
okay, so this is the allegorical
explanation of Jonah. This is important,

1093
01:20:54.600 --> 01:20:58.520
okay because again here we are in
twenty twenty three. You know it just

1094
01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:00.680
as good as me. You know, you go to any church in the

1095
01:21:00.720 --> 01:21:05.279
South or yeah, I guess it's
twenty twenty four. Yeah, we're recording

1096
01:21:05.279 --> 01:21:15.960
this December twenty twenty three, you
fucking egghead. Yeah, why you got

1097
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:19.800
the popeyead on. No, it's
nothing like it. It's nothing like it

1098
01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:27.319
at all. It's important to me
this this part because you know, we're

1099
01:21:27.319 --> 01:21:31.640
taught to understand religion or I say, you know, religion, but really

1100
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:36.279
Christianity. I'm trying to be nice
towards Christianity. I got a lot of

1101
01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:41.560
hate. Oh you're into a Christian
Well, no, Christians are anti bloodsoe.

1102
01:21:41.960 --> 01:21:44.159
Yeah. And also you know,
you guys just got to remember,

1103
01:21:44.279 --> 01:21:48.199
like that's the religion we grew up
with and we got some trauma associated with

1104
01:21:48.239 --> 01:21:51.279
it. That's all. It's not
it's we're not saying it's wrong. We're

1105
01:21:51.319 --> 01:21:58.399
not saying you are wrong for it's
you know, it's just it's just us,

1106
01:21:58.399 --> 01:21:59.680
you know what I'm saying. It's
just my opinion, you know what

1107
01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:02.119
I'm saying. Yeah, But I
just think this is so important because you

1108
01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:06.000
know, in the last thirty years
that I've been alive, I've had a

1109
01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:11.920
few old timers in my life,
you know, tell me how to think

1110
01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:15.319
and how to believe about this Bible. But then here I am, like

1111
01:22:15.479 --> 01:22:20.520
a thousand years ago this text was
written, and they're a thousand years closer

1112
01:22:20.520 --> 01:22:25.000
to when you know, the original
texts were written, right right, So

1113
01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:28.600
I feel like the context of their
society, you know, as time goes

1114
01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:31.439
on, we might lose touch and
forget more and more about the origin of

1115
01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:34.840
you know, some sort of body
of knowledge. I feel like they probably

1116
01:22:34.920 --> 01:22:39.039
had a closer ear to the ground. Yeah we did. Yeah, And

1117
01:22:39.079 --> 01:22:44.119
this guy is telling you. The
story of Jonah may be construed as an

1118
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:48.439
allegory of the course of a man's
life in this world. Jonah descends into

1119
01:22:48.439 --> 01:22:54.960
the ship. This is parallel to
man's soul descending to enter into his body

1120
01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:59.720
in this world. Why is the
soul called Jonah for the reason that she

1121
01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:04.720
comes subject to all manner of vexation
when once she enters into partnership with the

1122
01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:11.279
body soul. Is she Thus a
man in this world is as in a

1123
01:23:11.319 --> 01:23:14.840
ship crossing the vast ocean, and
like to be broken, as it is

1124
01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:18.239
written so that the ship was like
to be broken. And then two man

1125
01:23:18.279 --> 01:23:24.119
in this world commenced transgressions, for
he supposes the Master to be disregarding the

1126
01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:28.399
world, and his presence able to
be eluded. Thereupon the Almighty stirs up

1127
01:23:28.439 --> 01:23:31.880
a raging storm. That is the
judgment of a man which stands always before

1128
01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:39.319
the Holy One be blessed, and
relentlessly seeks his punishment. Is this it

1129
01:23:39.359 --> 01:23:43.199
is then that strikes at the ship, and, remembering man's sins, seizes

1130
01:23:43.319 --> 01:23:45.279
him. Then the man is caught, and the tempest and illness fails him.

1131
01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:49.600
But as Jonah was gone down into
the innermost parts of the ship,

1132
01:23:49.640 --> 01:23:54.520
and he lay and was fast asleep. Though the man thus lies failed,

1133
01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:58.760
still his soul makes no move to
return to his master, to return in

1134
01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:03.479
a tone for his sin Hence the
ship master came to him, that is

1135
01:24:03.640 --> 01:24:06.319
he who is the all around helmsman
and the good inclination, and said,

1136
01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:11.319
unto him, what meanest thou that
thou sleepest? Arise? Call upon that

1137
01:24:11.439 --> 01:24:13.560
God. This is no time for
sleeping. You are about to be taken

1138
01:24:13.640 --> 01:24:15.760
up to stand trial for all your
deeds in the world. Repent of your

1139
01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:19.920
wrongdoing. Bend your mind to these
matters, and return to your master.

1140
01:24:21.119 --> 01:24:25.640
So, like, I just find
that so deep that we're having like real

1141
01:24:25.800 --> 01:24:32.680
authentic texts. Be like, but
what if this story wasn't literal, What

1142
01:24:32.720 --> 01:24:35.600
if it was an allegory about the
soul? You know how many people do

1143
01:24:35.760 --> 01:24:40.720
bro. You know how much have
we thought around as a kid and heard

1144
01:24:40.760 --> 01:24:45.159
conversations about freaking the jon a whale
and we're told that, you know,

1145
01:24:45.319 --> 01:24:47.640
a large fish like actually swallowed this
dude up. Yeah, yeah, you

1146
01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:51.520
know what I mean. But like
I like that version. Yeah, That's

1147
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:55.199
what I was saying earlier, Like
there are these things that stick out in

1148
01:24:55.239 --> 01:25:00.239
the Bible that you learn about and
you're like believe it. Yeah, yeah,

1149
01:25:00.279 --> 01:25:04.039
it's like all right, So a
snake was talking to this chick and

1150
01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:09.960
got her to eat an apple,
an apple and cursed us. Okay for

1151
01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:13.039
okay, that's cool. It's like, all right, that guy killed a

1152
01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:17.239
giant with a sling shot. Okay, all right, there's burning wheels in

1153
01:25:17.279 --> 01:25:20.399
the sky. It's like, you
know, it's a lot of it's like

1154
01:25:20.680 --> 01:25:25.319
normal, seems normal, straightforward,
and then you get hit with some weird

1155
01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:30.560
stuff and you're told to take it
literally, and it's like your intuition always

1156
01:25:30.600 --> 01:25:34.560
tells you like that obviously didn't really
happen. So what are they actually trying

1157
01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:40.199
to tell me? And that's what
Kabbala is doing. It's it's it's seeking

1158
01:25:40.359 --> 01:25:45.119
to understand the allegory, right,
which is so amazing. I mean,

1159
01:25:45.159 --> 01:25:48.600
I love that. I think that's
sick. I will say that the the

1160
01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:54.279
wheels within the wheels was the orbs, oh yeah, oh yeah, but

1161
01:25:54.319 --> 01:25:57.720
the fish, you know it swallowing
the dude, like this has come on.

1162
01:25:57.920 --> 01:26:00.279
I don't know. I do think
that a lot of these stories in

1163
01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:02.840
the Bible are alec oracle and like
it's not hard to believe when you understand

1164
01:26:02.840 --> 01:26:05.439
the history of how the Bible was
fashioned. That's what we should do,

1165
01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:09.399
bro. We should honestly, like
I would love to sit down and go

1166
01:26:09.439 --> 01:26:12.840
through the actual history of this,
and we can do an entire episode just

1167
01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:16.520
detailing how the Bible was even printed, and it's it's really eye opening,

1168
01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:19.920
you know, and like when you
know the history of when these texts were

1169
01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:26.560
like actually written. You know,
like I grew up learning that Abraham wrote

1170
01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:29.399
Genesis, you know, five thousand
plus years ago. But you know,

1171
01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:31.560
you ask any scholar, anybody who's
like a part of this field who actually

1172
01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:35.680
studies these manuscripts and stuff, they're
going to tell you those those oldest Biblical

1173
01:26:35.680 --> 01:26:41.479
texts were written It only around the
six hundred s BC by a bunch of

1174
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:45.600
anonymous, no name Jewish mystics who
were actually in prison in Babylon. It's

1175
01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:53.800
like it was not written anywhere near
close to like what they yeah, like

1176
01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:58.760
what the what the conventional belief is, there's a giant misconception about these texts.

1177
01:26:59.039 --> 01:27:02.840
I think that a lot of people's
minds are very literally latched on to

1178
01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:06.960
this this body of knowledge in these
texts, and I think it's like it's

1179
01:27:08.079 --> 01:27:14.000
it's very damaging to the soul to
be like so latched on to something when

1180
01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:17.880
you don't even truly understand where it
comes from. The rig I mean,

1181
01:27:18.079 --> 01:27:21.479
we talked about in the Stream of
Consciousness episode that I was kind of feeling

1182
01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:26.840
that way about God. I was
kind of like feeling that like detachment because

1183
01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:30.239
I was trying to believe it literally
and it was damaging. It was very

1184
01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:34.279
damaging, you know what I'm saying, And that actually it pulls you further

1185
01:27:34.359 --> 01:27:38.159
away from the truth. Yeah,
yeah, it is damage. It's like

1186
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:41.720
they just said, basically, like
shame on you for even trying, yeah,

1187
01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:47.880
to to to describe trying to pretend
that you know something about what God

1188
01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:51.079
is. How can we sit here
and say the Bible is all of it

1189
01:27:51.359 --> 01:27:57.800
right exactly. Even as a child, even as a child, I always

1190
01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:00.119
thought to myself, like, wait
a minute, but what about two thousand

1191
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:04.760
years between now, Like did God
and the angels and all these like crazy

1192
01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:10.039
miracles just kind of like stop happening
when you close the Bible and that story's

1193
01:28:10.079 --> 01:28:13.840
done, and then there's been nothing
supernatural, nothing mystical, no God,

1194
01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:16.159
no angels, none of that.
We just were supposed to believe it existed

1195
01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.479
then, but it doesn't now,
and there's no explanation as to why it

1196
01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:23.960
doesn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's like I don't know,

1197
01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:28.760
man, I think there's a lot
more to the universe than one one book.

1198
01:28:28.920 --> 01:28:31.600
Yeah, yeah, I don't understand
how people can't get past that.

1199
01:28:31.840 --> 01:28:36.960
Yeah. Yeah, it's comfortable.
It's you know, it's comfortable to be

1200
01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:41.600
in that one thing and believe that
that one thing is the real thing.

1201
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You know, it's just comfortable.
It's like, you know, you can

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you can literally, like you just
said, you can close the book.

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Not to mention as easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure it

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is. Yeah, it's easy,
exactly comfortable. So yeah, that's kabala,

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I mean, like there's so much
more to it too, was pretty

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cabaler if you asked me. We
didn't even I'm blessed, be blessed,

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but we didn't even get into like
the geometry of the Tree of Life.

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I mean, there's a there's a
lot of stuff that like, hey,

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we'll have to do part two in
the Mystery Traditions. Uh heck, yeah

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yeah we can. We can series
revisit it later. But yeah, I

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hope you guys enjoyed that you enjoyed. Yeah, blessed, be blessed,

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Be blessed, be and bye,
guys, blessed be. Weird things happened

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in the backyard of Lessoe House got
so weird, kind of clun like smiring

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on the inside of it. No
one of that Wow miscome I ever thought

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a sad and happy