It's the Tree of Life, which is supposed to represent the ten manifestations of God in our Universe. It is also a blueprint to the human soul, as that is what is meant by that passage in Genesis that states Man was created in God's likeness. It's the soul that it was talking about, not the physical form.
It's the soul that it was talking about, not the physical form.
That's not what I got taught when I was a kid going to Sunday school. But then again, the teachings of Christianity have become so confused and confusing that it's little wonder that nobody really believes in it any longer. Oh sure, people are supposedly more religious than ever before, yet I never see any Christians out on the streets giving aid and comfort to the legions of homeless people I see every day. They're too busy driving their cars past them while talking on their cell phones to notice or care.
If they really believed in the teachings of Jesus they would be swarming the homeless with offers of aid, handing over food and providing shelter while teaching the word, but instead they rush past on their way to work or on their way home or on the way to the shopping mall. Churches are no longer places of worship and contemplation, they are social gatherings where people network and show off their new clothes and their new cars, while the preacher/minister/poobah at the altar exhorts the faithful to contribute towards construction of the new playroom for their kiddies or a new roof for the auxillery building. This is what happens when a society's faith dies.
That's not what I got taught when I was a kid going to Sunday school.
That's not what I was taught in Catholic school either. But over the years, I've done some reading into various facets of ancient history and religion, including Judaism and the "hidden" knowledge of that faith.
The original Hebrew doesn't mean exactly the same thing as what is written in the translated text of the Old Testament, and is further clarified by the unwritten book of the Jewish faith, the Kabballah. The Kabballah provides the means to understand the true meanings of the Hebrew text, which is significantly different than any modern understanding of the Bible.
Basically, in addition to that passage in Genesis I mention, the Hebrew text uses a plural form of the word God, where the final meaning is that God is both masculine and feminine, and that is why we are created in that manner, along with every other living being in existance. It has to do with the duality of Nature, the positive and negative, the light and dark, the Alpha and the Omega if you will.
One school of thought is that when the masculine and feminine aspects of God unite, a new Universe is created. So our entire Universe is a child of God.
It's certainly not something most Jews would believe I'm sure, but there are some Jewish scholars that do.
e original Hebrew doesn't mean exactly the same thing as what is written in the translated text of the Old Testament, and is further clarified by the unwritten book of the Jewish faith, the Kabballah. The Kabballah provides the means to understand the true meanings of the Hebrew text, which is significantly different than any modern understanding of the Bible.
Why turn to the Kabbalah to understand these texts? There are bibles that give exact translations .. why turn to the occult?
Why turn to the Kabbalah to understand these texts? There are bibles that give exact translations .. why turn to the occult?
The Bible is not an exact translation, where the original Hebrew text of the Torah translated to English is significantly different than any version of Bible.
The Old Testament is a combination of several generations of translations of the Torah. The first translation was to Greek, and became known as the Septuagint. It was widely understood that it wasn't a very accurate translation. The second translation was that performed by Saint Jerome, where he translated the Hebrew text to Latin. That became known as the Vulgate, and was the basis of the Old Testament for the Roman Catholic Church, which decided which translations would become known as the Bible. Over time, it was translated to German and French, and then to English.
But in addition to all of that, it is said that even the Hebrew text is not the original text, as during a period of time that the Jews were an occupied people before the time of the New Testament, Hebrew as a language was basically lost. The ancient rabbis guarded the Torah and were the only ones that remembered how to read the text. When the occupation was lifted, over time a newer dialect of Hebrew came about. In order for the Torah to be understood, the original Hebrew had to be translated to the newer Hebrew, but the rabbis decided that the true text of the Torah could easily be misused by those who were profane, so they wrote it in such a way as to say one thing on the surface for the masses, and another true hidden meaning for the enlightened.
The key to the hidden meaning is an understanding of Gematria, which is the science of decoding Hebrew for its deeper meaning. That is part of Kabballah, where all rabbis have an understanding of that.
You are confusing non-Jewish occult societies use of that knowledge with the actual Jewish Kabballah. Here's a link if you're interested;