Monday, April 2, 2012
THE CABALA OF WATER
According to the Torah/Teaching, four elements make up the physical world: fire, air, water and earth derived from the Four Letter Name of God YHVH; though science has identified more than a hundred elements present in the earth, our perception tells us a different story.
We see and feel fire, we breath and intuit air while water and earth are more visceral. In the beginning of creation these four elements were layered according to heaviness: fire went up, air spread out while water covered the earth making terrestrial life impossible.
As a result of the Creator commanding water to seek depth, which is opposite from the nature of water to cover, water froze upon the surface instead of freezing from the center like all other elements. Water freezing on the surface instead of the center has saved aquatic life.
The water from the flood, which came from beyond the Earth 1666 years later, covered the earth in a veneer snuffing out life without having to inundate the oceans. The Cabala identifies water as the substance of life – moved by air, warmed by fire then absorbed into the earth.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Drugged Economy
In the West the four elements of fire, air, water and earth are acknowledged because they represent the four states of matter; in the East there are five elements, earth being further divided into metal. Metal the lowest element, hard and cold is represented by money and those who pander in money tend also to be cold and hard.
Money is an expedient way of assessing worth by refining property down into metal in the same way drug dealers refine the poppy or the coco plant into heroin and cocaine. The addictive nature of money and drugs makes their mutual reliance into an inevitable symbiotic relationship.
The Cabala describes spiritual refinement as a process separating the heavy from the light–the heavy falls down to the earth. The job of the human being is to extract the good embedded in the hardness of the earth and lift it into heaven through the effort of our good deeds.
The 613 commandments in the Torah are embodied by the proscription to give Ztadaka/Charity from the word Zdadek/Righteous–the way to rectify the mean spirit of money is through giving.
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