It's Never Too Late

[Topaz]

As people begin to learn the principles of Kabbalah, they often feel that they have done too many bad things in their lives to be able to transform and bond with the Creator. In fact, this is what thay want to believe. It frees them from accepting the need for positive change. It allows them to abdicate the responsibility for transformation, which is nothing less than the true purpose of our lives. Recognizing this process is one of Kabbalah's most profound psychological insights. It calls attention to the fact that apparent self-loathing is really just egotism with a reverse spin.

The spark of the Creator is always within us, and it is always pure. If you take a penny and hold it up in front of your eye in just the right way, you can easily block out the sun. But is the penny bigger or more powerful that the sun just because it can hide the sun's light? The penny does not extinguish the sun, but only conceals it. In the same way, our negative actions only conceal the Light within us - but we may begin to feel that the Light has gone out forever. No darkness that we bring upon ourselves, however, is greater thant the Light of the Creator that is at our core. As long as we are alive, we have this divine Light within us, burning as brightly as on the day we were born. No matter how deeply hidden, the Light remains there waiting for us to reveal it. And it is never too late.

[dann]

A Beautiful post--

i never realized that kabbalism actually had a morality. I suppose I should have since it came out of judaism, but i've always encountered discussions of it as a magical system, rather divorced from notions of purity and bonding with a creator. Once again, very interesting

[amberlaine]

Unfortunately the majority of people who seem to talk about KAbbalah are armchair magicians who have incorporated a bastardized version of Kabbalah into their ritual pracitce, and haven't even bothered to understand the Jewish roots of the tradition.

In my experience, Kabbalah has been one of the most insightful and uplifting mystical traditions I have ever had the pleasure of studying. It definitely does help to understand the basic Judaism behind the more difficult ideas in Kabbalah.

[mol]

I have found this also, Amber, it seems that most who 'study' the Kabbalah are just memorizing correspodences, etc and never even try to understand the Truth behind it. I will be the first to admit that my understanding is limited. But, I continue to learn...