Universal Aspects of the Kabbalah and Judaism by Leo Schaya

Author:Leo Schaya
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936597475
Publisher: World Wisdom

The knowledge of God is the alpha and omega of the work of creation. The world is born from the knowledge that God has of Himself; and by the knowledge that the world has of God, it is reabsorbed into Him. God made everything for this knowledge that unites to Him; all other knowledge is only an ephemeral reflection of it. When the world sees God—through man—it sees its supreme archetype, its own uncreated fullness, and is effaced in its essence, in the infinite. This cognitive and deifying act is the ultimate fulfillment of the creative work; it is for that—for Himself—that God created the world.

The knowledge of God does not depend on any science, but all human knowledge depends on it and derives from it. Receptivity alone, face to face with God, is enough, in principle, to obtain the influx of His light in which the spirit can see Him. A science, even a revealed science such as cosmology, is only a possible, not an obligatory way of searching for knowledge of God; it is a way which makes it possible to receive the truth through His symbolic “veils,” that is through the worlds, on whatever scale. To see the eternal cause in cosmic effects raises a man above the illusions of the phenomenal world and brings him closer to reality. Baal-Shem2 said:

At times, man has to learn that there are an indefinite number of firmaments and spheres beyond, and that he himself is located in an insignificant spot on this small earth. But the entire universe is as nothing in the face of God, the Infinite, who brought about the “contraction” and made “room” in himself so that the worlds could be created in it. But although man may understand this with his mind, he is not able to ascend toward the higher worlds; and this is what is meant by: “The Lord appeared to me from afar”—he contemplates God from afar. But if he serves God with all his strength, he actualizes a great power in himself and rises in spirit, and suddenly pierces all the firmaments, and ascends beyond the angels, beyond the celestial “wheels,” beyond the Serafim and the “thrones”: and that is the perfect “service.”

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