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Literal Kabbalah
A further development of the numerical arts was shown by
the modes of Contraction and ·Extension; thus Jehovah,
IHVH 26, was extended to IVD-HA-W-HA and so 10,5,6,5
or 26 became 20, 6, 12, 6, or 44. By extension Zain, z. 7,
became 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 or 28; or 28 was regarded as 2 and
8 or 10. The Tetragrammaton, Jehovah 26 was also at times
regarded as 2 and 6 or 8: so El Shaddai, God Almighty. AI
ShDI, 1,30,300,4, 10, was 345 then 12 then 3, a trinity. A
quaint conceit was that of the change of spelling of the names
of Abraham and Sara: at first Abram ABRM and Sari ShRl,
became ABRHM and ShRH: they were 100 and 90 years old
and were sterile: now H, Heh, was deemed of a fertile type,
and so the letter H was added to ABRAM, and the Yod I, converted
into an H of the name SARAI.
A MODERN APPROACH TO THEKABBALAH
Without doubt today the modem leaning toward the Kabbalah is
through psychology and adopting what I prefer to call the "Inner Space
Syndrome." Not that it is wrong to look at the Kabbalah from the viewpoint
of different levels of consciousness or states of awareness, but, generally
speaking, those that prefer this way tend to ignore the original
approach of the religious devotee who tries to know his God through
this method. An ideal situation would be to take the traditional
approach of Rabbi Kaplan and marry it with that of Zev ben Halevi, if
this could be done.
As a hermericist, if there is such a word, I prefer to use both aspects
when and where I need them, and this generally is where the Western
Kabbalist seems to be heading. As we have seen in this volume, the
Golden Dawn goes yet a step further by using the Kabbalah in magical
ritual, which some of the old Jewish sects possibly did but in a much different
manner. There is an old saying that "there is nothing new under
the sun." Writers such as Edward Hoffman 181 have well and truly pointed
this fact out to us, for many of the old mystical ways resemble Indian
Tantric techniques and modern magical practices adopted by modern
occultists, such as Kenneth Grant and his Typhonian OTO.
181 SeeWay of SpIeJUioT.
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