Sefer Yetzirah Class No 37

We are continuing with material from Sharai Hakodesh from the writings of the ARI. The primary subject is Magidim.

Redemption and the coming of Mashiach has become corrupted over the centuries by people and by religions. Mashiach will come, from the Jewish point of view, and he will vindicate the Jewish world and destroy all forms of idol worship especially the followers of the Man from Nazareth. From the Christian point of view Mashiach will destroy all infidels (read Moslem and Jews). From the Moslem point of view Maadi (the name for Mashiach in Arabic) will come and forcibly convert the whole world to Islam and then turn the world over to the Man form Nazareth. Yes that is the Moslem point of view.

Everyone is missing the point and that is why i am starting a series of classes teaching what the Prophets truly say.This is also truly connected to the Sefer Yetzirah. We must ask what does the Geulah or Redemption truly means. The redemption is a universal process and continue the rectification of Man. The Geulah is a process that returns man to Adam before the sin. And then continues Man's process of correcting or doing what was Adam's task upon this earth. What does that have to do with killing any other group of people?

When we deal with the Magidim which is an aspect of the Sefer Yetzirah and a technique of meditation we have to put the Magid that we connect to in his or her historical context. Or you make a big mistake.. the same mistake made by all of the historical religions. You have an agenda other than a search for truth. You need to open yourselves to Truth and also realize that Truth is relative. There is no absolute truth except everything is part of Hashem including your enemy.

The reason we do these meditations is to get close to Hashem. Is that truly the reason? Then why do we need a Minyan. How do we reconcile these aspects? We do these meditations to find gates and dimensions where we can go when the Armageddon War comes. After all the Prophets say that Jews will go into the desert and live in the caves for 15 days in total darkness. What does that mean? Why do you do these meditations. You need to know in your heart the reason why. If you just want to stay with the earth spirits there is no reason to learn more than you have learned. Of course you will find that the earth spirits are not the purpose of existence. Come and See as it says in the Zohar.

We must realize that we are all interconnected with each and every other person both Jew and Gentile. Our job in these meditations is not to acquire powers to perform miracles. Our job is to EVOLVE. The ultimate evolution is only through these techniques explained in the Sefer Yetzirah.

How does a Magid work.

The human mind learns through two aspects. Intellect and Intuitive. There is a set of knowledge or experience that is inside and a set of knowledge and experience outside. The inside has a shell surrounding it like the shell of an egg. To get to the outside we need to break the shell. These techniques we have learned break the shell and unify the two inside and outside.

As long as we live in a physical world we need the shell. Why? Because the inside can not reconcile the outside with itself. Yet to EVOLVE we must integrate the inside and the outside which is the intellect and the intuitive. This must be done level by level, because there are shells between levels. They are not hard like an egg shell, they are soft like a filter. Yet the filter must be opened and assimilated into the conscious mind. This is the role of a Magid. He is you yet you consider him outside. Consider this until you truly understand the meaning. The meaning of inside and outside; conscious and unconscious; intellect and intuition; and all of the other metaphors.

According to the ARI, evil begins when the vessel accepts too much light and then bursts, which the ARI calls the shattering of the vessels. Rectification takes place when light comes into the vessel and fills it completely, yet not too much that it breaks. A very fine line. Then another stronger light comes in and fills the vessel completely. An then another and another etc until there is no more Light to fill the vessel and the vessel has not shattered. That is complete rectification. That is the various experiences. That is the source of cycles up and down and round about.

You all have heard the story that "to study Kabbalah makes you go crazy. We can apply the above paragraphs to the idea of psychosis. A mind that is psychotic has no barrier between the conscious and the unconscious and can not tell the difference between them. No you will not go crazy doing these meditations; yet you must be aware of the possibility so that you return before the breaking of the vessels.

As my teacher said to me. I do you an injustice if i teach you these techniques and do not tell you what to expect. Yet that is what is done in many schools of Kabbalah. They study intellectually and do not send their students out to experience. And the truth is most who go out to experience stop prior to completion. Completion is a personal choice with each experience.

The Sefer Ruach Hakodesh teaches that "Everything depends on the mind of the person". What this means is your meditative experience will depend on you. Everything you experience is reflecting yourself back to yourself.

The Gaon DeVilna teaches that your Magid is your own higher self. Your Magid is reflecting yourself to yourself.

When we study Torah Lishma (for the proper reasons) then the Magid we find will reflect that back to us. When we study Lo Lishma we reflect that back to us. Know yourselves. Know your truth. In Kabbalah we constantly use the term Zvug to describe the relationship of the Sephirot towards each other. Zvug is sexual union; creative energy is sexual; The religious people are taught to speak of this as Yichud or union. The truth is the written word so do not be misled.

Remember we have spoken about passion is the energy that makes these meditations work. Passion is dealing with the correction of libido sexual energy. It must be controlled and channeled in the proper way to achieve Zvug and Yichud.

Study Torah Lishma and the Angel that you create will speak Emet Gamor - complete truth. Study Torah Lo Lishma and you do not have that certainty. There will be some truth and some not truth. How can you know the difference? We will discuss this in a later class.

If you study without mistake (in the sounds of the letters and vowels) then the Angel will be without flaw and will speak only Emet Gamor - complete truth.

When your midda is done properly then the Angel that is created from your study will be an advocate and that which you lack in the performance of the Mitzva will also lack in the Angel. Also the Angel from Torah study will be greater and more potentially Holy than Angels made from the actions of Mitzvot.

What race of Angel am i creating - - - - None of the Angel races we have discussed in earlier classes. You radiate brain waves. Where do they go? Each thought and action creates a brain wave.These brain waves communicate what is supposed to be picked up by other dimensions. These brain waves create the Angel which is an actualization of what you think or do. The other Angels we discussed are Races from outside of our frame of existence. These Angels are totally separated from these races yet they can be picked up by sensors that are receiving our brain waves. When you study Torah commentary you connect to the writers soul because his words on a page have a source in his brain waves.

This is all documented by Carl Jung in the science of Psychology. If you do this as an effort because you want to watch TV what does your brain wave do. what does your action create? When you do this properly the Angel of your brain waves become a defender or a protector for you.

This is the foundation of all para psychology. When they catch up to the Kabbalah.

Star Wars Obi wan Kenobi made a statement "The force can have a strong influence over a weak mind." This is true. These exercises are strengthening your mind so that it is not weak. I have heard a teaching about this from a fellow student of Kabbalah who was raised in the occult environment and found his way to the Kabbalah from a semi kosher source. He described how his father and he would go to a party on a friday or Sat evening. They would stand outside the party and his father would say. This women will go home with this man; and that women will go home with that man; My friend would say but dad they are not even talking to each other. His father would say you will see. Why did he do it? Because it demonstrated his power over others to himself. This is the occult totally selfish totally evil. The same system is being used by the occult and the Holy systems. This is why the CIA could do such destructive mind game tests on human being in the interests of science. The other side knows this system well. You have two protections. One the other side must have permission and two the strength of your own mind. Practice and then practice some more.

Adolf Hitler; Yasser Arafat; and others use this system.

As you start to experience your unconscious let your unconscious speak to show you what is inside you. My teacher has practiced these meditations fro 25 years. He has arguments with his Magid. This is how he refines truth. How will you refine truth?

The images that come from your unconscious and which will be what you describe as your Magid will be different between countries of origin. between spiritual practice; between man and women; and all other differences will be manifested in your images.

This is why my teacher teaches that one must do or growing into all of the Mitzvot so that the truth being reflected back to you is Torah truth and not another system. When you follow a mixture the truth is mixed. i can not say this enough times. follow different spiritual paths and mix them and you will be receiving mixed truths. I actually feel the pain of these people because they do not feel any pain. Why not. their truth tells them this is the truth. how do i know that it is not the truth. Because the source is clear in the Torah our world is not supposed to be mixed but differentiated and appreciated.

How to reach your Holy Magid

The writer of the Shulchan Aruch used this technique. HE WOULD CHANT THE MISHNA. And out of his mouth the Magid would say I am the voice of the Torah you studied.

In other words. Pick a section of Zohar or Talmud and chant it over and over again until you go into a trance like state. Have a recording going because you will not/may not hear or remember what is said by your Holy Magid.

When we do an action we are dealing with the outside of our unconscious. When we do an action with Kavenah we are dealing with the inside of our unconscious. This inside even when it becomes conscious will always be part of the universe. The teaching is that when the Mashiach comes Mitzvoth will no longer be necessary. This is because the outside will change while the inside will always remain and become the interior of the new Mitzvot. The tools the next world will use to correct ourselves. The inner essence will always be there, while the exterior will change form and may in fact disappear. This is why the animal sacrifices may become unnecessary while the need to sacrifice some part of ourselves will always remain.

Any Mitzvah having to do with words (Prayer or Torah study) is the inner essence of the discussion.

Any action done without Kavenah builds an empty dead like Angel which the Baal Shem Tov indicates creates a thicker shell on the egg between the conscious and the unconscious. It does damage. The Halacha says do the actions and then eventually you will learn to fill in the insides. the Baal Shem Tov cautions about this.

Many people see many things. that is because their brain waves are going 10,000 years into the future and 10,000 years into the past simultaneously. Also they go into many different dimensions. People see things and they do not happen. This is because they are unable to discern one earth from another. One dimension from another. They are seeing what will happen in an alternative earth. And they need to know how to discern between the worlds and the different earths. How do you do that? You have been given the answer. It is Torah and Mitzvot that cleanse you and build your strength of power and vision so you know what you are to do. Do you tell what you see or do you ignore it because it is a world that does not belong to you.