Abulafia - Prophetic / Ecstatic Kabbalah - How to Combine Philosophy and Mysticism
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
- Abraham Abulafia is one of the greatest kabbalists in history forging a new form of mysticism by combing the ideas of the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation) with the philosophical rigor of Maimonides. In this episode of Esoterica, we explore just how he forged this amazing synthesis by analyzing the role of the 'active' or 'agent' intellect in his ecstatic mysticism.
Let's Talk Religion's Episode - • Abraham Abulafia & Ecs...
Recommended Readings:
Gross Edition of Abulafia (13 vols) - seforimcenter.com/Rabbi-Avrah...
Ideal - The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia - 978-0887065538
Kellner - Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism - 978-1904113294
Pines - The Guide of the Perplexed - 978-0226502304 & 978-0226502311
Strauss - Persecution and the Art of Writing - 978-0226777115
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please is or are their any manuscripts that is wholly dedicated to Christian magic and their workings. And how can one get hold of them or it?
Such a great and fascinating deep dive! Honored to have shared this Abulafia project with you!
Such a joy to share this passion and platform with you, friend!
Thank you for the knowledges shared!
Philosophy and mysticism two of my favorite subjects
Mine too - super interesting stuff.
Yes & Yes
Came here from "Let's Talk Religion". :-)
Perfect timing with Let's Talk About Religion channel!
I noticed that too. No way that's an accident
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My guess is that they have been working on the subject together.
Perfect
Let's Talk Religion did say these were collaborative videos. He links to this video in his description.
"فاذا سويته ونفخت فيه من روحي☝🏽فاقعوا له ساجدين. فسجد الملائكة كلهم اجمعين، الا ابليس، استكبر وكان من الكافرين" ♥️🥀
اللهم 🤲🏽علمنا ما ينفعنا، وانفعنا بما علمتنا، وزدنا علماً وفقهاً ورشداً ♥️♥️♥️
والسلام خير ختام ✋🏼🥀
Much gratitude for this clarifying introduction to Abulafia's thought and practice.
Came here from Let's Talk Religion.
Welcome!
Hello dear do you need spells that work
My first encounter with Abulafia came in Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. The two of you have given a good introduction to the original thinker.
That's such an fun book and Abulafia such a rich thinker!
What a beautiful exposition of such a complex thinker. Beautifully done Dr. Justin 👌🏻
Thanks Zevi - really. Good purim?
@@TheEsotericaChannel Incredible Purim, beautiful weather, beautiful people, beautiful moments, and... three days of it 😍 Yours?
I simultaneously got goose-bumps and hot flash when you were discussing the Meditation of Writing. I wrote a fictional scene years ago about this experience ALTHOUGH this is the first time I've heard of the Meditation of Writing. Yikes!
Also, the concept of the intellect in mysticism does make some sense to me. Would that be the _Nous_ in the Corpus Hermeticum?
I'll definitely watch this one again. Thank you for your work.
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It very well could be something similar. People often forget just how much the intellect plays a role in so much mysticism - it's anything other than anti-intellectual for sure. Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment!
Active Intellect, reminds me of Brahman in The Brahminical priesthood in India. Brahman//. The Immutable Unmanifested reality
When we write out a text and read it aloud, we see it, say it, hear it, and feel it. Maybe we could even find a way to smell it. The more senses we use and the more often we use them, the more information we can obtain from the material. It's like a numbers thing.
Somebody told me this decades ago and it's proven to be helpful to me anyway.
A college psychology course on Sensation and Perception confirms the same. In a few sentences you’ve covered that course, minus the specifics of the associated neurology. Blessings.
Abulafia is also in Eco Umberto’s, Foucaults Pendulum as a smart computer that can make prophetic predictions and also write stories IF I remember correctly.
You do remember correctly.
I haven’t looked at your videos in a while, but I’m super happy about how big your channel is getting! Baruch HaShem!
This channel is very important to me💯 thank you for your knowledge🙏
so many wonderful channels collaborating
of late, what a time to be online for sure
It really is nice considering how much solid content is emerging.
Thank you so much for sharing this, and inviting us Dr. Justin.
Shalom/Salam to you
Thanks for watching!
I'm another subscriber from "Let's talk religion" and I couldn't be more pleased to have taken Filips recommendation of your site. Thank you for plumbing the depths of what can only be described as lifes most pregnant themes.
Beautiful!
Thank you for the light🔥
Hello, I have discovered your channel from your collaboration with Filip from "Let's Talk Religion" channel. I look forward to enjoying your videos.
Great and informative as always bro!
Thank you for the knowledge love it
At 7:06 I marveled "holy fuck" and realized how literal my summary was 🤣
Completely melted my noodle.
So good!
i am in love with this channel! i’m writing my 2nd poetry book and i’m doing research on myths and beliefs to cover, and i just happened upon this by looking up the lesser key of solomon (how awesome is the title of that book? it gives off such a spooky vibe on its own)! i’ve spent the last couple of days glued to it, and although i am nowhere near smart enough to understand half the things covered, it’s great and very entertaining!
Thank You so much for this video 🙏🙏
Thanks for watching!
I found your channel thanks to Angela's Symposium which I discovered thanks to Breakfast for Religion.......whose channel I found out about because of his appearance on Dr. Jackson Crawford's channel (Dr. Crawford's channel mainly discusses Old Norse language and myth.) CZcams is awesome 👍
thanks brother this is great content!
What a great channel!
Wow Justin. Amazing. This is episode is certainly for the advance student. Man. I wish there was a way to read them. Thank you for this.
Shoot me a message on Patreon, I can share the script if you like!
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Thanks!
Hello! from Let's Talk Religion!
Love this change
Glad you like the content!
Btw you summarize the experience pretty good... That's cool.
hello from let's talk religion 💋
Amazing!
Fantastic
Well...'cause it aint settleable - truth...the prophecy explanation has been extremely enlightening for me. Thank you.
Fine work. I'd love to see one on Sabbatai Zevi!
plus how do we know they didn't rewrite the kapala ect.
More on this, pleeeease🙏
Very well done. Ok, I'm done.... Bli neder.
Come to think of it, I did come from Filip's page.
That's my main focus of study and a life time passion. And a trilogy on Moreh Nevuchim would be most appreciated. Or maybe a full course on it and Sitrey Torah. I read both Maimonides and Abulafia in English despite of reading Hebrew. A video about Sefer haTzeruf and Chayey haOlam haBa would be fantastics sequels. I just can't wait!!
BTW I met Dr. Moshe Idel in 2 lectures in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Such memorable events.
Maybe at some point - especially an episode on the Moreh as an esoteric text would be interesting!
@@TheEsotericaChannel That is a deep subject - there have been recent studies and books about it's esoteric sides and hidden meanings. It seems M had encoded some messages for the wittier Greek philosophy savvy thinkers
Abulafia is the real thing. You open the book (at your own risk) and the book opens your eyes. It works. Everyone told me to stop. Learned 7 books, many of them many times, until I got as far as I wanted. And then I stopped.
Saludos desde Sefarad
Hellos
From: Let's talk religion
Hello Philip from esoterica
You were so right about that Strauss text being a rabbit hole. I'm still lost in the Maimonides section.
About to check it.
You're correct, it's extremely complex. I feel like we should've started learning in kindergarten.
Do a video about the Picatrix (Ghayet el hakim)
It is interesting that the active and passive intellect had the gematric number of 616 and that a fragment of the earliest papyrus of Revelation 13:18 gives the number of the Beast as 616.
s p o o k y
The tzelem as astral body sounds like Law of One's description of the time-space self as the magic personality which black or white adepts seek to connect to.
Odlican video :)
Hello from let's talk religion
Welcome! Hope you find my content interesting!
Its hard to explain Mysticism... as Mystics know. Lol.. I'll let "let's talk Religiin know you say hi! Thank you .love your content..its like we know never hearing before. The innate, some call it...anyhow, a very gracious, thank you. Appreciated. In light, love, peace and unity a Mystic
Thanks so much and thanks for your thoughtful comments!
Hey Dr.
I know this might not particularly fit the theme of the channel exactly, but then again, it might intrigue you to look into the matter. Have you heard of the phenomenon known as Our Lady of Zeitoun, or The Zeitoun Miracle? in 1968 thousands of people in Zeitoun, Egypt claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary atop the St. Mary's Coptic Church. The photographs and witness testimonies are fascinating. I was wondering if you had any knowledge of this event, or any particular opinion on what really happened there. Thanks!
Yep, super interesting. I think they say that even Nasser saw it!
I can help you learn it. Having a degree in math and cs really helped.
I'm very interested in trying this practice. Could you recommend a book that has all of the circles as well as the practice with the vowels, or an on line source?
Aryeh Kaplan’s book ‘Meditations and Kabbalah’
@@LaboratoriumMagnetica 😍🙏 thank you
May I ask in which field you did your doctorate? You seem to know immensely much about like half of all humanities topics, so... ^^
Philosophy but also have an advanced degree in religious studies.
Wow this is shown in the new Opiate² video by tool
Ooohhh who is this Gödel? Symbolic logic is tasty but im only loosely familiar.
Stumbled across your channel recently and I am a huge fan. Love the knowledge. I was wondering do u have any idea on alchemists use of cannabis? I've spend many hours looking through alchemical texts and symbols looking for any mention of it. I feel that hemp was so widespread that an alchemist must have definitely stumbled across this plant and its psychoactive properties both when ingested or smoked. I would think it would be an important ingredient in elixirs, especially under the paracelsus school of thought. Thanks and keep making these great informative videos. Much appreciated.
isn't the idea of combining the 2 basically like the mentat's of dune?, or nicolai tesla, where they take knowledge, and then use their imagination to play it out, or build it, mystics, magic, it's in the name imagination itself, you have to think it before you can build it after all, using these skills can help you predict how the future will play out, pretty much the same idea behind quantum computing, to predict the future, and allowing for multiple scenarios to play out at the same time quickly, and the whole prophetic euphoria is the blissful state when you are obsessed with something, and it basically consumes your whole mind, this is the same reason many musicians get a kind of high when playing, and basically become the music itself, it's the same principle, and some of the same things abulafia wrote about is similar to what people who are in a manic state also talk about, being in all times at once, body of light, etc..., pretty weird stuff
wow...deep insight🔥👆🕊☺
@Jack McKee so the idea of many possible outcomes, the uncertainty principle, and calculating all the different variables between the simple 1 and 0 is not the same thing?, this same thing can be used to quickly crack codes and whatnot as well, utilizing the same principle
@Jack McKee so if you input information, and the probabilities were reduced, how is this not the same thing as making accurate predictions of future outcomes?, the stuff i have seen on quantum computing involved 5 charged particles, with different ranges of charges, allowing for a wide array of variables at the same time, which makes this also a good way of breaking codes as well
@Jack McKee have you seen the work the chinese have been doing with data transfer using quantum entanglement?
@Jack McKee i posted some links to articles, i guess links are seen as spam or something, you can search yourself with these terms, "chinese sends uncrackable quantum messages, and the chinese photon splitter quantum computer thing, should direct you to the articles
Dr. Sledge, do you think that personal mystical experiences should be shared with others ?
I can't see why not. Why, do you see a problem with sharing such experiences?
Me neither, not at all!
Did you ever experienced them ?
If yes, would share with us ?
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Just started reading Persecution and the Art of Writing. It is indeed a rabbit hole, but I think it will help a lot with this album I'm working on. Thanks for the tip.
The Holy Spirit is active intelligence
cant pretend to Understand ..yet want to KNOW...and am hearing
Then be still and listen☝friend.
Then ask and learn if you are authentic.
I'm in the same boat :)
We ALL are in a Pyramid state of development and subsequent conscienceness.
The TOP few have or attaining the highest of revealings. We are a vast surrounding yet vital in its foundations. Those who have a Pure Heart, Clear Mind and EGO in check towards the higher teachings have the uniqueness to obtainment. Mankind MUST learn to grasp anything that is in opposition in this process of developments in order for that to be neutralized or absorbed into its fullness or purpose. Then whatever it apposes becomes ONE with it.
"Love" is the Key
to opening these ways as it holds NO agenda, NO underlying meanings and certainly NO malice in its Purposes.
? episode for Shefa Tal - שפע טל
Mayhaps!
The separation of the two are used as tools and weapons for ambitious men
HAVE AN ARTICLE CALLED :)
Examining Some Philosophy, Astrology, and Psychology Of Middle Eastern Europe. So That People and Societies Everywhere Can Go Beyond.. The Sufi Should of Done More.. Understand and Stop Repeating Events like the 4th Crusade…
IT ISN'T FRIDAY WHAT'S UP
Collob with Let's Talk Religion!
he is just talking about soul and spirit .I am really surprised they don't know the difference.
leo strauss persecution and the art of writing
yep, get's a mention at the end.
Mystical monotheism always has to do a lot of juking and jiving to avoid being called monism.
the intellect agent is Gabriel, the creator of our species and the holy spirit who inspire prophets to guide us, he is the father and Jesus was his hypostasis, the other prophets were partial hypostasis. see the work of Massignon and Corbin on Sohravardi who explained how Islam and Kbbalah are reformulations of ancient zoroastrian esotericism
these techniques work for developping prophetic visiosn for the right persons that dos not mean you become a prophet 100% of the time, because prophets were born to be prophets in different degrees some for little time and for a specific purpose within a specific group of people some for longer time and for guiding whole nations
The active intellect ('nous poietikos') is not God - since Aristotle was interested in 'Peri Psyches' in _anthropological_ questions as *_'what is man'_* ...
However, the intellect or 'nous' is _divine_ as it is not _material_ , but _form_ - in fact, the only form, man knows of that is not a mere constitutive element of everything else, he experiences and realizes by conceptualizing through these very forms. We shape our thoughts like 'material' via the active intellect - but we also can voluntarily refrain from doing so and maintain it's activity as mere focused attention - the experience of the 'I' which cannot be _remembered_ , but reproduced - just like we can't remember a complex calculation, but have to walk through each single iteration again, in order to verify it's result (we can memorize tables of results or look for other patterns when dealing with large or complex numbers or problems - but we can't just wait until the result appears in our mind).
This mathematical example _proves_ what the 'intellectus agens' as Thomas had called it, does and *the **_empirical experience_** implies an image of man that is not materialistic* (the brain as 'secreting' thoughts or as a clockwork, mechanically associating from sensation to sensation) nor fatalistic (there is nothing passive about maintaining 'vigilance' and God doesn't solve our calculations mysteriously for us - although we encounter sometimes moments of e.g. 'mathematical intution' when a first, _holistic impression_ proves to be accurate in it's outline, just 'as we recognize Socrates visually as a man in general, before we realize it is him' within the process of 'dihairesis').
*Reflecting upon these epistemological, cognitive or discursive experiences is already a contemplation of religous nature, turning toward man's divine origin* and grasping that 'man is made in the image of something beyond man', that what we remember as our daily persona is _an organism, bred to reflect the immaterial 'intelligible'_ and that this very substance _appears_ to be what can be called God, but not as a reflection as within our consciousness, but _alive_ as 'universalia in rebus', 'thoughts' that maintain and shape the matter of our sensations.
Unlike the playful 'magical thinking' of a child, the mystic understands that their thoughts won't shift circumstances, _directly_ - the definition of actual magic - but they grasp that there may be a longwinded relation between what we think, and what we do - and therefore our fate which makes exoteric religious practice seem less obscure, but rather rational.
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What do You mean mystiscm isnt the same as esoteric kabbalah etc ? Lol au contrar!! Lol