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MESSAGE #531 - Part 18
A LOOK AT KABBALAH
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A LOOK AT KABBALAH
Tape 1
Praise the Lord. It has been quite awhile since we preached part 17 of this message. So I'm going to give you just a small review and I will remind you that whenever you see the word Name, capitalized, it's talking about the Tetragrammaton, the Holy Name which encompasses all of creation. All of creation exists within this Holy Name. I will also remind you that each of the four letters of the Tetragrammaton YHVH, each of those letters in itself is the Tetragrammaton and that the second letter, the first H of the YHVH signifies Binah, understanding. Well, let's review the whole thing. Let me put it on the board for you. I've put this review on the board for you. We have the Tetragrammaton here, YHVH, and we see that the second letter which is an H signifies Binah, which is understanding, and the partzuf of Binah is Imma, the Hebrew word for mother. She is the higher mother and who is the lower mother? Does anybody know who the lower mother is? The lower mother is Adonay. Adonay is the name of God that is associated with Malkhut. She is the lower mother. Now Adonay is not a mother by herself. You see, Adonay dwells in man. We are the chameleon. Remember that teaching? We found that word chameleon when we did the Samson study. I have mentioned it in this series also. Adonay or Malkhut, the attribute that Adonay is associated with, which is found in man, is the chameleon. What does that mean? It means that man or Malkhut, who dwells in us, or Adonay who dwells in us, manifest whatever higher sefirah joins with her.
So when the higher mother, Imma, descends and joins with Adonay in a man, we become everything that Binah is. Adonay is the chameleon. She changes, depending on which of the higher sefirot (it's usually a combination of them) dwell with her. When Elohim and Hod dwell in Adonay, that human being that this is taking place in, becomes a cruel judge because Elohim is cruel unless she is tempered by Chesed, which is kind judgment, or Keter, which is mercy. Elohim is cruel. Elohim is known to man in many of His manifestations as Satan. Look brethren, everything that exists is out of God. Even Satan is out of God for there is nothing apart from God. So the evil in the world is an element of the nature of God that has gone off by itself. It has left its integrated place. All of the attributes of God are designed to be integrated, braided together, working and functioning as one homogeneous whole for good. But they're both negative and positive qualities creating a potential to have a balance of good and evil that is over all and completely positive. But one of the threads of the fibre of the nature of God in the sefirot departed and went off by herself. We're told in the book of Zechariah, she went off to start her own base and became Satan and Leviathan and the carnal mind. But she's out of God, if you can hear that. God is not evil, brethren. God is not evil, but an aspect of Himself broke forth from its designated place and set up its own kingdom and apart from God this element is evil, if you can hear it. There's nothing outside of God. He's everything, but that doesn't mean God is evil to you. God is never evil to you. Praise the Lord.
So we have the H, the second letter of the Tetragrammaton, which signifies Binah, which is the Hebrew word for understanding and her partzuf is Imma. She is the higher mother who will fight fiercely for her cubs and the cubs that she is bringing forth are called Ze'ir Anpin in Kabbalah and according to our New Testament study, she is bringing forth Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus is the son of Binah, who is Imma to us, the Hebrew mother who has coupled with wisdom, who is her husband. Wisdom and understanding have coupled together to produce a son and that son, to the New Testament Christian, is Christ Jesus. To the Kabbalist, that son is Ze'ir Anpin. Both Christ Jesus and Ze'ir Anpin exist inside of men in the form of what the New Testament calls the new man, our inner man. The New Testament also speaks about our inner man. You're getting a new inner man. You see, we mortal human beings, we are just skins and whatever we are filled with, that's what we are. This is a perfect example of the Kabbalistic principle that Adonay can be a cruel judge to the point (and I have read this in the Kabbalistic literature) that she can wipe out a whole nation and kill everybody. In that case she's manifesting Elohim without any loving kindness or mercy at all. She is manifesting uncompromising judgment under that circumstance, uncompromising judgment. The color of uncompromising judgment according to the Kabbalistic literature is red or copper which is the color of the serpent. The serpent ministers uncompromising judgment. Isn't that Satan's testimony? Is she not the accuser of the brethren? You sin today and therefore you will pay every jot and tittle and you will not get out of jail until it's paid.
Isn't that what Jesus said? Didn't He say, quickly repent and make it right with your brother, immediately, before the officer takes you before the judge and the judge throws you in jail and you will not get out from there until you pay every last wit of your debt. What does that mean, Sheila? It means that if you don't repent of your part in every conflict, if you don't bend over backwards to make peace with your brethren, you are giving legal ground to Satan to come in and bring destruction into your life. If you think that the Lord is going to help you when you refuse to repent or do your part, you're mistaken, because the Lord has a plan and a program and there's something for us to do. What we're to do is clearly laid out in the Scripture; confess your sins, repent your weaknesses, count your brother better than yourself, forgive seventy times seventy and give no place to the enemy. If you're doing all these things, Jesus will fight for you and where there was death, you will find life and where there was disease, you will find health and where there was poverty, you will at least have your needs met. I cannot promise you wealth, but you certainly will receive spiritual wealth. Where there was darkness, there will be light and if you're in the Lord for any number of years and you're not doing better than you were doing five years ago, you are not doing something that you are suppose to be doing. You can't tell me that nobody taught you, because all you have to do is cry out to God for a teacher. The whole problem is that you have to recognize the teacher when he comes to you. Okay, let's go on with our message.
So the hey or the H of the Tetragrammaton is Binah known to us as understanding or Imma. As I told you earlier, each one of these four letters of the Tetragrammaton is in itself the whole Holy Name, YHVH. The way the Kabbalists distinguish between each of the Holy Names that arises out of each of the four letters is that they spell the letters differently. So concerning the H, we're told that this Holy Name YHVH is spelled out with yods and with an aleph. The Y of the Holy Name is spelled out Yod. The H is spelled hy. The V is spelled with an aleph in there, vav, and the H is spelled hy. The numerical value of this way of expressing the Holy Name is 63. In the Hebrew language, the letters and the numbers are the same. So the Hebrew letter that signifies 60 is a samek and the Hebrew letter that signifies 3 is gimel. Therefore, Binah is called in a concise short way SaG or SaG 63. Samek, gimel; SaG, the numerical value of which is 63. So we have had a few messages concerning SaG 63. Are there any questions? Is everybody okay with this? When we talk about SaG 63, we are talking about the first H of the Tetragrammaton which is Binah, our higher mother and is understanding to us.
Binah is very important, brethren. I gave a little exhortation off the tape on this. We will never survive what's coming upon the earth without understanding. Our Christ mind, if we have it, will surely be overshadowed by the carnal mind because the carnal mind will come with persuasion, very convincing arguments and if you're standing on the Law saying, I'm not doing it because I know that it's wrong, you won't stand. You have to know why it's wrong. The mind control is worsening every day in the western world and it will get worse. There is a perverse spirit in the country and in the western world and it is overshadowing Christian minds and Jewish minds. We will only stand with understanding and by cleaving very closely to the Spirit of the Lord and the Word of the Lord. If all you have is the Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit, if that's all you have, it's just a matter of time; you will not stand. You must study to show yourself approved. You must know the word and you must have an understanding of the spiritual word or you will not stand in these last days. Dancing and singing is wonderful. I love it too, but you must know the Word. You must have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ based on a knowledge of the Word and you will stand.
We had a series of messages concerning SaG 63. Let me remind you that SaG 63, that H, has to do with the ears of Adam Kadmon. Understanding has to do with the ears of Adam Kadmon. What we are talking about here is the creation of the worlds. Well, let me say this also. The H has to do with the ears of Adam Kadmon and with the neshamah, the spiritual or the intellectual soul, without which we cannot have understanding. We will never understand if we do not acquire neshamah, which is the understanding. The Scripture says, may the eyes of your understanding be opened. So first you have to receive understanding. That's Christ grafted to you and then you have to have your eyes opened just like a new born baby. First you have the baby and then the eyes have to open and then the eyes have to focus and then the eyes have to see and then you will understand. So we're talking about the creation of the worlds. Kabbalah uses a parable to teach us how the worlds were created.
First came Adam Kadmon. Then within him was formed the World of Emanation. The World of Emanation is very high and it can never be destroyed. But underneath that, underneath the World of Emanation is the World of Creation and then the World of Formation and then the World of Action. So we're talking about the descent of the Name of God to form the worlds below. We're talking about the Name of God descending for the specific purpose of forming the worlds below. Now I said earlier on this message, that Imma, Binah, our understanding, is the upper or the higher mother who is giving birth to the worlds below. Now the next world below her is Ze'ir Anpin. She's giving birth to Ze'ir Anpin. That's her offspring, the spiritual man. Ze'ir Anpin consists of six sefirot, the six sefirot beneath Imma. That's Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod and Yesod. They are one partzuf called Ze'ir Anpin.
Look at the board now. You've seen these diagrams before because I've worked with them on other messages. Let me remind you of this, that Binah, represented by the letter H of the Tetragrammaton, has within her another Ten Sefirot. The last of those Ten Sefirot within Binah is called; does anybody remember? The Malkhut of Binah has its own partzuf. Do you know what it's called?
COMMENT: Nukva?
PASTOR VITALE: Well, Nukva, in general is Malkhut, but the Malkhut of Binah has her own specific name which is called Tevunah, discernment.
So we see that Adam Kadmon has two ears. Please forgive me if I have these backwards, but I'm not going to go look it up now. I believe the right ear is Binah and the left ear is Tevunah. Tevunah is discernment. I can't do the whole thing over. Okay, so this message is about the descent of SaG 63, which is Binah, into Ze'ir Anpin for the specific purpose of creating the world below. Ze'ir Anpin is represented by the nose of Adam Kadmon. The nose of Adam Kadmon is associated with the level of soul called ruach. So let me say it again. We're talking about the descent of this H of the Holy Name for the specific purpose of a creative formation of the world below. So if you look at these drawings that I have to the left of the board, you'll see that I have a curtain drawn. I have two series of blocks. I call them blocks. I don't know what else to call them. At the bottom of each of them is a thickened area made with a marker. It's suppose to be a curtain. There is a spiritual curtain that lies between each of the worlds, just as if we had different layers of skin and many layers of muscle.
There's a curtain that says this is the end of the World of Emanation and everything that goes below it is the World of Creation. This is the end of Adam Kadmon and everything below it is the World of Emanation. If you're a Kabbalist and you're listening to me and I'm making some mistakes, I'm sorry. I've preached these messages myself and I did not review all my previous messages before I started preaching today. I think the Lord is reminding me that this is the descent of the letter H from Adam Kadmon to form the World of Emanation. But if I have the wrong e H for 5 points below the curtain. But if we want to look just above the curtain we have reduced the SaG 63 above the curtain to 58. That means it's no longer SaG 63. Now just for a point of interest (I can't see anything beyond this, beyond a point of interest) 58 is the numerical value of the word ear. The Hebrew word for ear is ozen. Ear signifies Binah, understanding. So even though what we have above the curtain is no longer SaG 63, which is Binah, we have another expression of understanding, you might say, with a numerical value of 58. Is everybody following me?
Now I suspect very strongly that there is some form of exchange either from within the World of Emanation or from the world above the World of Emanation, which is Adam Kadmon, himself, which would come into play, that would restore the value of SaG 63 to Binah above the curtain. Did you understand what I just said? I'll say it again. We have the equivalent of the letter H of the Tetragrammaton SaG 63. We have it now reduced to a numerical value of 58. I suggest to you that it won't stay that way. I don't have any information in the book that I'm studying from at this time as to how this would change. But the reason I believe that this name would be restored in its fullness to SaG 63, I will explain. What I'm going to show you on the next board is how the elements move. Now these are all elements. Each letter can be called an element or a source of light or an emanation of the creation that's moving forward in a creative force to expand, to create, to go forward. We'll see how SaG 63 is going to be completely reproduced underneath this curtain. I'm ahead of you. I haven't preached it to you yet. But we will see that SaG 63 will appear in Ze'ir Anpin. The whole purpose is that everything that is above must be below. The whole purpose of the creation is to reproduce itself. So if it's SaG 63 above and the process is to create SaG 63 below, we're defeating the creative purpose, if the SaG 63 above is no longer 63 but has become 58.
It's the same thing as saying a woman has a baby. The baby takes her blood, the baby takes her tissue, the fetus takes her nutrients, but then the baby is born and there's a period of recovery and Lord willing (I know some women aren't well, but in a healthy woman) she's completely restored. Her blood is restored, everything that the baby has taken from her, including mother's milk, if she's nursing, is fully restored and the mother becomes a healthy complete person and the baby becomes a healthy separate complete person with the potential for expansion and growth. So based on this principle that I know about, that's what's happening here. What we're teaching here is that the glory of God which is in Adam Kadmon is being reproduced down here in the earth, in us, and that it is God's intention that all of the glory that is above should be shining through us. I have to believe that there is a process, which is not in this book that I'm studying from, but that there is a process that would restore this numerical value 58 back to the 63 that it's suppose to be. Do you understand what I'm saying? But it's not in the book and I just had to tell you that.
So we see now, looking at the diagram on the right, that Tevunah is divided. Tevunah is two thirds above the curtain and one third below the curtain. This is still Tevunah. That's a pregnant woman there reproducing, two thirds above the curtain. A part of herself has descended. The head of the baby is out of the womb, but they're still one. You're having a baby and the head is out, but the baby is still inside of you; you're still one. Right? So we see that five parts of the H worth 15 points has descended into Ze'ir Anpin. So we see that drawing A has a numerical value of 63 and drawing number B has a value of 58 above the curtain and 5 below the curtain. Is everybody okay? Believe it or not that was all review. The next drawing that we will do is we're going to go into more detail as to how this name SaG 63 is reproducing and we will see that the whole of Tevunah, the whole of Malkhut and the whole of the Vav is going to pass through the curtain to develop Ze'ir Anpin down here below. The only thing that will be left, according to The Tree Of Life, the book that I'm studying, will be the Y and the H. There's no information, at least as far as I've read, as for the restoration of the Y and the H, back into the full blown SaG 63. But I believe, based on everything that I've read, that that would have to happen. I say that because I know that the World of Emanation is intimately connected to Adam Kadmon who is intimately connected to the Eyn Sof and there is an unlimited source of supply.
COMMENT: I was thinking of the scriptures that speak of Jesus being crucified and the curtain being rent and it made me think of Jesus passing through Ze'ir Anpin, the 5 on the bottom, which is the body, which is us. He was imparting His spiritual substance to us and that He completed the Head and the body had to follow afterwards to make the full number 63, 58 being Jesus and the 5 us.
PASTOR VITALE: Well, that's excellent and I always wondered why the scripture said the curtain was rent from the top to the bottom. I could never get an explanation for that. Here we have a witness and I have been preaching for awhile that it was not the physical temple. It was not the physical veil of the physical temple. I always said it was the veil of Jesus' mind, that it was the veil between His subconscious and the unconscious part of His mind, but this is even more of the answer. Jesus was the temple. He was the physical manifestation of the temple of God and the curtain was rent from the top to the bottom. It was rent at the top. Here is SaG 63 passing through the curtain. There wasn't anything going up to SaG 63. It was SaG 63 coming down, descending, renting the curtain from the top to the bottom. There's no other explanation that I'm aware of that could possibly satisfy that scripture. I'm telling you, the whole New Testament is founded in Kabbalah. There is no way anyone is going to truly understand the depths of this New Testament without knowing Kabbalah. You can get little bits out of it that will give you faith and you can hear about Jesus or whatever, but to understand the depths of that New Testament isn't possible without Kabbalah. Thank you for sharing that wonderful revelation. I'm so excited to find out that this is what it means, to have the veil rent from the top to the bottom. That is a very exciting word. Thank you very much.
Well, as we were talking about the temple being rent and we got that word of knowledge, I received revelation on the temple and the veil being rent from the top to the bottom, which I've been wondering about for years. The teaching of the message named Bereshith, Part 4, was quickened to me and once again we see this deep teaching of Kabbalah manifesting in a man, in this case, the man, Jesus. So I would just like to read to you two sentences from my own message, Bereshith, Part 4, talking about or defining the temple for us. I said the temple is the original point. Now that point came down from the Eyn Sof. I really can't see reading the whole transcript of that message onto this tape. I just read it and the description that I have on that message of how the drop came down from Eyn Sof, it's the exact thing that we're talking about here with the H (5) coming down from Tevunah. It's the same message only in different terms. The Zohar describes it in poetic terms and Etz Chayyim, which is Lurianic Kabbalah, is defining it in this highly technical, almost mechanical form, but certainly mathematical in form. The Zohar says that Eyn Sof is a sea, a sea of light and one drop came down from that sea, passed through the curtain and came down through that sea. That drop was the beginning of the worlds as we know it.
Then it went on to say it is this original point which is engraved with Elohim's genetic code or the genetic code that was to produce Elohim. That drop was engraved with a genetic code that was to produce Elohim and became Elohim. That drop, with the genetic code engraved, became the potential Elohim. We might say this drop with the genetic code engraved was the DNA that would produce Elohim. Elohim; drawing on the strength of the sea of energy that the drop came from that's beyond that point. We call that point Eyn Sof and this combination had a single name and it's called temple. Which combination? The drop that came down from Eyn Sof, that drop being engraved with the genetic code that was to produce all that Eyn Sof intended for Elohim to be. That drop that was already engraved, drawing upon the strength of that which produced Him, is called the temple. So we see, when the Scripture says that Jesus was crucified and that the veil of the temple was rent from the top to the bottom, it was talking about the spiritual genetic potential within the physical human man, Jesus. There was something inside the man, Jesus. There was a spiritual genetic potential inside the man, Jesus.
Now brethren, this is not the first time that this is happening to me, that we are studying this so difficult difficult message (and it's just as clear as a bell to me) that it's happening today and that it's happening in men today. Now I'm not sure whether this all happened before, because there are indications that there was a first creation that was destroyed. Kabbalah talks about the Kings of Edom. I don't know whether it happened that the whole creation was fully developed and it fell apart. I really don't witness to that at all. I really don't. I believe that it's happening today for the first time in our world. I believe that the whole creation process is repeated in every plane of consciousness, that it came to pass to form Adam Kadmon, which is what I just read to you. That drop came down from Eyn Sof and Adam Kadmon was formed. I know it says Elohim here because I'm not capable of fully interpolating the different books of Kabbalah which are written in different time periods. So if anything I say is confusing, just try not to focus on it. So let's just say that first drop that came down from the Ayn Sof formed Adam Kadmon. That whole creative process took place on the spiritual plane known as Adam Kadmon. Then Adam Kadmon reproduced and a drop came down from Adam Kadmon and produced the World of Emanation. See, that word drop is talking about the H (5) that came down below the curtain. Then after the whole World of Emanation was created, one drop came down, and we know that the drop came down through Binah.
Maybe the very first time, the drop came down through Ayn Sof. Once Adam Kadmon was formed, then the drop came down through Binah because Binah is the mother that produces the heavenly man. After the World of Emanation was formed, then another drop came down to form the World of Creation. I have this very strong in my heart that the whole process of creation is fully reproduced and repeated and completed on each plane of consciousness. Then a drop came down and the whole World of Formation went through the whole process that is very similar on its own plane to that original drop that came down from Ayn Sof. I believe what is happening in this world today is the whole process of generation that we are reading about. It's all pre-genesis in the King James. That drop is coming down and it's going to create Ze'ir Anpin or Christ Jesus in this World of Action. We are the World of Action and the drop that's coming down to create the World of Action (in the image of Adam Kadmon) that drop came out of Jesus of Nazareth, His genetic potential. He is the new stone that we're going to receive and it is a spiritual drop. It is happening in this World of Action today, I believe, for the first time.
I believe it has happened many times before on other planes of consciousness, but this is the first time that it's happening in this World of Action. I do believe that this World of Action should never have come into existence. I do not believe that the Lord intended for a world of death to come into existence, but this did happen because the Kings of Edom lived and ruled and died. Whatever the true story of the fall is, there was a fall (okay) and I can't get into that now because I hear so many different sides to it that I have to put it all together and I think I even got that on one message. I interpolated the story of the fall with the Doctrine of Christ with what we were studying in The Tree Of Life. So for now, I'm just going to say, the fall. I believe this world should have never come into existence, but it did come into existence because of a problem in the creation of the World of Emanation or the world that preceded the World of Emanation. There was a misstep, there was an imperfection; not that God isn't perfect, but that which was coming forth from Him, took a misstep. So therefore this World of Action came into existence and all that that means, brethren, as I see it now, is that there's one more ring on the orbit. There's one more world that has to go through the creative process to bring the whole multiple layer, the whole holographic creation, into the image of Adam Kadmon and it's our time. That drop, which is the genetic potential of Elohim, was squeezed through the mental plane. I have a message that goes back to the account of Jesus in the garden sweating blood.
We have a whole message on that. He was not sweating physical blood. If you recall that message, there is such a thing that existed in the past (we don't see it today) but beings were "sweat born." Humanity, at one point, were sweat born, which means it was a form of reproduction where the whole adult literally just sweated out offspring. Does that sound bizarre to you? Brethren, let me tell you something, reproducing yourself by having a baby come out from between your legs with great pain is not the way it's suppose to be. We're reproducing like the animals. Plants don't reproduce in pain like that. Ameba and paramecia bacteria just engage in cell division. There was one and now there is two. I read somewhere (and it witnessed to my heart) that at some time in the past, there was a form of reproduction called the sweat born. Whatever the beings looked like at that time, they just sweated out their offspring. They just passed through the pores of their body and came into existence. If you're shaking your head, I really strongly exhort you to not condemn this teaching, but to ask the Lord and put it on the shelf, because having a baby come out from the inside of your body with great pain is just as shocking to people who have never heard of anything like this. It's so easy to just have your children with cell division or by being sweat born. So what the scripture means by saying Jesus sweat great drops of blood, is that He brought forth the genetic potential for all of humanity to be remade or reformed into the image of the Unlimited One, the Ayn Sof.
I have a message that says He sweated it out, He sweated that spiritual blood out and it came out on the mental plane and it's still dripping down on humanity today. It is His intention to impregnate all of humanity with His life. It's happening today in the World of Action. That is so exciting to me. The nature of God is descending into our corrupt earth. That is very exciting. This message is heralding the end of the world of deatAyn Sof. So we see that mother, the H of the Tetragrammaton is intimately connected through her husband, who is called wisdom, through Adam Kadmon. Mother is intimately connected to the unlimited source, the Ayn Sof. Therefore, I can say to you, she will surely be replenished and her diminution from a numerical value of 63 to a numerical value of 58 is temporary. We're talking about spiritual reproduction here. If everybody is alright, we'll go on to the next drawing.
This is drawing #2 on the board. This also is review. What I have here is the void or the empty space which exists within Ayn Sof. Remember Ayn Sof is unlimited. He is eternal and He is infinite. I don't know about you, but I have trouble with that. I cannot imagine infinity. (End of tape 1)
Tape 2
There is nothing outside of Ayn Sof because He's unlimited, so He brought forth an empty space within Himself that we can liken to a womb. In that empty space, He is birthing the worlds. You may recall that a thread of light came down from the Ayn Sof which is sometimes referred to as the golden sea. The thread of light appeared out of infinity. Some of the literature calls it a drop. I think the Zohar calls it a drop of the sea that is Ayn Sof. Ayn Sof is the unlimited sea. A drop came down and that drop is called a thread of light in some of the literature. In other literature we're told that this thread of light is the supernal Adonay. What does that mean? The Adonay that is the Name of God associated with Malkhut generated forth from an eternal realm. Adonay was a part of the sea of light of Ayn Sof. She was one drop in that sea. Now with our finite minds, we don't know how to filter out one little drop. Well, we could take one drop out of the sea, but to say that we've taken one drop that had a specific identity out of the sea, we can't do that. If we have a river that flows into the sea, once the river mixes with the sea, we don't know how to get the river out of it. But that's in our finite world.
In the spiritual world it's not like that and I have to tell you, I don't understand this. In the highest plane (plane isn't even the right word) in infinity all is one, but yet even though all is one, it's possible for a particular aspect to separate out and come down into the finite world. You see, separation exists in the finite world. In the infinite world, everything is one. I have to tell you, before we ever started studying Kabbalah, I saw an episode of Star Trek on television and it was not Star Trek, the Next Generation. It was one of the programs that came after that, which personally, I don't think was very good. But there was a particular being whose name I can't remember and he was not a human. He was an infinite being. He was living in the federation world and acting more and more like a human. So he was called for chastisement back to his world and his world was a sea. They showed this being walking into the ocean or the sea and disappearing down into it and all that you could see was the sea. Yet the whole implication was that there were beings living in the sea, threads of consciousness, even though they were all part of the sea. If you want to think of the sea as water (if that will help you) there was nothing that you could see in the water, but there were threads of consciousness with no form and they could recognize one another in this sea. They could recognize one another without form.
They held court, had a trial and they found him guilty and he arose up out of the sea. He was that one drop of the sea that came forth. When he came forth from that plane of consciousness called sea, he separated. When he came back into the finite world, he was a whole humanoid creature that existed apart from the sea. But when he joined with his people in the sea, he lost his physical individuality and existed only as a thread of consciousness. I now know that that concept comes forth from Kabbalah. I didn't know that at the time. I thought, isn't that an unusual concept, a whole nation of people physically melted into one sea, but yet maintaining an individual consciousness. This is what existence is like in the eternal plane. Do the best you can with it because I'm honestly telling you I don't grasp it completely; no physical form, just a sea of light, yet individual consciousness. I can't cope with it, but I believe that it's true. I can't envision it. Personally, I think it would be very uncomfortable, but my Christ mind knows that is not true.
Me, Sheila, who lives today in an animal body, cannot imagine not having this animal body and feels uncomfortable with the thought of having no physical form. That's because my whole memory is of my existence in this body and I know that everything that happens to me, as I ascend, will be for my good, so I have faith in Jesus Christ that whatever awaits us will be fine and preferable to this life. So out of this sea of light known as the Ayn Sof, this infinite sea known as Ayn Sof, comes one drop and I call her the supernal Adonay to indicate that she existed before the empty space existed. She always existed in the sea of light with the Ayn Sof. It's as if to say I wanted to do a creative work or a creative act and I sent forth my heart to begin the work. Of course, that's humanly impossible, but let's say I had the ability to cause my physical heart to separate from my body and I said now you go forth and you start building that building. That's the principle, you see. That's the principle. It would be as if I could detach my right arm and say, now you go forth and do your work. This is the whole principle of delegated authority. I was listening to someone talk about our President Bush on TV recently. They were saying and indicating how differently he operated as opposed to President Clinton. In this message today, I'm not saying right or wrong, I'm just going to give you the contrast to help you to understand what I'm talking about. President Clinton (and there are many like him in the world) had hands on (and not only Clinton. Actually the comparison was to Vice President Gore as well as Clinton during this past Presidential election crisis down in Florida. Vice President Gore had hands on in every aspect of that war. He was there making all of the decisions.
This interviewer said to President Bush, you were just there in your ranch in Texas and you were so calm during the Presidential election crisis. How does that work? President Bush said, well, I delegate authority. President Bush believes in delegating authority. For those of you who are listening to this tape that don't know, that whole mess turned into a court action that eventually was decided by the United States Supreme Court. President Bush retained the most competent lawyer that he could find. I believe he asked the Lord who his lawyer should be and he turned the whole legal action over to that lawyer. It is called delegation of authority. Now that doesn't mean that President Bush had nothing to say about it. I am sure that the attorney who was in charge of the case reported to President Bush and they talked on the telephone. They may even have had meetings. Maybe the gentleman went out to the ranch. But President Bush believes in delegating authority and it is this preference which I believe is the way to go. I believe that when you delegate authority you can expand infinitely. If you do not delegate authority, you will come to the end of your ability. If you have not raised up people to work under you, if you have not trained them to work independently, if you have not surrounded yourself by people who you trust enough to work independently (without asking you what to do every few minutes) the day will come that you will reach the end of your capacity and your whole operation will collapse.
President Bush is a true executive and he has been criticized and maligned by people who say he's not running the country and that Vice President Cheney is running the country. No, Vice President Cheney is not running the country. President Bush has delegated authority to Vice President Cheney and I understand he has given Vice President Cheney more responsibility than any Vice President has ever had. Now I believe President Bush is under the direction of the Lord because I know that the Lord deals with me the same way. You give people as much responsibility as they are capable of. Little by little, you give them work and you see what they can do and you learn to trust them and when you know that they are capable of operating in a certain way, you give them the reins and then they come and give a report to you every so often. But you trust them, that if they have a problem that they cannot solve, that they will come to you. You trust them that they're not going to make frivolous decisions, that they will be able to recognize when they are maxed out, when they need help or when they need to go above to get assistance and then you let them do their job. That's what we're trying to do in this ministry. I'm trying to give you all as much responsibility as you demonstrate you can handle. So if you ask me a question and I say you shouldn't have asked me that question, this is where I am coming from. If I say you shouldn't have asked me, that means I believe you should have been able to handle that yourself. You are challenged to see where the line is and when to know (when the day really comes that you really don't know what to do) that you have to ask me because you really don't know what to do. That's what I'm trying to teach you here.
Okay, back to the message. We're talking about the supernal Adonay. She was a drop in the ocean of light called Ayn Sof and she came forth with a particular assignment to create the worlds in the empty space. I call her supernal to indicate that she came out of the sea of light. We know that Adonay is the Name of God associated with Malkhut, which is the tenth sefirot. So Adonay's Adonay still exists in the sea of light. She did not fully leave the sea of light and come into the finite worlds. She sent forth an aspect of herself. She put down an arm of herself. Her roots are still in the sea of light. Okay, this is still review, brethren. So the supernal Adonay came down in a straight line and then made a complete circle around the circumference of the empty space. That first line is Adam Kadmon, the pre-mortal human. The first thing she did was form Adam Kadmon, the creative human. Then she went all the way around the circumference of the empty space again and she formed Abba or Chokhmah called wisdom and Father. Then she went all the way around the circumference of the empty space again and formed Imma or mother or understanding or Binah. The Hebrew name is Binah. These three are called the head. Adam Kadmon, which is associated with Keter, is the thoughts and will of God, Abba (wisdom) Imma (understanding) are the head of the body and they are inseparable and they are permanently connected to the Ayn Sof, the unlimited source of energy that has brought forth the universe. All three, Imma, Abba, and Adam Kadmon are permanently connected to the unlimited source of all energy through Keter who is associated with Adam Kadmon.
Keter has several layers in him and his higher layers are one with the Ayn Sof. Keter's lower layers or lower levels are joined to Adam Kadmon (who is Keter, who is also known as I Am) who is joined to Abba, who is joined to Imma. They are inseparable, they are eternal, they are immortal; they are called the head of the body. Abba and Imma are a permanent married couple and they have a spiritual sexual union which gives Imma the strength to bring forth the son. The son, in Kabbalah, is called Ze'ir Anpin. To those of us today who are Christian and trying to associate what we've learned with Kabbalah, who is the son? What is His Name? Christ Jesus is the Son. Christ Jesus is Ze'ir Anpin and the two of them signify Jehovah, whose Name appears predominately in the Scripture, God's gift to man. Jehovah is not the highest aspect of God, but He is the aspect of God that is representing the Unlimited One to humanity. He is mediator. It's called a mediator. It can be likened to the trunk of the tree and all the other sefirot are considered the branches. Jehovah is Tiferet and He's in the center and He is the mediator and He is Ze'ir Anpin and Christ Jesus.
So I showed you all this to give you another viewpoint of what was on the board with drawing #1. I'm trying to help you to understand what it means that that simple H worth 5 points came through the curtain. So over here, I've shown you the drawing with a dashed line because I'm telling you that the first sefirot of Ze'ir Anpin is not fully formed yet. Now you may recall (although I haven't really shown it on this drawing) that Adam Kadmon, Abba and Imma, each have all ten sefirot within them. This goes on ad infinitum. So each one of the sefirot have ten sefirot within them. The reason I drew Ze'ir Anpin with a dashed line is because that simple H that has a numerical value of 5 signifies the first of the six sefirot of Ze'ir Anpin. Ze'ir Anpin has six sefirot. Adam Kadmon, Abba and Imma have ten within them. Ze'ir Anpin has six. That simple H with a numerical value of 5 signifies the first circle or the first sefirah within Adam Kadmon. Is everybody okay? I think this makes it pretty clear. The first sefirot of Ze'ir Anpin's six sefirot (that we saw on drawing #1 as a simple H with a numerical value of 5) descends from Imma, who is SaG 63. Imma is giving birth to the son. Everybody okay? Any questions or comments?
This is the last of the review. We're going to go on to the new stuff now. The new stuff that we're going to do will show more detail. You all have your own copies of the first drawing that I put on the board. We're going to show more detail of how Imma gives birth to Ze'ir Anpin. This is drawing #3. What we're looking at here is the demonstration of the principle that everything has an inside and an outside. I think I have presented this principle to you earlier in different terms. For example, every light has a vessel. Every vessel has an inner light and a surrounding light. Everything has an inside and an outside. It's a Kabbalistic principle. Let me remind you that what we're dealing with here is SaG 63 which is the first H of the Tetragrammaton. If necessary, please feel free to look at your copies of the earlier drawings from tonight. What we're looking at now is that dashed circle which is the formation of Ze'ir Anpin coming forth. This is a more detailed explanation of how Ze'ir Anpin is coming forth within that empty space. He is coming down, descending down from Imma, who is married to Abba, who is joined to Adam Kadmon. What just popped into my mind right now is New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. What that symbol means is that this whole life and family of God is descending into us, into mortal man. All of the glory that we're reading about and studying about is descending and coming down to fill us. This whole high intellectual study is happening inside of men. It's just like going to someone who knows nothing about reproduction and saying, look this is how a fetus is formed. It's the same thing on a spiritual level. We're having an intense study in spiritual anatomy, you might say.
Okay, so we're still dealing with SaG 63, the first H of trawing #2 from tonight, you will see that Ze'ir Anpin is coming forth inside, within Abba and Imma. In other words, they're filling up the empty spaces. So what is descending must be smaller than the vessel that's catching it. What is descending must be smaller than the vessel that's catching it. How could I fit into a size clothing that's a size smaller than me?
We have a problem here because the outside of the heh which has a numerical value of 10 is descending into the inside of the H which only has a numerical value of 5. Now how can you fit 10 into 5? Can you fit someone who's a size 10 into a size 5 dress? It won't fit. So now we're dealing with reproduction. I have to laugh when I read this. What happens? You can't fit the outside of the heh which has a numerical value of 10, into the inside of the H (5). It won't go. So what's the logical thing to do? The H (5) has to expand to accommodate the heh (10). I mean it's so simple. Just make it bigger. Everything is moving down. These aspects of Imma, which is Binah, these aspects of Tevunah, the Malkhut of Binah, is penetrating into the world below. The world below is smaller. Look at your drawing #2. Look at the circles. Ze'ir Anpin is a smaller circle than Imma, right? So the outside of the Heh (10) is descending into the inside of the H (5). How can that be? It can't. So the H (5) gets bigger. Isn't that the logical answer? If you can see the humor in it; it made me laugh last night.
This whole concept of this teaching and the gematria and the way the rabbis just make all these things fit is irrational. I've told you this many times, it's totally irrational, but it works and they're doing it under the Spirit of Revelation and it works. Well if it doesn't fit, you just make it bigger. (Laughter) It doesn't fit, so stretch it out and it will get bigger. So that's what happened here. The outside of the heh (10) is descending into the inside of the H (5) so let's make the H (5) bigger. Let's just add 5. What else would you do? I see it's not clear. I'll have to fix it before you take the picture. That is a plus 5, a plus 5. Well, let's expand the inside of the H (5). Let's just add a numerical value of 5 so it now equals 10. So we have the outside of the H (10) descending into another H (10). They're the same size. Now doesn't that make sense? But do you understand what I'm saying? I mean it's funny. I just sit there and laugh when I read this, but it works. It flies. (Laughter)
This is the next step towards the formation of Ze'ir Anpin. Now please note on the B side of the board that beneath the curtain we still only have the outside of the H (5). Now look on the left side of the board we see that Tevunah has been diminished because the outside of the H (5) has gone down below the curtain. So we might say this mother over here, represented by Tevunah, she's lost blood, she's lost tissue. She's not really ready to build that baby anymore or to have another baby. This mother has to be replenished because she lost the outside of her H (5). So how is she going to be replenished? Well, let's take the outside of the H (10) and give it to the H (5). That's how we're going to replenish the mother. Can you see this? I'll say it again. I'm at the left side of the board again. We're looking at the Heh (10) and the H (5) above the curtain. The H (5) has been divided in half. The H (5) lost its outside. If you're looking at Tevunah as a mother, the H (5) has lost her outside. She's lost blood, she's lost tissue, she's weak. She's no longer equipped to have another baby or to produce the next layer of flesh in the baby. She needs to be restored and replenished. So how are we going to replenish this H (5) down here that's been divided in half for the purpose of having a baby? Well let's do the most logical thing. Let's take some strength from the Heh (10) which is immediately above the H (5). Doesn't that make sense?
So we'll take the outside of the Heh (10) which is above and we'll give it to the H (5). Of course, it goes without saying that the next step which is not yet on this board is that we're going to start taking flesh and blood and strength from the vav (13) to replenish the Heh (10). Everything is moving down. Everything is moving down. Of course, everything, as you go all the way to the top, the Y of Binah is drawing her unlimited strength from her husband and just passing down the energy, passing down the energy, and at the same time drawing on the unlimited strength of her husband, Chokhmah (wisdom) who is drawing on the unlimited strength of Adam Kadmon, who is known to us as Keter and his partzuf is Arikh Anpin, by the way. Adam Kadmon draws on the unlimited strength of the Ayn Sof. So we could keep on pulling down energy from above all we want. There's just more and more coming because the person at the top of the list, which is Adam Kadmon, is connected to the unlimited source. This lines right up with what I had to say to you before we went out to dinner, when I went into Part 4 of my message called Bereshith. I told you that the definition of temple is that drop that came down from Ayn Sof engraved with the genetic code that is designed to produce Elohim underneath. On top, on both sides, that point of that drop that's engraved on both sides, is drawing strength from the sea of light known as Ayn Sof.
That is the whole principle here, as everything moves downward to produce the worlds below underneath, the elements above are losing their strength and their energy, but they're reaching up above to replenish themselves. Every element is reaching up to replenish itself from above. You may recall that the problem that the first configuration of Adam Kadmon had was that the configuration of the Ten Sefirot were in a straight line and they couldn't get nourishment from each other. If you remember, each of the sefirot is a sphere that can be likened to a planet in our physical universe spinning on its own axis. In order for the sphere underneath to draw the energy that it needs from the sphere above, those two spheres that are spinning, have to line up so that they can be that transfer of energy. There was no communication between the Ten Spheres when they were configured as a straight line and that's the world that died. The shells, the vessels broke, fell down to the World of Action and that whole world died. So this is the plan of the creation. Everything, human beings, animals, fish, trees, plants, everything in this world is seeking to draw energy from something else. Physically speaking, we humans draw energy from fish, from meat and from vegetables and from the air we breathe and there is not an unlimited source. That's why we're having all this trouble in this world. We're running out of fossil fuel.
We have all kinds of reports on the food supply. There are people in the world that are starving to death because there is no unlimited supply of anything in this world. The fishes are eating the smaller fishes. The bigger animals are eating the smaller animals. We have been instructed here in many messages how there are beings that exist in parallel universes to this world, that are not human, that they're trying to feed off of us. Everything is feeding off of something else. That is how the creation is set up. There's only one problem. We have been broken off or separated from the source of eternal supply. There's no problem when everything is feeding off of something else if the person at the top is connected to the Infinite supply. Then there's plenty for everybody and we don't have to kill each other to get it. But this world has been cut off from the source of eternal supply, not only this world, but the other parallel planes of consciousness. We're all cut off from the heavenly constellation which connects us to Ayn Sof, the sea of light. So everything is moving down to energize that which is being formed below.
Back to the right side of the board. Once again the outside of the Heh (10) has moved down to strengthen the inside of the H (5) that was left alone when the outside of the H (5) moved below the curtain. The inside of the H (5) could not accommodate the outside of the Heh which has a numerical value of 10. So the inside of the H (5) expanded by 5 points and became 10. That's the logical thing to do. So that which was a value of 15, 10 for the heh and 5 for the H now becomes 20 because we have an additional 5. Makes sense. The Tree Of Life calls this the first 20. What does that mean, the first 20? We're reproducing SaG 63. We have to come out with a numerical value of 63. Is everybody okay? It is getting late and I would like to finish up this point. I do have one more drawing if you can stay with me.
COMMENT: I was thinking of that scripture that says, enlarge your tents.
PASTOR VITALE: Absolutely. That's what it's talking about.
COMMENT: That reminds me of a song that I sing about Hannah where she sings that her mouth is enlarged over her enemies.
PASTOR VITALE: Okay, that's interesting. Who does the mouth represent? It's the Malkhut of Adam Kadmon and it also refers to the nefesh, the animal aspect of the soul. So to say that my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, what does that mean? If our existence is simply on the animal level, if we're just an average mortal man and we have no spirituality at all, our spiritual enemies will surely destroy us. The enlargement of the mouth, which is associated with the nefesh (the animal life) is that which gives us the life of this world, which is not really life, but the animal existence. To enlarge means to enlarge the soul. According to The Tree Of Life we're born with a nefesh and ruach, which is when a spirit enters into us in the first year of our childhood. That's all that a lot of people have, just a nefesh and a ruach. So to enlarge our mouth would mean to add the next level of soul to us which is neshamah, which is the intellectual soul, which is our ability to comprehend spiritual truth. The next level of soul is chayyah, which imparts moral strength to us and then the next level of soul is yechidah, which is the glorified man. In our case, it's the Glorified Jesus Christ. So there are five levels of soul that it is humanly possible to attain to, especially now since Jesus is crucified for us. All men have the opportunity to access the fullness of soul. So to enlarge the mouth, to enlarge the nefesh means to add on these other layers of soul which defend us against the spiritual enemies.
Who is our spiritual enemy? Satan is our enemy and the carnal mind and all of the negative forces that would seek to feed off of us. This is why everybody dies because we have no strength against the spiritual forces of this world which are feeding off of us. They're literally sucking our blood. We live for a season and we die. But when our mouth is enlarged, when we become a fully equipped living soul, not just a soul, but a living soul, we have dominion over all of the power of the enemy. When we are fully equipped, as Jesus was, even death will have no power over us. Brethren, we are not suppose to die. This message in the church that we receive the promises after death is really an insult to the Lord. The one who defeated death and made an open show of powers and principalities, is saying, oh death, where is thy sting, where is your victory over me? You have no victory over me. You couldn't take my life. To say that we inherit the promises after death is really an abomination. If you stop to think about it, it's a complete turnabout of everything that Jesus and the Scripture teaches us. We're not suppose to die, you see. We will stop dying when our mouth is enlarged, when our animal existence is enlarged and we become gods. Now don't stumble over that. That doesn't mean we become mortal people with the evil inclination full in place and then become a god in that condition. That's not how it works. You become a god when you're completely emptied out of the evil inclination and then completely filled up with the glory and the nature of God as represented by the Ten Sefirot, as represented by the Glorified Jesus Christ to us.
We are the skins. We are the chameleons. We become whatever we are filled up with. Right now we're filled up with sin, but we shall be made white as snow and we shall be cleansed and filled up with glory and we shall be gods. In the day that we no longer do any harm, even from the unconscious part of our mind, we shall be gods. Amen. Well brethren, I have decided not to finish this. It's after 11:00 P.M. and I think that I'm too tired to do it with the energy that I would like to give to you. So Lord willing, we will finish this up on Thursday evening. I ask you all who are following this message, please pray for me because I keep slipping back from the message of The Tree Of Life. It's very difficult. First I have to study and understand it myself and then it takes a lot out of me to teach it, but it's even more than that. I cannot even explain to you how two months have gone by since we did Part 17 of A Look At Kabbalah. I can't even tell you how it happened. It sneaks up on me. So please pray for me. Perhaps the Lord wanted it that way. Perhaps we all needed a break. I don't know how you all feel, but the simple messages that come in-between are easy. Like right now we're doing Metatron and I fully intend to continue on with Metatron. Maybe the Lord gave us those messages. To me Metatron is very simple compared to this, at least for me, as the teacher. Maybe you just needed a break. Maybe the people studying with us could not go on with this intensity indefinitely. I'm not sure, but please pray for me that I stay with God's program and that I move forward as rapidly as He would have me to move forward because He knows where we all are and what we're all capable of. Does anyone have any questions or comments before we close for the evening?
COMMENT: Looking at the board, I was just thinking of the scripture, we shall be clothed upon.
PASTOR VITALE: Ah, that's very good. Thank you for that. We shall be clothed upon, coming down from above. Our clothing is coming down from above. Absolutely.
It is such an exciting message. Maybe some day the Lord will let me talk to a Kabbalist. I'd like to hear what they think. My understanding from the few books that I've read is that they believe that the world has to be restored and that it's our job to do it through good works. That's what I read in all the books. They know that there's an evil inclination in us and they know that there are evil forces, but from what I've read so far, they believe that our job is to do good works. From what I've seen so far, there's no revelation of literally being cleansed from sin. That is a reality, to be cleansed from sin and have that aspect of our mind replaced with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. You can't be cleansed from your sin nature unless it's going to be replaced with the mind of Christ because our sin nature is our mind. We would cease to exist. Praise the Lord. Okay brethren, Lord willing we'll finish this up on Thursday. God bless you.
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