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    Kabbalah Made Easy
    Kabbalah Made Easy
    Kabbalah Made Easy
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    Kabbalah Made Easy

    By Maggy Whitehouse

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    Kabbalah Made Easy is a down-to-earth, no-red-strings-attached look at the Judaic mystical system that has been made famous by the Kabbalah Center. The book explains why Kabbalah can seem so complex and breaks the system down into simple, understandable chunks. It examines the different systems that are in operation today including the Lurianic tradition, the Golden Dawn, magical, alchemical and Christian Kabblah as well as the re-emerging Toledano Tradition, which is taking Kabbalah back to its roots while making it accessible to the modern world. The book explains the basics of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life diagram as well as the four worlds of Jacob?s Ladder. It includes Kabbalistic lore on angels, astrology and gematria, as well as exercises and meditations that are simple but profound.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateMay 16, 2011
    ISBN9781846948909
    Kabbalah Made Easy
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    Maggy Whitehouse

    Rev. Maggy Whitehouse is the author of sixteen published books on Kabbalah, the spiritual laws of prosperity and Bible metaphysics and tradition. In 2012 she began a new career in Spiritual Stand-Up Comedy. Maggy co-founded and edited the Midlands holistic health and spirituality magazine The Tree of Life. She lives in Devon, UK.

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      Introduction

      When I first started studying Kabbalah my mother was so concerned that she went to ask her vicar what he thought. After consulting a dictionary, he told her that it looked like I had become involved in devil-worship and witchcraft.

      This vicar — a lovely man who had sat with me at the deathbed of my first husband — reflected so many people’s views of this ancient Judaic tradition of spiritual knowledge. Over centuries Kabbalah has often been misused, debased and misrepresented and it has been used for strange and sometimes unsavory magical practices. But it is a tool, like electricity: it can be used for whatever purpose you wish and it needs to be used with care. It is intended to guide and instruct the spiritual seeker and for me it was the roadmap that I needed to make peace with a Christianity that had condemned my young husband to hell because he was an atheist.

      Kabbalah is regarded as primarily Jewish and it has been kept safe within the Jewish nation for centuries. There is still some opposition to the idea of non-Jews and women studying it but, again, it is a tool. It is not a religion and it either fits into the hand of the seeker or it does not.

      In 2007 I finally made peace with the religion of my birth and was ordained into an independent sacramental church by a bishop who is both a mystic and a Kabbalist. But it was the Jewish guiding light within Kabbalah that piloted me through years of seeking, falling and crying out in the wilderness until I found my own path to understanding both the Holy One and myself. And if I had to, even now, choose just one faith to which I would subscribe, it would be Judaic mysticism. Jesus was a Jewish mystic and what’s good enough for him is good enough for me.

      Could I have learnt my Kabbalistic knowledge from just one book like this one? Absolutely not. But this kind of book might have helped in the years when I was tangled up in finding out what Kabbalah actually was; when being both a woman and non-Jewish meant I was sometimes perceived as an outsider, an intruder; a loose cannon and even a threat. It would have been good to have had a simple beginner’s guide that said Listen, it’s just one system. Yes it works, yes you can study it whatever your faith. But it’s not a required system of learning. It is just one valid and useful form of showing you that you are a reflection of God.

      All of Kabbalah is summed up in the translation of the Great and Holy Name of God: I will be that which I will be (Exodus 3:14). God and the Universe will reflect back to me that which I reflect back to them.

      Kabbalah is a structure. We are the form that this structure will take in the 21st century. We are the coat of many colors, the coat of skin that will interpret Kabbalah for future generations. With the Grace of the Holy One, we will do a good job and help others to find their own, individual, paths to the Source of All. And hopefully, in doing so, we will honor the Judaic tradition that has kept Kabbalah safe for so many centuries so that we may comprehend its gifts now.

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      What is Kabbalah?

      Kabbalah is a Hebrew word meaning receive. If you walk into a hotel in Israel you might well see the word Kabbalah directing you to the reception area. This is a lovely irony because many people over centuries have tried to make Kabbalah complex, secret and forbidden when it was originally intended to be a roadmap showing us our path in life.

      This ancient mystical tradition is based on a structure called The Tree of Life. Most people equate Kabbalah with Judaism but this diagram is a matrix that can help us to understand the relationship between God, the Universe and humanity whatever our religion or system of belief.

      The only thing required to study Kabbalah is a belief in a Higher Power.

      Kabbalah is called the Western mystery tradition because it is the esoteric teaching behind the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Much Kabbalistic Teaching can be found in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible and in the Talmud, the Jewish commentary on Torah. Once understood, Kabbalah can be used to make these apparently obscure teachings much clearer.

      However, Kabbalah is not a religion; it is a tool to help us in our path of self-realisation and spiritual development whether we choose to use the Bible or not.

      Kabbalistic spiritual practices worldwide include:

      Contemplating and chanting the names of God in Hebrew.

      Painting the Tree of Life as a mandala.

      Contemplative meditation to encounter and heal aspects of our inner psyches.

      Theurgy (sacred magic) of the Angels.

      Astrology.

      Understanding the levels of ego, self, soul and spirit.

      Studying Biblical texts for patterns that relate to the Tree of Life.

      Interpreting life and history through the Tree of Life,

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