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Subject: [K-list] Kabbalah & Kundalini part 2
From: Joe Markel
On 1999/09/17 05:33, Joe Markel posted thus to the K-list:
Kabbalah & Kundalini part 2
2. The Serpent - Satan
Satan is a concept the xian plagerised,
misunderstood and
antropomorphized. Satan means the
Tempter or Master of Folly or Accuser
(Hebrew is a
language of multiple meanings.).In the original Jewish
mythos
he is an angel. An angel of course is an internal
Principle. Satan's Job
is threefold. As it says in Gemorah
- He is the Yetser Horah, he is Satan,
he is the Angel of
Death.
The Yetser Horah (Form of Evil) is man's
inclination to Evil, that is his
inclanation to ignore the
inner voice which tells him what the Upper will
is. Good
and Evil are measured by the upper Will. So, for instance,
if
someone is trying to murder you, the Upper Will is to
kill him first which
is Good. (notice this is
diametrically opposed to "turning the other
cheek"). The
main Yetzer Horah is "the boiling of the blood". The
main
tool of the Yetser Horah is Imagination. These are
not Evil per se and the
Yetser Horah is also not Evil.
Only man can be evil. The Yetser Horah is
basically man's
Animal Nature. Itself it is not Evil and can actually be
a
stronger force for Good if used properly than the
Spiritual Nature.
However the Animal/Emotive nature needs
the guidance of the intellect in
order to channel it
properly.
After convincing the person to do bad, the
Yetzer Horah puts on his Satan
hat and "goes upstairs" to
the upstairs Court there he presents the deeds
and gets a
verdict. Then he turns into the Angel of Death and "comes
back
down" to carry out the judgement. So this triple
Angel is also something
like Karma.
All this is meant
to be taken in an ALLEGORICAL manner.
Another
allegorical way of explaining the above is what it says
in
Kabbalah that the Air of Heaven and the Air of Hell are
always surrounding
us. When a person does a good deed it
is written upon the air of Heaven. A
bad deeds is written
upon the Air of Hell.
A full explanation would be even
longer than my series. But the main
point is that the
Kabbalah does not see Satan as a guy with horns.
The reason he is called the Serpent is that he is none other than the
serpent power in the spine.
More to come
Rabbi Yossi Markel
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