Like all religions; they change through time.
To remain true; traditions must be adhered to.
Can’t really think of any of them, that hasn’t morphed into something “other”.
Does “Zohar”, in your thinking; remain true to its origins?
Are there a deeper layers; like in Masonic teachings?
Where there are 33 degree Masons?[or, something like that; as I’m not well versed in any of it]
In fact; at its deepest levels; might it be180 degrees, from what is being taught to the initiates?
Zohar is the source of freemasonry and the illuminati and before them the rosicruscians. The system of progressive initation was initially built by central asian, persian, and east european kabbalists who wanted to hide their true teachings. Books like Zohar have specific ways to decode and understand. The black sea saw buddhists, orthodox christians, animists, talmudists and all sorts of ideas go through it.
How different is it from orthodox Judaism? Well if at some point you end up naming your kids “Nemrod” then you are not in the orthodox cannon to say the least.
The Zohar will spread to Christianity and even become the basis for the secular gnostic religion of the Freemasons and the new european and American elites.
The intitation system is to hide the gnostic ideas from the orthodox cannon. Maimonides fought bitterly against the Zohar and other similar books spreading in the Jewish community in Spain. The Catholic church also tried to stop the Christian version but they are now inflitrated too.
So, do you think “their” origins were off-world?
Either through direct means, and/or indirect means?
Or, was Zohar originated through some other medium?
Do they have several origin stories, and/or myths?
What do you think; in terms of Zohar - are men using it for their own ends?
Or, does Zohar, in ways unknown - use men?
Or, have they been using using each other?
(All lost in the above; yet all most paramount in the above;
what ties it all together… “analogical” [for lack of a better word]
Symbolism in the extreme; in its pure essence.
Yet, it moves and/or entwines; in a most direct individualist medium.
The closet description, it comes to at this site ; falls under the rubric…
the topological metaphor.)
No I think they compiled every esoteric tradition of almost every major culture. You have buddhist travellers coming with their ideas, Greek and Egyptian ideas from Byzantium, the Babylonian ideas from persia and the talmud.
The original of these ideas is the same ancient texts describing the cosmic war and the hermetic tablets. The rest is Zoroastrianizm remanents practiced by luciferian worshippers who hid in the Zagros.
These ideas were banned and all but disappeared in west eurasia with the rise of monotheism. The people who rebooted all of them are the “guru” types like Rasputin. They hid them under multiple layers of symbolism in kabbalah, especially the Zohar.
Nice to see that somebody appreciates and uses percepts of orthomolecular medicine @neru
Psychiatrists are starting to sing more unison tune as far as schizophrenia being more neurological condition than so called psychiatric one. Factoring that, schizophrenics actually suffer higher rate of cancer, since brain governs everything in the body below.
Yep, that’s the “ticket”…words and definitions are the key to unraveling and understanding events and thoughts.
Any wonder most children’s education does not include how to use a dictionary?
@Bill10558 Right on! How can they use a dictionary if they can’t spell? How can they spell if they they don’t even know phonics exists?