Zohar (Part 1): Rosicrucianism and the hermetic "gap"

[abellache]

The Book of Zohar begins with this sentence:

"Rabbi Ezechias opens: It is written as a rose among thorns. What is the rose? It is the Community of Israel."

This reference to the rose alludes to the “Song of Songs,” a famous book of the Old Testament, to offer it a new meaning not present in this book of the Bible.

The Zohar ends with the accomplished being, called “Rozen Koreuz,” the knight (herald) of the rose, who will become for the Rosicrucian order “Christian Rosenkreutz,” their Christ, mythical figure, and master symbol.

The rose of Rosicrucianism, placed at the heart of the Christian cross and straddling it (it is placed on, above, the cross), symbolizes "the Community of Israel," to re-quote the beginning of the Zohar.

The Zohar will therefore be the basis of Rosicrucianism but also of alchemy and the “colored” white and red stages of the Rosicrucian and then Masonic initiation rite, which will quickly become red, white, black: "Because there is rose and rose, and like the rose among thorns that includes red and white". This will also directly inspire the Lutheran rose:

At the same time, the rosary emerges:

“The word ‘rosary’, attested from the 13th century, comes from the Latin rosarium (or rosarius), which refers to a rose garden or a field of roses.”
“In the Middle Ages, it was customary to crown statues of the Virgin with roses, each rose symbolizing a prayer, hence the word rosary. This prayer to Mary gradually developed in the Church’s piety, only to be fixed in its definitive form around 1500.”

These symbols from the Zohar will spread like wildfire during this period, in fact from the 12th century until the French Revolution and even after to a lesser extent, this symbol of the rose is present everywhere, in the coats of arms of great families, in paintings, etc…

But the culminating point of this Zoharian infiltration will be the fall of the European religious monarchies and the disastrous wars of religion. Like this one, with quite a telling name:

Wars of the Roses

But how did such a collection of books manage to resuscitate many of the hermetic teachings and how did a collection of essays written in the medieval era in broken Aramaic make it into the literary cannon of Jewish Kabbalist tradition? Despite opposition of many prominent Jewish figures of the time like Maimonides

More importantly, the qliphotic version of Kabbalah, which deems the physical world evil in its essence, is yet another artificial addition that comes from pagan worlds, but which is also found in Buddhism ("the world is suffering and we must extract ourselves from it by reaching Nirvana and Moksha, Nirvana without return, to no longer ‘suffer’ life and its system of reincarnation, to flee the misfortunes of life on earth.).

However, this goes against major tenants of Jewish monotheism: if we summarize the beginning of the Torah probably written between 1000 and 800 years before Jesus Christ:
“God created the world in six days, and saw that it was good.”

Translation: God deemed the world good, it does not need any fixing

The real question here, is: What are the actual references behind the Zohar, and what is its most probable place of origin?

I’m going to argue in a next post that the real origin of this gnostic resurgence can be found in what is today modern Ukraine. In the Black Sea shores of Crimea and Odessa.

In the meantime if you have any critique, I’d be more than happy to take them into consideration.!

[abellache]

A little side note on our friends the templars. The most probable source that told them what to look for on temple Mount and where to look for it was likely some Italian noble families with Links to the Vatican. The Orsini were one such family which openly floated a serpent and a rose on its coat of arms. They were by no means the only ones carrying the gnostic mind virus.

[omnimatter]

There is a massive buried Pyramid complex found in the late-90’s or early 2000’s in the Ukraine. Wherever we find megalithic architecture, we will also likely find antediluvian Enochian system of magic. In all likelihood, we are watching the events in The Ukraine, Antarctica, the invasion of Iraq (formerly Babylon), and so forth, as a concentrated attempt to recover this lost system of blood magic to release the ‘gods’ from their imprisonment.

[abellache]

I was going to make the strange hidden history of Ukraine and the caucasus my next post on this topic. Yes they not only have these buried pyramids but entire tunnel networks and even underground mega-cities in the caucasus. Plus the central role and importance of that trade node in the silk road system had no equivalent in the ancient world. Its truely the most hidden and occulted part of the world.

[abellache]

I might do a post about the Zohar compared with rest of kabbalah next. Ukraine is still difficult to write about succinctly because I always end up down the same two rabbit holes.

1. Gog and Magog and the serpent tribe of Dan
2. Tartaria and the 1000 year reign.

Most people have no idea what that place is about. The nazi international was born there. They were forced to move to Germany in the Rhineland and Bavaria because of Ivan the terrible no longer tolerating their black magic. But Germany is not at all their birthplace.

[FiatLux]

I always wondered what all the rose symbolism was about . . . but I’ve never looked into it. I thought it might, in some contexts, be a reference to the Latin term sub rosa and symbolize secrets and secret societies.

Sub rosa

But that was just a wild guess on my part.

[abellache]

It is the key symbol of all secret societies since the 11th century AD. These merchant and aristocrat families do not have any of the antediluvian knowledge or understand anything about what the aim of these societies is. Those that know are the “gurus”, people like this guy:

Which will bring me to talk about prince Gog and Ukraine next because that is unavoidable by this point.

[neru]

By “gurus” you mean shamans?

[abellache]

I meant exactly that yes. you’re perceptive .

At least in the early renaissance. Today you have hindu and buddhist teachers too. Like Osho. But its a recent phenomenon I think. But those from Ukraine are the most “cosmopolitain” they draw from every tradition. West + East.

[neru]

Not really, weren’t you promoting the Willem Mcloud trilogy? Anyway, interesting read and not what I was expecting. I do however don’t think “shamans” are the top of the pyramid initially, but I do think that group exerts tremendous power in today’s world and in direct confrontation with Angels.

[abellache]

No I was explaining how hermeticism was kept from being destroyed by the church and by Islam. Who did that?! That’s the question. The people who protected and re-spread that knowledge are shamans from black sea some of whome converted to Judaism. They managed to sneak gnosticism inside the Zohar like that.

The post is not about who’s at the top. That’s a different issue.

[neru]

Ok, my mistake. Looking forward to the read.

[uintatom]

Thanks for the time you’re putting into this.