Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00307)

 Oct 24 2003
 
Re: GILGOOLEM
 
 
Dear Friends:
 
Here are sine references:
 
 
GILGOOLEM (Heb.) The cycle of rebirths with the Hebrew Kabbalists; with
the orthodox Kabbalists, the “whirling of the soul” after death, which
finds-no rest until it reaches Palestine, the “promised land”, and its
body is buried there.
T. Glos p. 128 [ see: S D I 568, Isis II 152; W Q
Judge Articles I p. 79;
 
 
“…all those Philosophers believed more or less in ANIMATED atoms, not in
invisible specks of so-called "brute" matter. 
 
Rotatory motion was generated in their views, by larger (read, more
divine and pure) atoms forcing downwards other atoms; the lighter ones
being thrust simultaneously upward. The esoteric meaning of this is the
ever cyclic curve downward and upward of differentiated elements through
intercyclic phases of existence, until each reaches again its starting
point or birthplace. 
 
The idea was metaphysical as well as physical; the hidden interpretation
embracing "gods" or souls, in the shape of atoms, as the causes of all
the effects produced on Earth by the secretions from the divine bodies.*
No ancient philosopher, not even the Jewish Kabalists, ever dissociated
Spirit from matter or vice versa. 
 
Everything originated in the ONE, and, proceeding from the one, must
finally return to the One. "Light becomes heat, and consolidates into
fiery particles; which, from being ignited, become cold, hard particles,
round and smooth. And this is called Soul, imprisoned in its robe of
matter;" † Atoms and Souls having been synonymous in the language of the
Initiates. 
 
The "whirling Souls," Gilgoolem, a doctrine in which so many learned
Jews have believed (See Mackenzie's Royal Masonic Cyclopædia), had no
other meaning esoterically. The learned Jewish Initiates never meant by
the "Promised land" Palestine alone, but the same Nirvana as the learned
Buddhist and Brahmin do—the bosom of the ETERNAL ONE, symbolized by that
of Abraham, and by Palestine as its substitute on Earth.‡ 
 
The passage of the SOUL-ATOM "through the Seven Planetary Chambers" had
the same metaphysical and also physical meaning. It had the latter when
it was said to dissolve into Ether (See Isis Unveiled, Vol. I., p. 297.)
S D I 568
 
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I hope this proves of use,
 
Best wishes,
 
Dallas
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Herold
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:57 AM
To: study@blavatsky.net
Subject: [bn-study] Gilgul Abraham Etzion Becker
 
Dear Etzion Becker, 
 
some time ago you wrote about the name Abraham in this forum. As I can't
read Hebrew I'm not able to find out if there is anything written about
the Gilgul ( that's the cabbalistic version of reincarnation) of Abraham
in the traditional cabbalistic textbooks. I'm very much looking forward
to hearing from you.
Yours Robert Herold
 
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