What is kabala?
MYSTlC12 asked this question on 3/19/2001: yes can you tell me what you know of the Jewish kabala and what the catholic view of this is and how it is regarded by catholic clergy and theologians……p.s. what do these protestants mean exactly when they say they are holy spirit filled, yet call we as Catholics occultist and Satanist? Greetings: The word kabala means “tradition” of a doctrine, specifically the transmission of a secret mystical doctrine of Jewish extraction. The book “Bahir = clear, illuminated” (cf. Job 37, 21), this verse opens the book, has been considered written by a Tannaite of the first century and is called “midrash of Rabbi Nechunia ben Hakana”, is one of the oldest collection of different kabalistic material. The Gnostic influence is remarkable. The pleroma is called “hammaleh = plenitude” or “hakkol=the universe”. The forces of the pleroma are the ten eons (sephirot or mamaroth). You will find there the teaching of the golem and the reincarnation. As you see it
