Post by notnotthing on Dec 29, 2018 17:46:22 GMT
There is mention, I think in the Stellar Lode and one or two other places, that a group of wealthy Russian Jews, called the 'Beaumont club' (spelling?) chartered and financed Nu Isis Lodge in the early days.
Further details on this are scant, but it is a curious aspect. The reason I bring it up, as a bit of a wild stretch at sympathies, is there has been a movement in Russia since the late 1700s, several have probably heard about Chabad or ChBD Judiasm. Lubavitch is the town in Russia which released the documents, sometimes called Lubavitch Chabad based on that.
ChBD stands for Chokmah, Binah, and Daath. The movement is a strain of Hassidism, which itself is a mystical offshoot of mainstream Judiasm, and ChBD seems to be an inner sect within Hassidism.
The revolution they propound, and this is not new, others such as Sabbatai Sevi, the Jewish Mystical Messiah in the 1600s, proposed to begin the emanations at Chokmah, and not Kether. The reason is, and highly heretical in Sabattai's time and even now, is that the first cause, is not the first cause. So starting the emanations at Kether, is not correct because the light is inert. There is no will or cause, it is the inert, infinite Ain Sof. The concept of the godhead does not begin until the path of Aleph, and does not culminate until Chokmah, which in orthodoxy is never the first cause.
By reforming the tree in this way, it solves several problems, but also introduces another, the heretical, along the lines of 'there is no God' or 'God is not the cause of causes'. Mainstream cults don't want to hear anything about that!
But, if you look into Sabbatianism and Chabad (i'm not saying they are the same), they both have the same reformations to the tree. Specifically the focus on the supernals being Chokmah, Binah, and Daath, where Kether is completely ignored, Daath is embraced as the lowest of the supernals, and they even discuss the emanations mirrored to Yesod.
Anyway without going into more technical details, this model tracks to the Grant gnosis almost exactly as far as I can see. The dogma and approach is different, but they are describing the same thing.
So, I hate to propose connections and relations where there are none, but Russia, Mystical Judiasm, Beaumont, and the parallels in technical doctrine are enough to ask the question. I also have theories on how Sabbatai and Chabad came about going back to the second temple days and before...but maybe for another post.
Further details on this are scant, but it is a curious aspect. The reason I bring it up, as a bit of a wild stretch at sympathies, is there has been a movement in Russia since the late 1700s, several have probably heard about Chabad or ChBD Judiasm. Lubavitch is the town in Russia which released the documents, sometimes called Lubavitch Chabad based on that.
ChBD stands for Chokmah, Binah, and Daath. The movement is a strain of Hassidism, which itself is a mystical offshoot of mainstream Judiasm, and ChBD seems to be an inner sect within Hassidism.
The revolution they propound, and this is not new, others such as Sabbatai Sevi, the Jewish Mystical Messiah in the 1600s, proposed to begin the emanations at Chokmah, and not Kether. The reason is, and highly heretical in Sabattai's time and even now, is that the first cause, is not the first cause. So starting the emanations at Kether, is not correct because the light is inert. There is no will or cause, it is the inert, infinite Ain Sof. The concept of the godhead does not begin until the path of Aleph, and does not culminate until Chokmah, which in orthodoxy is never the first cause.
By reforming the tree in this way, it solves several problems, but also introduces another, the heretical, along the lines of 'there is no God' or 'God is not the cause of causes'. Mainstream cults don't want to hear anything about that!
But, if you look into Sabbatianism and Chabad (i'm not saying they are the same), they both have the same reformations to the tree. Specifically the focus on the supernals being Chokmah, Binah, and Daath, where Kether is completely ignored, Daath is embraced as the lowest of the supernals, and they even discuss the emanations mirrored to Yesod.
Anyway without going into more technical details, this model tracks to the Grant gnosis almost exactly as far as I can see. The dogma and approach is different, but they are describing the same thing.
So, I hate to propose connections and relations where there are none, but Russia, Mystical Judiasm, Beaumont, and the parallels in technical doctrine are enough to ask the question. I also have theories on how Sabbatai and Chabad came about going back to the second temple days and before...but maybe for another post.