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Merkava Mysticism Seminar 4! (Patreon)

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Introduction to Merkavah Mysticism - 4 of X - The Visions of Paul

Welcome to our Summer seminar on Merkavah Mysticism Hundreds of years prior to the rise of the Kabbalah, shaman-like rabbinic mystics were described as having made the terrifying and awe-inspiring descent into the Divine Palaces. There they met with and bypassed fearsome angels with magical codes, gained control over angelic powers, became transformed into beings of fire, gained vast wisdom and mounted the very throne of G!d to carefully measure the vast dimensions of the divine body. These experiences and their praxes are recorded in about 50 manuscripts now known as the Hekhalot (lit. palaces) literature. Outside of specialists this late-classical form of (a)(de)scent mysticism is poorly understood and little appreciated. In this course, we will explore the foundations, social origins, myth-world, praxes and the afterlife of Merkavah Mysticism. Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel One Time Donation Support - Paypal Donation - https://www.paypal.me/esotericachannel Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store New to Studying Esotericism? Check out my Reading Guide here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1caKNlW7sogEF7lAeYNbOQF9pt5O5b70yAXa-icUJO3o/edit?usp=sharing Rare Occult Books - https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/ Course Syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1URUIb_AkZGM3hXzTnPFAwQYkZf_WgL0Q9wWWqSr2ug0/edit?usp=sharing Course Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-93Z0g92p4xMTFRjk5KznFvh65oRjFAo

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Michael P. Gusek

Thanks for helping put the shattered pieces together.

Nachum Kaplan

Good luck ...! Information isn't truth, but it leads to it . I'm looking forward to your episode on Yushka. Context, science , facts all lead to discernment , insight and hopefully ethics . It's a long awaited episode . Yay ...

Keryl Kris

I would suggest that the 'living' Jesus had one mystical vision at his baptism. "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." It's old school, being a voice vision, but it is somewhat the inaugural action of the whole messianic arc. (Plus there is the 40 days in the desert thing that comes later - but I'll leave that aside.)

Krisztina Lazar

I only thought of this question after your live class and I wish I would have asked it then. Do you think Paul’s vision in the temple was because of certain practices he was doing while he was in the temple, like the practices hinted at in Isaiah (if I recall what you said a few lectures back). Or do you think he had a vision because he was in the temple, he was overcome, and just had a vision? I guess what I’m wondering, was Paul’s vision induced by a set of practices or just out of the blue, as sometimes visions can be?

Gabriel Elliot
>>184468737

Justin Sledge PHD is no Mish masher… Like, was Spider-Man‘s girlfriend for real?!

Jae H

An episode on Jesus? Hmm, wondering if he might be a *little* obscure, even for you 😏

Hampsap Lo

I have always been biased against reading Acts because of its propaganda nature. I always read the letters because they are not (At least Paul's are not) hearsay. I have been reading recently about Paul's letters are not to be trusted and were probably written in the 2nd century. He doesn't seem like a nice guy anyway. Always in an ego battle with somebody. I loved the mathematics (actually arithmetic) of your analysis. I never thought of that. Except that where did the writer of Acts get this information about Paul's experience from? He could easily have synthesized it to provide a basis for Paul's boasts in Corinthians.

Simone

This is really good, but I am unconvinced that taking the gospel to the gentiles is a purely Pauline invention - I think Acts believes that, but the earlier, far less problematic Pauline epistles don't attest to that - if that were the case we wouldn't have Galatians. Paul has a unique gospel, that much is true - but there is at least one non-Pauline gospel being propagated to gentiles which appears to be entirely independent of Paul, given that Paul is so adamantly and completely opposed to this other gospel (this also appears to be independent of Peter - Peter and Paul's conflict doesn't seemt to reflec that, and Peter appears to not have major disagreements with James, as Paul mentions them in the same breath). The Pauline gospel is not just "preaching to the gentiles" but rather preaching to the gentiles without the requirement for conversion to halachic Judaism (I think there's also something to the arguments of particularly Matthew Theissen in this regard, in Paul and the Gentile Problem in particular, that Paul's objection to Judaism comes from a kind of apocalyptic hypernomianism in which conversion isn't really a live option to him, more like Jubilees than more mainstream Judaism like that of the Pharisees - Hayes is also good on these issues in her book on conversion and intermarriage in antiquity)

Groobus Grimes

Paul had a chip on his shoulder, too. In my terms, he was an asshole. Endearing but it's the worst kind of assuredness to live with. He knows his authority is unquestioned in the kingdom of heaven and he knows it. It's me, then Jesus. Report up, I dare you. That wasn't show craft. That was me relating. What do you mean I never met him? I met the whole him and it blinded me! Fking jews. I'm gonna go hang out with the pagans, you losers can't take a joke.

Groobus Grimes

It's like You know It's impulses and feelings and ideas. You can 'talk' but that cheapens it. I compell and in turn am compelled. I think spiritual things are difficult to describe unless you have experienced them. Otherwise it's like explaining metaphors with parallels. We have a certain level of real world comparison but it's never quite that. I say things, I use labels, we share titles. The kingdom of spirit is practically anarchy nothing on that side is ever one thing but it's also always everything that it could be at once and there are jobs but it's always a team effort so who's really in charge of what? Paul Bragging is like how I write my own legends. I know, in spirit, I have authority but sometimes you need a little more and for that you need people to recognize the authority you already have to lend you more. Everything is give and take. You can't just manifest more power. It must be given. So boosting my own legends. Boasting. If it gets even one person to recognize them I've increased over all. To whome much is given. Much is required. You don't do it in vain but sometimes you gotta do it. You're gonna pay for it in duty. Authority comes with responsibility always.

Groobus Grimes
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One of the reasons for the boasts is to amp up other disciples. To say; 'Look what I can do and you can too'. He wasn't a good hype man. He just spoke the word and probably never shut up. But he never shut up because he was always talking to God. Or attempting to.. he always had something to say, about Christ. And he was absolutely hard to live with. It's so much as stated in the scriptures. Everyone else has partners, Paul had a scribe. Poor Timmy seen some stuff. Had to carry all the books, too.