The Bahir

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"The words of this text are bright (Bahir) and sparking, but their brilliance can blind the eye." - Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (1522-1570), head of the Safed School of Kabbalah

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Here's an excerpt:

What does the Bet resemble? It is like a man, formed by God with wisdom. He is closed on all sides, but open in front.

The Alef, however, is open from behind.

This teaches us that the tail of the Bet is open from behind. If not for this, man could not exist.

Likewise, if not for the Bet on the tail of the Alef, the world could not exist.

Alef = Alpha = A
Bet = Beta = B

Alphabet. Alefbet.

This path leads to the divine magic that DMT shows us a beautiful glimpse of...

 

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The Bahir was first published secretly in 1176 by the Provence school of Kabbalists. The first printed edition was in 1651 in Amsterdam. It was written/created by Rabbi Nehuniah ben HaKana, a Talmudic sage 2,000 years ago.

It tells you the mystical and divine secrets of Sefer Yetzirah, allegedly created 6,000 years ago by Abraham after his study in Melchizedek's Bet Midrash. Melchizedek was Noah's son Shem, who taught Abraham the divine spark of intelligence YHVHYHVHYHVH.

160. Rabbi Berachiah sat and expounded:

Each day we speak of the World to Come. Do we then understand what we are saying?

In Aramaic, the "World to Come" is translated "the world that came".

We learned that before the world was created, it arose in thought to create an intense light to illuminate it. He created an intense light over which no created thing could have authority.

The Blessed Holy One saw, however, that the world could not endure [this light]. He therefore took a seventh of it and left it in its place for them. The rest He put away for the righteous in the Ultimate Future.

He said, "If they are worthy of this seventh and keep it, I will give them [the rest] in the Final World."

It is therefore called "the world that came," since it already came [into existence] from the six days of creation. Regarding this it is written (Psalm 31:20), "How great is Your good that You have hidden away for those who fear You."

This is talking about the Fall of Man in Genesis. There was no Original Sin. The Fall was the Tzimtzum, the self-constriction of God's light. It was natural, normal and required for God to create this world and then constrict back into the hyperluminal field.