#10 - Q&A - [1985]

#10 - Q&A 
- Podcast Course: GENERAL PRINCIPLES of KABBALAH 
- Section: TWO 
- Session: 10 of 20 
- Date: Thursday, February 21st, 1985 
- From: Rav Berg 
- Length: 12 minutes 
- Notes: Seminar Day Two: a Q&A after the Main Sessions 
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GENERAL PRINCIPLES of KABBALAH 
[1985 & 1988] 
Section ONE: Basic Principles of Kabbalah 
#1 - The Age of Aquarius & High Tech - [1988] - 1h27m 
#2 - The Atom & Thought Energy Intelligences - [1988] - 3m 
#3 - Achieving Another Level of Consciousness - [1985] - 49m 
#4 - Q&A - [1985] - 9m 
#5 - Bridging The Gap - [1988] - 24m 
#6 - A Question on Restriction - [1988] - 3m 
Section TWO: The Power of The Aleph Bet 
#7 - The Power of The Aleph Bet - [1985] - 1h8m 
#8 - Q&A - [1985] - 14m 
#9 - The Power of The Aleph Bet (Continued) - [1985] - 47m 
#10 - Q&A - [1985] - 12m 
#11 - The Letters & The Sefirot - [1988] - 36m 
Section THREE: Reincarnation 
#12 - Reincarnation - [1985] - 1h9m 
#13 - Sex - [1988] - 20m 
#14 - Reincarnation (Continued) - [1985] - 57m 
#15 - Q&A - [1985] - 25m 
Section FOUR: Kabbalistic Astrology 
#16 - An Extension to Astrology - [1988] - 15m 
#17 - Kabbalistic Astrology - [1985] - 56m 
#18 - Kabbalistic Astrology (Continued) - [1985] - 1h4m 
#19 - Astrology & Meditation - [1985] - 21m 
#20 - Personal Notes - [1988] - 23m 
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#10 - Q&A 
Chapters: 
(0:00) Q#1 
(2:46) Q#2 
(4:48) Q#3 
(5:43) Q#4

Transcript

Q#1

SPEAKER_01 0:06

We'll give it five minutes.

unknown 0:12

Dr.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Byrne, when you say that the output of that um contains all the powers, um how is one to um see those powers manifest to himself? Is that the goal of the Quran in man to be able to harness that power and uh manifest the change through oneself so that it will then have an effect on the wealthing cosmological? Circumstances are gonna compel us to seek a method by which uh life will have to become a little easier. And we're gonna have to find a method. And this is the method. Would you like to read this headline? I'm reading along those lines. The objective is not to harness an I mean that the objective is to make life a little easier. It hasn't been that way, certainly not for the Jew for 2,000 years. And was it meant to be that way? Was it meant to be suffering? The answer is no. The DNA of this physical world, when it's manifested by the energy intelligence of the physical world, meaning the desire to receive for oneself alone, that is the evil aspect of this world that is presently in control. That, because of human activity, suddenly do astrophysicists observe chaos in what was once considered an orderly heaven. Because this universe, man, is in a chaotic situation. Now, can you get out of it? He was told from the very beginning when he became a nation, here was the method. There was one requirement restriction. You can master your destiny. If you don't, then you're going to be governed by that DNA. That metaphysical DNA that controls the environment. But we have an opportunity to change all that.

Q#2

SPEAKER_01 3:00

In other words, there is a there is a will, there is something that is to be regained. Well, I don't know what they mean by the will of God because the will of God to destroy people. I don't know how we could say that's the will of God. But this master plan is not necessarily the will of God, but it isn't a plan that exists through the power of let's let's leave that for reincarnation. Because I think we're gonna get hung up on wars that maybe we just don't quite understand. The other thing is the the physical the letters, when you talk about, and I'm very naive about all of us, but the the uh we talk about the letters being created, then creating. I get later I think of a physical letter as I see it and read it. These physical letters are symbolic of the power that is the letter itself. They form the structure, a mental structure for us, forming an energy intelligence. And whatever that pay or the bet can do for me, by observing that letter, I have created here that energy intelligence. When I pray, I look at that word, I am forming an energy intelligence pertaining to the letter or to the totality of the word. I've got to know what what's happening at that moment.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

I don't what what's happening?

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Why is I mean

Q#3

SPEAKER_02 4:51

if you have what kind of different two guys either let's say this part or even a bit of two or nine of the world, you know. How much two have much more effect? Um the magnitude affect the whole universe the worry until it does.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

No, not as intense. No. That doesn't make them better or worse, obviously.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

But not as intense.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

No one can say that a flower is a tree. But um the cloud is home.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

But we'll leave that for information.

Q#4

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Yeah. Uh certainly uh I'll tell you what it's not. And that is uh it's pretty idiotic to rest on Shabbat because the creator rested on Shabbat. I don't really think he gets tired of coming to work. So it couldn't it couldn't mean that. Um I can't see how uh a person can be a you know a waiter on Shabbat. You know, you can't be a waiter if you want to, and work your bone off a Shabbat, and yet not desecrate the Shabbat. And when it's 110 out there and the child flip the air conditioning switch to the off position, I can't put it on. I don't think there's that much labor involved switching on or off. Uh I mean, if that's the concept of Shabbat, obviously it has another connotation. One is Shabbat. Well, Shabbat, yeah. As I said, there will be an ongoing series of lectures that tell you not who is a Jew, but what is a Jew, because we still have anything discussed. Now what is a Jew? Is there a difference between a Jew and a non-Jew? And if there is, what is the difference? All these are questions that hopefully there will be an ongoing course. And I in fact, I want to devote two minutes to um this is the first seminar that we've had for a while. Uh we we had a seminar last summer in Los Angeles, and I'm very happy and pleased to announce that uh we got some 500 students coming through a week, just question them a couple of months because those who felt uh that there was a need for this kind of education and that uh should be a room for an organization at this time here in New York. Uh we would like we're not looking financially, but we're looking for ideas, if you know, of a location, because this certainly is not the answer. Uh I hope you know you just bear that in mind for those of you who feel that uh this might be something very close to. I just want to mention that. But what is Shabbat? Uh it required because I I can ask you so many questions, but Shabbat is another cosmic influence which does not prevail during the week. During the week it said Vahir Vahibokya. It was day and night. Now, what does that mean, day and night? The sun was created on day four. How could there be day and night? To our understanding of day and night, there must be a sun before there can be day and night. The sun goes down, disappears, you have nightfall. The sun rises, you have daytime. Sun was created on day four. And yet, day one we have it was day and night. What does it mean? There are so many contradictions and misunderstanding in the seven days of creation that we can go on for a year. Just raising all the questions that the Zoe raises, because he asks an awful lot of questions. The answer is when it says day and night, at that point we are obviously not discussing day and night as we know within our own framework of reference. It was no sun. What we're discussing there is negative and positive. The two elements that we discussed concerning the Aleph and the Mem and the Sheen. So the three days of creation are only referring to the manifestation of those three energy intelligence. Now, each day of the six days of creation, there was positive and negative. And we know whenever you put together a positive and negative, they're both battling each other until a third column comes around and tries to create a balance or a harmony. Shabbat was created, it was a gift. We don't have to work for harmony. You just maintain just any negativity. Now, how can I say well, one of the precepts are not to like, not to strike the match and Shabbat? Why don't you strike the Shabbat? It has nothing to do with labor, obviously. There is no effort. However, a Shabbat, there is a day of complete tranquility without any negativity. That's the day, the way the day was created. However, man has the opportunity to change that. Even God's creation. When I say he can change it, he can change it in the way it affects him. If he strikes that match, what he has done is actually aroused the energy intelligence of negativity. Is that correct? Esh, fire. The energy intelligence of fire is left column negativity. By doing this, he has disassociated himself by a non-existent level, cosmic level of non-negativity. And therefore, I take myself out of the realm of tranquility and gone into the operation of the six days, which is you know what six days are about.