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Updated as of feb 12th, 2022

. . . The Mystical Teachings of Abraham Abulafia . . .

Hello this special section on this unique book was created on feb 5th 2022, past excerts from end of 2021 to beginning of 2022 can be found on downloads 33 of the 70s invasion :)

The angel who advises you of the secret of God is named Gabriel, and he speaks from the first verse of the holy name mentioned by you, and he shows you the wonders of prophecy, for that is the secret of:85 "In a vision I will make myself known to him, in a dream I will speak to him, in a dream I will speak to him," for "vision," which is the secret of the verse, equals Gabriel, and dream," whose secret is 86 "Edo," is Enoch.

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Here too one finds the hematoma for Gabriel > 246 > pasuq (verse) ma'reh (vision) > meander (speaks). There seems no doubt that these expressions allude to the Active Intellect. Consequently, in the prophetic vision the mystic sees " the figure of a human by means of the Active Intellect, a revelation accompanied by speech. We infer the connection between this figure, which is the reason for the "response", and the person's speaking, from Abulafia's own words, who describes this situation as an answer given by man to himself. It follows from this that we may reasonably assume that the human form is no than a projection of the soul or intellect of the mystic, who carries on a dialogue with it at the time of pronunciation. The optical status of this figure may be inferred from Abulafia's comments in Hayye ha-Olam ha-Ba;

Testimonies of vision of the self, within the context of the process of prophecy, appear in those circles with which Abulafia had a certain degree of contact:

All the camps of the Shekhinah have there neither image or corporeal form, but the spiritual emanating, and likewise on the other angelic levels. However the tenth level, which is closest to human beings, called isim, [i.e.,persons] is visible to the prophets. All agree that they possess the form of a body, similiar to [that of] a human being, and very awesome. And the prophet sees all sorts of his powers becoming weaker and changing from form to form, until his powers cast off all forms and are embodied into the power of the form revealed to him, and then his atrength is exchanged with that of the angel who speaks with him.......To be continued.....

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The two urges, likened to the two sides of the scales,clearly correspond to the imagination and intellect, alluded to in the expression in the vision, "scales for the human being." Let us now address ourselves the double character of this vision:i.e., that it speaks about both a sphere and a ladder. The circle 🔵 Which appears in the vision and which is a projection thereof, is a well known phenomenon; Carl Jung saw it as an archetype of the process of individuation of the personality or, in religious terms, the cleaving of the "I" to God. The emphasis upon the high spiritual level attained by Abulafia at the time he had the vision of the circle fits Jung's assumption. 174 In the wake of Jung's studies, G Tucci wrote, in the introduction to his book on manadala:

.....the proximity between the sphere and the ladder and the spiritual contents connected with the remind us to a great extent of Abulafia's approach. The connection between the ladder and the sphere are again discussed in another passage, related to Sefer ha-Zeruf, in connection with the spiritual manifestations connected to "prophecy ':186... (to be continued)

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