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Shabbat Shalom! Abiding this day in the awe and wonder of the Holy One of Being and giving thanks and praise for a place of sanctuary. Thank you Tau Malachi for your response on this topic. I have been sitting with what was written for some days now and am finding I am stunned by the implications. M...

Shabbat Shalom Tau Malachi and All! Abiding in much Praise to the Holy Shekinah for her dance here and thank you Tau Malachi for your response, very beautiful. I greatly appreciate the connection of Ratzon, this will and desire of the Holy One with this everflowing passion pulsating within and throu...

Shalom All! Recently in Continuum there has been a message of the importance of Praise and Thanksgiving. Tau Malachi recently pointed out the importance of praise within our prayer life, how praise is prayer. Through this contemplation was taken to Psalm 111, particularly the first verse: “Praise th...

Shabbat Shalom! Abiding in much praise and thanksgiving for what has been shared here. Praise to the Holy One who shares and reveals mysteries! For some time now, while working with the practice of Union with Partzuf, I have pondered the shift in the practice between a dissolution of Partzuf and the...

Shabbat Shalom! Abiding in much praise and thanksgiving for the teaching shared here regarding the Heavens and the Earths. Initially I am reminded of a verse from Gospel of Phillip, of which has been explored elsewhere in the Forum, though I am hearing another interpretation of the verse in this con...

Shalom All! While studying the topic of "humility" I came across this post by Brother Phillip and found something said here very revealing regarding the Beatitude, "Blessed are the Meek for they shall inherit the earth". Humility may actually be the perception of ourselves as par...

Shabbat Shalom! What has been drawn out here is providing for much prayer and contemplation. Praise be to the Spirit who illumines insights! I am very intrigued by the verse you quote Tau Malachi, “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clea...

Shalom! Many thanks for this thread of contemplation. Praise to the Mother Spirit for the inspiration! There is much in this thread that I find very grounding in the Spiritual Life and practice. An aspect that is particularly standing out to me revolves around what was said, “Before you engage in ba...

Shalom! Praise the Mother Spirit for such a gathering of Community! Very beautiful these various insights concerning "gathering in". I am taken to the 77th saying in the Gospel of Thomas, "I am the light over all things. I am all. From me all has come fourth, and to me all has reached...

Shabbat Shalom! I abide in much praise and adoration to the Holy Mother who reveals such mysteries! Thank you Tau Malachi for so elucidating the beautiful teaching. I have found myself reading your response many times and have enjoyed the depths this contemplation has traveled through. When I abide ...

Shalom! Praise be to the Mother who shines light on sch mysteries! Abiding in thanksgiving Tau Malachi for the mysteries you have shared regarding Kali Imma. I am very taken by this connection of Laylah, night, and how the Divine Name Yah is within the word itself. Two Lamed flanking a Yod and Heh. ...

Shalom! In connection with this Psalm, I was taken to a recent story I read about an image of the Black Madonna who sits within a Holy Chapel inside Einsiedeln, a Benedictine Monastery in Switzerland. As the story goes, at a certain point in history, Einsiedeln was to be consecrated by a Bishop. As ...

Shabbat Shalom! I too have been asking the exact insight you have drawn out Brother Alex, this seeming perpetuation of suffering through our interpretation of others, situations and events. That, if we can, even for a moment shift our perception of what is transpiring, the entire situation can shift...

Shalom! Saying 27 reads... A young lady said to Mary, “When will the world be transformed?” Mary said, “It will not be transformed, but it is sacred to the Mother already. When you are transformed the world will be transformed, for you are the world and the world is you. The world is changing all of...

Shalom! Very much enjoying this contemplation in the Mother Spirit! Praise be to She who illuminates! Recently, I had an occasion to walk in an old growth forest and watched a particular insight arise in connection to what I am feeling being point at here. An old growth forest in not a forest comple...

Shalom! On this day of the Feast of the Blessed Dead many contemplations are arising in accordance with what has been explored here. I am very much enjoying this dialog! Praise Be the Mother Spirit. Mostly, I am noticing a draw to this idea of forgiveness and how it is through forgiveness we come to...

Shabbat Shalom Sister Marion! I am particularly struck in this Psalm by the first three verses. "May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him. As smoke is blown away by the wind, may you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked parish before God....

Shabbat Shalom! Praise to the Mother Spirit for her dance here, and Thank you Tau Malachi for such a beautiful sharing! In regards to the conversation on the Palaces, Peaceful, Blissful, and Wrathful I am taken by the following: Our experience of revelations of the Body of Glory and Body of Emanatio...

Shabbat Shalom Sacred Tau, I abide in much gratitude and reverence for the revelation of such beautiful mysteries. Praise to the Holy Shekinah for this dance! Receiving our initial Anointing, of course, these sense consciousnesses must be progressively purified until the Great Vision, Pure Vision, b...

Shabbat Shalom! I am left abiding in Awe and Wonder regarding the revelations spoken here! Praise be to the Mother Spirit that such a mystery may be elucidated. Much gratitude and thanksgiving to you Tau Malachi for this sharing. By the words spoken in these posts, I am beginning to watch the wordin...

Praise be to the Holy Shekinah, To Asherah for her revelation! Praise be to the Glory and Honor of those who have gone before, those who remember the Light Transmission Generation to Generation! I give thanks for your sharing above Brothers! most beautifully elucidated! When I first saw the Asherah ...

Shabbat Shalom! Many thanks and praise to the Mother for the response given here Tau Malachi! After reading and re-reading what has been written, I watch what first comes up is the prayer we speak every Shabbat Wedding Feast, “We Pray for the Day when You and Your Name are One on the Face of this Gr...

Shalom Tau Malachi and Friends! Recently a certain contemplation arose founded upon something read in the Gospel of Truth. It is said, “But the Father is Perfect. He knows every space that is within him. If he pleases, he reveals anyone whom he desires by giving him a form and by giving him a name; ...

Shabbat Shalom! Much Praise and Thanksgiving for these revelations! “If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. You may take the young, but be sure to let the mothe...

Shabbat Shalom! Praise the Holy Spirit for such revelations! and thanks to everyone for all that has been shared! Recently in our Zohar discourse a certain subject came up that seems very connected here. Rabbi Shim’on speaks in a beautiful revelation, “Within bellies of Torah, we possess hidden trea...

Shabbat Shalom! This Psalm has been giving much food for contemplation recently, I really appreciate everything that has been shared here, thanks to all. Tau said, Law, decrees, precepts, commandments, fear, ordinances, these all correspond to gradations of ruach and da'at, or the reception of the S...

Shalom! Very much enjoying this thread of insight and sharing! Praise Be to the Mother Spirit for this flow of contemplation! What comes up for me in this is this idea that often, it seems, we are not finding out “who” or “what we are”, but instead we are in a process of finding out what we are not....

Shabbat Shalom, Praise be to the Mother Spirit for this inspired conversation! I am very drawn to what you are drawing out Sister Anna, especially in this; Coming back to the Aramaic, the words I found seemed to carry the meaning of “quick,” which added an intriguing nuance to a contemplation of bei...

Shalom In recent examination into the mysteries of the Crucifixion and Resurrection I found a certain contemplation having to do with the word “authority”. In the mysteries, the Christ Bearer is crucified by the governing ‘authorities’, from the outset it appears that these ‘authorities’ gain power ...

Shalom Brothers and Sister, Thank you all for this exploration. What is standing out here most is this idea of polar opposites and the dynamism that must take place between them. I am hearing perhaps we can view tikkune as the actual dynamic of these opposites. I am reminded of a discourse Tau Malac...

Shalom Sister Anna, I have been enjoying your contemplation, thanks for drawing it out. What first arises as I read and contemplate what you have shared is a certain insight regarding the interior stars. It has been observed through out the journey, that in a way, we walk in the various ‘bands’ or ‘...

Shalom! A recent contemplation arose in regards to the Spiritual Journey and its distinct. It appears we can view these cycles along the lines of the story Cain, Abel and Seth, the three who are born to Adam and Eve. If we consider ourselves as Adam and Eve giving birth to the Soul that is within us...

Shalom Brother Jonas, I appreciate that which you are drawing out regarding the Angels of God. I too have noticed the “photon” like phenomena in observing and contemplating the Orders of Angels. It appears, the Orders of Angels at the same time as raying out from Archangels, are what makes up the bo...

Shalom Mark, This is a great question you are asking, one in which I have found myself pondering many times. The question becomes one of true mercy and compassion. When an insect person has made their way in to a place where destruction is occurring we do have to take drastic measures to ensure the ...

Shalom! I hear in your sharing Sister, beautiful I might add, a hint at the very mystery I have been left contemplating since ceremony. I especially hear it in your mentioning “And so "we" came into existence “. In this Ceremony we celebrate the Feast of Lights, where typically, there is o...

Shalom, Praise the Holy Spirit for her dance this day! In this most beautiful sharing the following stands two statements stand out, “ Here we may share an open secret that you have intuited Elder Gideon. When the sacred circle is manifest in the Wisdom of Ain, so the Mother and Daughter, or Upper a...

Shalom! The Gospel of Phillip says, “Those who sow in winter reap in summer. The winter is the world, the summer the eternal realm. Let us sow in the world so that we may reap in the summer.” Snow comes in the winter, as the earth’s axis tilts away from the sun and colds arm spans across the land. T...

Shalom Sister Sheryl and Elder Gideon+, I am enjoying the link to the prayer of St. Francis, “May I seek to understand not to be understood”, tied with the quote from Matthew, “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.” Connecting this then to what you are asking Sister Sheryl, “Can we say ...

Shalom! Abiding in much Praise and Thanksgiving for what the Mother Spirit has shared in these writings! “Listen and hear, and understand! When nefesh behamit is regenerated, transformed into nefesh elokit, there is a tikkune, or realization, of something of Nukva, and when nefesh is joined to ruach...

Shalom! I found myself absorbed in this contemplation this morning as I read the section in Zohar regarding Gad and was happy to see your post Sister Sheryl. What you draw up in connection to the Gilgulim has been a long time pondering of mine. The word itself, Gilgulim, is very intriguing, with its...

Shalom Tau Malachi! May the Mother Spirit be praised for all that has been revealed! In reading and re-reading what you have shared the following is most outstanding to me, “Their unification with Yahweh Elohim, Shaddai, was destined, and yet they sought to be like Elohim, separating Yahweh from Elo...

Shalom, and Solstice Blessings! I abide in thanksgiving for the revelation of what has been shared here! Praise Be to the Holy Spirit! Through what has been shared, “For on one hand there is the implication of the need for the Tikkune or rectification of the Holy Sefirot in the process of creation, ...

Shalom! Much Praise and Thanksgiving for the revelations of such mysteries! What is written here regarding Adam Kadmon corresponds with a recent contemplation found in “The Bahir” in regards to what is said in Genesis 1:2. We read, “The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the ...

Shalom Misty! I too find this mingling of fire and light quite curious! Tau Malachi wrote on this subject in the thread "Heaven: Peace between Opposites" in the Christian Kabbalah section. In the post he mentions a couple key principles regarding this contemplation, Tau Malachi mentions, &...

Shalom! Praise be to the Holy Shekinah for this dance in mysteries. Abiding very thankful to you Tau Malachi for such revelations! The connection with the Divine Name Elohim you are drawing on, Elder Gideon+, is most intriguing to me as well. The Rose somehow symbolizing that which sustains creation...

Shabbat Shalom! Much Praise and Thanksgiving for what has been revealed here! The verse in Isaiah quoted here, “The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and bear shall graze...

Shalom! In this vastness of teachings, Praise be to the Holy Shekniah!, I am watching quite the swirl arise, hopefully the following words can be made sense of. “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if...

Shabbat Shalom! Praise to the Holy Shekinah for revealing this beautiful contemplation! Thank you Tau Malachi for sharing this, it is invoking many thoughts. The first thought that arises is the mystery of the Risen Savior appearing to the Apostles in the upper room, where he comes among them, and s...

Shalom! In our recent exploration of the Legends of the Bride, specifically at the very end of Cycle 1 it is spoken, “The Angel then said to her, “Yes, Blessed Mother, what you say is true, but until it is time, the Light and Fire cannot be mingled and the Queen of Heaven ought not be brought into a...

Shalom! Praise be to the Mother Spirit for such a beautiful exchange of teachings! I am intrigued here by the reference to the restriction taken on by Holy Apostles and this in itself being Corbin. If I am hearing correctly, there appears to be an allusion to this restriction happening in the journe...

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