To Unstop the Wells (Stopped up Wells, Bottled up Genies) With Isaac, as with most of us, the situation is more complex. Isaac leaves Mount Moriah — the scene of his childhood trauma — and does not look back. Biblical text records that Abraham re ...
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Tears of Angels: Part Two: Marc Gafni
The way that deepening happens in Biblical myth study is almost always by posing a question. Sometimes even a seemingly technical or structural question can fling the door open to the next layer of meaning. So it is in this discussion. ”Why is it,â ...
Big Heart: Tears of Angels: Part One: Marc Gafni
Blessings and open heart to you holy friends. I want to share this deep teaching from the inside of the inside with you in several parts, maybe seven or eight different installments. May it re-open all of our hearts, for who among us has not closed o ...
The Stones Will Sparkle: Marc Gafni
A lover’s moment of clear perception – seeing with God’s eyes – is recorded by the Mystic Philosopher Traherne and by the Hebrew mystic disciples of Safed in the Galilee over 200 years ago. “The dust and the stones of the st ...
Re-Post: Three Levels of Love: Three Levels of Spirit: Marc Gafni
Re-Post: The Biblical Roots of Love Dedicated to Lady Mary and Lord Bruce:) Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the o ...
To See With God’s Eyes: The Story of Abraham: Marc Gafni
To See With God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the original words themselves. The key w ...
Moving from Fear to Love: Marc Gafni
Love, Fear and … Mystic philosopher Isaac of Homil radically interprets the biblical phrase, “He saw the picture of God” to mean, not that Moses has a mystical vision of divinity and sees a picture of God, but that, far more powerfully, Moses s ...
Perception is Love: Marc Gafni
Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the original words themselves. The key word describing the spiritual work in the ...
What Does it Mean to be a Spiritual Master: Part Two: Marc Gafni
It is the human being becoming a channel for love that one is invited to see and to imitate when one watches the priest give a blessing. It is in this sense that the ancient texts write — “When the priest gives a blessing the Shehina dwells b ...
Pornography: The Exile of the Shekinah: A scholarly note for those readers who Care about such things: Marc Gafni
My interpretation of the Tantric nature of seeing and its transmutation into loving – in the last set of blogs – derives from three primary sources in my study. First — a reading of primary sources — both biblical and mystical — in ...
Who Is Seeing Who: Part One: Marc Gafni
The End is in the Beginning and The Beginning is in the End We return now, full circle to the Cherubic mystery of love. When the pilgrims came to the Temple in Jerusalem three times a year, the biblical verse tells us that they came to “see and be ...
Perception – Love- Intention – Creation: Marc Gafni
Aboriginal traditions in Australia, the Hebrew mystics, Quantum Physics, a modern travel writer and the biblical myth – in the the last three or four blogs …. all come together and and remind us of the powerful spiritual truth; Love=Perce ...
Aborigines, Songlines and Love: Marc Gafni
Listen to a conversation in travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s wonderful book The Songlines: “Aboriginals could not believe the country existed until they could see it and sing it — just as, in the Dreamtime, the country had not existed until the An ...
Eyes to See: Marc Gafni
It is the Kabbalists’ erotic loving perception of being that helps create and sustain the very reality they observe. But observation doesn’t quite capture the sense of what the Kabbalist does. The Kabbalists were often referred to as Mistaklim or ...
To Be God’s Partner is Totally Hot: A Biblical Mystical Teaching: Marc Gafni
The symbol in biblical myth for partnership with God is Amalek. Amalek represents those forces in the world which act for the side of evil. Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin are modern examples of Amalek. Together they are responsible for the brutal deaths ...