Evolutionary Kabbalah articulates the shocking the realization of the interior science of Hebrew wisdom that all of reality is evolving. The realization of Evolutionary Kabbalah is that – that from what we might call a non-dual perspective there is no separation between the divine and all of reality. This means that all levels of reality, from matter to body to mind to spirit, – the divine and the manifest, matter life and the depth of the self reflective human mind are co-evolving all the time.
Moreover, in Evolutionary Kabbalah a key emergent tenet is that the human being is one of the pivoting points causing evolution to reach forward, becoming ever more good, true, loving, unique, conscious, and beautiful.
The human being’s awareness of his/her role in the process of evolution is the divine principle of evolution becoming conscious of itself.
Not only, however, does each human being participate in the process of divine evolution?that is to say, the evolution of all of reality?every human being participates uniquely in that evolution.
There is some particular Tikkun – fixing, vocation, calling, or mission that devolves upon every human being. This calling, at a particular moment in history, is irreducibly unique and it can only be responded to and fulfilled, by one specific unique person. And every human being is called.
If one human being is missing, if one human being does not respond to her call, then there is a dimension of divinity that remains un-evolved.
This is the great teaching of Evolutionary Kabbalah, which through the mystery schools of Italy and Europe shaped the renaissance and the entire course of human and world history. These sources however were ultimately lost, as the dogmas, not of science but of reductionist scientism swept Europe and the Americas and their implications spread around the world.
It is now a moment of meta crisis, we are poised between utopia and dystopia, we face potential existential and catastrophic risk even as we have the capacity to create the most beautiful world that we also knew was possible.
At this moment the depth structure of these crucial sources needs to be evolved – reclaimed, reanimated, and rearticulated, in the context of the emergence of a new story of value, which generates new human and a new humanity, Homo amor, the fulfillment of Homo sapiens.
These core sources on Evolutionary Kabbalah, a termed coined by Dr. Marc Gafni, were translated and published in a source book as the basis of the dialogues between Andrew Cohen and Marc Gafni in December of 2005. Dr. Gafni gave teachings on these sources in Israel between December 2005 and April 2006.
The two texts below on Evolutionary Kabbalah, from Abraham Kuk, together with seventeen other major texts is being integrated and unfolded in the new story of value- called CosmoErotic Humanism, a story of value in in response to the meta crisis, being unfolded by Dr. Marc Gafni, Dr, Zachary Stien and colleagues at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion.
One of the source strands that Gafni and Stien are integrating into CosmoErotic Humanism what might be called Evolutionary Spirituality emerging from the context of Evolutionary Kabbalah, into CosmoErotic humanism. In parallel Gafni and Cohne intend to publish a separate work on Evolutionary Spirituality itself.
Source One in Kuk:
- Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kuk: Lights of Holiness, Vol. 2, pp. 532,533
<H4>Two Types of Perfection</H4>
<H4>by R. Kuk</H4>
We perceive there to be two types of Perfection in absolute divine Perfection: One type of Perfection is so great and complete that no additional evolution is relevant to it.
If, however, there were no possibility of additional evolving whatsoever, this in and of itself would be an imperfection. For Perfection that is constantly waxing greater has great advantage and is pleasurable, and is uplifting,
For we yearn for it exceedingly, proceeding from strength to strength. Divine Perfection can therefore not be lacking the dimension of perfecting which is the evolving process of perfecting and unfolding power
This is why divinity has the ability to be creative, to instigate limitless cosmic be-ing and becoming, proceeding through all its levels and stages and growing.
It therefore follows that the essential divine soul of being, that which gives it life, is its constant ascending. That is its divine foundation, which calls it to be and to evolve.
The more science bases itself on evolution, the more it approaches the highest divine enlightenment, and the more it touches the most sublime of visions.
For the entirety of being cannot be judged by its partial relativity, that is to say, by means of the relation between one part and another, for this will not lead us to its true nature.
In truth, its primary inner law is the general relation of its entirety and all of its parts to divine wholeness.
This is the most eminent of all, and the most worthy principle upon which to understand the foundation of all of reality.
Source Two: Abraham Kuk:
- Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kuk: Lights of Holiness, Vol. 2, pp. 537
Teaching on Evolution
The theory of evolution, which is presently conquering the world, is aligned with the most profound secrets of the Kabbalah, more than any other philosophical theories.
Evolution, which proceeds on an ascending trajectory, provides an optimistic base for the world, for how is it possible to despair when one sees that everything is evolving and ascending?
And when we penetrate the very center of the principle of ascending evolution, we discover that it is the divine principle which is enlightened with absolute clarity. For it is Infinity in realization which realized itself through bringing infinity from infinite potentiality to infinite actuality {infinitely}
Evolution enlightens all dimensions of reality, all of God’s manifestations.
All of reality evolves and ascends, as is evident in its parts,
and this ascension is general as well as particular.
It rises to the highest peaks of absolute good.
It is self-evident that good and the whole are interrelated,
and reality is prepared to attain this quality, in which the All absorbs all of the good in all its parts.
This is the general ascending, in which all particular parts participate.
No spark is lost from the binding of unity, all are ready for the Great Feast.
To attain this goal the spirit must aspire to sublime divine passion, which is formed by faith-inspired work with God.
Link to Dialogue with <a href=”http://www.marcgafni.com/wp/?page_id=392″>Craig Hamilton on Principles of Evolutionary Spirituality</a>,
<a href=”http://www.marcgafni.com/wp/?page_id=18&lan=hebrew”>Link to Teaching of Marc Gafni on Evolutionary Kabbalah</a>
<a href=”http://www.marcgafni.com/wp/?cat=7″>Link to Articles on Evolutionary Kabbalah</a>
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In all of the source below, the hebrew text comes first followed by a number, 1 or 2 etc with an English translation of the original Hebrew or Aramaic source.
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- Deuteronomy 26:17-18
This day you have avowed the Lord to be your God, promising to go in His ways and to obey His rules and commandments, and to hearken to His voice. And this day the Lord has avowed you to be His very own people, as He has promised you, and to obey His commandments.
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- Berahot 7a
Rabbi Yohanan said in the name of Rabbi Yossi: How do we know that God prays? As it says, “And I will bring them to My holy mountain and will cause them to rejoice at My prayer house.” It does not say, “their” prayer house, but rather “My” [prayer house]. From this we may infer that God prays.
What does He pray?
Rav Zutra the son of Tuvia said: [God prays:] “May it be My will before Me that My compassion overcomes My anger, and that My compassion prevails over My other attributes, and that I act towards My children with compassion, and that I go beyond strict justice on their behalf.”
We also learned: Rabbi Ishmael the son of Elisha said: “I once entered into the innermost chamber {that is, the Holy of Holies) to offer up incense, and I saw Akatriel Yah the Lord God of Hosts sitting on a high and exalted throne”.
He said to me, “Ishmael my son, Bless me”.
I said to him, “May it be Your will that Your compassion overcomes Your anger and that Your compassion prevails over Your other attributes, and that You act towards Your children with compassion, and that You go beyond strict justice on their behalf”.
And He nodded to me with His head, which teaches us that one should never underestimate the blessing of a simple person.
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- Midrash Rabba Numbers 13:6
“On the first day” – Rabbi Shmuel said: What is meant by “the first day”? Since the first day that God created the world, He desired to dwell with His creatures in the terrestrial world,”
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- Midrash Rabba Bereshit 39:10
To what can Abraham be compared? To the friend of a king who saw the king walking through dark alleys. His friend looked out, and began shining light on the kng through the window. The king looked and saw him. He (the king) said to him: “Rather than shining a light on me through the window, come here and hold a light before me.”
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- Midrash Rabba Bereshit 69:3
Rabbi Yohanan said: The wicked rely on their gods…but the God of the righteous relies on them.
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- Sifri VeZot Haberacha
It is written in Isaiah 43: “and you are My witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.” When you are My witnesses, I am God. And when you are not My witnesses, I am not God.
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- Eicha Rabati, parsha 1, section 33
Rabbi Azarya said in the name of Rabbi Yehuda the son of Rabbi Simon: When Israel performs God’s will, they add strength to the heavenly power, as it is written (Psalms 60) “We will cause God to be strong.” When, however, Israel is not performing God’s will, they, as it would be, weaken the great heavenly strength, as it is written (Deuteronomy 32): “You have weakened the Rock that bore you.”
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- Zohar, Volume 2, 32b
For when Israel does deeds that are not proper, they, as it would be, weaken God’s strength. And when they perform proper deeds, they give power and strength to God, concerning which it is written, (Psalms 68:35), “Give strength to God”. How? By proper deeds.
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- Zohar Volume 3 135b
None of them (the worlds that were created before this world) could exist
Until the White Head, the Most Ancient of all Ancients, evolved Himself
When He evolved Himself, He brought about the evolution of all those below
He evolved all the evolutions of those above and those below
From this we learn – Any head of a people that does not first evolve Himself
His people will not evolve
And if He evolves, they all will evolve
And if He does not first evolve Himself, the people cannot evolve themselves.
Where do we know this from?
From the Ancient of Days, for until He evolved Himself in all His potentials,
All those in need of evolution could not evolve
And all the worlds were destroyed
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- Avodat Hakodesh, Section One, Chapter 27
I previously wrote, in the introduction to this book, that service is a divine need, not merely a human need. And I proved this, based on many allusions in the Bible and words of the rabbis, although in fact, this is a tradition that was transmitted orally by the Masters of the Work from generation to generation. The pious and the people of action therefore had the power to draw Desire-Need from above to below through their service and right behavior, which is to do what is good and straight in God’s eyes. For the Upper Levels are aroused by the Lower Levels, and therefore, the pious one, who is working with proper intention, is seemingly helping the Unique Name with Its work, as it says, “He rides the heavens with your help (Deut. 33:26).
And in the Midrash of R, Nehunya ben Haqanah (Sefer Habahir) it says the following: “And how does he do kindness with his Master? By the study of Torah, for whosoever studies the Torah is doing kindness towards his/her Maker, as it is written (ibid) ‘And by His pride, the heavens’, meaning, that when a person studies the Torah for its own sake, then you help Me, And I ride the heavens….”
We see from this that service is a divine need, through which the Higher Levels are aroused, and are helped with their activities, which is the fixing of the Glory. As the rabbis said “You should have helped Me” (See endnote to page 26).. as it says in the Midrash Shohair Tov, “’Your help comes from Zion’ – this teaches us that everyone needs help.” Through the support and help of the lower worlds, the two lovers are one and embrace with kisses, which is the Unification of the Great Name, and the reason for the work.
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- Avodat Hakodesh Section One. Chapter 18
And since He desired to chose one nation to be part of His great name, and He saw that that people should not be as all the other peoples, which He has no partnership with…He therefore made a key for that chain, which is the chain of Unity, according to the mystery of Atzilut that is linked to it. And since they [that people] are His special portion, and He is the Great Name, as He is partner to them and they live in Him, they will never be lost or assimilated amongst the peoples, for they are recognized and identified through Him, for they are God’s portion and His inheritance, that He chose for Himself; all that see them will recognize that they are seed blessed of God.
It therefore says, “And if you cut off our names, what will You do with Your great name?” (Joshua 7:9) – as the Name is complete only through them, which is why they can never be destroyed or made extinct, for they are a divine need and the Divine needs them…. Happy is the people in this situation, Happy is the people who God is their Lord.
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- Sha’ar Maa’marei Rashbi – Commentary on the Book of Concealment
The crux of the matter is that Zeir Anpin (the Small Faces, the immanent aspect of the Godhead) is comprised of both Judgment and Compassion.
When the lower world sins, their cry reaches His ear, and He is permeated with Judgment, and He turns His face away from Atiq Yomin (the Ancient of Days, the transcendent aspect of the Godhead).
And when the voice of Return reaches His ear, then Zeir Anpin realigns Himself to face Arich Anpin (the Long Face, used here synonymously with the term Atiq Yomin), and then Compassion prevails
We therefore see that both the Healing and the Disintegration are dependant upon Zeir Anpin, for when Zeir Anpin heals Himself – which happens thanks to the sound of the cry of the lower levels, who returned from their evil ways – then Arich Anpin will enlighten Him, and gaze at Him with a good eye
And the Judgment will be abrogated.
And the opposite, heaven forefend, is also true.
We therefore see that prayers and cries reach Him
And He is healed through them so as to receive the flux from Arich Anpin
But Arich Anpin does not change and will not change ever
Therefore, the ear of Arich Anpin is for the sake of Zeir Anpin, to hear His voice and to enlighten Him…
This is the secret meaning of what it says, that God prays.
And this is the most concealed of mysteries, the deepest of the deep, who can fathom it?
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- Sha’ar HaKavanot – Sha’ar Kriyat Shma, Sixth Discourse
Indeed the ruah and the nefesh (two levels of soul) are children of tiferet and malhut (the lower male and female aspects of divinity), and concerning them it says, You are children to YHVH your God, as they (tiferet and malhut) are the aspect of ruah and nefesh. We are now (at the time of calling out the Shma) participating in the celestial union of Abba (father) and Emma (mother), and our intention is to cause the Feminine Waters to rise up to them from their children, that is, Zeir Anpin (the lower male aspect of divinity) and Nukva (the lower female aspect of divinity), and also from the souls of the righteous, and all those [whose task it is] to arouse the Feminine Waters to Supernal Mother.
And see, the biblical verse says, “Give strength to God, His Pride is on Israel.” The meaning of this, as it would be, is that God needs assistance, support and strength from the deeds of Israel below.
[The sfira of] malhut (the Lower Divine Feminine) is called “the falling sukkah of David”. For, due to our sins, she has fallen, due to our evil deeds. Similarly, when She wants to ascend, it must be through our merits and good deeds. For our sins cause Her to fall, and our merits cause Her to rise. It is therefore at the present time impossible for Her to rise if there are not entirely righteous people, whose souls are holy and pure, who have the strength to rise to the place of Supernal Mother, and through them, malhut will rise, as was mentioned in the Tiqunim (a thirteenth century Kabbalistic treatise). For Israel is called “the wings of the Shechinah,” as they raise Her up. This is the reason that the Exile is so long and detained; for we have no one capable of rising up to this high level. For if we had someone that was able to raise his/her soul there, he/she would also cause malhut to ascend, and union would be affected as is appropriate. This is the reason that the End (of Days) is detained, and almost all the troubles and travails that beset man are for this reason. There is, however, a certain degree of healing affected by giving up our souls for the sanctification of God’s name, for by this action, although we may have no good deeds and are incredibly evil, still, by giving our souls up to death, all our sins are forgiven, and we have the capability to rise to Higher Divine Mother, as the rabbis said, “The [power of] Return is great, for it reaches the Heavenly Throne, as it is written, ‘Return. O Israel, to YHVH your God.” For Return can raise a person up and cause him/her to reach the Throne of Glory, which is Higher Mother, Who is called Return….This is the secret meaning of the “sanctification of the Name”, which alludes to Higher Mother, Who is above Zeir Anpin [and Nukva], who are called the Name
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- Likutei Torah, Ha’azinu
This can be compared to a king that gave an amount of money to a number of people, and did not give anything to one particular person. He did, however, instruct all those people who he gave money to, that each of them should give this person one coin from [the money] they had received from the king. This is how it is with this matter; “the righteous person rules over the fear of God,” since he has a portion, a living soul that is part of the king, part of God above. He is like a deputy that the king gave his signet ring to. As long as he has the king’s seal, it is the king’s honor that even the king himself will not contradict his decree. We therefore see that when a person is good, and walks in the ways of God, he connects all the worlds, and gives his King strength. As it is written, “Give greatness to our God”. [The verse] goes on to explain how we give Him strength. It answers that since He, may He be blessed, is a rock whose work is perfect, this implies that man, who is His work, was created whole, and was given a portion of all the worlds, in order that he be able to connect all the worlds.
