“Christian and Catholic sons may accuse their fathers of the crime of heresy…although they may know that their parents will be burnt with fire and put to death for it. And not only may they refuse them food, if they attempt to turn them from the Catholic faith, but they may also justly kill them.” – Jesuit Precept (F. Stephen Fagundez, in Proecepta Decalogi., Lugduni, 1640).
“Most Wise: what hour is it?
Respect. K. S. Warden: It is the first hour of the day, the time when the veil of the temple was rent asunder, when darkness and consternation were spread over the earth – when the light was darkened – when the implements of Masonry were broken – when the flaming star disappeared – when the cubic stone was broken – when the ‘word’ was lost.” – Magna est Veritas et Praevalebit
The greatest of the kabalistic works of the Hebrews – Sohar – was compiled by Rabbi Simeon Ben-Iochai. According to some critics, this was done years before the Christian era, according to others only after the destruction of the temple. However, it was completed only by the son of Simeon, Rabbi Eleazar, and his secretary, Rabbi Abba; for the work is so immense and the subjects treated so abstruse that even the whole life of this Rabbi, called the Prince of Kabalists, did not suffice for the task. On account of its being known that he was in possession of this knowledge, and the Merkabah, which insured the reception of the “Word”, his very life was endangered, and he had to fly to the wilderness, where he lived in a cave for twelve years, surrounded by faithful disciples, and finally died there amid signs and wonders.
Many are the marvels recorded as having taking place at his death, or we should rather say his translation; for he did not die as others do, but having suddenly disappeared while a dazzling light filled the cavern with glory, his body was again seen upon its subsidence. When this heavenly light gave place to the habitual semi-darkness of the gloomy cave – then only, says Ginsburg, “the disciples of Israel perceived that the lamp of Israel was extinguished.” His biographers tell us that there were voices heard from heaven during the preparation for his funeral and at his interment. When the coffin was lowered down into the deep cave excavated for it, a flame broke out from it, and a voice mighty and majestic pronounced these words in the air: “This is he, who caused the earth to quake, and the kingdoms to shake!”
But voluminous as is the work, and containing as it does the main points of the secret and oral tradition, it still does not embrace it all. It is well known that this venerable kabalist never imparted the most important points of his doctrine otherwise than orally, and to a very limited number of friends and disciples, including his only son. Therefore, without the final initiation into the Merkabah, the study of the Kabala will be ever incomplete, and the Merkabah can be taught only in “darkness, in a deserted place, and after many and terrific trials”. Since the death of Simeon Ben-Iochai this hidden doctrine has remained an inviolate secret for the outside world. Delivered only as a mystery, it was communicated to the candidate orally, “face to face, and mouth to ear.””
H. P. Blavatsky
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