Immortality, The Inevitability of Eternal 9781571895707

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IMMORTALITY THE INEVITABILITY OF ETERNAL LIFE

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KABBALIST RAV BERG

Foreword

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It is with great reverence that I introduce you to the complete manuscript of Rav Berg’s Immortality, available with this new edition for the very first time. The Rav began to channel and record this incredible book in 1996. In fact this was the last document that the Rav wrote longhand, a document that recorded the Rav’s thoughts about spiritual awakening and how a new era was dawning in which the power of death would come to an end. At that time the Rav was very present in our daily lives, and we had grown accustomed to, and even in some ways complacent about, his brilliance. When the Rav decided that The Centre should self-publish Immortality as our first book, those of us who were involved in such decisions believed that the original words might have been too powerful and perhaps even too visionary for the average person. We, therefore, edited much of the Rav’s original language and created from it the first foundational book for beginners on the wisdom of Kabbalah. What I understand today, in retrospect, is that by doing so we may have undermined the Rav’s prediction that the year 2000 would mark the arrival of a worldwide consciousness of immortality—if the number of people who received this wisdom should reach a critical mass. Today the Rav is more concealed and less present with us since his stroke in the year 2003. Keenly aware of how much we all miss the Rav’s certainty and unquestionable genius and warmth, we have been archiving all of the Rav’s teachings from the last three decades. During this process we stumbled upon the original manuscript of Immortality, and as I read it, I realized with such considerable pain that perhaps, by dumbing down the Rav’s words in the first edition of this book, we

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postponed the opportunity for immortality consciousness to take an ascendant place in the world. It is, therefore, with the greatest of humility and excitement that I offer you the Rav’s original manuscript in its purest form. Other than very minor copyediting, what you hold in your hands is the true essence of the Rav—the conviction (which he shared with all of us) that immortality and the removal of death are imminent. In this version of the book a true seeker of Kabbalah will find the raw, uncomfortable reality of Satan, the negative force that plays havoc in our lives in this physical realm, as well as the counter-consciousness to fight him. The reader also should be warned that a kabbalist has an obligation to conceal as he reveals because of the kabbalistic principle that anything unearned cannot be kept. So as kabbalists do, the Rav takes the reader’s consciousness on a journey. This is why some of the language in this text seems abstruse and convoluted. But if you have a true desire to understand and connect to the essence of a living kabbalist, reading and rereading difficult ideas will result in great illumination. According to Kabbalah, a person’s writing is imbued with their essence, which means that reading the handwritten text of a kabbalist can imbue the reader with the essence of the sage himself. This is our motivation for including in this book a reproduction of a portion of the Rav’s original handwritten text. I pray with all my heart that the Rav’s words will penetrate your heart and consciousness and that enough people will be changed by the power of those words that, as the Rav predicted, the promise of immortality will enter the landscape of all humanity. I apologize to the world that it took so long, and to the Rav for my hearing without truly listening.

Yehuda Berg

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For my wife, Karen. In the vastness of cosmic space and the infinity of lifetimes, it is my bliss to be your soul mate and to share a lifetime with you.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

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Chapter 1 Immortality! What's That?

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Chapter 2 Immortality—The Experience

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Chapter 3 Mortality

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Chapter 4 The Origin of Mortality

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Chapter 5 The Restoration and Aging Process

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INTRODUCTION

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t all started one day back in June of 1962, the day I first met my master. Little did I dream nor have the slightest inkling that this one day of my life would become the most eventful and most important

one that I had ever experienced. Now one might wonder and certainly ask how one moment in a lifetime could stand out so significantly when so many events—even amongst unexcited individuals—have made an important and lasting impression along the way, in the journey of human existence. However, that is exactly the way it was. By the time I met him, my master had become famous by publishing the only translation and commentary on the Tikkune Zohar, the mystical body of kabbalistic thought that ostensibly contained all of the secrets of the universe awaiting to be revealed in the Age of Aquarius. While the origin and first work to contain these secrets, Sefer Yetzirah, also known as the Book of Abraham, was already recorded and written down some 4,000 years ago by the biblical Patriarch Abraham, it was unfortunately considered to be couched in incomprehensible wording and too abstruse to be understood.

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Some two thousand years later, the grand master of kabbalistic information, Rav Shimon bar Yochai, formulated a more comprehensive edition than that of his predecessor, and he called his work the Zohar. The section referring to the mysteries that were to be revealed in the Age of Aquarius is known as the Tikkune Zohar edition. One giant step forward in assisting humanity to again achieve control over existence and life. However enlightening and informative, the Zohar was still limited and confined to a small segment of humankind. Its revelation and understanding would still have to wait for the twentieth century and my master, the now very famous Kabbalist, Rav Yehuda Brandwein and his teacher Rav Yehuda Ashlag. Their writings and discussions on topics pertinent to the ultimate removal of all the familiar forms of chaos that have ravaged humankind since time immemorial prompted the technological explosion of the twentieth century. As we see with breakthroughs in areas such as relativity, space travel, medicine, and a host of others that have affected the well-being of humankind, as we share this moment together, we are beginning to witness, and indeed some of us are already participating in it, a people’s revolution of enlightenment. These two individuals, my master and his teacher, were responsible for the dramatic shift in human consciousness and thinking. They broke away from a 4,000-year tradition of sealing this vital information in an ancient vault. However, at that moment in time, the world paid little if any attention to their profound influence, and that included myself.

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I was groomed, from early childhood, to be what my parents believed was appropriate to their own background, a conventional rabbi with a rabbi’s conventional status. This was tradition, and I was destined to carry it forth appropriately without any significant change. And so my consciousness from the age of three remained programmed as one might have expected within the frame of a time-honored, sometimes antiquated, tradition that had not met the challenges of a modern-day, rapidly changing civilization. During this period of normal upbringing, life was extremely uneventful. Unlike the normal Judaic experience, my master along with his master were undergoing a very strong abusive, intolerant, and sometimes violent reaction from the conventional, organized system within Judaism. Now that I look back at what took place in their lives, I cannot help but ask, what was that all about? To set the record straight, the only crime of which they were accused and for which they were ostracized was their determination to make the wisdom of Kabbalah accessible to the layperson, to remove its secret contents from a vault that had its combination tossed away some 4,000 years before. This was the violation for which they were being condemned. After all, who gave them the authorization to tamper with a teaching that no one over the past millennium had ventured to release to the public? However, this was not the first time a kabbalist broke the conventional vow of secrecy surrounding this life-enhancing compendium of knowledge. Many kabbalists from the sixteenth century onward, the most famous of whom was Rav Moses Luzatto, were threatened with excommunication if they did not disavow and deny the truth of their

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published manuscripts. Furthermore they were to be denied any of the usual rites at their death if they did not destroy their unpublished works. This was the background when Rav Yehuda Ashlag, founder of The Kabbalah Centre, received the divine instruction that he was chosen to channel the universal knowledge of our existence and its secrets to remove chaos, pain, and suffering from our midst. Ever since the sin of Adam 5,767 years ago, man has been helpless in the face of the reality that sooner or later “Murphy’s Law” would create some form of chaos in our world, albeit one of a temporary nature. For the truly irreversible conditions of the past and present brought on by Murphy’s Law, those individuals who suffered were classified the “unlucky” ones struck by random chaos. Who could be counted amongst the “lucky ones”? This luck we speak of is indeed relative. Absolutely no human being can be considered to be one of the “fortunate ones,” for if one is lucky enough to escape the wrath of illness, financial or family chaos inevitably sets in. And of course this does not even take into consideration the ultimate chaos of all, the final scenario of all humankind, the death of an individual, the mortality of the human body. Suddenly, after a peaceful and uneventful acceptance of our ultimate fate, along comes Rav Yehuda Ashlag and wants to change all this. The nerve of this radical pioneer, wanting to upset our snugly confined approach to the misfortunes and chaos in our daily lives, or better stated to change our attitude from “lay down and die” to “fight back”! Who gave him permission to reveal these jealously guarded secrets? If God was so desirous of relieving mankind of human bondage, then

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the Creator would have intervened. It is quite obvious that, with all the pain and sickness that have afflicted mankind down through the millenniums, people are “not worthy” to be the recipients of this knowledge that could resolve mankind’s dilemma. These and similar remarks have been heard for centuries until the present time. It is God’s will. Do not tamper with it. The kabbalists were socially, mentally, and physically beaten by the “keepers of the faith.” They were forced to leave Jerusalem or face daily harassment. They were threatened to be deprived of all social contracts with the established community if they continued in their “sinful” ways. I am reminded of the time when my master, Rav Yehuda Brandwein, was still a young man and lived a far distance from his master, Rav Yehuda Ashlag. He took an hour-long bus ride each day to study with his master. When the zealots found out about this “sinful” journey, the entire bus system and its drivers were alerted and instructed to refuse him entry onto the bus and thus Rav Yehuda Brandwein was forced to walk between two and three hours a day just to study with his master. In the past when science was on a collision course with the accepted doctrines of the church, scientists such as Galileo and Copernicus were encouraged and sometimes even coerced to abandon their newly revealed discoveries. However, in the case of Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein, their teachings originated in a source of wisdom and acceptable principles established long before there was any concept or formal tradition of religion of any kind. Why would or should there be opposition to or condemnation of revealing to the layperson these accepted universal laws and principles? After all, this wisdom answers

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many of the gnawing questions people always raise concerning religion. The teachings and wisdom of Kabbalah would only lay to rest the arguments and open opposition to certain religious doctrines raised by Newtonian and quantum physics that “seemed” to directly contradict many church principles. The answers and responses traditionally given by established religion only tended to alienate the scientific establishment. The attitude of formal religion toward science has left scientists and open thinkers with no other alternative but to reject the teachings of religion as wholly unscientific and baseless. The gap this created merely hardened the positions of the church on one side and the skeptic and scientist on the other. Then along came Kabbalah with an attempt to bridge the difference in such a way that religion could live comfortably alongside science. Nothing wrong so far, except that Kabbalah proposes to address what science and religion have failed to address, namely the “why” of things. Kabbalah takes life that one step further by providing insight into why things are as they are, rather than merely understanding how they function. Rather than accept as fact the conclusions of science as to how these summations were arrived at, Kabbalah insists—no, demands!—that a thinking person ask why the particular or peculiar condition exists in the first place. A familiar supposition in physics is Maxwell’s Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that everything in this universe must eventually undergo decay and entropy. Every human being and every

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aspect of physical existence must eventually die. This is the final conclusion of this law, which has found no disagreement within the confines of science. What science, with its former and present tools of observation, has come to realize in its exploration of entropy is the hard-core fact of cemeteries and worn-out clothes and furniture. Its proof and hard evidence was the visual reality of things around us. Have we not discarded our old clothes and furniture and attended the funerals of friends and relatives? Let me state here and now that these findings and conclusions are in direct opposition to the teachings of Kabbalah and even some medical research that has never been taken seriously. However, with the entry of twentieth-century physics and quantum mechanics, our reliance on visual reality has also become suspect. The eye no longer is believed to be objective. Quantum theory dismisses as wholly unreliable the idea that “what the eye sees, I believe.” Science indeed is finally catching up with Kabbalah, which has always maintained that “what I believe is what I see.” But I am running ahead of myself. I shall return to a very important and intriguing concept, which will lead us to the entrance of that significant and elusive understanding of immortality. Inasmuch as Kabbalah, its teaching and findings, were not in opposition to religion or science, the burning question for centuries has remained unanswered, namely, why the informed and uninformed were so terrified to approach its teachings.

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Closer to home, I would like to mention some of the personal experiences that occurred for both Karen and me when we entered the world of Kabbalah, for me in 1962 and for Karen in 1965. The most virulent took place when a zealot came from behind Karen with a baseball bat, struck her, and sent her to the hospital with a brain concussion. Although we did file formal charges with the police, when we were told that this individual might face a five-year prison sentence, we dropped the charges. We shall never know whether this display of forgiveness on our part was perhaps the trigger for much of the harassment that was to follow in the next thirty years. In truth, guiding The Centre’s activities was rough going, following the departure of Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein from this physical world. Rav Ashlag had broken with tradition. He provided the first ever translation of a major section of the Zohar, the compendium of kabbalistic knowledge written some 2,000 years ago by Rav Shimon bar Yochai. In addition, Rav Ashlag created a sixteen-volume textbook to permit the layperson to explore, in a systematic way, the discipline of this heretofore-concealed knowledge. The word spread like wildfire: there is a heretic in our midst! Rav Ashlag was attacked and beaten in the synagogue. He was branded “a sinner”; no mercy was shown to his soul or his body. Nevertheless, he persevered and completed several introductory texts for students of Kabbalah, in order to facilitate their understanding. However, one concession that both Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein made to the establishment was in their agreement not to alter the status quo regarding who could and would receive this formal, newly designed education in Kabbalah. The restrictions and

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requirements were many. To mention a few, only males over the age of 40 were permitted to attend classes. This select group was required to have a Talmudic education; they were required to be traditional Orthodox Jews in practice and observance. In addition, their knowledge of Jewish Law had to undergo extreme scrutiny to determine whether they were fully knowledgeable in every facet of Judaic laws and customs. Another requirement was their certainty of heart; students must feel that the lack in their life could only be fulfilled by the teachings of Kabbalah. How this determination was made is not quite known except that it was the master who made the decision. They were also compelled to maintain a distance from irreligious and atheistic individuals for fear of becoming polluted with strange or foreign ideas and concepts. To this very moment in time, many sects of Judaism still exist that adhere to the traditional prohibition of mingling with foreigners to their way of belief and tradition. This last requirement placed on the student and practitioner of Kabbalah was breached by Rav Brandwein when he formally accepted the position of Chief Rabbi of the 1,000,000-strong labor organization known as the Histadrut. This organization was not only irreligious but was composed of confirmed anti-religionists. Their annual dinner and dance festival took place on the Holiest of Holy days, Yom Kippur, still revered by most Jews, religious and non-religious alike. This provocative action created an uproar in all traditional circles: Orthodox, Conservative, and Reformed Jewry. Here was a Rabbi garbed in traditional clothing, certainly not from the circle of nonbelievers, literally confirming and in a way condoning the sinful ways

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of this atheistic Israeli organization. How dare he, Rav Brandwein, provide this heretic organization with a Rabbi, when traditionally there was an unwritten doctrine for Rabbis to maintain their distance from such groups? Even more alarming was the fact that he was a kabbalist, required to maintain the highest degree of purity and withdraw from any contact with the “polluted” world out there. I remember quite well the fears of his wife when she exclaimed that their children would never marry, as a result of his actions. No traditional family could even dream of entering their children into marriage with the children of a heretic Rabbi. Unbeknown to me at the time, was the true meaning behind my master’s acceptance of this position and the resulting hostile repercussions. My master was laying the groundwork for what would become, sometime in the future, the complete break with kabbalistic tradition. His teacher, Rav Ashlag, was destined to open the sealed vaults of kabbalistic tradition so as to make its teachings accessible to the masses. Rav Brandwein would become the first kabbalist to fraternize with the people, albeit not within a formal educational structure. He did share at functions and conferences some of the basic principles of Kabbalah, although his sessions were not customarily billed as lectures or conferences on Kabbalah. He was moving in through the back door. However, what struck me as nothing short of a miracle was the interaction between my master and his flock. As I mentioned previously, his appearance dispelled any question that he was not fully immersed in the extreme Orthodox tradition of observance and dress.

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Coming from a similar background, I asked myself how in the world these people could feel comfortable with his presence. Furthermore, the relationship took an astonishing turn. The same heretics and antireligionists were actually embracing my master with a love I had never seen expressed before. What seemed to be emerging in the relationship was a complete tolerance and sensitivity of one individual toward another, with a complete disregard for what each represented socially, culturally, and otherwise. The lesson learned from this encounter has never left me. Little did I realize where this experience would lead me. At the time, I was mystified beyond any logical reasoning. Just think about relationships between people of different cultures, or even those within the same culture and socioeconomic climate. Rarely will we witness the uniting of people of different persuasions. Those moments are few far and between. In any one country where different political parties exist, it is an uphill battle to try to achieve agreement on an issue unless a common enemy has emerged that threatens their existence. This situation arises in the most democratic of countries where the political process has set one party against another. So here is Rav Brandwein, stemming from a background of legendary Rabbis, never having left the confines of his centuries-old environment, meeting up with a culture that represents the antithesis of his own, and yet he nevertheless finds himself at home and at one with these people. For Rav Brandwein’s colleagues and cultural environment, the people of the Histadrut were beyond salvation, the epitome of an enemy within. Which made it all the more confusing to observe these “sinners” not only feeling at home with this Rabbi, but on the contrary, displaying a deep love for him rarely seen among their own friends and neighbors.

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On one occasion when my master was to meet with the Secretary General of the Histadrut, I asked if I could be taken along to this meeting. I was yearning for an answer as to why in heaven’s name this organization chose a Rabbi that had nothing in common with this heretic body of people nor any common ground for dialogue. Furthermore, there were certainly many other Rabbis more appropriate to fulfilling the task of its objectives and who represented a more liberal approach to the whole idea of religion and Judaic law. When I met with the leader of this labor organization—himself coming from a long line of the ultra-religious right and now himself so alienated from his background that he literally despised the very existence of religion in general, I raised my question. To my surprise, his response to me was so far out that I simply did not comprehend what he was trying to say. His answer was matter-of-fact: Rav Brandwein was not a Rabbi, at least not for him; Rav Brandwein was a kabbalist. This was the very first time I had even heard the distinction between Rabbi and kabbalist— and this coming from a person where the very thought of mentioning the word Rabbi was foreign, if not evil. Suffice it to say, my curiosity of the meaning of this response was heightened to the highest level. I had never in all my years had one respond in such a cryptic manner. I asked for further explanation. His next response was again mystifying, coming from an individual so divorced from anything religious or spiritual. “Why can’t you understand what I am trying to say? It’s so simple. This man symbolizes the perfect human being with extreme dignity, irrespective of his social status or religion. Jew or non-Jew, rich or poor, a person

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of high position or low position, for Rav Brandwein they are all human beings and their souls are part of the Creator. He considers the precept of ‘love thy neighbor unconditionally’ to be as strong as the observances of his religion.” Amazing words coming from an individual who openly displayed his disgust with anything that smacked of religion. This is a lesson that I have never forgotten. His behavior toward my master was to be my guiding light in directing the path that The Centre would take. My own life and all my activities were to become guided by this uncompromising principle of unconditional love, sensitivity, and tolerance to everything that God brought into existence, whether it be flowers, ants, or—more important, albeit more difficult—human beings. I gradually began to understand why these laborers had such compassion and good feeling for my master’s presence. They felt the warm and compassionate light of my master’s being and essence. It was indeed so wonderful. This experience brought back to me the inexplicable connection of my first encounter with my master. Being a Leo and far from anything of a spiritual nature, I could not understand how I just melted away when I first met him. It just wasn’t my nature. Furthermore, when the question has been asked of me numerous times as to how I became involved in spirituality in general and Kabbalah in particular, my response is always unexpected, not at all fitting the role that one expects of me today. It is this: I never desired spirituality because I never knew what it meant. Being drawn to Kabbalah for me was a matter so foreign it was as if I had suddenly developed a desire to be on the moon. In fact my background not only frowned on the study of Kabbalah, but I was

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taught to specifically refrain from and maintain distance from the subject. Kabbalah was supposed to be rejected for the same reasons it was rejected for the past two millenniums. However, to answer how I became involved with my master, I now understand that my soul was touched by this human being. It was as if he were comforting my soul in his wonderful, warm hands. It was indeed an amazing feeling. I had no explanation of that most memorable first encounter. Only now do I begin to gradually realize why my teacher, and subsequently Karen and myself, were so hated and scorned by the establishment. Light is the formidable enemy of darkness—of Satan’s or Murphy’s chaotic Law. In a darkened room, the mere flip of a light switch (this minor and so significant endeavor) can remove the darkness. “Turn on the Light” is an expression with which we are all familiar. So, too, with Kabbalah. It is recognized in all spiritual teachings as the most comprehensive of all knowledge. Every religion has its kabbalist. Scholars have been pondering this work for millenniums, trying to unravel its secrets, demystify its codes, and invade its inner sanctums in order to discover its beneficial nourishment for humanity. However, there has been little or no success. In the twentieth century, Rav Ashlag removed its cloak of secrecy and unveiled its mysteries for all to drink. If one were to ask why science had to wait until the twentieth century to penetrate the secrets of the universe, and what can the cause be traced to, my answer would be a very simple one: Rav Ashlag. This might sound outlandish to most and may be presently rejected, but after careful consideration one might in fact conclude that my supposition may very well be correct.

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I believe the most significant change that took place in the twentieth century is the revolution of the mind. People began questioning like never before in history, and answers like “because it is tradition” and “because it has always been that way” gave way to the free thought of the individual. More people became concerned with the why of things than with the how. Therefore my initial question: why has this dramatic century defied all the accepted laws and principles considered to be time-honored and traditional? After all, we put man on the moon; discovered quantum theory, which has pulled the rug out from under conventional physics; and drastically changed the way we think and behave. Computers, transistors, the Internet and discussion of immortality, just to name a few, have brought about changes that are so much more far-reaching than in previous times. Why in this century? One of the most significant changes that have overtaken mankind is that we have begun to think. Until now, so much emphasis was placed on the physical realm. Almost forgotten was the unseen, nonobservable plane which, we must admit, is where things begin. Let us take something as simple as lifting a hand or moving our fingers. Do these physical parts of the body decide to move by themselves or is there an undetectable consciousness that directs these movements? For that matter, is there anything that man does or uses that did not originate first as a thought, as consciousness? Over the centuries individuals and science had become so busy with matters of physical existence that the examination of the “cause” of things and the essential design of consciousness had taken a back seat. This despite the obvious. It was Sir James Jeans, a Nobel

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Laureate who finally declared that time and the real nature of existence are consciousness, and that the physical realm represents nothing more than an interference or blip on the screen—startling words coming from a man of science, which is the methodology of understanding the observable. This is what Rav Ashlag accomplished by unveiling the subconscious realm of the universe, by revealing the concealed wisdom of Kabbalah and thus turning on the Light. The wrappings, limitations and trappings over the conscious mind now began to disappear. The Light began to take its rightful place in our universe. This prompted the remarkable and wondrous theories, discoveries, and revelations of new technological achievements with which we have recently been blessed. The limitations of the physical world—namely time, space, and motion—began to be reduced and are continuing to be reduced. This may be somewhat difficult to understand or accept, but the facts speak for themselves. When the Light goes on, all heretofore unrealized and unseen objects become noticed. They were there all the time. We just couldn’t see them. This is the lesson my master taught me. When the power of Kabbalah is unleashed into the universe, things we did not know existed suddenly appear before our very eyes. We do not trip over the furniture in a room once the light goes on. This is what we experience as we stumble through life’s journey; falling, becoming bedridden, and not knowing what to do, we can just switch on the light and the interference of this physical realm disappears. The furniture which once interfered with us as we made our way through the dark room, when the light goes on becomes a comfortable piece of physicality.

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Too simple to be true. These are the famous last words of “Murphy” when he repeats in our consciousness that we should deny or reject outright anything that is too simple to be true. After all, once we realize that we are being unfortunately programmed to live our lives along the road of chaos, we can begin to reroute our journey onto a more joyous highway of living. It is our minds and consciousness that determine our fate. Turn the Light on and the curtain of darkness will move to the side, unveiling a wonderful, beautiful world out there. This was the power of Rav Ashlag and Rav Brandwein. They were jump-starters to turn on the Light of the universe. This rubbed Satan and Murphy the wrong way. Satan and Murphy responded by unleashing a barrage of unreasonable, illogical energies into the cosmos to be picked up and channeled by evil people of all sorts. The last thing these two emperors of the dark world would ever have wanted was to have their dark kingdom disappear when the Lights go on. This is what has taken place throughout the history of mankind. The forces of darkness were threatened by the Light infiltrating the dark domain. The one thing darkness feared most was the possibility of the Light removing the reigning glory of its power and dominion, the conditions of decay and mortality. The idea of immortality sent a shiver up the spine of darkness. It knew that, with the spread of Kabbalah, the people of the world would become enlightened. The cosmic struggle between good and evil found its way into our familiar world of existence. The battle lines were drawn. This was to be the final play for empirical power. The kabbalists had fired the first salvo by making the wisdom of Kabbalah accessible to the people.

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For they knew and understood that, without the participation of the people, Murphy would remain in control, as he had throughout the history of civilization. Murphy/Satan enlisted his best as well. He knew all too well that, for the most part, he could keep the world’s population under control with social, political, and economic systems such as feudalism and dictatorship, systems that throughout the millenniums created chaos by leaving a trail of human suffering along the landscape of history. “National pride,” “freedom,” and other catch phrases were all that was necessary to keep the people from seeking real peace and contentment. Then, for good measure, Satan also threw in disease, plagues, floods, and earthquakes. This was his guarantee that people’s bodies would be busy while their consciousness remained asleep. With so much chaos all around, how could anyone believe that the real source of all our problems was a dark force? No! For the faithful, chaos was God’s reply to the misbehavior of the “evil ones.” So the question remains: Why were the virtuous, the genuinely “good people” also subject to and responsible for the actions of the wicked? “Well”, it was said, “God works in mysterious ways.” “Who are we to question God?” Yes, the kabbalist asks, but who said this is His response? Why would a kind, compassionate God embody such an evil consciousness and desire to punish anyone, let alone innocent children, while permitting criminals to go free? And what about the non-believers—those who either reject the notion of an Almighty or simply pay no attention to a God? To what do they

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attribute the suffering? Satan doesn’t miss a step; he devised a cloak of deception for those people as well by infusing our consciousness with two words: “lucky” and “unlucky.” When one individual develops an illness and others around do not, the usual interpretation is that those that are healthy are lucky. When a young person dies, leaving a family behind, the familiar refrain is that it was an unlucky tragedy, while if an elderly retiree dies at age 120, we say he/she lived to a ripe old age. He or she was lucky. We can even justify the slaughter of over 6,000,000 people during World War II by declaring that it was all worth it to destroy that menacing dictator and rid the world once and for all of all dictators. This was the war to end all wars. It never happened. Not after World War II or for that matter anytime in history. Am I trying to make a point that we should approve of dictators or reject the idea of freedom? Of course not. My intention is to raise our awareness /consciousness to the fact that chaos, whether justified or not, remains just that—chaos. To not remove the chaos is precisely what Satan also has in mind. If there were no solutions to the problem of chaos, then the world would go out of existence and Satan, too, would be out of the business of creating and manifesting chaos. Even the clichés we use for accepting chaos under non-violent conditions are still part of Satan’s lexicon. Expressions we use for the justification of mortality—“ripe old age” or “lived a useful, long life”—remain as strong as ever. In the twentieth century, Satan has been forced to change his strategy. Throughout civilization, including the time of the Exodus and Moses, Satan had his bag of tricks, which has worked for him around the

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clock throughout the years. He had locked the consciousness of the people securely into believing that mortality, since the sin of Adam, had become a permanent fixture, never to be removed from our earthly premises. Suddenly, this all changed. A complacent Satan did not take notice that a certain young, unassuming kabbalist had provided for the layperson the necessary text of Kabbalah and that, by this action, Kabbalah had found its rightful home with the people. Without a people’s revolution, Satan had no reason to fear that “he might be out of a job.” This is precisely why the people’s study of Kabbalah became a requirement. Originally, the kabbalists believed that Kabbalah was too far-reaching for the layperson. With the arrival of the twentieth century, all this was to change. In the 16th century, Rav Abraham Azulai, had already declared that the prohibition against the study of Kabbalah would only last until the year 1490, the approximate time of the Spanish Inquisition. And from the year 1540, the same year as Rav Isaac Luria’s induction into the world of Kabbalah, there was a strong recommendation that everyone— every man, woman, and child—study Kabbalah, because only through the teaching and knowledge of the Zohar could humanity ever hope to achieve the elimination of chaos and mortality from this physical realm. Just a note to explain the word “prohibition” as it appears in kabbalistic texts. As understood from the kabbalistic perspective, the Big Bang, the origin of the universe, already included within its structure and design the program for free will. Consequently, the interpretation of scriptural prohibitions were always meant as a warning or word to the wise, that either one may be subject to negative energy or, as in the

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case of Kabbalah, the learning pursuit would result in an exercise of futility because the time and environment were not ripe, nor were the cosmos sufficiently open for revealment. The support apparatus and machinery were not yet in place, despite the declaration of Rav Abraham Azulai that the Age of Aquarius had begun with the year 1490. One might return to this significant date, amongst the first steps toward removing the anesthetic state of mind then prevailing over all of humanity. Things were very stable around the globe at that time. There was no need to prepare for the attack that Satan would suddenly unleash, which would be unlike any chaos known in the world since some 1500 years earlier when the Temple was destroyed. Whole nations of people were displaced, as was the case in the 1490s during the Spanish Inquisition and then again in the 1940s with World War II. If there is a preferred state that all of mankind has a desire to maintain, it is the state of motionless existence. Even when one may be on the go for a worthwhile purpose, nonetheless, the ultimate desire is for an inactive state. When the upheaval and displacement took place in 1490, the people began to question their ability to control their environment and their own lives. There is nothing like being forced to be on the move to set off a chaotic state of mind. The setting in motion of an ultimate change in consciousness has its roots in the displacement of people. Our consciousness then breaks out of its slumbering, bovine state of illusionary security and permits mankind to view our existence as one of chaos and mortality. The problem has always been that, within our chaotic experiences, we can still latch onto our physical place and find some aspect that will convince us that we are still essentially in control. Being ill and

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financially very comfortable provides some sense of confidence that, indeed, we are still in control. However, when we are forced to move against our will, any semblance of mastery over our destiny comes to a complete halt. Only in this state of mind, recognizing the superior position of Satan, if only in the area of mortality, can mankind ever hope to achieve supremacy and immortality over the forces of evil and chaos. This is why the Spanish Inquisition took place. The Age of Aquarius was stirring and demanding freedom. The people were not yet ready. Only displacement and a complete loss of identity would do. For those Jews for whom displacement was more cruel than death, they would opt for a complete obliteration of their identity by connecting to Christianity. Whether it was displacement or conversion, a realization that one was not in control essentially was achieved. The opportunity to arrive at a hopeless and helpless state of existence was brought on by the entrance of the Age of Aquarius. The entire world of existence that was known at that time experienced a state of despair and abandonment. When the cosmic push of the Age of Aquarius created more pressure, the Spaniards had no choice but to proceed on a rampage in an attempt to establish dominion over the entire world. They invaded North America with their objective (metaphysically speaking) to create a total loss of identity. This endeavor would take them around the globe, where they successfully brought on chaos they never knew was their destiny. Satan was at the height of his glory. Little did Satan realize that the chaos he so gleefully stood by and watched was fulfilling another purpose. Assuredly, the Jews in Spain and the Indians in Mexico, South America, and subsequently the Pacific region were undergoing pain and suffering of the worst kind. However, at the

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same time the smug, self-contained state of consciousness that Satan had built up over the past 1,500 years was beginning to show signs of cracking. The persecutions, the pain and suffering endured by the masses of civilization were taking their toll. The mental anguish and helplessness had left its mark on Earth’s inhabitants and change was now eagerly being sought. The door to change had been opened. The people were, for the first time, prepared to accept dramatic change in their way of thinking. While the final results of this change in thinking would come later down the road, sometime in the twentieth century, change in the immaterial essence is a process of evolution. Change in essence cannot take place overnight, as I have painfully learned. Now the focus is almost always on the instant, on things that bring only temporary change without any permanent relief, such as changes in design or the “in things” or even temporary “worthwhile causes.” That kind of change is only illusory. Metaphysics and the immaterial have been by and large left to the dreamer, thinker, and philosopher. Thinking about how the entire universe, physical and metaphysical, celestial and terrestrial, are affected by consciousness and the activity of humankind, is left to the kabbalist. However, Kabbalah is a methodology and teaching of a permanent nature. It evolves in a process that could stretch over centuries and millenniums. The durable and eternal are not here today and gone tomorrow. There is an essence of which mankind has far too long been unaware, blinded to its presence, and that essence is the Lightforce of God. Since the fall of Adam—when immortality was still a viable force in the universe—mankind has been programmed to consider the

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physical, material universe as the only living, workable vehicle by which man can achieve his objectives and, more importantly, govern his existence. To consider a replacement of this vehicle by a metaphysical, supernatural, immaterial entity such as the Lightforce would be difficult to accept, as illustrated by the Golden Calf incident. The Calf was to replace Moses, the superman of the generation. He could accomplish anything and everything and had complete dominion over the material world. It was Moses who restored the people’s consciousness of mankind’s dominion over the material world. However, this incident was shortlived—forty days to be exact—after which humanity reverted back to the former prevailing consciousness that the material, physical world has dominion over the consciousness of man. The idea that Moses shared with the people at the time of the Exodus was that there is a force in this universe that supersedes and reigns over the material world and that, when the Lightforce of God is properly and harmoniously applied to the material world of our daily existence by the consciousness of man, then man becomes the equivalent of God and consequently assumes dominion over the physical realm in every aspect. However, so long as the consciousness of humankind remains locked into the paradoxical frame of the physical, retaining its dominion over man through the concepts of time, space, and motion, and the ego feeds us the illusion that we are in control, there is no hope for man to achieve an elevated state of consciousness over and above the visual, material world. And without the awareness and certainty that mankind can control the physical environment and all it contains, even the Lightforce of the Creator and the secret codes of Kabbalah will in no

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way help the practitioner achieve dominion over chaos. As was the circumstances with Adam when he was removed from the Garden of Eden, it is unfortunately the displacement of people that creates the opportunity to elevate our consciousness to reign over physicality. Nothing else seems to work for us. Therefore, only because the Age of Aquarius made its entry into the cosmos did the opportunity, although at times tragic, creep its way into the daily lives of mankind. This displacement of human “cargo” was to continue until the middle of the nineteenth century. In the interim, during the sixteenth century, the revealment of the secrets of Kabbalah was beginning to take place in the cosmos as well as below in our familiar physical world. In the year 1528, a child was born who was destined to shed light on the mysteries of the Lightforce and bring about the first comprehensive understanding of the Kabbalah. His name was Rav Isaac Luria. By the year 1540 he was already investigating the secrets of the universe as a recluse on the river Nile. There is no doubt amongst the kabbalists that the Ari, Rav Isaac Luria, The Lion as he was characteristically called, was brought into this world to infuse the cosmos, with the assistance of the Age of Aquarius, to balance the holocaust and torment that was about to be unleashed on this terrestrial level of human existence. Hundreds of students gathered around The Lion and became imbued with the secrets of Kabbalah. While the study, knowledge, and practice brought about an increasing revealment of the Lightforce into the universe, the teachings were extremely difficult to understand and, as a result, the people were excluded from its beneficial powers. However, until the twentieth century, the select few individuals of each generation who were able to study maintained some balance and harmony in the

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world, so the universe did not blow itself up despite the extremity of man’s intolerance and cruel behavior to his fellow man. So when Rav Ashlag came upon the scene, the cosmic balance was clearly in Satan’s favor. Satan was enjoying the human carnage of a senseless World War I, which he had brought about with no more effort than arranging for the assassination of a single person. It was truly remarkable how gullible and asleep the consciousness of mankind had become. Without as much as a second thought, the entire world was drawn into a chaotic battle that brought about the maiming and death of millions of innocent people. This was the work of Satan— destruction of life and property. With minimal effort to orchestrate the assassination, Satan reaped the rewards of millenniums of hard work. He did not even have to employ the usual imprints of his trade—the enormous resources of his army of evil entities. The usual forms of chaos brought on by earthquakes, plagues, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, drought, and a host of other forms of destruction were not necessary to cause a great deal of human suffering, economic hardship, and of course the steady use of the mortality factor. With World War I, Satan with a single stroke brought on devastation that involved the entire world, creating economic hardship that thrived on itself like a cancer. There was little doubt that Satan’s goal, the total mortality of all humankind as a never-ending sequence of destruction, would be realized sooner than expected. For the consciousness of humanity had approached the level of justified, legitimized murder. Satan furnished humanity the proper slogans so man would not have to ponder the decision for too long. Whether the “cause” was “for the

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sake” of freedom or removing the despicable dictator, Satan would lead us toward chaos for the most noble and honorable reasons ever devised. Slaughtering the Name of God for the reason of removing the “infidels,” Satan sadly wired mankind into assuming the role of God. Mankind, now, after millenniums of incompetence in mending daily chaos and mortality, suddenly became the protector, savior, and overseer over human flesh. And the universal laws and principles of this universe were justifiably and completely ignored. Things changed later in the twentieth century. We arrived at a moment in time that would usher in what appeared to be mankind’s final dominion over the material world. Centuries-old traditions would come tumbling down. The limitations of time, space, and motion no longer limited the scientific establishment as they did for millenniums. Man could now fly in the sky and even walk in space. The boundaries of communication no longer applied. The medical field expanded its knowledge and scope by leaps and bounds, to the extent that mankind had now achieved its most explosive and far-reaching feat to date, an achievement that rocked the entire world and suggested even farther—reaching implications: the cloning of a living creature, a sheep. Not since the birth of Adam had such a feat been accomplished. It was the crowning glory of the super-human mind of man. With this scenario at hand, one might believe that mankind had indeed reached an incredibly high level of consciousness. The future had never looked brighter for achieving a stable and harmonious universe. Satan must have felt defeated.

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This was not the case. Satan was fully confident that he had his finger on the universal pulse. For what he observed at the end of the twentieth century was very gratifying to him. Mankind, with all their advancements, still did not learn how to live harmoniously with their fellow man, not with their own countrymen or people of other cultures. Satan knew that only “love thy neighbor” was the hidden secret, the key for unlocking the gift of immortality. What’s more, the usual activities that bring chaos into the lives of Earth’s inhabitants were continuing as strong as ever. And he never forgot his ultimate weapons for world domination—his powers of decay, entropy, and death. Satan never took notice of this person who would revolutionize the way humanity would begin to think. Why should he? In his paradigmshattering 16-volume textbook on the study of Kabbalah, Rav Ashlag revealed the technology in every branch of scientific endeavor that would reshape the material world and the scientific world. He had changed the rules of science. Only then did Satan wake up and unleash the “Uncertainty Principle” that became the new system of the scientific establishment. This was truly a masterpiece, a work of art. How Satan could weave the details of scientific explosion and advancement into a fabric of uncertainty consciousness defies the rational mind. Mankind moved into the incredible information age of computers and the Internet which has brought the entire universe together, with no one any more distant than the equivalent of a local phone call. Yet, at the same time, cultural nationalism and a movement toward cocooning appear to be contradictory to the intended feeling of mutuality. Today the workplace around the world has become a

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battleground for job rivalry. Around the globe, millions of people are suffering from war, starvation, and outright slaughter. Has the quality of life really improved? Have we conquered Satan’s forces in medicine or removed the final nemesis of mortality? Are institutions less exposed to the chaos of downsizing, bankruptcy, and other financial disasters? What about the abused children, broken homes, mentally ill, homeless, drug abusers, just to name a few? And we must not forget the pain and suffering brought on by “unlucky accidents” of our confused society. As if this weren’t enough, the strategic plan Satan designed remains as effective today as the first time he applied it. Do you recall your Bible stories about Adam and Eve in the Garden together with the nemesis of the universe, the snake, also known as Satan? The Creator had instructed Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, for they would surely die. They were, however, permitted to eat from the Tree of Life. When the snake approached Adam and Eve and asked them why they did not eat from the Tree of Knowledge, they responded that the Creator forbade them to eat from this tree for they would surely die. To which the snake responded, “Don’t be silly. Eat from it and you shall see that you will not die.” And, lo and behold, when they did eat from the Tree of Knowledge, they did not die. Adam lived to the ripe old age of 930 years. What Satan did not reveal to them was that, once they ate from the Tree of Knowledge, they now fell under his dominion and were subject to the law of mortality. This was the warning of the Creator. Connect to the Tree of Knowledge, you shall ultimately die, although not

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necessarily now. Remain connected with the Tree of Life, and He shall assure immortality. This is exactly the game Satan plays with all of us, all the time. He’ll toss a small dose of chaos at us and then permit us to remove chaos to lead our consciousness into believing we are in control of this physical reality. Near-death experiences are Satan’s most delightful tricks of the trade. An illusionary confidence overcomes us and we became totally oblivious to the reality of death. Our behavior toward our fellow man generally disregards the fact that we are here in this universe for a limited time. Were we to consider the glaring fact of mortality, our attitudes in disagreements, arguments, hatred, and intolerance would assume another character. As a beggar or someone who has lost identity, the mind is thoughtless with its bickering, wrongdoing, and confrontation. If mankind paid attention to the reality that the chaos of mortality could set in any time Satan had the desire, then I believe we no longer would be that concerned about what’s wrong with others and pay more attention to what may be wrong with ourselves. Following World War I, Satan had positioned the world into a complacency that chaos could not strike again. What no one seemed to take notice of was the bickering between nations following the victory over the aggressors. When there is a common enemy, the thought of killing each other leaves us. The common enemy is another of Satan’s maneuvers. After the war, the common cause disappears as if it never existed. Satan is back at work again, intensifying the separation between once-allied nations. This is another trademark of Satan’s ingenuity. He can manipulate leaders of nations without their

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even knowing who is really behind the sudden about-face of their former allies. Satan provides all the appropriate reasoning so that we never discover his most formidable opponent: unity and tolerance among people. Satan was preparing for the next big one, World War II and its holocaust. His strategy was always the same. Shower the entire world with as much chaos as possible without letting on that he is behind it all. Present the chaotic package in such a way that mankind does not attribute the chaos to its rightful source. Instead, we let it evolve and then attribute it to others and not ourselves. The moment we can come to grips with self-criticism and realize that we are directly responsible for the chaos around us because of the choices we make and the actions we take, then we have crossed a major bridge to immortality. However, at the time of World War II, Satan had blinded the entire world with isolationism and financial catastrophe, with the culprit identified as the “other” person or “other” country. When I raised the question earlier as to why Satan did not take notice of Rav Ashlag and what he was destined to accomplish with his revelation of wisdom, the answer that I believe makes the most sense is that the entire world was so fully entrenched and engaged with the machinery of chaos that Satan permitted his own ego to get the better of him. He already foresaw, as did Rav Ashlag, the black cloud that would surround the entire world. By the time World War II ended, former companions and allies were enemies, to the amusement of Satan. Because he was so preoccupied, Satan did not notice the powerful wisdom being revealed about how to beat him at his own game.

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Well, this is where his strategy changed. Satan realized he had lost an important battle and shifted into high gear by employing the same strategy that had worked for him in the eigtheenth century against the famous Kabbalist Rav Moses Luzatto. He enrolled scholars to ban for all the “right” reasons any kabbalistic texts so they did not fall into the hands of “the infidels” or “unlearned laymen.” The word spread like wildfire. To strengthen their positions, Satan impregnated the minds of the “authorities” with scare tactics, claiming things like: • Anyone reading and studying Kabbalah will assuredly go crazy and wind up in a mental institution. • The books were too holy for the average person to even touch them. • Here were already other (non-kabbalistic) books that were far simpler and could better benefit the reader. And because these so-called scholars spoke with such authority, the entire world—already anesthetized—listened intently and with subservience. However weighty their arguments may have been, however deeply they permeated throughout the ranks of people regardless of their personal background, the wisdom kept coming. There was no stopping it. This is not to say that the battle did not intensify. The ridiculousness of the criticism was so outlandish that it made me question what was going on. Where in academic history was the opposition so intense and factually so incorrect? I once served as a part-time chaplain in a very large mental hospital and, behold, I never found there a book on Kabbalah. I did come to the

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conclusion (in jest) that since I observed all of the patients eating eggs for breakfast, there could be no doubt that the eggs contributed to their insanity. As for the argument that the books were too holy to touch, who is to determine who is or is not holy enough to study? This was the scenario for me, after the death of my master in 1969 when I took over the helm of The Centre. The necessary material was already available for mankind to take control and go after the big prize, the removal of that ultimate in chaos—mortality. I knew then that my mission was to spread and disseminate this knowledge to every human being in whatever language they could understand and read. This was the straw that broke the camel’s (or scholar’s) back. Like Rav Ashlag and my teacher, I was defying every accepted traditional dogmatic prohibition. The barrage of criticism and accusations ran the gamut from my operating houses of prostitution to owning castles all around the world. The presence of Kabbalah Centres around the world became the rallying point for the antagonists of Kabbalah. This onslaught brought on by Satan persevered over the past 28 years and continues to the present day. In my years as co-director of The Centre, I have been uncompromising in my mission that Kabbalah can bring about the removal of chaos from this universe with the ultimate objective of achieving immortality. However, I do have to admit that, when it came to the education of our children, Karen and I did compromise. When we were threatened that our children would be denied access to the proper educational facilities, we did somewhat compromise in our efforts to spread the knowledge of Kabbalah. Our strategy was one of maintaining a very low profile. Our Centres had a very unassuming presence and

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appearance. In this way we were not too disrupted in our mission. We knew that education was essential to our children’s leadership abilities that they would need to administer the vast and varied programs of The Centre (if they so chose) when they came of age. The Light more than compensated for our compromise. When the time came, Kabbalah and The Centres made their presence known to the entire world. Our opposition was so overwhelmed with what they saw and read, they became filled with such anger, that a world conspiracy was organized to smear our efforts with whatever means and tools were available. We know this was Satan’s final offensive. He was really feeling threatened. What he saw infuriated him. He now took notice of all the participants involved in Kabbalah. No longer was his focus on just the rabbinical scholar, the Sufi master, and the Christian kabbalist. He took notice of the simple, uneducated people plowing through the mysteries of Kabbalah. Professionals with absolutely no Talmudic education, with no connection to anything religious, were experiencing the joy and certainty of kabbalistic teachings. This was dangerous. If Satan permitted this to continue, it would bring down his entire kingdom of darkness, which he was committed to perpetuating at any cost. He fired up the systems with all he had. Scholars who opposed Kabbalah were acting in an irrational way. There was no logic to what they had to say. They even wove half-truths and sometimes outright lies into their stories in order to spice up the case against the teaching of Kabbalah. They were forced to give up their previous with the arguments that students of Kabbalah were going crazy or that

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Kabbalah was too holy to touch, too difficult, as these arguments were falling on deaf ears. The new line of attack was to discredit the people whose mission it was to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah, to spread rumors that the people were being brainwashed. Yet the teaching of Kabbalah dictated that no kabbalistic principle become accepted without questioning and careful scrutiny on the part of the student. Rav Shimon bar Yochai, the great master kabbalist and author of the most comprehensive work of Kabbalah, The Zohar, stated in his writings that the information offered in his work was never to be accepted simply because he was the author. The “why” of everything must be stated and the answers to every “why” must be forthcoming before one accepts or takes as truth any of its teachings. Pressure was mounting against supporters of The Centres around the world to discontinue their study, financial support, and commitment. Friends of our students who had no idea what The Centre was about, who had no knowledge whatsoever of the wisdom of Kabbalah, who did not visit a Centre nor speak to any of the teachers, inexplicably became violent antagonists of Kabbalah and spent much time and a great deal of effort dissuading our students. This was absolutely the signature of Satan, for there was no rationale or logic to this behavior or action. The material, physical human was now acting in accordance with the consciousness perpetuated by fears and lies. There was no sense in his reasoning. It is certain that Satan has chosen Kabbalah as his battleground. Since the creation of man, he had never been as threatened as now with the awakening of human consciousness. However, the Lightforce of God, when

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brought to bear on Satan, will make him disappear as easily as the flip of a switch turns on the light and removes the darkness. This is the nature of what the Lightforce is prepared to do at a moment’s notice. “Just flip the switch,” whispers the Lightforce. “You need not concern yourself with the fears of chaos and mortality or how to rid your existence of the scourge of pain and suffering.” Kabbalah teaches us how to turn on the Lightforce. That’s it in a nutshell. That is the purpose of Kabbalah, to live is the switch to say goodbye to chaos and mortality and hello to immortality.

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strange thing happened to me along the journey of Kabbalah toward somewhere. Where the journey was to take me, I must confess, I didn’t have the slightest idea. The notion or even

the word immortality was foreign to me. Just ask a person on the street if they believe anything about immortality. I am sure their response would be, “Can’t you find someone else to bother?” So what prompted me 31 years after my introduction to Kabbalah to accept this principle? Why was I so receptive to the idea of immortality when it presented itself? Do you believe I had never attended a funeral? Do you think I had never been to a cemetery? I lost many that were close and dear to me. I was unfortunately all too familiar with mortality and the pain and suffering that follows the death of someone you love. So I asked myself, when that moment of truth presented itself: “Why am I taking the challenge? Am I not aware of the awful and nasty things that are constantly being thrown at me? This will be the icing on the pastry of never-ending abusive and virulent attacks that have come my way.”

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Where did I get the nerve to present so far-out a concept as immortality without considering the consequences of another all-out barrage? How would our students take to an idea that literally seems to contradict life’s experience? The teachings of Kabbalah have always appealed to the rational thinking mind. Its wisdom has stimulated individuals into change. But when you begin to tamper with the very foundation of reality, that is quite another matter. You are now taking on the entire world. We have been taught that all aspects of the illusionary physical reality are “here today and gone tomorrow.” Death follows the rules of entropy and Maxwell’s Second Law of Thermodynamics. Everything consisting of a physical, material nature must terminate in decay or death. Yet what emerges from the idea of immortality is that death is but an illusion. Let’s begin from the earliest moment that the seed of immortality was set in my mind. Before my entry into the world of Kabbalah in 1962, I was an Orthodox Jew, an adherent of Judaism. In the Orthodox program of observance, one Jewish holiday seems largely identical to the next aside from the customs distinguishing them. But the one holiday where we observed the giving of the Ten Commandments, known as Shavuot, stood out in particular from the rest. This holiday required that we study biblical or Talmudic text all night until sunrise, then we would pray the traditional holiday service and go to sleep. This was the way I performed the holiday from the time that I could affect my body to stay awake all night. What I understood then was that we observed this holiday in commemoration of the event on Mount Sinai. The reason for studying was to display our connection to the event. And that was all there was to it. It was an observance, a traditional ceremony for one who felt akin to his/her Judaism. Was there anything in it for me? No, other than registering brownie points with God.

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So you can imagine the confusion I experienced when I shared my first kabbalistic Shavuot with my master. It seemed by strictly practicing observation that we were practicing the holiday no differently than when I was a child. However, the “why,” the explanation of the Revelation event, and more importantly why it is relevant to any person today, 3,500 years later, was truly a revelation. I was amazed at what my master was telling me. He first reminded me that anyone referring to this holiday as the giving of the Ten Commandments, as the start of a new religion, specifically Judaism, was completely mistaken. Furthermore, he explained that the entire traditional practice omitted the most significant aspect of the event. Those were strong words and certainly foreign to one who had been steeped in the “religious” and traditional practice of this event. I believed that I had been taught all there was to know about the Ten Commandments. What had Jewry throughout the millenniums missed? Firstly, my teacher said, “Never, ever, again refer to the event as the Creator’s Gift of the Ten Commandments. There was never a remark nor an event that signified ‘commandments.’” If my master had not been such a great rabbi, scholar, and kabbalist, I might have said, “Have a good day. I really do not want to hear any more,” and departed for good from his presence. He began reciting from the Talmud a statement which I faintly recalled that what happened on Mount Sinai was the Revelation of the “Ten Utterances.” Now why would the Talmud make use of the word “utterances” when most of the world considered the Revelation on Mount Sinai the Revelation of the Ten Commandments?

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Every movie-goer is familiar with the spectacular movie by Cecile B. De Mille, The Ten Commandments. He literally immortalized—this pun is intended, as reference to immortality is frequently used in the film—the Revelation event. However, once I learned that the term “commandments” was incorrect, I asked my master how such a misunderstanding could take place and, furthermore, why this mistaken interpretation has been permitted to persist for millenniums. The answers to both questions were shockingly concealed but profoundly informative. After all my years in rabbinic study, my master’s response came as a complete deviation from the existing methodology used in explaining the more important events of Scriptures. He replied that behind every misunderstanding of the significant event of Revelation lay the sinister hand of Satan and it was his continued presence and effort that perpetuated this gross distortion. Understandably so, continued my master, since Satan places great emphasis on maintaining this mistaken interpretation. His very essence is on the line. He knew the real meaning of Revelation and the Ten Utterances. The Thought of God and the purpose for revelation is Immortality, stated my master. “I know”, he continued, “that this kind of explanation is a complete departure from what you, traditional Judaism, and all established religions have believed about this great, memorable event in history. It is radical and revolutionary.” With that, he began to prepare me for the time in the very near future when I would be called upon to deliver this message to the entire world. What was more jolting and yet powerfully revealing was this new concept that attributed every evil act of mankind to the armada and

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forces of Satan. As I mentioned earlier, for me and other adherents of religion, all religions, it was easy to believe that any act or event that embraced the forces of evil was actually an activity of God’s wrath upon the “sinners.” The tragic inclusion of good, honest people within the holocaust was a matter of the Creator, which we had no right to question. This way of thinking was something my master completely rejected. And further he explained the universal rule of holocaust: when Satan is given permission to unleash his violence upon mankind, he sweeps through in all areas without discrimination. Anyone in his path who does not know the secret of how to create a protective shield around themselves becomes a part of the group. It is here that another universal law applies, the law that “Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.” The recent holocaust that brought down the wrath of Satan upon six million Jews also saw Satan’s evil hand of destruction and death swallow up fifty million people of various religions and cultures. The culprit in this heinous massacre of human flesh was the originator of death and violence, Satan. So what was the truthful, kabbalistic explanation of the Revelation event, I asked, if not to provide mankind with some moral and ethical guidelines? The idea of forming a religion or separation between people was the furthest idea from the nature of the Creator, my master explained. The theme of revelation is universal despite what we have traditionally been taught or led to believe. I asked my master what his words “The theme was universal” meant. My master then threw the ball back in my court: “Don’t you remember that the Talmud specifically made much of the fact that the entire Decalogue (Ten Utterances) was translated into every

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language, seventy to be exact, so that every nation would participate in its revelation?” “Yes,” I replied. However, I did not understand the point my master was making. “So the Creator wanted all nations to be aware of what the Jewish people were receiving,” I responded. “What is so unusual about that?” “You still do not understand the Revelation aspect of Mount Sinai. You remain with your programmed education,” he replied, becoming a little impatient with the delay in my grasping the point. Revelation was not about the Ten Utterances, it was about the revealment of the total embodiment of the Lightforce in our universe, he explained. It was a complete and universal communion with the Light which left no space where darkness could conceal itself. The result was the demise of death, which had ruled and affected every universal entity including man since the sin of Adam. The world had achieved the most sought— after gift mankind could ever have longed and hoped for—immortality. Then what was the Decalogue or Ten Utterances about? I wanted to know, now that I had discarded the remnants of a corrupted Ten Commandments. “The Ten Utterances,” stated my master, “were nothing more than the instrument by which the Immaterial Lightforce of God became physically expressed in our universe. No different than a light bulb which reveals the concealed potential of electric current, or for that matter the physical body which reveals and makes manifest the immaterial, eternal soul.” The Hebrew letters in the Utterances, the configuration of words made up of these letters, together with the verses, were nothing more than

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a vehicle whereby the full impact of the Lightforce made its presence known and felt in the universe and more specifically directed towards Satan/Murphy’s Law of Chaos and mortality. The Hebrew letters were no ordinary letters. They were the building blocks or blueprint for Lightforce expression. I understand this today as no less than the microscopic DNA with its varied sequences which channel, on a much lesser scale or degree, the life force of an individual. “The Hebrew letters were the building blocks of the entire universe”, continued my master, citing a 4,000 year-old kabbalistic book, the Book of Formation or Sefer Yetzirah, that I was entirely unfamiliar with. I was dumbfounded. Is this what the Hebrew letters were all about? To the best of my knowledge, the Hebrew language was just that, a language for the Hebrews. However, when I was confronted with the Book of Formation authored by Abraham, the Patriarch of Bible fame who lived around 2000 BC, I immediately realized that this work existed almost 300 or 400 years prior to the Revelation of the Ten Utterances. Of course, I said to myself, this language existed long before there were Jews. Furthermore, continued my master, the Zohar gleans from the biblical text that prior to the Tower of Babel incident, the language spoken by all peoples around the globe was Hebrew. I then remembered the interesting fact I had come across that when the forefathers of the United States were considering revolution from British dominance, they wanted to sever their ties so completely that they preferred to no longer speak English. One of the languages considered for the new land was Hebrew. Today, most people, including myself, consider the Hebrew language to be “Jewish” because it is mostly Jews who presently speak Hebrew.

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Let us now again return to the matter of Revelation. What seems to emerge from the Zoharic interpretation is that Revelation was about the Lightforce becoming fully and totally manifested and revealed. The instrument by which the realization of Revelation came to manifestation was the Scroll, or the Torah. This was indeed a very dramatic and beneficial moment in the history of human civilization which brought to an end the chaos and mortality that had afflicted mankind since the sin of Adam approximately 2200 years previously. Death and chaos no longer remained a part of the human landscape. The full radiance and beneficence of the Lightforce permeated every nook and cranny of the entire cosmos. There was no room left for darkness. Immortality had again been restored to its place within the world community. Therefore, to assume that Revelation was a “Jewish trip” is an unfortunate missed opportunity. The benefits accrued to all living beings including the kingdom of the inanimate—clothing and physical items were no longer subject to the laws of entropy. The miracle of Revelation was the miracle that enabled the Israelites walking in the dessert to possess clothing that never wore away. Was that just a miracle that Moses was responsible for? Moses never lost his consciousness and consequently maintained full dominion over Satan/Murphy’s chaos-producing agents. As a result of his connection with certainty, with consciousness and the Lightforce, Moses never severed his relationship with the Tree of Life reality. This affinity and bond is the reason the Zohar remarks, “Moses never died.” This matter will be more fully explored later on. Therefore the awesome power of Moses described in Scriptures came as no surprise to the kabbalist. However in my early years studying

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Kabbalah with my master, this statement about Moses that he revealed to me was so incomprehensible. But this is the way of the kabbalist. When revealing information that rubs people the wrong way or goes against everything we know, we should recall what Satan/Murphy maintains, “Repeat a lie one thousand times and eventually the world will accept it as truth.” “When you believe that something is true and can benefit mankind” remarked my master, “then you must have the courage to withstand the onslaught of negative, unfounded criticism. Just because no one has heard the information you present before, do not falter. Be prepared to accept the abuse and nasty remarks that will inevitably come your way.” One of the most important lessons I learned and I would make repeated use of when I assumed the leadership of The Centre, was that the battering one will take from Satan/Murphy will only last as long as your weakness is displayed. Satan, said my master, is only as strong as we are weak. Satan has no chance when he faces a strong light. The declaration that “Moses did not die” was one of those occasions. When the truth is repeated over and over again without any display of hesitation, ultimately the world will be prepared to accept the truth far more rapidly than the lie. The people under the influence of Satan’s chaos will always be those whose response to new, imaginative thoughts or concepts will be irrational outright rejection. The kabbalist lives by the doctrine “no coercion in spirituality.” Every person has the freedom of choice to accept or reject. However, when the rejection includes violent and virulent abuse with no rational basis or provocation, then one can conclude that these are the same people who have returned to this world over and over again with the purpose

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of perpetuating the same chaos that has been prevalent in every generation in history. Please believe me when I tell you that it was extremely difficult for me to accept these interpretations of the Decalogue, whose primary purpose was to permit mankind to achieve the final and complete annihilation of Satan/Murphy and his army of chaos executioners. The idea that the Decalogue was the death knell for mortality to be replaced by immortality was shocking, unbelievable, and difficult for me to accept. My disbelief was noticed by my master. He understood my problem accepting the notion of immortality and cautioned that its acceptance would require an evolutionary and gradual process. The beginning of this process was to begin at once, he said. “How,” I asked with amazement? “I am so ill-prepared for this journey.” He then opened the Zohar and turned to a passage which at first glance appeared very obtuse and difficult. He explained that this section dealt with the night the Decalogue was revealed. Rav Shimon bar Yochai, the author of the Zohar, was carrying on a discussion with his companions. He revealed with excitement, for the very first time in history, that with proper meditations the secret of one aspect of immortality will now begin to enter the landscape of human civilization. Mankind will now again commence in restoring a chaotic world. Satan will no longer feel the comfort of a monopoly and manipulation of mankind. He will now begin to be on the defensive. No longer will people have to pray to God in order to be on God’s good side so that they can be lucky enough to avoid the chaos around them. I waited patiently for my master’s interpretation of this Revelation. Did I understand him correctly that Death will be forced to take a

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holiday? I queried my master. “Yes,” he replied, “within this section of the Zohar, the Ari, Rav Isaac Luria, learned the secret of one aspect of immortality.” Once Light is revealed within this universe, it remains forever. However, the Light stays in a potential state, like an electric current in the case of a wall socket or a switch. When the appropriate stimulation, in kabbalistic terminology a proper vessel, is applied to the Lightforce, then the Lightforce, as with electricity, is once again revealed. Inasmuch as the Lightforce of Immortality on Mount Sinai had once become revealed, continued my master, this energy of immortality can always be accessed again. Rav Luria, in his voluminous work Gates of Meditation, provided the necessary vessel or switch for revealing once again the state of immortality originally revealed on Mount Sinai. However, this process or procedure, Rav Luria reveals, can only accomplish the revelation of immortality when applied at the appropriate cosmic time, its original revelation. The guidelines were included within the biblical code as deciphered by the Zohar. Eternal events are as cosmically guided as the appearance of the sun, moon, and all other celestial entities. The constellation of Leo does not make its appearance in the heavens in the winter time any more than Capricorn appears in the heavens during the summer months. Glancing up into the sky with a high-powered telescope reveals each sign of the Zodiac configured by billions of stars appearing at their usual time of the year. Just as a TV guide is necessary for the viewer to know the exact time of a favorite program, so too does the Bible provide the exact calendar time when the cosmos is prepared to put

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on its particular program of events. The moment for the immortality event is the 6th day of the Lunar month of Gemini, the opportunity for mankind to view and tap its energy. Similar to our TV sets, just turning on the set will not permit me to access prime time news at 7:00 PM Our sets have the potential ability to provide prime time news. However, if I turn the set on at 6:00 PM or 8:00 PM, I will obviously not see the news. If I turn on the set on a day when this program does not appear, again the TV set, as good as it might be, cannot access the program. Therefore, explained my master, the Zohar states that the appropriate time to tune into the awesome energy of immortality is in the evening of the 6th day of Lunar Gemini. This is the incredible information that only the Zohar can furnish. The entire evening up to and including the early morning after sunrise must be completely devoted to accessing this unbelievable energy. The body must undergo deprivation and go without any sleep whatsoever. That, together with the special codes for accessing immortality provided in detail by Rav Luria, guarantees that a person shall not die at least for the next 3 or 4 months until Rosh Hashanah, when we have a chance to rewrite our destiny. Frankly, I had never heard words or thoughts of this nature. “This is too good to be true,” I remarked to my master. “Has this ever been proven or substantiated before in history?” I asked. “No,” answered the master, “but that will be your task.” “What,” I muttered, “do I have to do with this? How am I going to prove such an outlandish idea when everything around us stands as a

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testimonial that death cannot be avoided, other than perhaps if a Governor stays a prisoner’s execution? In the case of a criminal, I can understand delaying or canceling an execution. That is a human construct. But how can one speak to the Angel of Death and tell him to get lost?” I queried. “Furthermore, who knows when someone’s time is up so that we can substantiate that it was this spiritual, immaterial, unheard-of methodology that performed the unthinkable feat of bringing about this immortality?” I questioned. All my master said was that I had to wait and sometime in the near future the proof would appear. To be honest, if it had been anyone else but my master, I would have considered this reply a perfect “cop-out.” However, this was the master speaking and, as with all master kabbalists, the concepts of yesterday, today, and tomorrow simply do not exist. They were merely repeating what the automatic computer printout was showing. Everything was in the here and now. The master went on to teach me another important lesson concerning computer printouts. At the time, most people were still unfamiliar with this term. “When you speak or listen to someone speaking, are either of you thinking or considering each word spoken?” queried the master. We may have gathered the thoughts or concepts prior to the words leaving our mouth, but if it is not a prepared speech written on paper, how did these precise words come out without the person having uttered them or having them in their consciousness? The only explanation that I have ever heard for this phenomenon has been from my master.

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The master kabbalists already knew that which would take science until the twentieth century to figure out: that tomorrow is already included in the past. After all, where did the tree come from if not from the seed? Most of us cannot look at the seed and see the tree. So, too, for the present, most of us cannot read the computer printout of tomorrow and are therefore subject to the difficulties that emerge from tomorrow’s uncertainty. Science knows this, but unfortunately only in theory. On a practical level, scientists are like the rest of us, they cannot implement their theory in their daily lives. Can you imagine if scientists had brought what they knew theoretically into a practical arena? They would all become very wealthy people. They could purchase certain stocks today knowing that prices would go up tomorrow. Unfortunately, as of the time of this writing, scientists cannot bridge the gap between that which has been confirmed to them in theory and the practical use of it in their daily lives. Science will have to wait for the kabbalist to reveal this information. Assuming with certainty that this incredible phenomenon of accepting and utilizing the secret to immortality will assuredly see the light of day, the master smilingly patted me on the shoulder and said, “All it takes is the wisdom and a certainty consciousness to bring this phenomenon to fruition.” I then and there made him a promise that I would never falter in my certainty consciousness and I would not let him down. Following on the heels of this new revelation, I recalled an amusing and yet strange illusion that had overcome all peoples of the western world. There is rarely an adult that has not been asked to purchase life insurance so as to provide for his/her dependent children in the event of his/her death. I chuckled to myself and said to my master,

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“Why do the insurance companies call this type of insurance ‘life insurance,’ when its proper name should be ‘death insurance,’ inasmuch as payment of this policy will only occur when the insured dies? Here, in the case of the Revelation on Mount Sinai, the insured will actually be acquiring life insurance, a guarantee that he will survive for the next three or four months.” The Master smiled and nodded in agreement, adding, “One day you shall share with the world the secrets of how to achieve permanent immortality.” For the present, humankind will gradually accept this small dose of immortality, since it will take time for mankind to grasp and accept the challenges that immortality presents. The elevation of human consciousness will not take place overnight. Heightened awareness must undergo an evolutionary process. Being young to Kabbalah, I could not see why there would be objections to a good thing. Why would some even go so far as to reject the whole idea in its entirety? I would learn what it means to be patient and begin to listen to the music and strings of the universe. “The universe has a beat and a rhythm,” said the master. “You will have to pay careful attention to its sound and only then will you become familiar with its printout and the information that is available to us all the time, if we only listened.” A sweet tune to the distraught ear and yet the master’s prediction had an ominous ring to it. Did he mean painful difficulties along the spiritual path? Just what did the master have in mind about listening carefully to the musical strings of the universe? Little did I realize then the

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heartbreaks that must accompany the student of Kabbalah along the spiritual journey. No other teachings of spirituality are assailed by as many obstacles and roadblocks to their dissemination as are the teachings of Kabbalah. Evil, as well as the many who are well intentioned yet ignorant, assist Satan in this endeavor. However, the master reminded me, certainty and truthful sincerity would enable me to overcome all of these hardships that would prove to be illusory blips lacking the power to win the battle against the Lightforce. So that, my dear reader, was when the seed of immortality that ultimately embraced tens of thousands of individuals was born. Now, for the very first time in 3,500 years, the instrument to defy death, if only for several months, was put into motion. Each year since then, the awareness of people has been raised to another level of consciousness. I asked yet another question of my teacher on the matter of the Revelation event and immortality. What actually happened at the Golden Calf incident to thrust mankind back into the abyss of mortality? Why and how did the Israelites sink into the depths of deception in assuming that the Golden Calf would replace Moses, the miracle man? Why not simply choose another human being to become their new leader? What did these Israelites see in the Golden Calf? Why were they taken in by it and why did they not see through the people who created it? These were some of the questions I felt needed clarification before I could possibly understand the deeper meaning of immortality. The master responded to some of the questions and said others would require more data from science before the ideas became

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understandable to the layman. The idea that man could and would make a material entity talk, like the Golden Calf, did not make sense to the skeptics or even to the biblical believers. Another woven tale in the Bible is the way the incident of the Golden Calf was treated, like the legend the Golem brought to life by Rav Loew of Prague, Czechoslovakia made good film. However, very few treated the story with any serious consideration. The nation could not touch the consciousness of those who cared to believe. The case of legends and tales, made good reading material for children and sparked the imagination of some adults. When the film industry introduced movies, people then should have become believers in the Golden Calf incident. Think about it, actors are not present in each movie theater in order to make their voices heard. It was some physical box or instrument that brought these performances to light and sound. To make the idea of a Golem or Golden Calf acceptable, mankind would have to wait until the introduction of talking robots and voice computers. We must question the reaction of the Creator to this event when He instructed Moses to slay the Israelites who succumbed to the living Calf as some kind of God. He also instructed Moses to obliterate the molten Calf. Why? It was merely performing as any talking computer today. In addition, the Scroll which Moses had received on Mount Sinai suddenly became so heavy that he no longer could carry it and it came crashing down on the ground, shattering to pieces. What was the connection between the Israelites creating a Golden Calf and the tablets becoming too heavy for Moses to sustain their weight? The Zohar states that, with the shattering of the tablets, the short-lived reality of immortality came to an abrupt end. Why?

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To understand the connection, added the master, one must first become acquainted with the idea of mind over matter. While a broader explanation of mind over matter will be the subject of a later chapter, let us explore in greater detail what happened on Mount Sinai. What brought about everlasting immortality at that moment 3,500 years ago? Why did it take the 2,300 years since the reality of Immortality was lost, when Adam ate from the tree of knowledge, to return immortality on Mount Sinai? Adam’s eating of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge and not from the Tree of Life influenced Adam to achieve a consciousness of mortality. Life as Adam knew it would now be subject to ultimate death. There was no way for Adam and his offspring to achieve an awareness or consciousness of never dying, despite the fact that he lived to the “ripe old age of 930 years.” Satan’s/Murphy’s influence in the form of mandatory death was too imbedded in Adam’s consciousness for it to change as a result of any self-discipline on the part of Adam. Adam’s DNA now included the genetic code of death that would be transferred to his offspring. Today, and only in our time, have scientists been exploring genetic engineering and soon, in our day, the genetic coding for immortality and reversing the aging process will become known. When will this happen? The Zohar states that, due to a spiritual cleansing experienced by mankind with the Mount Sinai event, which took close to 2,300 years, the consciousness of the people reversed itself to the Tree of Life reality of immortality. The clue to the spiritual cleansing is recorded within the Bible. Unfortunately, states the Zohar, stories included in the Bible such as the Deluge or Noah’s Ark and flood, the Tower of Babel plot, and bondage in Egypt are treated as nothing more than fables.

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In essence, these were the three incidents of tragedy that brought about a reversal in consciousness. One way or another, mankind was brought to its knees and humbled to the realization that we are not in control. These occurrences, states the Zohar, were the spiritual cleansing experiences that finally brought about a change from mortality consciousness to one of immortality consciousness. The consciousness of the people was now prepared for Mount Sinai. Their egos went by the wayside. They no longer would interfere or tamper with the reality of immortality by expressing the “skepticism” or “show me” attitudes which are governed by ego. Their consciousness had been unlocked to receive the Lightforce. This was an evolutionary process which was required before a reversal in consciousness could ever take place. Mankind was now receptive to a change in DNA. When I speak of a change in the DNA genetic code, I am specifically referring to the removal of the mortality influence which beclouds the existence of the immortality DNA genetic code. This change from the Satanic influence of mortality would require two distinct stages. The first is the preparation of our consciousness and our conditioning to have certainty when it comes to the immortality reality. The second stage is the actual metaphysical surgery to release mortality consciousness and Satan/Murphy’s stranglehold on the DNA genetic code of immortality. This genetic code was coerced into taking a back seat when Adam was overcome by the Tree of Knowledge apple, which had the power to conceal immortality DNA energy. When Adam opted for the Tree of Knowledge and became infused with mortality consciousness, our God-like feature of eternity vanished. God and the Lightforce exist in perpetuity. Since we are part of God, eternity

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is an inherent part of us. When Adam fell under the influence of mortality by his free will to choose from either tree, the genetic DNA energy of eternalism was more or less being informed that its services were no longer required. This was the kind of free will that our souls demanded at the Big Bang. At that time God and the God like feature of eternity were instructed to refrain from overextending their beneficence without the express desire or request for assistance. Anything resembling God or the God-like feature such as immortality had no authority to impose its will on us. The doctrine of “no coercion in spirituality” established at the time of original creation governed and guided God and the God-like feature within all of us. If Adam was stupid enough not to pay attention to the warning of his internal, God-like component, then his desire for mortality superseded the integral aspect of immortality. This is precisely the idea I have expressed when I have asked why, when our gut feeling tells us not to do something, we disregard the internal advice and go ahead and do it anyway, or why, when we are told by our insides to do something, we do not. Free will is part of us. The only problem with free will is that we also have as our sidekick Satan’s chaotic consciousness, which has become an equal partner in our decision-making process. Naturally, Satan pushes his consciousness of mortality as well, and for the most part he has the cemeteries on his side. However, we do have free will to opt for immortality. Until the idea of Mount Sinai immortality penetrated my consciousness, I too, as most people in the world, fell under the mortality consciousness of Satan. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks. However, with the passing of time,

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as the master had predicted, I began to take this matter very seriously. I would now be prepared to share this wonderful opportunity of immortality with the entire world. This reality could not come to pass until I reached a level of certainty consciousness. What seemed to emerge from this first requirement, stated the master, is that our minds actually control our very existence even to the extent of immortality. Incredible and yet so easily understood. Indeed, this is what Revelation was leading to. “But how is the consciousness of mankind going to change?” I asked. “It hasn’t for over 5,700 years except for a short interval of forty days between the time of Revelation and the Golden Calf incident.” Here, again, came that warm and gentle smile, a smile that I was beginning to almost anticipate as I impatiently waited for the master’s reply. He began: “Now you fully understand the concepts and, more importantly, the answers to the many whys you have already set in motion. Without these two requirements, time would have just marched by as it has for so many millenniums with nothing changing. Patience is a virtue that you must acquire as rapidly as possible. Many moments into the future, Satan will meet you head on and remind you that nothing has as yet happened. How long will you persevere in this or that undertaking? We are in a quantum era where so many, or infinite, components must all come together and fit as one unified whole. Even if you have laid the groundwork and completed all the work and input necessary, always remember, all the parts may not have been assembled at that moment.” This was

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an invaluable lesson that would serve me well when I became somewhat impatient. As I bowed my head in silence, the master began to address the second ingredient for immortality, the Scroll on Mount Sinai. Why was the Scroll necessary if the Israelites and all other nations had achieved an elevated state of consciousness and a heightened awareness toward the heretofore unknown phenomenon of immortality? Mankind now had the desire for immortality. Why couldn’t the rule of “mind over matter” accomplish the spiritual surgery for removing the long-infested consciousness of mortality? The response was slow in coming. The master looked into my eyes with such penetrating energy. I was certain he felt the difficulty that I would have in understanding the profound concept he was about to reveal, so he vaporized the metaphysical obstacles that would deter or hinder my comprehension. Our rational minds unfortunately have very little sway or influence over our activities, our bodies, or our environment. In fact, our rational minds, more times than not, produce the chaos and uncertainty in our lives. Where we do exercise some measure of control is in deciding whether to opt for the Tree of Life or the Tree of Knowledge. Translated into simple terms, our consciousness has two directions of thought that can be taken. We can exercise a desire to receive for the sake of also sharing that which we receive, or we can exercise a Desire to Receive for the Self Alone. There is no question that, for every physical activity expressed and manifested, there was a prior thought behind the ultimate and final

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physical activity. Our arms, our hands do not move in any direction unless our minds decide beforehand. A hand will not raise or lower itself by its own choice. Even the process of breathing in or out can be determined by our mind, since we can decide to hold our breath. In the final analysis, it is the Lifeforce within us that heals a broken bone, not the orthopedist. We have free will to direct the Lightforce. When mankind had achieved the certainty consciousness for Immortality, this thought consciousness was all that was necessary to release the immortality energy which, heretofore, had been bottled up because of the doctrine of “no coercion in spirituality until such time as there is a request for it.” That moment in time had arrived. For those familiar with the cosmic calendar, the energy for immortality could be released at its appropriate time with proper consciousness. This was the setting on Revelation night; the time was right for the release of cosmic immortality. This happens each and every year just as the event was once engineered on Mount Sinai. This was the significance of Revelation. However, there was one other aspect that had to be dealt with. For electrical energy to be utilized, there must be an electrical bulb or appliance to contain and harness this raw, naked energy. The moment the electric current becomes confined or concealed within the bulb or appliance, the energy then becomes revealed. This is the paradoxical nature of our universe. For our internal soul to become revealed, it must conceal itself in our bodies. The Scroll was the precise instrument by which the immortality energy could become confined and thus revealed. Compare this idea to a

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rock, where the atoms concealed within it become a potent force. The same rock split into fine powder no longer confines the energy force it previously enclosed. While the people with their consciousness could fire up and release the immortality energy at its appropriate time, the energy could not serve its purpose until it was harnessed and concealed. When the immortality energy was enclosed within the Scroll through proper meditation and kabbalistic connections, the people were able to tap into its awesome energy, drawing it into their bodies. When the Lightforce met up with its archenemy, mortality energy that lingered within mankind’s body, the Lightforce erased mortality in the same way that light removes darkness in a room. When the consciousness of the Israelites took a turn toward uncertainty, the Golden Calf was the result. The power of consciousness, added the master, is the most potent weapon at the disposal of mankind. I remember reading that Sir James Jeans, a British physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, wrote that, in our reality, in our universe, there is nothing more than consciousness. He wrote that the universe was looking more like a big thought than a big machine. He said that it may even be that what we think is the real, physical universe is just an interference pattern (an impertinent blip) in the world of thought. This startling revelation might well have come from a madman or inmate of a mental institution. Would Sir James have us believe that, in reality, there is no other reality than thought? When he addresses our physical reality, he considers the physicality itself to be the universe’s handicap, interfering with our daily life. Our entire

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environment of physical pain and disorder is dismissed as a distortion, an illusion. In essence, it is not even to be considered. Surprisingly enough, the Master knew what the scientist is only now beginning to know and understand. The physicist is still blocked by a gap between the theory and its practical use. The kabbalist has no such problem. The Kabbalah includes the information on how to bridge the two worlds of consciousness and physical reality. The kabbalist joins in and completely agrees with Sir James Jeans, with one further consideration. The idea of reality is not something directed only toward outer space or the universe at large. The master directs this awesome revelation to man himself. The physical body interferes with his own thought processes, often completely obscuring them. This interference originates and is the power of the Desire to Receive for Self Alone which the master perceived as the material or body intelligence. It is the material force that creates havoc within our universe. The Light energy of the spirit is known as the Desire to Receive for the Sake of Sharing. The universe—and man within it—is but an enormous composite of thought. What seems to emerge from this is that all that exists is thought, from a dinner table or home to an electromagnetic energy field. Like that of the Lightforce in whose image we were created, the consciousness of our mind is not only where information is stored, it is where energy and knowledge are created. Therefore, continued the Master, at a table in a restaurant where we may choose to sit, the former occupants have instilled their thought

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consciousness, which may be positive or negative. When we rent or purchase a new home, we must recognize that the thought consciousness of its previous residents is permeating this home. Were they positive or negative people? These unseen influences are real and are very much a part of the human landscape. Neither a religion nor philosophy, kabbalistic teachings are a way of life. These teachings are by no means effortless, remarked the Master. The requirements of Restriction and the Desire to Receive for the Sake of Sharing are very demanding. No pain, no gain. The Zohar places a great deal of emphasis on the awesome power of thought, to the extent that inanimate objects like the Scroll made of rock on Mount Sinai are also subject to our thought consciousness. Misfortune and illness are not considered separate and apart from our thoughts. Our mind and body, our thought and environment are inseparable. Therefore, not just the disease or problem must be treated, but the thoughts of the self and the thoughts of others. Our state of mind can make ourselves and others well and can speed recovery from illness. We have the power to heal and the power to remain well. We also have the power to bring our bodies and all physical, material things to immortality. We can now return to the questions raised previously concerning the Golden Calf incident. Unfortunately, after Revelation on Mount Sinai, the power of certainty was not firmly entrenched in the consciousness of the Israelites. Moses did not return when they had expected, so they proceeded to explore a replacement for Moses. Did they not trust Moses to keep his word? Why were they so willing to discard the miracles that Moses had been instrumental in achieving for their benefit? They knew all about the power of the mind. These people, the Israelites, were more enlightened than any generation before or since. What happened?

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The biblical account doesn’t make mention of them, but some pretty sinister characters went out of Egypt with the Israelites. They were what are known in Kabbalah as the Erev Rav—hateful Jews trained in the practice of Egyptian magic and completely consumed with a Desire to Receive for the Self Alone. They were a distillate of corruption, but their skills could not be denied. Yunus and Ymbrus were two of the darkest of these magicians. They had learned their trade from the master magician, Satan. They had waited a long time for this opportunity, so when Moses did not return, they seized power. They practiced a real magic. It was not the kind demonstrated by a stage illusionist who, by illusory tricks, appears to pull a bird out of a hat or have his body sawed in half yet remain in one piece. With Moses gone, they were the ones who incited the Israelites to clamor for a man—God. After forty days of grumbling and dissatisfaction that Moses had abandoned them in the desert, the people were ripe for some negativity. With Yunus and Yumbrus guiding the pack, they got what they were looking for. Moses was a miracle by and within himself. The golden idol could breathe and move and speak, a mere mechanistic marvel that made it easy for the Israelites to forget the true miracles. The problem with the Israelites originated with the fact that their consciousness had been locked into slavery for generations. They were always in need of someone or something that could relieve them of any and all responsibilities. They were incapable of assuming accountability in any way. Their consciousness was such that they were not prepared to be blamed for any decisions they made, for fear of being called a failure. This created their attitude toward Moses. He

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would always be there when they were looking for a scapegoat. So when the idea of a Golden Calf was presented by Yunus and Yumbrus, they seized this opportunity as a crutch for their weaknesses. In other words, if there was not a Moses upon whom they could project their inadequacies or frustrations, then they would settle for a Golden Calf. The creation of an animated, verbal Golden Calf was regarded as a stunning miracle 3,500 years ago. Today, however, this would surprise no one! Yunus and Yumbrus were simply over three millenniums ahead of their time. What the Israelites referred to in their day as magic is now called technology. We have robotic welders on the automotive assembly line, talking computers, and even alarm systems for our automobiles that will, at the approach of an intruder, shout, “You’re getting too close; back off or I’ll call the police. Help! Help!” These are the Golden Calves of the twentieth century. As the level of consciousness rises, a direct result of the scanning proliferation of kabbalistic text, miracles such as cloning parts of our bodies to repair damaged hearts, teeth or limbs, and even immortality itself will no longer be referred to as magic or miracles as we look upon them today. They will earn the respectability of high technology. All technology now displays a consciousness earlier generations would never have been able to understand. Use of the Lightforce provided the magicians with an entity of raw, naked energy and a metaphysical DNA sequence. In the case of the Golden Calf, the sequence could produce a new physical manifestation in the form of a “living God.” Even in Moses’ day, though it would not be “discovered” for 3,500 years, the double-helix of DNA existed, directing the formulation of every living thing from algae to a human

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being. To a very limited extent, genetic engineering appears to be headed in that direction. Although extremely crude in concept, scientists are attempting to redirect or alter the DNA codes where flaws or deficiencies exist. The methodology of Kabbalah is the genetic reengineering of the future where the mind and consciousness will play the major role as opposed to the scalpel or laser instruments. Like the evolution of fetus to baby or software program to usable computer function, the proper circuitry of DNA must be in place to animate and manifest. Taking this idea to the extreme, from a kabbalistic perspective we shall be able to take various physical functions like heart or liver or lost limb and return them back to their undifferentiated state. In layman’s language, what the kabbalist can accomplish is to return the damaged cells of the organ back to the repair shop, where the cells are restored to their original state of good health and then embark upon their return journey to their point of designation, whether it be the heart, lung, or limb. The concept is not an easy one for the rational mind to digest. However, in this twentieth century of high tech, nothing can be written off as a matter of myth. Use of the Lightforce, directed by the appropriate primal DNA furnished by Kabbalah technology, constitutes a prime example of mind over matter. And with the dawning of the twenty-first century, Kabbalah is going to come into its own. As the collective consciousness of the human race is raised further—an inevitable event with the widespread influence of Kabbalah, science will come to realize that it is absolutely possible to eliminate a physical entity or material expression, such as a cancerous tumor, by rolling it back to its original, embryonic, undifferentiated state of potentiality. Science also will learn that other sequences can also be cloned to the

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same resulting raw, naked energy to accomplish things heretofore only dreamed about. Indeed, in our lifetime, laymen will achieve flawless health and fly around the globe, all with nothing more than a consciousness to do so. With a kabalistic understanding of consciousness and its effect upon the physical, material world, we now can comprehend the matter of the shattering of the Scroll. The Lightforce represents and takes up 99% of all physical entities. When the Lightforce becomes assertive, the material becomes subjective and completely dominated by the Lightforce. It is precisely for this reason that tumors could be shrunk. The material is no longer assertive when the Lightforce has been activated, just as when the light goes on in a room, the darkness disappears. Tumors and other bodily interference are from the dark side. However, this all is dependent on who is in control, the Lightforce or the material which permits the internal Lightforce to become apparent and manifested. Similarly to be detected or expressed provided they become clothed in a body. The kabbalistic doctrine of revealment of the soul through concealment by the body. When our consciousness is elevated to the level where we recognize the body for what it really is, merely a subjective vehicle for LightforceSoul expression, then the physical body no longer holds sway or dominates the Lightforce-Soul. The body no longer can place its limitations on the Lightforce-Soul. Therefore, the soon-to-be-revealed phenomenon, the ability of man to fly like a bird around the globe will no longer remain outside the realm of the possible. This fact has already been recorded in the Zohar as far back as 3,500 years ago.

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To a lesser extent, this flying ability is already being demonstrated by the astronaut in outer space who can fly 24,000 miles around the globe in less than an hour. Rav Shimon, author of the Zohar, and the Ari both could travel long distances in a matter of minutes. The secret lies in the ability to control the interference of gravity and friction that limits our movement. The weight of a slab of stone is measured in physical terms. However, if the interference or limiting feature of stone were removed by our consciousness, then the 99% Lightforce would then dominate the stone reality. The only reason man cannot carry 10 times his/her weight is simply that we are programmed to accept heavy weight as a legitimate interference. “Oh! You can’t carry that package, it’s too heavy.” Our consciousness decides that the interference of weight will limit our capability. This, then, was the reasoning behind the shattering of the Scroll or Tablets. So long as Moses was around to keep the Israelites in line, he constantly reminded them that they need not resort to prayers, need not plead to God for assistance. This is how the Red Sea was split. As was customary with the Israelites, they displayed short memories. When the Israelites came before the Red Sea with the Egyptians in hot pursuit, they began to pray to God. “Save us,” they shouted to God. And what do you think was God’s reply? “Why are you shrieking to me?” I’ve read that verse in the Bible, possibly a thousand times. Do you believe that I even once raised a simple question that anyone reading the Splitting of the Red Sea account might have asked, namely, what kind of response was this from a loving, compassionate God? To

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whom else should one pray to if not to the Creator in time of need? Was the Creator so heartless that He refused to pay heed to their pleas? This might explain away the troubling pain and suffering for those who never seem to be lucky enough to have their prayers answered. God simply refuses to pay attention to our prayers. Then where did the whole idea of prayer come from? All religions include prayer as the most significant aspect of religious participation. The truth of the matter is that we have simply been programmed into its acceptance as an integral part of religious observance. This is just another example of how our minds have ceased to function in an inquisitive nature. And beware when the kabbalist warns that not to question is to shut down the possibility of receiving pertinent information. The question precedes the answer. The biblical verse just noted includes an even more baffling solution by the Creator. When God asked, “Why are you shrieking to me?” he provided the Israelites with a surprising solution: “Jump into the sea.” What do you think the Israelites thought when they heard these words? “You’re a big help, God. Why do I need enemies when I have friends like you, God?” Could this be one of the reasons that the Bible has lost so many of its readers? I’m certain that most of the people reading this biblical verse of a mere four words will be up in arms if they become aware of its existence. Maybe the old adage “Ignorance is bliss” should be applied here. However, we cannot dismiss this verse merely because it is incomprehensible. The Zohar, that wellspring of knowledge and information, can and does come to the rescue and will save the Bible from falling into disrepute. And who knows? Perhaps when an

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understanding that the entire Bible, the possession of all the people, is nothing more than a coded instrument awaiting its decodification, the Bible shall return to its rightful position as the roadmap of life’s journey. To address the four-word verse, the Zohar has already dealt with all of the difficulties that we just raised and many other questions that can be added to the dilemma. What this incredible verse is attempting to reveal, states the Zohar, is the power given to these Israelites, the power to finally remove all the limitations placed upon us by the physical reality so that it no longer can have an effect upon us. This concept is revolutionary. I see clearly the hand of Satan reaching out to every reader of this book, appealing to our present level of consciousness, our rational mind, saying: “Come on, you don’t believe any of this. Sure there is the idea of mind over matter, but the power of the mind cannot eliminate the physical cancerous tumor. Has it been done?” These are the famous last words of Satan. He’s got us “hook, line, and sinker.” On the one hand, he builds up our egos, which is one of his most powerful tools in creating fragmentation between peoples. Each one with a large ego sees himself as far better than the next person. And then come the scientists, who proclaim that consciousness and mind is all there is. The physical, material reality of our existence is secondary to our minds. Well, that certainly is very complimentary to humankind. However, at the moment there is chaos in our lives, we forget our ego, we ignore what the scientists have to say about the command and mastery of mankind over the material reality. We do not question our egos, our ability to rule over the physical chaos that confronts us.

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And when we recover, and chaos appears to have been overpowered (another ploy used by Satan), we revert to our previous state of mind. The ping-pong game of the mind resumes in full swing. Have you ever watched the swaying of the heads of people when observing the pingpong ball dashing from one player to the other? This is precisely the way Satan has our mind going, from one end of the spectrum to the other. So what’s the truth of the matter? The Zohar states that there is no question that humankind possesses the ability to dominate the entire physical reality and to remove the interference presented by this reality. The Red Sea interfered with the flight of the Israelites from Egypt. After all, if they continued into the sea, they would drown. The consciousness of the mind that they could split the Red Sea because mankind is part of God and therefore has the God like feature for achieving miraculous events was forgotten by the Israelites. Short memory. Why, when they were reminded of this God like feature, were they hesitant? Because, says the Zohar, they also forgot at the moment, only a few short moments before, that the mind and the physical reality are separated. Physical reality is material and the mind is immaterial. Just a few short verses earlier, the bridge was revealed by which the mind can be brought to bear upon the physical, material world. That bridge is the power of the kabbalistic 72 Names of God. These Israelites and all of mankind are God. However, there is this one distinction between God Himself and humankind. Man has a body, which serves Satan in its fragmentation and separation; God does not. To overcome this liability, man was provided with tools and

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methodology by which the God-like feature within us is brought to bear on the physical reality. Forgetting this is basically why man for 3,500 years has lived under the heel of Satan. Therefore the theories of the physicists and kabbalists must be taken seriously when they stress that the only reality is consciousness. While the physicist has difficulty accepting his own theories, we should not turn away from the truth merely because our rational minds cannot presently fathom this profound concept. The secret lies in dismissing the thought that whispers in our ears, “Oh, dismiss it, it’s too far out.” These are the constant reminders thrown at us from Satan. Know your enemy and you shall be set free. There is only one foe out there and that is Satan. I know that these words sound like strange music to the ears. Nevertheless, this music will shortly become as sweet as any that brings us to a place of tranquility and contentment. But if Satan is our only enemy out there, what are we to think about those who come dressed in human form? Are they nothing more than strange demons? No, they are real people out there with consciousness like ourselves. However, if we are positive in every way, then no evil enemy can bring harm to us, any more than the darkness in a room can wage war with the light that isn’t on. Satan can only get his foot in the front door when we open ourselves to his negativity. Positive thought causes and produces positive activity. We are now in control of our destiny. When the Israelites turned down their consciousness, the presence of the Lightforce was turned down with it. The physical reality again raised

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its ugly head and pronounced its own rightful ascension to the throne. Consciousness of the soul would now take a back seat. Mortality joyously resumed its duties of putting the physical body to rest, in a grave. The heavy stone that previously was dominated by a Lightforce expression now assumed another dimension, the consciousness of the material. The consciousness of the physical, material world as we now perceive it is one of a temporary nature. Consequently, the death of a person comes about only as a result of the dominion of the physical body consciousness. And inasmuch as it is a temporary consciousness, it expresses the idea of mortality, which is closely connected with an idea foreign to eternity. Are we not familiar with an environment where everything is subject to end, clothing, furniture, roads, and bridges to mention just a few? To assume that our clothing will never wear out, roads and bridges will never deteriorate, to most is just a pipe dream. And as long as this concept remains nothing more than a dream, then consciously we are predetermining its continuation without intermission and seemingly without end. However, the time for immortality is now.

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he untimely departure of my master in the spring of 1969 left me devastated and without any clear direction as to where The Centre should be headed. At his written instructions, I was

thrust into the presidency of The Centre and continued with the institution of kabbalistic learning as it had been done since the inception of The Centre almost fifty years ago. Since its beginning, nothing really had changed. The same requirements that existed over the past two millenniums continued to prevail. I had no intention of altering the rules and regulations that have always been looked upon as saintly and never to be tampered with. The Centre, even after its fifty-year existence, was still not considered within the mainstream of the Jewish religion. There were other books of scholarship that were considered applicable and accessible with an eye toward the participation and involvement of laypeople. Essentially that objective never came to fruition. Study of Kabbalah was an occupation for those whose lifestyle centered around the book, but not one for the material-minded individuals.

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Despite the apparent lack of interest in religious subjects, the frenzy toward spirituality was picking up steam. All around the globe, people were kicking up a storm that was changing the way individuals perceived themselves and their environment. Cracks were beginning to appear in the iron curtains of traditionalism. Life after death, Heaven, near-death experiences have become topics of conversation amongst a widespread audience of spiritual seekers. Prayer and meditation in a wide variety of forms has become commonplace in the corridors of the business establishment. There is no turning back the clock. People have begun to search for meaning in their lives. In spite of the works of Rav Ashlag, which made the once inaccessible wisdom of Kabbalah understandable for the layperson, the lid on Kabbalah was still neatly and surely tightened. While kabbalists of all major religions were working feverishly to unravel its secrets, the wisdom of Kabbalah was being touted as a study that can bring mental illness and many other problems. Another reason given for the layman to avoid studying Kabbalah was its very holiness. It was too holy for the layperson to come in contact with it. The Bible itself had never been heralded as a document too holy for one to touch. This was unheard of at any time in the long history of human civilization. But in any event, these were the feelings about Kabbalah that prevailed during the early period of my presidency. On one fine morning during the fall of 1971, two and a half short years after my master left me, Karen approached me saying she had something that had been on her mind for quite some time. Knowing Karen for nigh onto 12 years, this wasn’t her style. If she had something to say, she was not hesitant in blurting it out. “Come on,

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what is it?” I asked. Her response was that maybe we should both take a walk in the park, which we usually did anyway, and that she wanted to discuss something that she felt compelled to talk about. Needless to say, my curiosity had been heating up and was fast approaching the boiling point. “Okay,” I said when we began walking in the park. “Tell me, spell it out. What’s troubling you? Have I done anything wrong?” “Well,” she began, “I know that you are looking for some direction as to where you go from here. I know,” she continued, “that The Centre has been following the same traditional course these past fifty years as all kabbalists have done over the past two millenniums. Your master and his master before him did not deviate one iota from the path established going way back. And despite their efforts, however successful, the ground rules remained the same. Only students that were rabbis, thoroughly educated in Talmud, over the age of forty years were permitted entry into any of the credible institutions of kabbalistic teachings, including our own. “Your teacher and his teacher before him have succeeded in removing the veils that rendered the Kabbalah an abstruse study far too difficult for the uninitiated to absorb its profound teachings. I believe you have to take it from there into another level,” she said almost trembling. I asked, “What are you trying to say?” “What I’m saying,” she continued, with tears in her eyes, “is that the time has come for The Centre to open its doors to every man, woman, and child who has a desire to learn.”

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It was fortunate that there was a bench close by for me to sit on. I couldn’t believe my ears. I couldn’t understand where she was coming from. After gathering some composure and collecting my thoughts, I looked at Karen and said, “Do you know what you are saying? Why me? Why now? Tell me it’s all a joke. Tell me you are not serious. Where did you get this from? With whom have you discussed this outrageous, outlandish thought? Forget it! It’s impossible! It just won’t work.” I’ve never seen Karen so quiet. She didn’t say a word, just stared at me like a little child who just got caught with her fingers in the cookie jar. I don’t recall how long after that outburst that I remained silent, incapable of collecting my thoughts, let alone responding to a challenge that I was so unsure about. As a Leo, I never recall being as helpless as I was at that moment. After a while I regained my composure and began to meditate, connecting to my master and his master. Their answer was unusually clear. “Listen to Karen, for she is an incarnation of ………….” (I’m sorry, dear reader, that I cannot divulge the name for the present.) However, I do want to share with you that extraordinary moment in our lives and the lives of millions of people whom I must admit would be affected by this momentous decision. Little did we realize that this wonderful encounter would unfold as it did, literally changing the course of universal consciousness. But I’m running ahead of myself. My immediate response to Karen’s suggestion was that we dare not take this step despite the message I received from my two masters. Unfortunately, this negative response was one that I would repeatedly have when Karen came up with some

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revolutionary new idea. Karen said she loved to travel the road that had not been traveled before. And like most people, I would respond in a negative manner until such time as I overcame my past programming that shaped my every decision and action. This is not easy to do, as I am certain most of the readers of this book will concur. I pleaded with Karen that the wrath that would come down upon us would be so painful that I feared we would be unable to withstand the onslaught. Needless to say, when one’s childhood and upbringing are sheltered and protected, one finds it difficult to venture outside this protective shield. Karen’s life experiences prepared her well for the coming adventure. Her childhood was filled with gang wars. Karen was brought up mostly by her grandmother, who unfortunately was not capable of restricting Karen’s actions when Karen believed that she was right. So the different worlds that were about to come together met each other with a great deal of resistance. I cautioned Karen that the road we were to embark upon would indeed be a lonely one. Our former friends no longer would be comfortable with our actions nor our lifestyle. There would be no living person that we could fall back upon or from who we could seek help. This was to be a lonely path of conviction and the only place we would find comfort would be in each other. And so the word was put out that The Centre was now going to provide classes for anyone and everyone who had a desire to learn. The people began coming. From a handful of the brave, The Centre grew incredibly fast and strong. When we felt that there were enough serious students, we proposed that we attempt a New Year or Rosh Hashanah

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experience according to the kabbalistic teachings and methodology. From that humble beginning emerged the International Rosh Hashanah experience attended today by some 3,000 people. One should understand that this experience runs a full 54 hours, with people from all around the globe, of all different persuasions, living under one large hotel roof, eating together in the ballroom, and leaving with the most incredible feeling of certainty for the entire year. After all, Rosh Hashanah is not merely an event for Jews. This holiday belongs to all of mankind. Humankind finally deserved a break. A break for what, or from what? The kabbalistic journey enjoyed by its practitioners has as its goal one main objective, and that is to restore to mankind a life free from chaos. This is not a dream for the Jews alone. All of humankind hope that one day this life filled with joy and fulfillment shall become their dream realized. Mankind has been struggling since time immemorial, searching for this respite from uncertainty and chaos. This goal is about to become our reality. That is what Rosh Hashanah is all about: to provide mankind with the opportunity to break the chains of pain, illness, and suffering. In other words, to crack the stranglehold of Satan over earth’s inhabitants. We then decided to reestablish a long forgotten experience that belonged to all of mankind, the Mount Sinai Revelation. It was precisely at this time that I recalled the prophecy of the master. We were now going to bring the mini-experience of immortality to the people by guaranteeing to all the attendees that, by fulfilling all the requirements as outlined by the Zohar and Rav Luria, they could enjoy the next four months without the fear of death stepping in and bringing an end to

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our life. This concept was just too much for the stomachs of many who had not taken formal classes at The Centre. The guarantee was really stretching our luck too far, maintained many of the close friends of The Centre. However, Karen and I were determined that, if Kabbalah is indeed the solution and salvation for all mankind, then we were going to give it all we had. The beauty of Kabbalah was and is that, regardless of what one’s religion may be, kabbalistic teachings can be a useful tool in achieving a life free from chaos. And immortality, however brief it might be, is far better then the threat of mortality at any time when we least expect it. In the twenty years or so in which The Centre has been providing the kabbalistic Revelation experience, there has not been a single death among attendees for a period of four months following the Revelation experience. This is what the master foresaw when he shared his vision of mini-immortality. Little did Karen or I have the faintest idea where that humble beginning would take us. Thousands of people around the globe are today reaping the benefits of the master’s prophecy. With the growth of The Centre, the criticism and hate intensified from all walks of life. Antagonism toward The Centre became irrational. Opponents’ dislike for The Centre was illogical and almost frenzied, way beyond any basis their arguments may have had. Strange as it may sound, though, the more the opposition intensified, the stronger and more widespread The Centre became. The idea that a mini-immortality was possible spread like wildfire. The notion that a time travel machine was available defied the imagination of scientists. While The Centre’s findings could not be verified by

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conventional scientific means, this did not deter students across the globe from attending the Mount Sinai Revelation experience. To achieve immortality, albeit for four months only, requires traveling back in time. What this means for the layman, says the scientist, is that time slows down in actuality. When the years go by, in real time we have not aged. When we achieve permanent immortality, the clock stops for all time. While our rationally-minded consciousness cannot grasp the concept of how time slows down or stops permanently, the fact has already been established. This might be compared to a discussion held one hundred years ago as to whether there could ever be an aircraft, but the aircraft became a reality. Whether our minds grasp the full implication of immortality or the slowing down of time, the fact remains that its existence has already been confirmed and is not awaiting the confirmation of anyone who does not grasp the concept. The days of “I’m from Missouri, show me” have long been buried. Time travel simply means that one can travel faster than the speed of light. Einstein claimed that this was impossible, to travel faster than the speed of light, because if one could, then there was no past, present, or future. Everything would be in the here and now, the present. There would be no aging. Einstein never proved that one cannot travel faster than the speed of light. He only reasoned by his rational mind that it cannot exist because then anyone could travel back in time and presumably choose a nice, preferable age, say seventeen. Einstein must have been from Missouri, and did not believe in time travel simply because he did not see the theory in practice. Consequently, he could never accept the theory of immortality

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inasmuch as he did not personally witness this reality. Today science has already confirmed that there are particles that exist that can travel faster than the speed of light. Science is catching up with Kabbalah. Furthermore, the whole concept of speed of light is incorrect. I have no desire to turn this work into a scientific refutation of some of the basic principles acknowledged by science. Suffice it to say that kabbalistic knowledge is eternal and consequently truth. The accepted “uncertainty principle” is a perfect example of how far behind physics is, relative to kabbalistic knowledge. This work has already established that one of the underlying causes for chaos is Satan’s infusion of the principle of uncertainty into human consciousness. We are going to change all this. To achieve mini or permanent immortality requires certainty that the Revelation on Mount Sinai will accomplish this long sought-after reality. As we stated previously, there is nothing to reality aside from consciousness. If, in our consciousness, we have doubts as to whether the Revelation on Mount Sinai accomplished immortality, then all the kabbalistic meditations and connections in the world will not serve the individual to achieve immortality. Furthermore, the act of traveling back in time was already known by the Zohar. On the night of the Revelation, we are provided with the methodology that assists all those who participate in the kabbalistic experience of Revelation to connect with the cosmos that embodies and perpetuates the energy of mini-immortality. I recall the most recent encounter with mini immortality that only reinforced my conviction that immortality of an eternal permanent nature was not far into the future. I vividly remembered what the

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master had spoken when he addressed the Revelation on Mount Sinai. He mentioned that, at a time in the not-too-distant future, the circumstances would appear by which I would receive my confirmation that immortality was an actual reality. The opportunity presented itself when we decided to arrange international Revelation gatherings in the late seventies with scholars who were Kabbalah educated and initiated. The conference experience was open to all those who could raise their consciousness to the level of accepting the actuality of immortality. Many of the established Jewish communities were strongly opposed to our putting this label on their sacred holiday of Pentecost. They demanded that we designate the event as the “Giving of the Ten Commandments” and omit the word or idea of immortality. When I made a point of stressing that it wasn’t my idea but rather the conclusions reached by the Zohar, the hostility became even more intense. As far as I was concerned, there was no turning back to the old, traditional, formal way of interpreting the Revelation. This was an old wine in a new, modern, compelling, and appealing bottle. In the opinion of the master, somewhere along the road, something went wrong. The turn toward a dogmatic form of religion was never the original intent of Revelation. Neither was it intended as an event where the Jewish people became a nation shaped from a horde of slaves. Its only purpose was to reestablish the universe from a world full of chaos to an orderly, structured entity as it existed before the sin of Adam. To any rational mind, this new approach was exactly what humankind wanted and needed. Why in the world would this new interpretation

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of Revelation bring down the terrible wrath of the Jewish establishment and a hostility between Jews not seen since the destruction of Temples One and Two? What was even more incomprehensible is that immortality and resurrection are concepts accepted within all major religions. From the moment we began to publicize “the Revelation Event”, we were bombarded with all kinds of slurs, from those that referred to The Centre as a cult to accusations that we were not Jewish and denying our right to be included amongst other Jewish organizations. Our staff, including the spiritual leaders of the satellite Centres around the globe, were subjected to human indignity and bodily harm, all at the hands of those who had never participated in any of our classes or even personally met any of the teachers. Jewish judicial bodies held “kangaroo courts” to pass judgment without ever requesting to hear our side of the issue. However painful the treatment at the hands of these intolerant people, we did not permit this maltreatment to deter us or cause us to waver in any way. In order to attract as many individuals as possible to the program of consciousness-raising and immortality, we continued to disseminate the wisdom and publicly express disapproval of the unreasonable attitudes that prevailed within the Jewish community. We reaped the fruits of our efforts when many prominent people came forward to support us who had taken an active role in our work and for whom The Centre was a home of love, tolerance, and inspiration to fulfill their aspirations and dreams. As I mentioned before, over the past twenty years, not a single participant in the Revelation event has died in the four months

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following the event. Moreover, I would like to share with readers some vivid experiences that may sound as if they came out of a science fiction novel. Several years ago, one of our teachers approached me at the Revelation event and mentioned that there was a woman there from his Centre who had breast cancer and had begun chemotherapy treatments. He asked if I would like to talk to her and share some comforting words. “Of course,” I replied. I knew how this disease affects individuals afflicted with it, and I felt her pain. Cancer patients feel the enemy within. Unlike the enemy outside, from whom one can run and hide, this foe within is agonizing, since we know that it is eating away at us 24 hours a day with no obstacles in its way. During the course of our conversation, the woman mentioned that she had undergone chemotherapy and was due for another treatment a few days after the Revelation event. I mentioned to her that it was no coincidence that I should learn of her condition this evening, because the immortality feature of the event could help her although it can only last four months. Nevertheless, I cautioned her to sit next to her teacher to be certain that she fulfilled all the requirements and secured all the proper meditations and connections. Once she had done that, I told her I was certain that the Light would direct me with the precise recommendation for waging war against this enemy from within, so that she could win the battle. Above all, I added, she must maintain a consciousness that the power of immortality will set in within her and then I would be capable of channeling the right information. This was a mutual effort which required her participation. I also mentioned I was not a physician or healer but merely one that can share kabbalistic, Divine knowledge.

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During the evening, I received what I believed was a proper approach in dealing spiritually with her medical problem. She was to return to her attending physician and ask him whether she could stop the treatment at this point. She additionally wanted to know if there would be any adverse effect if she suspended the treatments for a period of three months and then returned to continue the treatments if necessary. I told her that the physician’s consent would be a strong confirmation that she should begin kabbalistic treatment, inasmuch as it was rare for a physician to go along with the idea of discontinuing treatment. She returned from the Revelation event with a consciousness that the immortality energy intelligence had indeed embraced her entire body. What this meant to her and to all the participants was that the peculiar force that the Zohar labels as the core and origin of death had been removed that evening. Unlike the accepted notion that people die of various diseases and ailments, the Zohar classifies these supposed causes of death as only symptoms. Heart and lung failure, cirrhosis of the liver, and other so-called fatal diseases are merely extensions and expressions of the death force. Remove the seed of death, the worm, as the Zohar calls the force, and one has erased the traces of death from his/her body. She returned home and the following day went for her appointment with the oncologist. To her amazement the physician agreed to her request to discontinue chemotherapy and requested that she return for periodic checkups. We then commenced with the program of kabbalistic surgery, which she agreed to follow rigidly and without hesitation as to its effectiveness. I

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again cautioned her to maintain the consciousness of immortality to insure that the powerful tool of “mind over matter” would not leave her body at any time. There can be no doubt that this segment of the treatment was the most difficult that she would encounter. I repeated what she, as a student of The Centre, had heard over and over again, that we are completely responsible for letting the death force invade our bodies. Whether as a result of our negative activity and behavior toward our fellow man, or due to our inability to maintain a vigil of positive consciousness and our tendency to let our guard down, we contribute to the break in our natural, God-given security shield. Once Satan senses the rupture in our security cover, he swoops down, penetrating and infiltrating the wound with the death force. This could be compared to a shark, detecting the smell of blood and then zeroing in on its victim. Unfortunately, we instead describe the disease that invades our body as cancer. Living within its victim 24 hours a day, the cancer cell puts the patient on a heightened level of terror, which in turn creates a further breakdown in the immune system. The process continues, with fear aggravating the mind consciousness, which in turn feeds the cancer cell, and so on in a revolving state of panic and spreading of cancer cells. When it comes to other serious diseases that can lead to ultimate death, we do not observe nor are we with a consciousness that it is a culprit of Satanic design that has infiltrated our body, and herein lies the strength of Satan consciousness. The victim is totally unaware of an infiltrator in his/her midst. This is precisely what medical science is referring to when it says that disease of any sort begins long before its physical appearance and manifestation. However, there is no medically known therapy or device that can approach a disease in its

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infancy or in its metaphysical state and presence. This is precisely the level that Kabbalah addresses. So our student was provided with the methodology by which to bridge the “victim” consciousness within her physical body. With a visual reality to divert the Lightforce toward the origin of the breast cancer, and with other supportive therapy, she has remained free and clean of the Satan culprit. I should add that the kabbalistic process does not always run as smoothly as we might prefer. The treatment has shown some measure of unconfined success, other than the fact that the patient did not require further treatment, as acknowledged by her attending physician. At one time, she called me to report that she had some discomfort, not pain, in her breast under the kabbalistic treatment. I immediately asked her if uncertainty had somehow crept into her unconsciousness. She responded by telling me that she had a friend with a similar condition and this had awakened some fear within her. I assured her that the discomfort would disappear shortly, with the disappearance of her fear. I reminded her that, while the immortality event and the follow-up by kabbalistic treatment had removed the Satan culprit from her body, this did not mean that Satan had been eliminated. From her body yes, but unfortunately so long as the permanency of immortality is not firmly entrenched, Satan lurks outside of us, awaiting the moment when an opening or breach in our security shield occurs. He is on a constant lookout for these opportunities when he can swoop down with a proper dosage of chaos for his unsuspecting victims. Consequently, the job of maintaining the proper level of consciousness is a constant, persevering 24-hour-a-day job. Satan’s primary tool is

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the “uncertainty principle.” Anyone who falls into the clutches of doubt generated by Satan becomes a candidate for Satan chaos. Satan is behind every leading consciousness of doubt, whether individual, collective, or global. He is the master magician of illusion. He can convince us of impending disaster when, in effect, the disaster is only “in our head,” as the expression goes. He creates for us the illusion of imminent chaos for no other purpose than to instill doubt in our minds as to what the future-the next day, the next moment-has in store for us. Without this heightened awareness of the weapon of doubt he uses against us, we haven’t got the slightest chance of overcoming chaos or taking control over our lives, despite the fact that our egos might convince us that we are “top dog.” We are always superior, leader of the pack, until such time that Satan conveniently decides to take command of our ship and lead it into stormy seas and sometimes onto a reef. This is the essential problem behind all world disorder and chaos. Our consciousness level has been reduced by Satan into believing that circumstances, people out there, our bodies are responsible for all the chaos that we experience. We are therefore totally unprepared when disaster sets in. We immediately become reactive individuals. We relinquish control of our ship. When our egos reestablish their illusion of superiority because things have gotten better—“luckily”—it appears as if we have become proactive people again. However, let us forever remember that we have regained our confidence only as a result of circumstances outside ourselves. We are stimulated by the unexpected success. So the illusion of proactivity is just another demonstration of how cunning our adversary, Satan, is. He can turn around a seemingly reactive situation so as to convince us that we are proactive and have regained mastery over our destiny. What mankind

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has failed to grasp over the millenniums is that our enemy Satan has been leading us by the nose in herds, with chaos always lying beyond the horizon. To be truly proactive and in constant control over our destiny requires a consciousness of what is really going on at all times, good or bad. To achieve an elevated consciousness is to be proactive precisely at a time when we appear to have the least control or be totally out of control. The reason I use the word appear is because, at the moment in time when all around us is crumbling, we address the situation by giving Satan high grades for his performance of the illusion. Satan has so convinced us beyond any shadow of a doubt that we are involved in a chaotic condition. He has succeeded in getting us to buy into the illusion, just as a master magician does when he causes a Boeing 747 to disappear before the very eyes of a crowd of 50,000 onlookers. If the magician did not fulfill his pledge to make the airplane disappear, the entire audience of 50,000 would demand a refund at the box office. Just observe this incredible paradox. Do any of the people truly believe that the magician has actually caused the Boeing 747 to disappear before their very eyes? Of course not, despite the actual physical, disappearance of the plane. Then why would these same onlookers rush to the box office to demand a refund if the plane did not disappear? They are fully conscious that the magician cannot vaporize a Boeing 747. They know it’s only a trick, a movement faster than the eye’s perception. So what the onlookers are in effect demanding is that the magician

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create the illusion of disappearance. And when he does successfully accomplish this miraculous demonstration, they are satisfied that they have been compensated, this despite the knowledge and consciousness that the plane did not disappear in reality. Now when it comes to the master of all magicians, Satan, we immediately fall for his act of illusion without giving it a second thought. We ask “How did he do it?” when our proper response should be “Wait a moment!” Maybe what we observe as ultimate chaos is in reality an illusion, and not what we have been led to believe by Satan, the master magician. We are immediately reactive rather than placing the appearance of a chaotic event into proper perspective. The moment when we begin to question is the profound beginning of our proactiveness. We have, for millenniums, reacted with all sorts of responses to the chaos in our lives, for example, “How will I overcome this one?” or “Why has this happened to me?” We actually behave like sitting ducks, without anyone to shoot back at. The enemy is nowhere to be seen. He has performed the greatest disappearing act of all time. The chaos may be so pronounced as to shock us into all sorts of mental and physical disorder. All the while, the performer of this act has left us with an impression and illusion of chaotic reality, while the sleight-of-hand artist himself has disappeared without leaving any shred of evidence that he had a hand in all this chaos. Recall at this time the words of Sir James Jeans, physicist and mathematician: , “In our reality there is nothing more than consciousness.” Sir James clearly stated, and all other physicists agree with him, that the physical reality as we know it is but an interference pattern (an impertinent blip) in the world of thought.

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In light of what has been said, we can and should extend these notions to put our search for the truth in the proper perspective. Fear of truth should be left behind. I know that many of you are saying, “Easier said than done!” and “It’s too good to be true.” Well, I know for sure that by not accepting this kabbalistic perspective we have one of two choices. The first is to believe that when things are going well for us, they will forever continue so, whether the subject is health, wealth, or family. This kind of reasoning is the ostrich approach, where one puts his/her head in the ground and thinks nobody sees them. Foolhardy. The second choice is simply to lie down without fighting back or fighting back after seeing the doctors, psychiatrist, accountants, and lawyers. We are in the Age of Aquarius, when good things are supposed to happen. One need just look around to come to the conclusion that chaos is rampant everywhere and there is no place to hide to escape its pain and suffering. The irony of it all is that this is the way it’s always been and therefore it is probably not likely to change. And yet, on a purely material and technical level, haven’t we undergone incredible changes brought on by twentieth-century technology, changes we never even thought about a hundred years ago? The telephone has brought the physical world together, albeit the face-toface encounter has been dramatically reduced. The many innovations like dishwashers, automobiles, computers, and the like should have provided mankind with more leisure time and yet many a household requires both parents to work. The tourism industry flourishes like at no time in history, yet little change is noticeable in our daily living experiences. Hospital beds are on the increase despite advanced medical research. Diseases and viruses once believed to be extinct are now returning

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with strains so stubborn that they resist the most effective medical treatment. During the past hundred years, contemporary medical research has taken credit for the sharp decline in infectious diseases such as cholera, polio, and tuberculosis. Today, after believing that most of these diseases almost ceased to exist, we find an upswing in their appearance. However, Thomas McKeown, a professor of social medicine, provides sufficient proof that the striking decline in mortality was not the result of medical intervention alone. There were other contributing factors as well, including the improvement in hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition. His study showed that major infectious diseases had all peaked and begun to decline long before effective combatant medications and immunization techniques were introduced. In light of new information, it appears that medical intervention alone is incapable of bringing about significant changes in basic disease patterns. Thus, while there has been progress in unraveling biological factors involved in specific diseases and in developing technologies that will affect them, identifying and labeling the disease doesn’t necessarily mean making progress in health care. This is not to say that, in areas of emergency medicine, there has not been remarkable progress in dealing with acute infections, premature births, and the like. Spectacular medical procedures relating to organ transplants and open heart surgery do not answer for us the question of why these conditions arose in the first place nor what measures may have prevented these physical impairments from occurring. This book is by no means intended as a criticism of medical practices, research, or the physicians whose ideals brought them to caring for and improving the well being of others.

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When I asked the master to what we can attribute the sudden rise in the life expectancy of humankind, I was taken aback by his curt but very clear response: “It is directly related to the influence of the Aquarian Age.” “Furthermore,” continued the Master, “one day in the not too distant future, you shall be given the task of drawing the consciousness of immortality to its highest level of reality.” To assume that I understood what the Master’s intent was, or the full in-depth meaning of his words, would be too presumptuous and even foolhardy. I never took the word “immortality” mentioned in scriptures as an idea to be taken seriously. There were many ideas and notions that I merely accepted as doctrinal truth, never to be pursued with any degree of inquisitiveness or investigation. Where could the study lead me, if not to the ultimate reality of the many gravesites and cemeteries? Trusting the master was something my short seven-year relationship with him had led me to accept, though. So, although my Missourian tradition and upbringing was in conflict with the master’s revelations, there were far too many experiences that we enjoyed together in our short seven year relationship. Why not, I asked myself: “Why not immortality?” In the early part of the twentieth- century, American life expectancy was 48 years. Only a few decades later, it is 81. Scientists, who believe they are the miracle workers of the present day, are now theorizing that mankind’s life span could be extended by decades if not by centuries by altering our genes. This scientific notion of a dramatic extension of human life arouses the same healthy skepticism. However, we have heard many predictions before. I for one could not accept the idea of immortality. I could understand and possibly accept the many years of confident forecasts, but there is still no cure for cancer.

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In my skepticism, I largely put these remarks of the master out of my mind until an event that took place in 1994 suddenly shook my entire perspective on this heretofore unimaginable concept known as immortality. However, I am running ahead of myself and we’ll wait until a full and thorough discussion of mortality and its kabbalistic perspective is absorbed in the next chapter.

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hat word in the English language (or for that matter any language) throws greater fear into the hearts of man than “death.” When this fear is compounded by the thought of

death arising out of violence or pain and suffering, panic grips its victim. Young children living with the traumatic experience of having seen their parents torn away from them. A hiker holding on to his brother’s hand only to see the hand slip away down a steep mountain. And who can measure the grief so many experience as they pass the milestones of age 60 and 70 and look forward toward the inevitable finale of death. I recall the day that the master passed from the scene of the living in the year 1969. He was as cheerful as always, without even as much as a hint that he would be leaving this familiar existence. We chatted all that day about the future direction of The Centre. All that he could tell me was that I would need tremendous support for whatever undertaking The Centre embarked upon. At that time I was sure that the master was referring to moral and financial support from the community at large. He assured me that this would be forthcoming in

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ways unimaginable. Little did I realize then that what the Master was alluding to was the fact that his own death would open the door to an unbelievable, impossible, and yet wonderful reality. The support and assistance that I had counted on was not surfacing, nor would it emerge at any time after the passing of the master, at least not in the way that I had presumed. When the master passed on, it was as if I had had the rug pulled out from under me. Though I had been designated in 1967 as his successor, I paid little attention to the enormity of his selection. I gave it no thought inasmuch as I couldn’t begin to fathom the consequences. At my master’s instruction, we had expanded from our one small location in Israel by establishing the second branch of The Centre in New York in 1965. This was the forerunner of what would one day be a global presence. In this very unassuming manner and attracting very little attention, The Centre began to take the first step in fulfilling its founder’s dream of disseminating Kabbalah worldwide. There I was, in 1969, without any indication as to where we would go from here. Was I angry at the loss? No. Was I frustrated? The answer is yes. What was I to make of a Kabbalah Centre that now had two locations? I have to admit that, for two years, The Centre was in a state of limbo. I simply continued the publications and programs begun by the Master during his lifetime. In 1971, this all changed very dramatically. As I was sitting one day in the park with Karen, my Master appeared. I was so frightened that I thought I would faint. Karen noticed the sudden change in my face and exclaimed, “You look like you’ve seen a ghost!” How those words rang out at the time surprised me further. I was about to ask her, “How

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do you know?” but I regained my composure and didn’t say a word. The master continued to speak to me. I was sure I was hallucinating, but I knew better. There was Karen frantically trying to get my attention and I was glued to the master. At that point, Karen later told me, she had a feeling that I was communicating with someone or something. She was quite sure that it was the master, and her psychic intuition provided her with a front row seat as to what was going on. The master confirmed for me that Karen’s suggestion and our decision to open the doors to the world of Kabbalah was a correct decision and a giant step forward toward elimination of chaos from the landscape of human existence. The work would be difficult; it would pit the entire establishment against our efforts to open the doors to Kabbalah. However, reasserted the master, the antagonism would be coming from a minority, since the majority of people have left formal religion. The master, as his teacher before him, warned that abandonment of faith was inevitable if spirituality was ignored. The chances of religion’s survival were indeed very low if purely based on a dogmatic and traditional doctrine. The paradox of it all is that religions contain and embrace the spiritual teachings but, for whatever reason, these teachings have been neglected over the millenniums. How, one might ask, were these spiritual teachings removed from the established forms of religion? Why weren’t their practitioners concerned that these necessary tools become the possession of the people rather than remain the domain of the select few? The answer, of course, is that these same practitioners were not always men of sharing. However, its revealment would have to await the Aquarian Age. Now that this period is upon us, Satan/Murphy has exerted a greater effort in combating the spread of

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these teachings. For when this material becomes available to all, the reality of chaos, pain, and suffering will come to an end. Then and only then will Satan/Murphy be out of a job. “Now,” continued the master, “I will reveal for you just exactly what it is that I meant when I told you that a support will be forthcoming that you could never imagine, completely unimaginable. Just as you see me now for the first time, aside from the moments when I appeared in dreams, you can call upon me when there is a need, and I will be there. There may be questions which I cannot answer sometimes, but understand that my refusal is not of my desire or doing. The time of this revealment had not arrived at that moment in your time. This may become difficult for you when you are pressed for some answers. However, I assure you, my not responding and your frustration as to the lack of an answer or lack of direction will in no way adversely affect you. What is even more surprising is that, when you are in doubt as to what course of action or decision you would choose, do not be concerned. Sometimes you may be asked to settle a dispute. Do not be embarrassed to reply, ‘I do not know how to resolve the matter,’ if indeed you are in doubt. When in doubt do nothing. Merely respond that you have not received the answer. More often than not, those who are not very close to you may not understand the answer. Do not fret or become irritated by their lack of understanding. This is a cardinal and essential rule. “You are never to experience the ego when you answer or say ‘I do not know.’ You will come to understand, albeit a difficult lesson, that the rational conscious mind is nothing more than an interference, a blip on the physical reality level of existence. Unlike your understanding of the rational mind, which you have been programmed to accept as the only vehicle by which you can decide, organize, relate to others, and, above

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all, think, this notion and idea came about completely and painlessly by Satan and his influence. This is exactly the way Satan has manipulated mankind. “Satan has influenced us into believing that with a proper and skillful mind we are in control. And we actually believe it even when we lose control and chaos sets into our lives. We’ll find every conceivable reason why things went haywire or wrong. However, addressing the real reason, which is, namely, ‘I am not in control,’ is avoided at all costs. That is exactly the awesome and disguised power of Satannever to let on that he is behind our inability to maintain control over our lives. “The rational mind never controls more than 4% to 6% of our activities, whether they be speech, hearing, or seeing. How many of us consciously think or consciously poise each and every word that comes out of our mouth? Unless a speaker is delivering a prepared script, it is undoubtedly clear that he/she is unaware of each word emanating from the mouth. Where did the structure of each sentence come from if not from some invisible prepared script which is not and cannot be the rational mind? For the rational mind is not thinking about or conscious of what is being said. The same holds true of any chitchat between two friends. “Consequently,” stated the Master, “as of this moment on you are to prepare lectures for the laymen (thousands of lectures) to be given in The Centres all around the world.” “But,” I protested, “I haven’t had any experience or reason to create lectures other than for possibly a few sermons in the past. You are

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now suggesting that I sit down, do the research, and prepare a structure for the layman so he understands these very difficult concepts in layman’s language, and thousands of lectures at that. This is undoubtedly a project for many years, assuming I had 48 hours in the day. And with all the difficulties that this assignment includes, the project will also include, aside from the kabbalistic text, subjects on reincarnation, astrology, meditation, power of the Aleph-Bet, biology, and a host of others and then some. Then, of course, when students have taken all the beginner courses, I guess I’m to construct advanced courses as well.” “Now if you are somewhat confused, I cannot blame you,” continued the master. “If I were you I would be more than confused. I would be dumbfounded. Inasmuch as you comprehend the inadequacy of the rational mind, you will now be prepared for what I have to reveal to you. I have on many occasions spoken to you about how Rav Ashlag came to write tens of thousands of pages on so difficult a subject as Kabbalah. One might have suspected that these works would take many lifetimes and certainly not all within a short period of some thirty years. This in addition to his other duties which took away many hours a day of writing time. “If you recall, I mentioned that my teacher stated that he wrote nothing. Then I asked Rav Ashlag, if you did not write all these pages, who did? And his reply was, “The Pen.” The way Rav Ashlag explained this new phenomenon was that Rav Ashlag was now connected to the 94% or 96% of the real consciousness or mind. Consequently the pen is merely taking all the information which has been waiting in the wings for millenniums and putting it down on paper. The large volume of material was in fact not his. He merely

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was a good channel, a stenographer who permitted the totality of the mind to come through without interference by the Satan 4% or 6% mind or rational consciousness that says don’t believe anything unless you can see it. This famous statement is the greatest hoax that Satan has afflicted on humankind. Satan could not and did not dominate the mind of Rav Ashlag. “And to make matters more confusing and difficult to comprehend, Rav Ashlag’s teacher taught him all he knew in a matter of six months. Now how could his teacher reveal to Rav Ashlag all the information that ever was, is, and will be in a matter of six short months? This and many other difficulties that we may have to grapple with are merely originating within the rational mind consciousness. A man-made calculator seemingly can multiply many numbers and yet our rational minds appear to have difficulty doing the same job in little time. “Therefore,” continued the master, “I will continue to teach you as I have prior to 1969. I am now capable of revealing to you that which was impossible while I was, figuratively speaking, alive. I am very much alive for you now and soon your pen will begin to write for you. Not only will you experience an incredible number of lectures which your pen shall set down on paper, but you will no longer have to prepare for seminars and conferences. Just ask me to be there with you. Just know the topic and a rough outline of what you want to talk about. Leave the rest to me. “In addition, prepare to write books and I will assist you in choosing the topics for the volumes you produce. And do not worry about the money necessary for its printing. It will always be there. Furthermore, do not be overly concerned or devote too much time in search of

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printers. They will always appear at the right time and the right printer for the occasion. And that is about all that we are to discuss for the time being. So begin immediately with your mission.” Needless to say, I was beyond myself. I was convinced that I was hallucinating. How else could I explain meeting up with the master after an absence of two years, not to mention the conversation that seemed to have been going on between us? I certainly wished it to be true, but it was too good to be true. However, my past experience within the world of Kabbalah taught me never to reject outright any idea that can enhance our lives. And so Karen and I embarked on a new stage in the wonderful world of Kabbalah. However, the most significant aspect of this encounter was the realization that, if the incredible assistance the master spoke of were to come to fruition, then we had just experienced a ground-breaking event of immortality. Death was an illusion. Death makes us think of people as deceased or departed when, in fact, these same people may very well be alive. But didn’t we witness the funeral of someone we loved? We observed their interment. How could they exist when they are completely covered up by the earth? That individual no longer exists. Let me repeat what I have already stated, that the observation of a deceased person comes about only by the use of our five senses. Science has already confirmed that dependency upon the five senses is at best unreliable. Most scientists take the idea of the five senses to its extreme and declare that our five senses are not only unreliable but actually interfere with our thought consciousness. If you, the reader, are finding this concept too difficult to digest, let me

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then direct your attention to your consciousness. How long does it take the mind to travel over long distances? How long does it take our eyes to scan a Sunday New York Times when we’re looking for a particular article? You may object to this reasoning by saying, “But my body cannot travel that fast, and my eyes cannot read that fast and scan at the same time.” This is precisely what I’m trying to say. When we begin to recognize the limitations imposed upon us by the physical reality, we can embark upon a new adventure with our consciousness. Raising our awareness with the tools provided by Kabbalah, we can leave behind our body limitations and soar to new dimensions never thought possible. So long as we are still enslaved by and chained to our old ways of thinking, to the limited programs thrust upon us by Satan, then we have no other choice but to accept mortality as a reality. We are governed by the Missouri principle of “seeing is believing,” and seeing, as I have already confirmed, is at best limited if not corrupt. There will always remain die-hards who will never admit or acquiesce to any radical, imaginative new ideas. For those, the Zohar states, when immortality ceases to be a reality, they unfortunately will be subject to the rules of mortality and its consequences. What is required is that a majority of the world’s inhabitants remove the chaos that is mortality through a consciousness of immortality. What does this exactly mean? Mortality, in essence, is an illusionary reality. Nonetheless, until the majority come to recognize it as such, we who are left behind by a deceased person will still feel the grief that accompanies death. When the death syndrome is exposed as a hoax and fraud perpetrated by Satan into making us believe that death,

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unlike illness, is irrevocable, then immortality emerges from the closet and becomes the “new kid on the block,” a reality that all shall take notice of. Well, you might add, this doesn’t sound like too difficult a task to handle. Who amongst us does not want to see our loved ones living eternally? The problem lies in the fact that Satan is a very formidable enemy. He knows every trick in the chaos trade. We can never underestimate his resourcefulness and clever intelligence. He’s been at it since the time and sin of Adam. And that’s a long time. Impressive, yet for the most part unknown, are the vivid near-death experiences recorded in medical literature around the world. These experiences should have brought the entire subject of mortality into question by men in all fields of the sciences. For whatever reason, never clearly stated, the vast majority of laymen remain in the dark on this subject, and are totally unaware of its existence. With advanced medical technology reaching even higher dimensions of awareness, more patients are journeying back from the edge of death. This miracle has caused the entire concept of mortality and death to be brought into question. What is death and when can we safely assume that a person has actually died? We have heard of those rare occasions when people have yelled from their graves, “Let me out of here!” only to discover that they had undergone a catatonic state of consciousness, or when funeral morticians about to cremate a body observed the body in a sweat. It is a known fact that the hair and nails of someone declared clinically dead continue to grow for at least three days afterward.

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The question of when a person is legally considered dead has only been established by the medical community. Some patients who have existed in a comatose state, living as a vegetable on life-support instruments, have been disconnected from these devices and yet continued to function in their unconscious realm, fed only intravenously. They did not die as had been expected. The Zohar is replete with stories of near-death experiences and goes so far as to describe the typical experience of those found on the line between life and death. They almost all report a long tunnel with a light at the end of it following clinical death. We are told in the Zohar that, upon the death of the physical body, the soul immediately travels to Hebron, where Adam has been since dying approximately 5,000 years ago, and that it does so by means of a long tunnel. However, those whose time has not come are sent back to regain their consciousness and resume, if possible, a normal life among the living. These people also report a life review and the presence of deceased relatives, all of which is described in the Zohar. What is also amazing is that, after these patients have been declared legally dead and they regain consciousness, they are able to repeat the entire conversation that took place among the attending physicians who were attempting to save them. They recount exactly the position of each person in the room, what they were doing, and what they were saying. But all this occurred while the patient was unconscious and then declared dead. They describe themselves as hovering over the bed where they saw themselves lying and seeing the procedure by which the physicians attempted to revive their physical bodies.

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These experiences are clear examples that there is much the medical community does not know about determining whether death has actually just taken place or when a patient should be declared clinically dead. Mortality seems to elude the medical experts. Satan, ever the trickster, is the one who clothes death in robes of terror, painting a mendacious picture of the skeletal “grim reaper” with a scythe the size of a bulldozer blade in his bony hand. Murphy whispers that death is a dark and inescapable finality—a lonely corridor which all must walk and none return. As ever, Murphy/Satan is a liar. This is precisely what Satan/Murphy would have us believe. And Murphy has a great number of supporters to back him up on the way as he continues to paint the picture of “death”. There are huge numbers of recorded near-death experiences (NDE) that provide a picture in direct conflict with what the majority of mankind believes. This is precisely why he is the master trickster. For millenniums he has continued to steamroll Earth’s habitants into believing death is the only reality that never changes. Their return is the most conclusive proof that any scientist requires that death is indeed an illusion. The master magician convinces us that chaos is a true reality in our familiar landscape and that death is an indisputable truth of reality. Why haven’t we heard from scientists who have observed the return to life of people who were declared legally dead? Why haven’t the researchers of NDE made their findings known and heard amongst the laymen? This is one example of who the real enemy of mankind really is. Satan will employ the finest, well-intentioned scientists to do his bidding even when the evidence is overwhelmingly unfavorable to the common notion of what death is and means.

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In truth, I was personally unaware of NDEs and the pervading information confirming their validity when the master appeared before me. Incidentally, while the master was communicating the mission that I was being prepared for, he was seated on a chair. I was dumb-struck with awe to have raised the question, “Where did the chair come from?” And I must admit I would not have understood the answer of the Master at that time and so I guess that is why I didn’t ask the question. Concerning my acceptance of the master’s reality, I presume many of you might assume I was just another person gullible and vulnerable to non-conventional, paranormal phenomena. My response as to how I felt at that moment is a rather simple one, or should I say simple for me. Having spent seven years of an inseparable relationship with the master conditioned me to grasp the very heart-beat of this individual. We were truly one soul. We both felt the same worry towards each other. I never saw the master as one outside of myself. Unless someone has experienced this kind of relationship personally, it would be very difficult to find the words to describe what we felt. Today, I know that what we sensed towards each other was a relationship similar to King David and Jonathan. Jonathan was the son of King Saul, and Saul was the archenemy of King David. When in 1969 the master abruptly left me, I felt a part of me had also left with the master. With this new encounter in 1971, I merely sensed that a part of me had returned. It’s kind of like when a loved one leaves for a few days and you miss that person something terrible, and when they return, you feel good and happy again. Well, that is precisely what I felt in 1971. I felt good as if I were complete again. There was no room nor any empty space for questions. I was just happy that we were united again.

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The idea of immortality was not a concept that became to me a reality. I did not see or think of it when the experience took place. It was just a matter of fact, as the master had experienced with his master, Rav Ashlag. Now that I look back at that moment, this encounter would have been more than conclusive proof that immortality was a very viable reality. After all, where did the enormous quantity of information come from? So concise and structured that I didn’t have to think what was being put down on paper by the pen. All of the wisdom and structure were ready to be delivered to classes. It was an incredible experience. The student body of The Centre grew by leaps and bounds. All this began to make sense to me. Once the overwhelming evidence began accumulating in such proportions, my ego, as that of Rav Ashlag before me, was stirring within me. When one lives through this kind of experience, Satan can have an easy time convincing the person how great he really is. But the master was there in full support of myself and the trap Satan had sprung for me. He was reminding me, as he had clearly stated in our first meeting, that the excitement of the ego was unfortunately the bolt that would shut the door to the constant flow of the eternal wellspring which had so miraculously flowed through the pen. This was indeed one of the most difficult tests I would have to overcome. I read and reread Rav Ashlag’s letter he had written to a relative some forty years before and which was printed by the master in one of his publications. In that letter Rav Ashlag relates that when his teacher began to reveal secrets of the Kabbalah, his self esteem had risen to uncontrollable dimensions beyond what Rav Ashlag could have ever dreamt of. Rav Ashlag’s teacher did not keep their appointments as

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he did in the past and Rav Ashlag did not even feel his teacher slipping away. After a short period Rav Ashlag’s ego began to subside and he realized what had taken place. He regained control over the ego and was again reunited with his teacher who left this earthly plane shortly afterwards. I was not going to let this happen to me. And with the master at my side I knew that this was an area that I would meet head on and succeed in defeating this illusionary (Ego) Opponent. I now understand and appreciate that when the moment of immortality revealment entered my consciousness, I was already prepared to do battle “in the streets.” I had no fear whatsoever as to what others might think or say. This was the case on the fateful evening in 1994. The continued presence of the Master, long after his departure from this earthly plane, placed a great deal of doubt in my mind as to whether death was real or in fact only illusory. The Master was very real. Certainly, he had brought the evidence to substantiate everything he spoke about on that predestined day in the park. I never had any doubts to even question that the encounter was anything but real. I suddenly found myself delivering lectures on Ten Luminous Emanations at five in the morning without ever having prepared for them. And this has gone on for the last twelve years and a thousand recorded tapes later. There was many a morning that, because I had gone to sleep so early in the morning, I was extremely tired and also groggy when it came time to lecture. I could not keep my eyes open or my head up. Many a time I would not remember where I had concluded my last lecture. Where we were in the text. But there

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it was, the information flowing as continuously and clearly as if I had spent the entire previous day in preparation. And to my and the students amazement, many of the secrets revealed would show up in the science section of the New York Times some weeks later. Or a student would present me with a new publication discussing a subject that we touched upon some six or eight months before. I recall giving an all-day seminar of nine hours on Sunday in Mexico City, arranged by our Mexican branch of The Centre. When it came time to deliver the seminar, I searched my briefcase only to discover I had left my notes in New York. Needless to say, I panicked a little, to say the least. I went into mediation and asked the master to be there, at the seminar and provide me with the nine hours of lecture. To add a little more anxiety to the confusion, I was told that Grupo Televiso, Mexico’s largest and leading television station would have a crew of five (5) cameramen to record the entire seminar. The reader should be aware that the master did not speak English. The seminar in Mexico City would be simultaneously translated into Spanish from the English in which I was addressing the crowd, an audience that numbered close to 600 people. Did I have fear or display any nervousness? I would be anything but truthful if I told you I was perfectly calm and collected when I walked up to the podium. However, true to his word, the master came through for me and plugged me right into the predestined and predetermined script that I delivered.

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The physicists were right. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are all in the here and now. And as Rav Ashlag so beautifully stated, “Everything in this universe is like a seed of a tree. Everything of the future, the root, trunk, branches, leaves and subsequently, the fruit are all included already within the seed only awaiting its unfoldment.” This was precisely what I was doing at the seminar, unfolding that which already was prepared in a non-material realm. The seed contains the root on a non-material level. When the seed is planted, the root then reveals itself as a material, physical entity. Like a recorded cassette or CD, the music on the tape or CD is and remains in a non-material version. When placed in a tape player, its non-material essence becomes revealed as beautiful music on the listening or ear level. This is exactly the manner in which I was permitted to reveal whatever knowledge was destined to become revealed. I was the cassette player. The master inserted the particular tape or CD necessary for me to release the infinite wisdom that we chose as the suggested topic. It was thrilling to the extent that I could not contain or restrain myself sometimes and remarked, “Wow, I never heard that before!” or “Where did that come from?” There was many a time that I could not remember a few moments later what I had said only moments earlier. I had to be reminded what I said and then try to explain to the student what it was I meant to say. But gradually I became used to it. This process was the most significant factor that kept the ego in its proper perspective. After all, it wasn’t my material. It was given to me. It reminded me of the time I read that Einstein did not receive the Nobel prize for proving the General Theory of Relativity, but rather for his imagination that a theory exists. In fact cooperation with other scientists ultimately brought about Einstein’s written work. I asked

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myself, where did the idea come from? Why was he chosen to disclose the knowledge? He certainly did not create the theory. It was information ready to be disclosed. This is precisely how I treat the information revealed through me. I am nothing more than the channel and that certainly is nothing to be proud about. If it wasn’t me, it would be someone else. And so the idea of mortality as nothing more than an illusion gradually began to unfold. As time passed, the same texts I had read so many times began to take on more significance each time I referred to them. The same idea expressed in the Zohar a few years ago took on added meaning without canceling out the previous understanding. This was no different than 20th century physics which appeared to contradict Newtonian physics three hundred years earlier. They were merely adding on another dimension. So when I came to the conclusion that one who masters Kabbalah need not die, I began to notice many difficult sections in the Zohar that mortality does not apply to everyone. Over the years I have noticed sections of the Zohar that I studied before suddenly brought new and more profound levels of understanding. The first passage of the Zohar that I came across dealing with a death the never happened was the death of Jacob, third and greatest of the biblical patriarchs. It takes a bit of translation, but what it means is simply this. Jacob left the physical environment we call reality only when he chose to do so. Death had nothing to do with it. Although the Bible appears to indicate that Jacob did die, the idea of death means he no longer was in contact with our familiar physical reality.

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In fact, the Zohar illustrates a stunning paradox: Death exists for the sole purpose of proving that it does not exist; Death negates itself. When someone walks through the door of death no longer to be visible, to those left behind in our familiar physical reality, Jacob “vanished” into the grave. However, this act is no different than when a David Copperfield or any other master magician places a live pigeon in a hat. Then he must and does cover the hat with a cloth as Jacob was covered by the dust of the earth. The covering causes the illusion that when the cloth is removed, the pigeon has vanished. However, picture Jacob, who now lies on the other side of the dust. To Jacob, it was those left behind who ultimately vanished. He too no longer sees the people. The scene, clearly viewed by Jacob from his unaltered position in what kabbalists refer to as living in the Tree of Life reality, must have seemed bizarre... people wailing over the tattered old coat a loved one has just tossed into the trash to make room in the wardrobe for a new one. Death, a revealment showing us there that there is no death, thus becomes, as the pigeon in the hat, the greatest illusion of all. When David Copperfield’s pigeon appears shortly afterward in another section of the theatre or possibly reappears in the hat, complete and whole, feeling and acting none the less as before he disappeared, we, the audience, or those left behind after interment, recognize we have witnessed an illusion. No one actually disappeared. When the master finally reappeared two years later, I must admit it took longer than it took the pigeon to reappear for David Copperfield. Nonetheless, the master did appear again to provide me with miraculous and incredible support. Death for the master, as Jacob the

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Patriarch, revealed for us that there is no death. Death is merely a door through which Jacob and the master pass into the realm of truth. This viewpoint will require a complete overhaul of the average person’s perspective concerning chaos and death. All we need to eliminate chaos from our lives is a change in consciousness. In this, the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, we will come to a collective realization that there is nothing out there but consciousness. At this level of understanding, chaos, ill health, financial failure, and all the rest of the dismal litany of Murphy’s Law will be seen for what they are—illusionary manifestations of mind and consciousness. In short they are figments of our imagination and when that is realized on a broad scale, Murphy finally will be out of business. Another case where consciousness became the dominant factor in reversing illusionary mortality involved a woman who was first diagnosed as having breast cancer. Over a period of time, the cancer began to spread to other parts of the body. She became unusually weak to the point where breathing became difficult. As the Revelation Event drew near, she called me to ask whether I thought she should make the long plane trip to join us. Recognizing the powerful event as the tapping of the awesome energy of Immortality, her mind and heart were all for taking the trip. I told her that I could not assume that responsibility in her case. While it is true that on occasion I have disagreed with the prognosis of a physician, I suggested that she consult with her attending physician. However, I strongly urged her to maintain a consciousness that she was physically capable of taking the trip and that I believed, as she did, that attending the event would give her a new lease on life.

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She followed my instructions concerning the consultation with the physician. This was in addition to the daily meditation program that she had included in her activities, assisted by a staff member of The Centre in her community. She reported back to me that the physician had in fact given her permission to fly to the Event. However, he requested that she travel with a constant administering of oxygen during the trip. And that is the way she arrived at the Event. She was assisted all evening by a support group that were careful that she remain awake the entire night without as much as a moment dozing off. This was an uncompromising feature which the kabbalist demands in achieving the mini version of four months’ immortality. This was an extraordinary requirement which our sick friend knew about prior to her decision to attend the Event. It was not easy for her to stay awake until the rising of the morning star. The difficulty was further aggravated by a time zone differential of three hours from her home to California, where the Event took place. The morning would come for her three hours later than her body clock was accustomed to. A brave little woman, she made it through the entire night. In no small measure, this was due to the support of the some 800 attendees who shared their consciousness, energy, and love, which were instrumental in our ill friend’s speedy recovery. The good news is that when the Event concluded, she returned home without the necessity of oxygen. Two years later, she again became ill and the cancer was still spreading across her body. She had become weak and had a thought of missing the Revelation Event this year. At the last moment she decided that she would attend and was supported all evening by friends to make certain that she was awake and participating in the connection the whole time. She returned home after the event only to

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become ill and, two months after attending the event, she was told that she had little chance of surviving more than 10 days to two weeks. The local Centre provided a group of close friends to assist her in her final days and to make her death and departure from the physical world as comfortable as possible and emotionally free from trauma. For whatever reasons unbeknownst to me, I was not informed of her progress nor the turn of events that were now taking place. Nor was I told of this most wonderful well-intentioned group formed to provide comfort, love, and whatever it took to ease the pain and suffering during this traumatic transition period. A few days later the administrator of The Centre called concerning an important decision he needed to make there and I inquired as to the condition of our friend. He then briefed me on the latest developments and also about the formation of the support group. Listening to what he had to say, I then burst into a forceful discussion as to how he, the administrator, had not informed me about these new developments. This I learnt from my master, to treat every student in need as a member of our family within the Kabbalah community. The Centres all around the globe always had a consciousness that, while we were physically separated, we should always feel concern for every member in the community and if necessary someone outside the community who seeks our assistance. The idea of unity, sensitivity has always been the hallmark of The Kabbalah Centre ever since its founding in 1922. There was nothing more important nor more essential than sharing and caring for one another.

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“Furthermore,” I remarked, “and possibly more crucial, our mortally ill member attended the Revelation Event only two months ago. And she fulfilled all the requirements that should have accessed her into the energy of a mini-immortality. In no way should we subordinate our consciousness to any prognosis that will deprive her of an extension or new lease on life. Ask the group to shift into high gear with mediation and a consciousness that our sick friend is going to pull through and remain with us, despite the prognosis. Stress the guarantee that the Zohar makes concerning the next four months of life following the Revelation Event.” The happy side to the story is that she lived six months beyond the Revelation Event. The sad part is that she did not have the stamina to continue with her life. It was painful at times and we certainly were never to measure or judge what she should or should not have done. The decision must always be left to the individual inasmuch as free will is a cardinal rule amongst the kabbalists. The idea that this woman might be the first person to negate the mini-immortality four-month guarantee never came up in our discussion. The concept only reinforced our convictions that we must make every effort to assist and support our friends in time of need. As the old aphorism goes, “Where there is life, there is hope.” We knew that she had time left. She had seen to that by making every effort to attend the Revelation Event. It was indeed sad. The master trickster had struck again. The prevailing atmosphere of consciousness that mortality is a virtual reality affected our friend to the extent that it is difficult to combat and continue to wage war against the master trickster, Satan. How to change a quantum atmosphere was still light years away, or so I thought at the time. History, life’s experience, and people were most convincing that the master trickster was here to stay for some time. How, I asked, was

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anyone to fight back at an enemy that never physically made an appearance on the stage of history? To conceal his presence, to avoid detection has been the most potent weapon utilized by Satan to continue his unobstructed march of death and chaos through every nook and cranny of this physical universe. Satan realized that his identity as the perpetrator of death throughout the universe would largely depend on his ability to maintain a human consciousness that only physical causes were responsible for death or disappearance of limbs and organs. To divert any attention from himself was of utmost importance in his continuing quest for ultimate destruction of all living organisms, an undertaking that to the present time has been met with complete success. Lung failure, heart disease, a host of other causes, plus his most beloved form of chaos—cancer—have always remained on death certificates as witness to Satan’s successful campaign not to be identified as the true culprit in the biological death, cessation of life, and end of the road for every form of existence in our universe. The reason I have termed cancer as Satan’s sweetheart, the object of his affections, is because this disease resembles Satan more than any other form of fatal illness. The cancer cell is similar to a normal cell. However, because of its voracious appetite and greed it spreads its death-dealing tentacles to devour everything in its path. This is the intrinsic character of Satan, without any consideration that if he annihilates speedily the human body, his supply of nourishment and fulfillment will dry up and come to an end. He does not permit anything to stand in the way of fulfilling his insatiable desire. If his appetite cannot be replete and satiated, he will leave no stone unturned, even

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to the extent of leaving in his path the rubble of human corpses that have blanketed the landscape of human existence. Despite his presence he continues to fool us into believing that the culprit is the cancer cell and that our efforts should be directed towards the removal of the cancer cell. However, so long as we have not performed surgery on the real, original culprit who clothes himself in cancer cell clothing, we shall not succeed in removing from our midst this and any other maladies or chaos. This consciousness has already surfaced by the massive thrust towards alternative and preventive medicine. It is a good start that, with the spread of kabbalistic knowledge, will elevate human consciousness to an understanding that what is ultimately needed for permanent solutions is to wage the battle against the unseen enemy, Satan. When this final consciousness, recognition of the master trickster who is behind all chaos, becomes prevalent throughout the universe, then and only then will mankind be positioned for the final assault against this millenniums-old, formidable scourge of humankind. The tools to finish the job will become available for all to make use of. We shall and can approach the state of existence that prevailed during the time of the master Kabbalist Rav Shimon bar Yochai. Satan approached God and pleaded that he request of Rav Shimon that he leave the physical world and that his presence no longer be recognized or felt by other humans. His plea ran as follows: “I have used every possible means at my disposal to bring chaos into the life of Rav Shimon and the entire kingdom of humankind. Rav Shimon has thwarted and resisted my every effort toward this end. But

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now he has turned his effort to one of counteroffensive and seeks me out wherever I am, even when I am not on a rampage against humankind. He successfully hones in on his target and miraculously seeks out and destroys anything in his path which is empowered with and committed to chaos and devastation. My mission within the scheme of creation no longer is viable nor purposeful inasmuch as I cannot exert the desire to receive for oneself alone, which is there for mankind’s opportunity to exercise free will. If evil is banished from the consciousness of humankind by virtue of my inability to influence them, then the free will to choose between good and evil disappears. Mankind no longer must make an effort to overcome his evil instincts and opt for a positive consciousness. The consciousness of hate, ego, and self indulgence, the root of all evil, goes out of existence. Consequently, Rav Shimon must be requested to depart from this mortal earthly existence so that I can ply my trade of evil consciousness.” Thus, Rav Shimon chose to leave behind our familiar landscape which had undergone a temporary rehabilitation period. The pain and suffering endured before and after to the present time had no place, form, or shape while Rav Shimon was among the living. Very few individuals were cognizant of this unique person’s presence. Most had assumed that they were just lucky to live in this period. It is just like many of us today who feel luck when we escape the apparent chaos that overtakes our friends and families. However, this time around, the world was left in a far better position than when Rav Shimon first made his entrance. He left the world a legacy, the ultimate weapon by which mankind will bring down the empire of doom and chaos. That testimonial is his Zohar.

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Before proceeding onto the events which led to the rebirth of immortality consciousness, permit me to relate one of the incredible instances of man’s ability to control a seemingly hostile environment consisting of earthquakes, floods, landslides, and other natural disasters. Satan will go so far as to employ insurance companies, which refer to these natural disasters as “acts of God.” Now who can argue with the insurance companies? Furthermore, who feels empowered to stand-up to God and demand that he desist and halt his aggression towards mankind? We are talking about God. No one can stop God from anything. However, there did exist one man who literally put up a struggle and faced up to the situation as follows: One day Rav Shimon observed that the world was covered by darkness and that the Light was concealed. His son Rav Elazar said to him, “Let us try to find out what the Creator means to accomplish.” An angel appeared to them in the form of a great mountain, spewing forth thirty torches of fire. Rav Shimon asked the angel what he intended to do. “I am instructed to destroy the world,” said the angel, “because mankind does not contain in its midst thirty righteous individuals.” Rav Shimon replied, “Go before the Creator and tell him that Bar Yochai (Rav Shimon) is among the inhabitants of the world. My merit is equal to that of thirty righteous men.” The angel ascended to the Creator and queried, “Creator of the universe, are you aware of Bar Yochai’s words to me?” The Creator replied, “Descend and destroy the world as you were commanded. Take no notice of Bar Yochai.”

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Seeing the angel reappear, Rav Shimon told him, “If you do not ascend again to the Creator with my request, I shall prevent you from ever reaching the heavens again. And this time tell Him that if the world lacks thirty righteous men, He should spare it for the sake of ten. If there are not ten such men to be found in the world, then ask Him to spare it for the sake of two men, my son and me. And if He deems these two insufficient, then ask Him to preserve the world for the sake of one man, and I am that one. At that moment a voice from Heaven was heard to say: “Praise worthy is your portion, Shimon bar Yochai, for the Creator issues a decree and you seek to nullify it; surely for you the Psalmist wrote the verse, “He will fulfill the desire of those that fear Him.” If we assume that God is compassionate, and we’ll all nod to that, if God is merciful, and we all agree to that, then how can we possibly attribute natural disasters as being an act of God? Furthermore, how can one comprehend a Being who subjects a segment of humankind to chaos, deprivation, and human slaughter and permits another the right to pursue a life of plenty and happiness? The recognition that life and death are merely two sides of one coin is a quantum leap forward. The absence of Satan or his presence is what life and death are all about. Do away with his ability to perform his acts of chaos and suddenly a curtain has been lifted and eternal bliss is in its stead, waiting in the wings on the stage of history to make its encore. Just as the master magician lifts the cloth to reveal the exciting miracle of illusionary disappearance of an illusory kind, mankind will now be

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invited to a performance of reality’s disappearance. The ticket-paying audience welcomes the idea that physicality may possibly disappear at the hands of the master trickster, only to reappear later on. In our Age of Aquarius, we too will adjust our consciousness to the reappearance of deceased individuals who, like the pigeon, will be a testimonial to death’s existence as a hoax and fraud. No less than the magician’s ability to actually make the pigeon disappear, when in reality the pigeon never left our reality. We were only led to believe, by the master magician, that death as disappearance is a reality. The time is ripe for its exposure. The master’s message is: that moment is now. And its beginnings came about so dramatically as to void any and all illusions by Satan that immortality is just a “pie in the sky.” We are all conditioned to the fact that when the pigeon is no longer found in the hat, we feel perfectly content to pay the entrance fee to a “magical performance.” This despite the fact that we know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the pigeon did not actually disappear. We are prepared to invest our time and money for an exhibition which can demonstrate that “the hand is quicker than the eye.” The vanishing pigeon is what the audience came to see. Whether it returns or not will not result in a clamor for a refund. Then why, might I ask, are we so quick to assume that a coffin filled with a body and covered up by the dust of the earth, will not have the same consequence as the disappearing pigeon? “Ah,” I can just hear you utter, “how can you compare the trick of a magician to the burial of a human being? The bereaved see with their own eyes how their beloved one is lowered into a grave. The corpse is very much a real one. So if death is only an illusion, then why don’t we see or experience the return of the deceased as in the case of the pigeon?”

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The answer, my friends, is rather a simple one. Mankind’s consciousness. We have all been programmed into believing that the magician can only appear as one who can create the disappearing act of a pigeon. However, no one actually believes that the pigeon is no longer amongst us. It is just a matter of how professional one is to create the illusion that the “hand is quicker than our eye.” In the final analysis, the quantum consciousness of Earth’s inhabitants is that the pigeon did not really disappear onto another plane and exists right here amongst us. It’s just that our eyes are not as quick as the magician’s hand. On the other hand, universal consciousness is such that, once a former living body has been placed beneath the Earth, that person is presumed dead. And for all intents and purposes, no one expects to see him/her ever again. This is precisely why the dead have not returned, aside from near-death-experiences and the catatonic states I previously mentioned where people have awakened after a short duration in the grave. We do not believe that they can or will return. Therefore, it is our consciousness that dictates that they cannot return to our familiar existence. Our consciousness, which is our mind, governs over matter. And if we believe they cannot return, then the physical, material body, subject to our mind’s decision, has no choice but to remain underneath the earth. However, on the surface, the task of changing universal consciousness would appear a difficult, if not impossible, one to achieve. The master realized this severe problem and assured me that if I will persevere in the mission to spread the wisdom of Kabbalah, then a revolutionary change in human consciousness is not only possible but absolutely will come about in our day. I guess this assurance is what has kept Karen and

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myself focused on the mission despite the awesome responsibility to shoulder and spearhead a world revolution in consciousness. And by the time we began to pay any attention to where our efforts should be directed in the fulfillment of this dream, the dissemination of this study was already well underway.

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as the universe always faced with the dilemma of entropy? Was it God’s original intention to inhabit this universal plane with chaos as its trademark? Why did the Creator feel it

necessary to include pain and suffering alongside the happy and satisfying moments? Where did it all come from and when did it start? The answers all come from a significant story in the Bible, a tale known to most of us and yet little understood. In fact, the majority consider this fable nothing more than just that, a fable. The tale of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden has captured the imagination of us all. The story, which took place in the biblical narration of Genesis, has been the source of inspiration to famed artists who have painted its scenes, written novels about it, and made movies about it. These were questions that pained me throughout my years growing up. And when the holocaust picture began to emerge, I was simply devastated by what I learned and heard. There was no rationale that could offer any solace. I thus retreated to the one option left open for me as a result of my very rigid religious upbringing, which was “God

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in his mysterious ways knows what he is doing.” Did this answer truthfully satisfy mine or any sufferer’s consciousness? Did it remove the pain of knowing that, along with the destruction of six million Jews, there were more than 50,000,000 other victims who also perished as a result of World War II, and this does not include the hundreds of millions of people who suffered by the death of so many human beings? The answer is an unequivocal no. I could never rationally justify the death of so many and accept at the same time the lessons I had been taught that the Creator was a merciful, compassionate, and loving Creator. The two just didn’t go together. Nor could I even reconcile these two essential opposites on the theological spectrum. When I met the master, for reasons that I did not understand in that fateful year of 1962, I felt that the pain and suffering that I had endured for almost twenty years would find some form of relief. If not, at least I would come to some understanding of these two apparently irreconcilable facts of life. But somehow I knew that the secrets of my life and the mysteries of life itself would become unraveled by this great master. To say the least, my hopes and dreams and faith in my master would become my reality. The most potent force behind the struggle to raise the consciousness of mankind was and always will be my master. Karen and I felt this way from the very beginning. We were and always will be grateful for the support and assistance that the master and his teacher were always prepared to shower us with. So when I met the master for the very first time, these gnawing questions and the opportunity to “talk my heart out” were uppermost in my mind. The ensuing sessions that we spent together, while they

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did not completely relieve a heart filled with grief, I sensed that he was taking me by the hand and leading me along a very difficult path, that somehow beyond the darkened tunnel, the Light would appear and the mysteries of this mysterious incomprehensible universe we live in would make some sense. Words cannot describe my indebtedness to the master for his assistance in resolving the infinite discrepancies that arose in the biblical description of Genesis. I kept asking myself, how could one who had spent over twenty years immersed in Bible study, including post-graduate studies at the world’s finest theological institutions, not have taken notice of these apparent inconsistencies within the narration of the biblical sketch of Creation? How could a 3,400 year-old compendium of the Deity be revered by so many of the world’s religions and yet permit these illogical sequences of events to go unchallenged or unnoticed? The master did comment that, although I would be privy to the removal of the inconsistencies of biblical Genesis, the complete implication and ramification could and would only be revealed to me within an evolutionary process over the years. Little did I know what to make of this mysterious comment. In fact, it took over thirty years, until the writing of this book, for me to receive the full meaning of the Zohar’s description of biblical texts as nothing but a code for the revealment of the secrets of the universe. There are many scientific statements addressing the creation and formation of our universe. Their statements to date have been merely speculative. Others have referred to the biblical account of Genesis. From a kabbalistic point of view, the common understanding of Genesis misses the mark and intent of biblical Genesis. It is with eager anticipation that kabbalists await scientific verification of Genesis. For not only will that announcement corroborate many metaphysical

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philosophies and doctrines, it will confirm what kabbalists have known for centuries, namely, that there is another invisible, all-pervading energy-intelligence, a force not unlike gravity or electromagnetism. To the kabbalist, this force is our consciousness, which at one time ruled and had dominion over the physical reality, and which now takes us to the wondrous revelation of Genesis I and Genesis II. Please remember that, according to the Zohar, the Bible is a cosmic code awaiting decipherment. It is to this task that the Kabbalah addresses itself. The Bible states that, on Day Six of Creation, “male and female he created them.” However, later in Chapter two of Genesis there is full biblical discussion of the Creation of physical man and woman, who were given biblical names, Adam and Eve. Then who were the male and female on the sixth day of creation? Before placing in front of you the many apparent contradictions which the master brought to my attention, let us grasp the kabbalistic solution to this question and how the interpretation reveals so many insights into daily living. Genesis I and II refer to the establishment of two levels of consciousness which flow forth out of our minds and brain. In scientific language, this is spoken about as parallel universes. For the layman, this kind of scientific jargon flies way above our heads. And I am afraid that it flies above the heads of most of these very same scientists. Genesis I is considered by the Zohar to be pure, unadulterated consciousness, whereas Genesis II relates to consciousness with a co-existing imperfect, Satan-infested, limited capacity of our mind. To simplify these two realms of existence as characterized by the Zohar, let us briefly examine first Genesis I and then Genesis II. The biblical

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version, on the surface, concerning the first seven days of creation, is extremely vague as to its sequential emanation. On day one, the first verse refers to Heaven and Earth, although day three is when the land appeared and day four brought the appearance of the celestial bodies, the sun, moon, and signs of the zodiac. Furthermore, day one refers to “evening and day.” How is this possible when the sun and moon came into creation on day four? Genesis I pertains to a level of consciousness and pure energy devoid of any physicality that we are familiar with in our present existence. This level of pure consciousness knows no limitation. This might be compared to the consciousness of a certain aspect of our brain that has the capacity to activate, direct, and instruct millions of cells to a particular area when necessary. Let’s assume that one receives a small cut on the finger. The brain activates an infinite number of forces to speed to the assistance of the injured finger. Can one imagine the traffic jam and gridlock taking place with so many billions or trillions of cells all speeding to repair the cut? And yet at the same time the traffic coordinators regulate the movement with such precision as to permit healing in record time. And all the time we are oblivious to this activity going on in our bodies. An incredible orchestration takes place and our conscious mind is not even aware of its behavior and movement. And what is even more mind-boggling is that all the activity transpires within a matter of seconds. Why can’t we multiply 5,230,431 by 297,738 in our heads? Why can’t our minds perform this feat? The answer lies in what happened in Genesis II: the creation, in addition to Genesis I, namely the physical reality. In Genesis I, what is commonly referred to as potential, in effect, is a pure level of

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consciousness. The energy or undifferentiated state of existence, before it becomes actual or physically manifested is considered by Kabbalah to be directly linked to the Lightforce of God. Consequently, we have a state of infinite existence and capacity. Before cells become physically manifested cells, before cells become a lung or any other physical part of the body, they are considered to be potential or undifferentiated. At this stage of existence, there are no flaws or chaos. Cancer can only become manifest when there is a physically manifested part of the body. There cannot be a heart condition or heart attack if there is no heart. The reason we cannot multiply many numbers by as many numbers is precisely the same reason;

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danger and problem. We are totally oblivious of its existence. We make no use of its presence. We never call upon its ability to assist us. Does this imply that, if we were to once again refer to this awesome, infinite consciousness, our lives would be completely impacted with its enormous potential activity? The answer is, emphatically, yes. Our daily existence would meet up with less chaos and less headaches. Do you know why we have minor or migraine headaches? We depend far too much on our rational consciousness with all its flaws and chaos. This weighs heavily on our physical mind inasmuch as it is this particular aspect of our heads which plays the dominant role in our lives. It is no wonder why aspirin is still by far the biggestselling product. However, were we to shift gears to that other dimension or universe, we certainly would be free of headaches. How many headaches come about when we have, say, a cut on a finger? The brain is suddenly clogged with infinite activity, and more times than not we don’t even feel its movement, let alone get headaches. On a relatively calm day, when there might be intense brain activity on ten problems, there aren’t enough aspirins in the medicine cabinet to quiet the mind. Now what would happen if we were confronted with, let’s say, one hundred problems? I guess we’d be carried off in a strait jacket. This is not the case when the real, purity consciousness of our brain is officiating. Most times we are completely unaware of its activity and consequently we have no need of a drink of hard liquor or some other sedative to relax the mind. The implications of this reality relating to our daily existence are so vast and comforting, no less than the activity of repairing a cut finger,

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which requires little participation by the injured person other than applying a band aid. Can one imagine if something of a real serious nature, let’s say in business, is causing real far-reaching problems, how helpful would be the resources of this infallible part of our brain? Let us take, for example, the match between the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue and the world’s best chess player, Gary Kasparov. Kasparov claimed that machines can never surpass human beings in a game of chess. How could Kasparov make such a daring statement? The Deep Blue machine he was playing against can examine—take a breath!—two hundred million positions in a second. Come on, who does Gary Kasparov think he is? God? We have difficulty examining more than one position or activity at a time. So Gary is a genius. Alright, let’s say he can examine 10,000 possibilities in a second, which you and I don’t believe anyway. So how in the world could he think for one second that he can defeat Deep Blue with its awesome examining prowess? The funniest thing is that Gary Kasparov did win that opening round. How could he? While many answers have been forthcoming, I believe Kasparov himself provided the one and true answer to this baffling situation. Kasparov maintains that machines will never surpass humans. Therein lies the answer. By his firm belief and determination in the ability of mankind, he has already tapped into the concealed, immaterial consciousness of infinity. Now he can avail himself of the infinite (surpassing 200 million) position-examination of his inner recesses of consciousness. The reason scientists cannot beat Kasparov is because they are of the firm conviction that it is only a matter of time before faster and faster

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computers trounce the world champion. The scientist probably looks forward to the day when a computer will achieve a capacity that can examine 200 billion positions per second. And this is precisely where the computer scientist has erred. Relative to the human brain and mind, is there really a difference between 200 million or 200 billion positions per second? Furthermore, and for the life of me, I cannot understand why these same computer scientists cannot grasp the idea by asking, “Who created this massive computer in the first place if not man himself?” Therefore man should have the capability of outsmarting the best machines. Where science has yet to catch up to Kabbalah is an understanding of how this other 99% non-rational consciousness operates. It does not work in a linear space paradigm where each position has to be examined. When connected to this level of reality, we are in touch with the Lightforce of the Creator. The entire quantum picture is achieved almost in no time. The one answer is instantly arrived at. There is no trial and error process. Time is not subject to the three dimensions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Everything and anything is in the here and now with only one idea in mind: To remove any and all flaws or chaos. Consequently, the one and only position or solution is that which fits the pattern of beneficence or the correct move. I know, I hear you! Too good to be true. But this is what this chapter is all about. The belief in chaos versus the certainty that everything should go right is the only matter under consideration in the eyes of the kabbalist. This reality is referred to by its code name: the Tree of Life reality. Immortality? Why not? Oh, you don’t believe it. Well, that’s the entire problem in a nutshell. Believe it and you’ll see it.

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Some of the leading international magazines have displayed a frenzy, the likes of which I have never seen before. Kasparov’s match with Deep Blue is seen as humanity’s last chance to vindicate itself in the battle with technology’s inevitable goal to surpass its makers. This supposedly will come about when Deep Blue humiliates Kasparov and wins the match. What has been lost in this showdown is the fact that the machine can never do more than its program of calculation. How Deep Blue calculates depends entirely on the people who established the program. A quantum perspective or sudden intuitive motivations go beyond the computer’s ability to perceive what mankind can do with a thought flash. When the masters of magic in biblical days created the Golden Calf, they referred to it as their God to replace the miracle ability of Moses. These magicians were from the former Egyptian Middle Kingdom culture which essentially fostered the belief in mankind’s limited capacity to perform. The body, along with its limited, rational consciousness, was all that humankind possessed. And if Moses was not there to lead and demonstrate a supernatural, paranormal ability, then all of mankind must resort back to what was traditionally known as a world governed by limitation and chaos. It was the Egyptian belief that there was nothing out there aside from the physical, material reality. As a result, the art of mummification was perfected so as to indicate that death is ultimate, and the maximum that mankind can expect is preservation of the body and no more. The idea of immortality was a feature that did not exist for them. If a body was not actively mummified, the body would ultimately become decomposed and disappear. Consequently, a Golden Calf was

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created to further demonstrate man’s intrinsic inability to perform beyond human frailties. Deep Blue or the contemporary version of the Golden Calf is the method that Satan has chosen to impress us with our limited capacity to reign supreme over the physical reality, where chaos leaves its formidable trademark. The idea that a body could remain intact following death without an attempt to mummify it was not in Egyptian consciousness. However, this myth was proven to be false during World War II. When the Nazis dug up graves of Sainted kabbalists as a part of their program of desecrating Jewish cemeteries, to their amazement they found the bodies of the kabbalists to be completely intact. Needless to say, even the invincible Germans were overcome by this experience and hastened to restore the graves to their former state. The kabbalists were aware of the hoax of death that the master magician imposed upon mankind. They knew all too well that death is only the door to the ultimate revelation of the truth about death, and that is that there is no death. They remained connected to the Tree of Life reality of pure consciousness which brings the consciousness to a position of dominion over matter. And because the Israelites descended to the lower realm known in Scriptures as the Tree of Knowledge reality, immortality ceased to function and prevail in the world. Immortality then became the reality of the select few. If Genesis I, then, was the establishment of the pure level of consciousness, then how did the world become fouled up? This was what Genesis II was all about, when the pure consciousness of Genesis I was blended together with the physical creation of Adam and Eve out of the dust of the Earth.

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The Earth, which imposes and also inflicts its essential character on mankind so that we cannot fly, was the basic ingredient that man was made of, hence the limiting nature placed upon us. Man’s limitation did not end there. The physical brain brought to the forefront the notion of the “rational consciousness,” which is completely dependent upon and reacts to stimulation and physically confined data, the data that the Missourian demands to be shown. The eye, ear, nose, mouth, and fingers now all combined to establish their limitation upon our ability to use the five senses to their maximum capability. I would like to provide the reader with a clear understanding of how these five senses operate on the limited, finite level of Genesis II, and how the kabbalists rose above these imposed limitations. There is a tale told to me by my master of a legendary kabbalist who, when invited for tea, asked his host for a cube of sugar. But he did not put the sugar in his tea. He simply looked at it, then sipped from his cup. Finding the tea too sweet, he broke the sugar cube in two and sipped again. He continued this process until the sweetness of the tea was to his liking. “The story illustrates,” continued the master, “that conventional understanding of the five senses can be abandoned simply by refusing to pass them through the screens established by our limited, fragmented, rational consciousness. Once we have overcome these barriers, we can immediately experience beauty and wonderment. The universe is not as fragmented as our senses suppose. The apparent limitations are not true reality.”

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Hearing this from the master, I naturally protested such an outlandish interpretation of the five senses. “Where would we be if we did not have eyes?” “This is absolutely correct,” responded the master. “However, remember that King David declared in Psalms: ‘they have eyes but do not see, nor have ears and do not hear.’ How can a thousand people hear something and yet not all hear the same thing? “Of course, the eyes are the openings to the wondrous world that does exist,” said the master. “However, if the limitations and trappings of the physical eyes prevail, then our vision becomes limited, in addition to the chaos of poor eyesight or even blindness.” “If indeed Genesis I brought the creation of a pure consciousness, then where did all the chaos come from?” I asked. “It came from Genesis II, where the pure state of consciousness combined with physical reality,” he replied. “But,” I injected, “why should chaos be the rule of the day when the other reality of Genesis I is equally present?” “The reality of Genesis I did not include the flaws and chaos of the physical, material world of existence,” he said. “Did I understand correctly,” I queried the master, “that mortality began with Genesis II when Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge?” To which the master replied, “Yes, however” continued the master, “inasmuch as we must remember that the Bible is nothing more than

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a coded instrument to help us reach the essential understanding of how mortality came into existence.” Why, questions Kabbalah, did God wait for Genesis II to plant the Trees of Life and Knowledge in the Garden of Eden? Why not in Genesis I? Furthermore, why did the Creator prohibit Adam and Eve from eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and at the same time warn them that if they did eat from the forbidden fruit, they would then become subject to the mortality reality and “assuredly die”? Was the Tree of Knowledge fruit contaminated with poison? And when the snake convinced Eve to go ahead and eat of the forbidden fruit, the snake assured Eve she would not die. Now if appeared before us and warned of impending death if we ate the fruit and a snake said, “Don’t worry, you won’t die,” whom would we believe? Another observation which seems to completely place the entire episode in question is the fact that Adam and Eve did not die following their eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. God warned them that eating of the forbidden fruit would result in their death, while the snake disputed God’s claim and told Adam and Eve that they would not die. Are we to assume that the snake knew something that God did not? And what appears further along in the text is inconceivable, preposterous, and certainly unthinkable, and should make every scholar and reader of the Bible shudder concerning the actual eating of the forbidden fruit and the result therefrom. Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, and lo and behold, they did not die. Now wait

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a moment. Are we to assume that this verbal boxing match between God and the snake resulted in a decision favoring the snake? Does the Bible wish to convey the idea that God sometimes can make mistakes? Or to make matters more confusing, how could God have been outsmarted by the snake? What did God actually mean when he told Adam that if they ate from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge they would die, when in fact they did not die? The answers lie in what we have already discussed on the matter of why immortality has not reappeared. Consciousness! And this is what the entire section about the forbidden fruit refers to. The Tree of Knowledge and its fruits of Good and Evil refer to the corrupt mingling of pure consciousness governed by the master magician, Satan. Prior to the eating of the apple, Adam and Eve were of sound, pure consciousness that knew nothing of limitation, fragmentation, or mortality. They knew that life consisted of eternity where end, decay, and chaos were not realities but rather were illusory. However, when they partook of the forbidden fruit, they connected with the illusionary realm of limitation, fragmentation, end, mortality, and death consciousness. This consciousness is the origin of all forms of chaos and decay familiar to all of us on the physical level of existence. Adam and Eve’s previous level of pure consciousness now became touched by Satan. The reason there is no mention of the Tree of Life or Tree of Knowledge in Genesis I is because at that time physical existence as we know it had not as yet come into being. Adam and Eve were nothing more than pure consciousness. I am fully aware of the dilemma that some of us

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may now be facing trying to reconcile ourselves to a realization that, one day in the past, to be more exact in Genesis I, we were nothing more than consciousness. And particularly in our day and age, when so much emphasis is placed on a body being fit and beautiful, who has time to even think about the internal and more important aspects of ourselves like thought, sense, and consciousness? But the truth of the matter is that, despite the glorification of the body, we are very much aware of the importance of the true features of a person such as their character, how they think, and the ultimate facet of any individual, the consciousness. What the Bible is teaching us is that, in Genesis I, inasmuch as there was no physical body, Satan could not connect with pure consciousness and attempt to corrupt it. However, in Genesis II, when our consciousness-also referred to as our soul-became combined with a physical body, Satan now had the opportunity to become attached to our consciousness. Satan or the corrupt, limited, fragmented, rational consciousness, now saw the possibility of taking control over the pure consciousness created in Genesis I. However, this decision as to whether Satan would indeed be successful in his quest to co-exist and ultimately reign over mankind was left to Adam and Eve in accordance with the doctrine of free will established within creation. When the creations of Genesis I became enveloped within a physical body, the wheels of free choice were set in motion. Prior to the coexisting features of consciousness and body, the Trees of Life and Knowledge could not serve as an entrée for Satan to make contact

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with the essential aspect of a human being. Satan needed the physical reality as a springboard to set in motion his kingdom of chaos and death. Therefore, the snake, in reality Satan, does not appear in Genesis I. There was no chance of his making good on his pledge to bring mankind to a convincing belief that mortality and chaos were the real stuff of mankind’s existence. This all changed with Genesis II. However, before Satan would have his field day on the stage of human history, Adam and Eve would have to bring themselves to a consciousness of death, mortality, and chaos. Then and only then could a belief in an illusory consciousness that mortality is real become widely accepted. When Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, their previous pure, Tree of Life consciousness became defiled and corrupted by exposure to Satan’s chaotic consciousness. The parallel universe of Tree of Life became subject to the limitations and illusions of the Tree of Knowledge reality, which could never happen in Genesis I. The level of consciousness of Genesis I, because of its freedom from any traces of the physical reality (the body), could never be exposed to the trappings and tricks of Satan. It was only when Genesis I consciousness became confined and bottled up within the physical body that Satan found a bridge to Tree of Life consciousness. Consequently, the matter of death became, as all matters of the physical world, a subject of relativity. God knew that, by connecting with the physical apple, Adam was now vulnerable to its influence of end and limitation. The Creator knew that now Adam was subject to the illusory realm of death, and that did not necessarily mean Adam and Eve were to die immediately following the eating of the fruit.

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They now would look upon death as we do: when a body is lowered into the grave, the body is gone. They no longer could view this scenario as illusory and see that, once the body passes through the process of interment, it then sees through the hoax and trick of Satan that it, the body, is very much alive. It’s like the pigeon that disappears from the hat only to look back afterwards at the hat and say, I’m very much alive no matter what the audience might think. They no longer could see through nor penetrate Satan’s trick that he imprints within our consciousness. This is precisely how the master magician plies his trade of death and chaos. While we’re young, we never believe we will die, just as when we take a ride on a holiday weekend in our automobile, knowing the grim statistics on traffic deaths, and say to ourselves, “That statistic is for others, not for me.” It would be and could be wonderful if we were capable of saying the same about death: “Those cemeteries are not for me. I’m going to go through the scene of dying, but it has nothing to do with me.” This is what the snake said to Adam and Eve. Eat the apple (take a ride in your automobile) and you’ll see that you are smarter than God. When we return home, safe and sound, we feel very confident we have outsmarted death. And that’s exactly what convinced Adam and Eve. They outsmarted death. The only problem with outfoxing death is that later on Adam and Eve will go through the scenario of influencing others that death is not real and they (their bodies) are very much alive. This is what the Creator told Adam and Eve. When Satan said, “Although you ate from the apple you will not die,” he was only promising a temporary state of living. He was saying: “You no longer

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will retain your previous consciousness of immortality.” Satan has promised you only a temporary reprieve from death, from mortality. When you die, you shall leave a legacy of consciousness of ends, of death, which shall prevail until the Age of Aquarius. After you die, and now assuredly you shall one day die, only then will you understand what hopefully those living in the Aquarian age will learn about immortality, which you can learn only after you die. And this is where we are now, in the Aquarian Age, where the master magician will be exposed for what he really represents: the master trickster of our day. Immortality is real, mortality is illusory. Now you see it, now you don’t. The same dilemma is known as backgroundfigure illusions. It was in the winter of 1995 when my phone rang at 3:00 AM. It was a frantic student telephoning me from Los Angeles. My sons and I were at our usual study of Ten Luminous Emanations and discussing our scheduled flight to Los Angeles at 4:00 PM the following afternoon. Although it is not unusual for students and friends from around the world to call at this hour, I sensed that this was not a call for some answer to a problem. The student then went on to tell me that her family had just received word from the hospital that a cousin of hers had just died. He was partying at a home in Malibu with friends when he stepped out to the veranda, situated high above the Pacific. The pillar supports of the veranda gave way because of the excess weight of the people, and he and all the others came tumbling down into the water. Unfortunately, he was struck by a heavy piece of concrete, which was part of the support, and died.

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“And why are you calling me?” I asked, although I assumed she might possibly request of me to deliver the eulogy. “I am calling you so that you can bring my cousin back to life.” To say the least, I was dumbstruck and utterly thrown into confusion. “What made you think that I can resurrect the dead?” I asked. “I’ve never even made an attempt at restoring life to someone who has died. I wouldn’t know how to begin such an action.” I added that, although it is recorded in the Zohar that Rav Shimon bar Yochai and others were capable of accomplishing such an extraordinary feat, I didn’t have the slightest idea of how or where to begin. It is my understanding that resurrection of the dead will come about through God’s intervention when the time comes. “But,” she continued, “you are a kabbalist and you must have the information, as Rav Shimon did before you.” She tearfully pleaded with me that I attend the funeral tomorrow at 2:00 PM, Los Angeles time, at which time she hoped that I would not turn down her request. For the sake of the parents, who were obviously heartbroken over the death of such a young person, I asked for his name and the name of the father and mother, and with that the conversation concluded. Well, I asked the boys, what did they think of that conversation? Without any further discussion the three of us turned towards the picture of the master and asked aloud what we were to make of the conversation. We were booked on the 4:00 PM flight, which meant that we would arrive after the funeral. However, if we took a morning flight then we could be present.

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We all were very confident that the master would tell us what the entire episode meant and especially what were we to do in this matter. Without any prior knowledge, the master asked, “Are you aware of whose death anniversary it is this evening?” The answer was that I had been very busy all day and evening and had not referred to The Centre’s Kabbalistic Calendar. It was the death anniversary of Rav Abraham Azulai, the famous kabbalist of the sixteenth century, responded the master. What! How could I have not taken notice of so important a date as this one? What I considered to be the most revealing piece of information that I personally received from the master was when the master referred me to the writings of Rav Abraham Azulai concerning the year 2000, which corresponds to the biblical calendar year of 5760. While on the surface the year 5760 doesn’t impress us as having any deep significance, certainly nothing close to the excitement already being expressed about the year 2000, Millennium. Nonetheless what Rav Azulai revealed concerning resurrection by the year 2000 was simply mindboggling. I will be referring to the matter of restoration in a later chapter. The point that I would like to make here is that the naming of actual dates and what will take place is what has made Rav Azulai the famous kabbalist that he is. May I digress for a moment and share with those readers not familiar with the Power Calendar? The Calendar, issued once a year by The Kabbalah Centre, provides the user with an up-to-date reference on cosmic events, positive dates and those days which infuse negative energy, and much more. The purpose of the Calendar is to provide us with a fighting chance against the odds of chaos which affect our lives

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each and every single day of the year. Had I referred to the calendar that evening, I might have known that, on this day, I most certainly could expect something of an interesting nature. Here was the individual that literally stormed the iron curtain surrounding the inner sanctum of Kabbalah by declaring that its study should be sold in the marketplace. He understood the permission granted for all to enter the gates that led to the world of mysticism. The master leaned on Rav Azulai for support in his drive to bring the mysteries of Kabbalah to the layman some fifty years ago. So when I realized that Rav Azulai would be with us if we requested his assistance, I knew that the master was responding to our dilemma concerning the request to revive the young boy and restore him back to life. The answer as to what to make of this request to change our tickets and leave on the morning flight, and why all this was happening precisely on this day, I now was certain would somehow emerge from the teachings of Rav Azulai. My son Yehuda immediately searched for and found the volume of Rav Azulai’s work that dealt with the year 2000. And when he opened the book, without consciously looking for any particular subject but merely asking the master to please help him open to the page that we are most assuredly being directed towards, he just couldn’t believe what he was looking at. My son Michael and I both saw the expression on Yehuda’s face, almost as if he had seen a ghost. “You’re not going to believe what I turned to,” stammered Yehuda, shaking like a leaf. “Immortality,” he yelled out. “Immortality!”

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We couldn’t believe our ears. “And what does he say?” Michael and I screamed out. Rav Azulai’s discourse was on how to achieve immortality. What we all realized from those few early moments spent collecting our wits was a whole new dimension of this never-discussed, taboo-like subject of immortality. It is the realization that the manifestation of living forever was not an idea awaiting God’s decision as to when it was going to happen. It would completely depend upon mankind’s consciousness and effort to create this reality. This was a far cry from what I had been led to believe throughout my adult life. Prayers recited each day invoked the mercy of the Creator to please bring an end to death and chaos. Nowhere had I had a thought or any indication leading me to understand that the realization and manifestation of immortality grew out of man’s desire and effort to bring this about. What I had once believed was that we had nothing to do with it. This was purely a matter that belonged to the Deity.

The first step was to consciously come to grips with the idea that this was a matter that must be dealt with by the people. And if their consciousness was asleep or ignorant of this fact, then indeed immortality or living forever was a notion that could be long in coming. In addition, Rav Azulai provided the first of many steps on how we could actually draw the curtain down on the illusionary stage of mortality. How mankind could transform millenniums of consciousness that persisted with the notion that there was nothing so inevitable as death and taxes, was indeed almost impossible to imagine. It was all mind-boggling.

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And suddenly the conversations I had with the master some thirty years ago rang a bell. Little did I suspect that the evolvement of the immortality experience would take such a turn as appeared this evening. Here I was confronted with a request for restoration of a deceased person, and the sudden awareness that immortality was an idea whose time had come was too much to squeeze into one evening. But there we were. Were we merely going to remain spectators to what seemed to be a crossroad on the map of human history, or were we going to extend our hand and grasp the moment that possibly comes once in a millennium? I must admit we were trembling and frightened at the prospect of driving a further wedge between ourselves and the establishment. We had shaken them up and continue to shake them up with new approaches and innovations to an old age compendium of history, the Bible. And now this. What will be their response this time? While admittedly the idea of immortality is nothing new to any religionist, the thought that we, the people, are the instruments by which this far-out concept will become a reality would probably be too difficult for their stomachs to digest. I could just hear them shrieking that this as a matter better left to God. These Kabbalah people have gone too far. Right then and there, we all decided to go for it. The message was loud and clear. The mission of creating the atmosphere for acceptance of immortality was viewed as our calling, and we were prepared to leave no stone unturned in removing one of Satan’s most formidable weapons against humanity: Death. Wars would become an exercise in futility, as would the many other violent acts committed against society. The thought of immortality smelled like a sweet rose. We were certain that the Master, together with the many kabbalists, foremost amongst

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them Rav Azulai, would be there for us when the need arose. We were fairly certain that our long-departed friends would be very busy keeping Satan at bay. We were also confident that this evening was only one of many encounters that would take place in the future. Further information and expanded knowledge would be vital if we were to achieve a world consciousness transformation. What is truly amazing is the enormous flow of data that continued to feed the effort to raise the world consciousness towards immortality. Piece by piece the puzzle began to unfold and, before we knew it, immortality took on an air of respectability. Research produced the immortality enzyme. The press began to discuss openly the possibility of living forever. And the fever surrounding immortality reached new heights. However, I’m running a bit ahead of myself. That evening it also struck us that the young man who lost his life had the same name as Rav Abraham Azulai. A coincidence, but nevertheless telling. Furthermore, the name of the father of the deceased was Yigal, which means “and he shall free or cause to be liberated.” This is precisely what Rav Azulai had in mind, that the world become liberated from death and chaos. Satisfied that we were provided with some significant information to understand the weird request from Los Angeles, we immediately made arrangements to travel in the morning so that we arrived in time for the funeral. I delivered the eulogy and we then proceeded to the gravesite. The strangest feeling overcame me as they were lowering the coffin into the earth. I spoke to the young man and said, “I know you are not dead.” And at that moment I heard a voice, which at that time I assumed was that of the young man, and he said, “Yes, I am not dead

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but everyone around me considers me dead, and therefore I am compelled to remain here until such time when I shall be liberated.” I wanted to yell out, “Wait, don’t cover the casket, he’s alive!” I then looked around and saw the expressions on the people and said to myself, “What would these people think if I were to express what I knew?” They would either think I was crazy or yell at me at the thought of opening the casket. In any event, I left the cemetery feeling I might have done an injustice to this young man. From that moment on, I decided that under no circumstances was I going to retreat from my conviction that immortality is at hand. I immediately instituted whatever information was obtained from Rav Azulai for the purpose of raising the world’s consciousness to the realization that immortality is an absolute reality. I must admit that it sounded very strange when the codes were applied to our connections and our voices were raised to strengthen our certainty that we are going to bring about “immortality now,” in our lifetime. Prayer and meditation at The Kabbalah Centres are unique and off the beaten track. One will notice, immediately after entry, huge photographs of graves and a large selection of Hebrew letter combinations all around the hall of meditation. And if this sight doesn’t strike you as being odd and different, you will at least have to admit that the occasional shouting out at particular intervals during the connection with the Lightforce of God is unique in character and sets The Centre apart from all other houses of worship. I have been asked on many occasions by newcomers why the shouting occurs at the time that the connection and bonding with the

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codes of immortality are recited. “What’s the matter, do you believe that God is deaf and does not hear or listen to us unless we shout?” Or, “How come this kind of meditation is not practiced anywhere else? Should one not pray or meditate in silence so as to quiet the mind?” Nonetheless, what was stranger than these questions was people’s reaction to the shouting, which ranged from “What time do these shouting procedures begin so that I can be present?” to “I really like it. It’s the kind of participation in what’s going on which really attracts me.” These are the kinds of reactions from attendees, many of whom have never set foot in any house of prayer. Then why do we shout? For those who have prayed in silence (and this does not mean that prayers and meditation are not sometimes in silence at The Centres), have we not witnessed a lessening of chaos, pain, and suffering as a result of silent prayer? For that matter, have we not observed that some have had their prayers answered and others not? Does God play favorites? However, before I established the shrieking scene in all our Centres around the globe, this information came to me from the master almost a year and a half after the immortality incident in Los Angeles. After a lengthy meditation on how the Israelites achieved mastery over our physical presence, including the methodology on how they, the Israelites, split the Red Sea, the master requested that I again review those few verses in the Bible, which I did. I remarked that I had gone over these verses an infinite number of times and questioned what I was to be looking for. “Well,” replied the master, “Please examine verse, chapter . . . in the Book of Genesis and tell me how you translate it.” And again, as I had

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done in the past, I read that God was saying to Moses, “Why are they (the Israelites) praying to me? Let them travel.” For those of my readers unfamiliar with the original text, this dialogue between God and Moses took place when the Israelites reached the Red Sea. When they looked behind them and saw the Egyptians in pursuit to return them to Egypt or possibly slay them, and they saw the sea in front as their only route to escape, they did what any person in imminent danger would do, they prayed to God. What was God’s reply to the Israelites? Literally, “Jump into the sea!” The Master on a previous occasion explained away this very difficult passage by citing the Zohar, who questioned God’s statement, “Why are they praying to me?” To whom else would one pray if not to God, asked the Zohar? And the Zohar picks up on the final word of the verse, which says they should “travel” or literally jump into the sea. What kind of advice was the Creator giving the Israelites? This was precisely their dilemma and reason for prayer. Were they to proceed any further, they would enter the sea and drown. From this dialogue, the Zohar gleans, based on the verse, that mankind does possess dominion over the physical reality. They had been taught the secret codes on how to split the sea and just walk right through it without even getting wet. The muddy floor immediately gave way to a hardened dry surface. This is why God admonished the Israelites for praying at this time when in fact they should be performing the miracle of splitting the Red Sea. When I completed the Zohar’s explanation of what really happened at the Red Sea event, I questioned the master again,

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asking what I should be observing about the verse that I had not previously noticed? “Can you tell me which Hebrew word you have been translating as ‘prayer’?” asked the master, at which point I saw the Light of day. “Of course!” I said. The original word used in the text should never be translated as “prayer.” The Hebrew word in the text means “shouting” or “yelling.” I had read this verse possibly a thousand times and I still continued to translate it as “praying,” when in truth the word could and should be translated as “yelling” or “screaming.” “Herein lies the secret of prayer,” continued the Master. The purpose of using the Hebrew word for “yelling” in the text was to reveal the importance of consciousness in any successful prayer. “No,” said the Master, “I can assure you from where I am coming from, the Creator is not deaf. The answer to why some have their prayers fulfilled and others see their prayers go unanswered lies within the consciousness of the devotee. Yelling, screaming, arouses the consciousness from its slumber. It’s got to be fired up. This, of course, does not mean that all and every prayer must be shouted. However, where a request involves a miracle or the need of a surge of energy, yelling or screaming is an essential component to its success. When the Israelites were facing imminent death, either at the hands of the Egyptians or the sea, they yelled to the Creator. The yelling aroused their consciousness to believe that God will help. God’s answer was that you do not need intervention of the Deity. With the secrets on control over matter in your possession, and with your consciousness raised, you can easily overcome the danger facing you.”

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These words were like a beacon of Light in a dark sea. I now understood many empirical facts of life for which there are no explanations. Take, for example, the case of a commander in the field of battle. To have his troops move on the enemy, they will yell out “Charge!” That word charge embraces the very essence of the commander’s intent, to fire up his troops. Or at a sports event, the home team is always favored to win because the local fans, with their yelling and rooting, fire up and charge their team with an extra boost of energy. Can we imagine the commander in battle merely telling his troops to move on the enemy without the empowerment of yelling “charge”? This is precisely the reason why the master suggested that, when we scream out the coded name and connection for immortality, energy, and consciousness, our own consciousness is fired up to the reality of immortality. If we were polite, quiet devotees, the objective of raising our consciousness to combat a reality of death and mortality would and could not be reached. Death as we know it has been around for millenniums and to assume that, with a little effort, we can change our consciousness would be wishful thinking. It just isn’t a question of turning on a switch and, bingo, we now believe in immortality. We must undo years of robotic programming, if not several lifetimes. With the onset of quantum mechanics we have learned of the connectedness of our universe. We are told by physicists that a door being shut in New York can affect a butterfly in China, despite the fact that there are no apparent physical strings to connect the door with the butterfly. So, too, has the yelling and screaming of thousands of Centre members affected, on a quantum level, the consciousness of the entire world. Since creation, there has not been a striving and

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arousal of immortality consciousness such as has occurred within recent years. Books, TV, medical research have all been caught up with the fever of immortality. A concept that just a few short years ago would have been considered unthinkable is now openly discussed by millions upon millions of people. This is what quantum consciousness can achieve. With a convincing consciousness as to the absolute reality, feasibility of living forever, this power of the mind has achieved the desired results of quantum belief in immortality. Mind you, the opening salvo against the entrenchment of death and immortality did not begin with a great fanfare of press releases and TV appearances. It all started with a humble desire to end for all time the chaos that mankind has been subjected to and rid our environment once and for all from the scourge of death and mortality. This is not some kind of publicity stunt as we have already been accused of. This is about mankind taking a giant step forward and putting an end to the pain and suffering that we witness on our TV sets and experience in our personal lives. This is about the people rising up and demanding the return of their inalienable right to live a life free of chaos, pain, and suffering. We are no longer prepared to be sitting ducks waiting to be picked off by Satan whenever he decides to strike. Satan has had his freedom of choice for too long. Satan’s field day is swiftly coming to a close, whereupon for the second time in history he will come a-begging to be released from his duties of perpetrating the ultimate in chaos. Consequently, if we were to ask ourselves if man will progress to a sufficiently high level to make use of mind control and thereby

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eventually remove chaos such as cancerous tumors, physical interference of all sorts, and mortality, my answer would be in the affirmative, inasmuch as this measure of control was already demonstrated by an entire nation—the Israelites at the Red Sea. But then again, some of you may question the miraculous events of the Bible and search for a rational explanation of these same miracles, such as the scholars examining the splitting of the Red Sea and suggesting that possibly the sea was at its lowest mark at that time and therefore the Israelites could wade across it. The point presented by the Bible is not so much to share a piece of history. The idea of mind over matter is what the Bible is suggesting and that possibility has already been explored by science, which found that consciousness is really what our existence is all about. The physical reality is nothing more than an interference in our lives. Friction in space, gravitational forces of the Earth, are what prevent our flying in space without the use of physical means of transportation. Biblical and Zoharic statements provide us with numerous accounts of flights by Elijah the Prophet, Rav Shimon bar Yochai, and Rav Isaac Luria, whereby they literally rose into the air and traveled in space. The most fascinating account of human flight through space ever recorded in the Zohar is the one with the wicked Balaam of biblical fame in the Book of Numbers. He and his evil parts of Midian were able to fly in the air and thus escape from the Israelites. The High Priest and the meditation of Pinchas brought them down. When Pinchas saw him fly away, he shouted to his soldiers: “Is anyone capable of flying after him?” Then Zilya, from the tribe of Dan, arose and took off after Balaam. When Balaam saw him he changed his direction in the air to warp nine, broke through five levels of galaxies, and vanished from view.

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Zilya was then sorely vexed, not knowing what to do. Pinchas, after connecting with the immaterial force of the Tree of Life, then cut the infusion of cosmic power to Balaam and brought Balaam in view, whereupon Zilya approached Balaam and brought him down in front of Pinchas. At the behest of Pinchas, Zilya killed Balaam. For some, if not many, this is a 2,000 year-old science fiction story. When I questioned this story and wanted to know some of the deeper significance of this famous Zoharic account of biblical Balaam, the Master replied that if I came away from this tale with nothing more than a certainty that mind does indeed control matter, I would have achieved and grasped the essential message of this exciting story, namely, that space travel by humans without the need of physical transportation is a dream that will become a reality. Just a few short months after the master’s departure from this virtual reality, man had landed on the moon and not long afterwards man began walking in space, albeit in a space suit. Unthinkable only a few years earlier. When I questioned the master many years later on the subject of man’s ability to fly in space and whether man would need a space suit to fly from New York to Tokyo, his reply was another revelation concerning space travel. He asked me to engage in conversation with an individual who designed a recent fighter plane. This person, it so happens, is the father of one of our staff members. When I asked what I was supposed to talk about, the master’s reply was that I needn’t be concerned, it was best that it all come to me in the course of the conversation.

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I must confess that I have no aeronautical degree of any sort and my interest and knowledge in this field is minimal and no more than the average person. To my surprise our discussion ran over two hours. A very basic question that I asked was whether there had been any new developments in advanced aeronautical aviation. To my surprise, his response was that the systems are constantly improved upon, but nothing new had really turned up in the way of breakthroughs. I then was prompted by the master to raise the question of what our plane designer thought of developing a consciousness machine to be incorporated within the plane that could move and push aside the atoms which cause friction, allowing the plane to fly through space at unlimited miles per hour. His reply was that he did not think along the lines of removing the obstacles, but rather how to develop the thrust so that the plane could move quicker. I then proceeded to provide the kabbalistic perspective on what actually took place at the Red Sea and how this approach will ultimately become the methodology by which mankind will remove the interference that the physical, material world subjects us to. As previously stated, the fundamental feature of “mind over matter” is that we must accept the principle that our mind is really all that exists, consciousness. The support furnished by science must be reckoned with and absorbed in our minds. But the difficulty science faces when they attempt to implement the theoretical into the practical, material existence is not something that should dissuade us from accepting the theoretical fact that our minds do in fact have dominion over the physical world. Science has already confirmed that our minds determine what is physically out there. Furthermore, there is no reason why our

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consciousness cannot dissolve or, more appropriately, move any physical interference out of our way. What the Israelites accomplished at the Red Sea was that, when they jumped into the Sea, the waters were forced to make way so that they could reach the other side of the Sea, away from the clutches of the Egyptians. All 600,000 Israelites were of one mind. They were capable of splitting the Sea beyond any shadow of a doubt. This is fundamentally 99% of the stuff that is required in the control over the material, physical existence. The other 1% consisted of the bridge between the immaterial consciousness mind and the physical reality of the Red Sea. In the case of the Israelites at the Red Sea, they had become accustomed to the experience of miracles unfolding before their very eyes. Consequently, they became aware of their dominion over the physical reality. So when they were given the methodology, or the bridge, to connect consciousness with the physical reality of the Red Sea, their belief in splitting the Red Sea was certain. They knew this feat was doable. For the past two thousand years, the manifestation of miracles has been left to the few kabbalists, who were not given permission (or so they felt) to disseminate the knowledge. As a result, a world consciousness or massive recognition that man possesses the capability to have dominion over the material existence could not be expressed. This would have to wait until the cosmos became infused with the knowledge, and then science would take it from there. In my own, humble opinion, the complete knowledge surrounding the “mind over matter” phenomenon was revealed by Rav Ashlag when he made the Kabbalah accessible to the masses. This knowledge embraced the practical as well as the theoretical.

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And when the cosmos was thus influenced, it was only a matter of time before the practical miracle became a reality. The miracles that occurred just in the short twentieth century far exceed, outweigh, and outnumber anything that took place over the previous two millennia. Science has pulled the rug out from under the accepted, traditional foundation of the way we think and operate. We are now ready for the final round of skirmishes with our old enemy, Satan. No doubt the final battle will be the war of minds. In summary, the battle lines will be drawn over whether mankind can lift itself up by it bootstraps and come to the realization that we can create our own environment, that we can become proactive, like God, and not be reactive to the stimulation of the physical reality. The many thousands of miracles activated by the practitioners of the Kabbalah Centres is a living testimony that we can be proactive and remove the limited, chaotic interference of the physical world. The evidence of these miracles, and the awareness that these miracles took place as a result of following the instructions of the kabbalistic teachings has contributed to the increase in miracles. So has the idea that these miracles did not have to end and would not happen unless we made them happen, like the Israelites 3,400 years ago who themselves, created the splitting of the Red Sea and were not subject to the sea’s interference. The skeptic and faint-of-heart, will unfortunately be incapable of creating miracles in their lives. They will be compelled to be subject to the interference and limiting chaos that most of us still must endure. However, the moment is very close at hand. This is what the next generation of aircraft will be like, I told our plane designer. The time between aircraft feasibility of removing friction and

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man’s ability to suspend the physical force of gravity and friction is presently unknown to me, I added. (I’m certain that the dates are known to the master and for whatever reason cannot be revealed as of this writing.) Inasmuch as we are rapidly approaching the day when interference of the physical reality will cease to exist as a chaotic force in our lives, let us explore how impediments such as friction and gravity came about in the first place and what, if anything, can be done to remove their power, effectiveness, and supremacy in the universe. I can hear the reader-scientist frown on the idea of removing gravity as a force for fear that all the planets and other celestial bodies will start crashing into each other. Science is under the impression that it is the gravitational pull that maintains stability within the cosmic realm. Long live gravity. However, from a kabbalistic perspective of the cosmos, gravity is not the force that prevents celestial bodies from crashing into each other, nor does it keep the suspended planets in their orderly rotation. Gravity has not prevented heavenly bodies of other sorts from invading the space of, say, comets. However, this book is not intended to explain the heavenly movements. Other works of The Centre deal with this subject. What we are primarily concerned with here is achieving immortality. Now to return to our search and examination of gravity and friction and from where they originate. The universe is no longer viewed as a machine, consisting of a multitude of physical objects. Everything is seen as one dynamic whole where non-physical entities such as the thought processes and the nature of consciousness are essentially

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part of and related to the universal whole. Furthermore, metaphysical manifestations—like a consciousness to be positive or negative—are always the primary reality and essence, which manifests itself ultimately as a web of material, physical patterns. To be more precise, it is the manifestation of thought that precedes the emergence of material patterns. The world today is viewed as a complicated web of infinite events, material and non-material, that determine the tissue of the whole. When someone has a consciousness to be negative and steals, the result will be a robbery or other means of turning another person into a victim. Thought precedes the activity. The thought of inflicting chaos on another individual is what is behind the notion of friction and gravity. These two activities create a negative consequence, preventing human transportation in space. The reason we cannot travel back in time is due to the light barrier caused by friction and gravity. The difficulty imposed by these two forces emerged as a direct result of our difficulty in maintaining the concept of “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Society cannot accept the presence of others. First and foremost is the self, guided by a cosmic energy intelligence of negativity, a universal problem. Science already knows that, in removing the light barrier, we can go back in time, which in turn means that we can become younger again, the subject of immortality. The removal of physical barriers depends completely on our ability to remove our metaphysical barriers of intolerance and hatred. The Master once remarked that the only solution to removing hatred in this world is a thorough understanding that it pays to be tolerant and that, if we wish to remove chaos from our lives, we have no other choice than to respect and dignify our fellow man.

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The problem, continued the Master, has always been that human relationships were to be based on a moral and ethical code of behavior. This, said the Master, has never worked since the time of Cain and Abel. When mankind begins to recognize that, in our negative consciousness-activity, we are causing distress and chaos in our own lives is when the revolution of human activity shall start. The amazing features of becoming younger again and, regrowing lost hair, teeth, organs, or limbs are all possible if we can muster enough certainty, confidence, and fortitude to change our consciousness to one of a positive, kind, and good nature. With this prerequisite now entered into our mental computer, let us now find immortality.

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f there is any topic we might consider that all of mankind would be in agreement on, it would be the subject of Aging. Everyone fears becoming old for a host of reasons: losing that youngish look, not

being capable of doing things we enjoyed in our youth, and, last but

not least, getting closer to dying. All new ideas are usually rejected outright. However, in the absence of new, dramatic developments, the people will quickly adjust to these new declarations of the Kabbalah. So when we even consider an outrageous idea such as the restoration of a limb, organ, or body part in this Age of Aquarius, the hunger for new knowledge will far outweigh the conservative viewpoints that have always dominated the minds of humankind. An example of what we may expect in the way of extraordinary events in this Age of Aquarius is clearly stated by Rav Isaac Luria in his work entitled Gates of the Holy Spirit. In this period, missing limbs and other parts of the physical body can and will be restored to their former state of existence. The first question that I would like to raise in connection

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with restoration is one so simple that few of us even bother to ask. Why doesn’t a severed arm return to its previous condition? “What? What kind of a question is that?” I hear many of you screaming out. “How could an arm grow back?” And what I have to say to those who do not believe it could or should grow back is: Why not? Is it because we have never seen it happen? After having read this book up to this point, I would personally be disappointed in myself if I fell victim to the Missourian curse of “when I see it, I’ll believe it.” The master always cautioned me that, because I’m Jewish, I am vulnerable to the fault of a “short memory.” The Age of Aquarius, insisted the master, is the idea that miracles are out there just waiting to be revealed. The paranormal is reality, whereas the seeable may indeed exist as an illusion. So too with miracles (like the splitting of the Red Sea) that have become accepted as phenomena of supernatural events. What is surprising is that, since the discovery of the DNA phenomenon, the blueprint and origin of our physical makeup, no one has raised the question, “How come an arm, kidney, or tooth does not grow back?” The original DNA that brought about these lost segments of our bodies has not disappeared. Then why does this same DNA not reproduce these same unregenerate limbs or parts of our bodies again? It is a question that I must admit is so simple and yet the average person familiar with DNA has never bothered to ask. I can only come to the obvious conclusion that Satan must use a highly perfected anesthesia to put mankind to sleep. Furthermore, all of us expect little children to receive their second set of teeth after the first set of teeth have fallen out. We would consider

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the failure of a second set of teeth to appear as an utterly distinctive flaw in that child. Tons of research would begin if this phenomenon occurred. It would certainly make medical history. Well, what makes the reappearance of teeth a natural consequence and the limb extraordinary and too good to be true? How does the medical researcher explain away the idea that, after cutting our hair and nails, the hair and nails continue to grow? Why not expect the same from bones or organs? What I am attempting to demonstrate is that the physical, material world does not by and within itself provide explanations, summaries of events, or conclusive proof that if something is there then it’s real. At the same time, there is no empirical evidence that, if we do not see it, then we may safely conclude it is not there. The reason we are faced with so much uncertainty and resulting chaos in our lives is precisely due to the fact that we depend upon and build only on material, factual evidence. I have, I believe, stressed sufficiently strongly that behind every physical, material entity there must be and does exists a metaphysical, non-material cause that must lie behind every physical expression. None of us has any problem with this sort of rationale. Even the rational conscious mind accepts this premise. Satan, however, is fully aware of the need to suppress our awareness capability and consequently we no longer have the same curiosity we did when we were little tots. What I am about to address is a possible response to the question of why bones, organs, and limbs do not regenerate and hair, nails, and teeth do. I once posed this question to a Chinese-American professor of genetic engineering, and this was his answer. Obviously, hair and

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nails continue to grow because the DNA never ceases in its energy regeneration intelligence whereas other parts of the body do not have within the DNA the power to regenerate. I was not rude when I told him I really didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to come to that kind of conclusion. My question to him was why in the first place did the DNA give one set of instructions to hair, nails, and teeth and another to the rest of the body. I cautioned to be a real scientist and always attempt to go back beyond the superficial, physical, observable level and reach out for reasons behind the physical expression. So our question remains, why are there different instructions for different parts of the body? While on the subject of hair and nails, I think that we should be aware of another paranormal fact in our search into the mysterious world of regeneration. It has come to the attention of scientists that during the first three days following death, the hair and nails continue to grow. A bit strange, wouldn’t you think? What is yet stranger is why the nails and hair have this unique distinction of regenerating both during our lifetime and after death, and no other part of the body does. When we stop to think for a moment, the idea presented by Rav Isaac Luria certainly seems far out. But those of us who choose to reject outright the ideas of restoration and immortality had better expand their limited awareness. I have found in my long association with Kabbalah that a skeptic is not usually the one who has researched the matter and laid bare the facts to arrive at skepticism. I realize that this concept requires a transformation of our accepted thinking process. However, what I am proposing from a Zoharic perspective is nothing short of a consciousness revolution. There are

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no shortcuts to the attainment of a state of fulfillment. However, these objectives are reachable in our time, in this Age of Aquarius. Before proceeding into the kabbalistic perspective of restoration and why the experiences of restoration and immortality have eluded us, let me turn to the much talked-about Age of Aquarius. I have mentioned on several occasions, just in this book alone, that the Age of Aquarius has brought with it enlightenment in the past century never before seen in history. I questioned the master on the uniqueness of the Age of Aquarius. Why this period as opposed to previous millenniums? I became aware of the distinction of this Age only after I met the master and he referred to the many sections in the Zohar that address the Age of Aquarius. What the Master suggested in his interpretation of Aquarius was the prophetic significance and importance attached to the proliferation of knowledge. Jeremiah stressed this point when he said: “They shall teach no more every man his neighbor or every man his brother, saying know the Creator (the Lightforce), for they shall all know me from the smallest to the greatest of them.” The Prophet Isaiah emphasized the weight of knowledge in the Age of Aquarius when he remarked, “The Earth shall be full of knowledge of the Creator like the waters cover the sea.” Knowledge is apparently the determining factor that will distinguish this history-making era from all the past millenniums. Only in the past few decades has the scientific community come to the realization that we are faced with a bewildering and confusing array of complex problems that has led to an “uncertainty principle.” What this means actually is that information and knowledge that all of humankind has acquired contains an element of uncertainty. We

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simply cannot be sure that what we think is knowing. The problem that really faces mankind is the fact that we, including scientists, have not taken the uncertainty principle seriously. Most of us are not even aware of its existence. Our egos and those of the scientists are the main obstacle permitting this uncertainty to enter our consciousness. There are so many absolute truths given to us through the eyes of people with tunnel vision, whether these people are scientists, friends, neighbors, or family, that it is indeed difficult to imagine how and why we take their knowledge as absolute fact when scientists themselves deny anything as absolute because of their uncertainty principle. Unfortunately the present scientific establishment has become increasingly fossilized by its own particular worldview. “Consequently,” continued the master, “through prophetic vision the prophets foresaw the uncertainty that would become obvious in this Age of Aquarius. The uncertainty, whether it applies to our state of health, finances, or society in general, will become so apparent, even to little children, that man will then make every effort to seek only the simple truths of knowledge devoid of the complexities and difficulties in comprehension. How wonderful it will be in this Aquarian Age, when knowledge will be the domain of all people rather than a select few. “Kabbalah itself has been for too long a jealously guarded secret locked up in an ancient vault. The time has finally come for it to reach the masses with its message of simplicity. Because, in the final analysis, knowledge understood by the layman is to be considered true knowledge. The science of Kabbalah does indeed answer many of the enigmatic aspects of nature, and yet still remains simple. The kabbalists’ vision of reality is based on an in-depth perception of the

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Bible’s coded narration and tales. Kabbalistic teachings provide the underlying laws and principles by which we can establish power and influence over our environment, terrestrial and extraterrestrial, and understand the power that nature holds over us. “The Age of Aquarius is not merely a timeframe,” continued the Master. The arrival of this period will cause the opening of the floodgates of knowledge, straight and simple. The Zohar expresses the idea that the Messianic era will usher in a period of unprecedented enlightenment. Messianism, representing the essence of hope and optimism, is bound up and dependent upon true knowledge, the sublime wisdom of Kabbalah. Knowledge originating within the software of the Zohar permits mankind to access the quantum knowledge of the universe. The possibility of raising our level of consciousness is assured by installing this universal software onto our own particular mind computer. Knowledge, from a kabbalistic worldview, is energy-intelligence more powerful than any energy system employed for energy purposes. Knowledge permits mankind to relate and make the proper circuitry with the awesome power and energy of the cosmos. The Age of Aquarius is already upon us. Knowledge in its simplicity is already at our fingertips. Let us therefore examine closely the restoration process that goes on within our bodies in an area where no disagreement lies. Biological repair systems abound within our physical machine, the body. We are in a constant process of repair, unconsciously or otherwise, from molecules to tissues, growing our second set of teeth (elephants grow six sets, and sharks an indefinite number during their lifetime). The

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most visible examples of repair to our bodies are wound-healing and mending of bone fractures. Regular replacement goes on all the time at the molecular level. Our proteins are provided with a continuous turnover. All linings of our intestines are replaced every few days, while the lining of our urinary bladder is renewed once every two months or so. At the unperceived molecular level, our genetic material, DNA, is regularly undergoing repair. There are enzymes that restore and repair damaged bases within the DNA and ignore healthy DNA. Hence, while nature is taking us apart, at the same time it makes every effort to mend us each and every single day. Since many animals, like lizards, can regenerate several tails, or starfish their limbs, why doesn’t the human body undergo this kind of damage control? What prevents us from having lost teeth replaced, like the shark does? Is there any reason why the joints of arthritis sufferers are not replaced as those of crabs are? Why, for that matter, are we subject to many types of heart disease, rather than the heart continuously repairing itself? We are consciously or unconsciously preparing ourselves for aging and death. Biological repair mechanisms seem to be limited only because aging may be thought of as simply unrepairable damage or deterioration. “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart. And the tongue of the dumb shall sing.” (Isaiah 35:5,6) The promise from the Book of Isaiah will be fulfilled with the ongoing Age of Aquarius. For the religionist, scriptures assure the healing of the body. For the secularist, science cannot find any reason why restoration should not take place.

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Then what is left for us to do? To acquire the knowledge and implant foremost in our consciousness the conviction that we are our own healers. We are God. By knowing that we can heal ourselves, we activate the God-like Force within us and the healing process is set in motion. It is possible to remove oneself from the impelling negative influence of degenerative diseases of the body. Another fact worth mentioning so as to support the idea of restoration and dispel and permanently remove the accepted principle of aging concerns the available date of longevity. In the early part of the twentieth century, as I mentioned earlier, American life expectancy was a mere 48 years. Only a few decades later, the average age of the population suddenly surged to a life expectancy of 81 years. Medical researchers no longer attribute the higher life expectancy to advanced medical technology. There are, of course, some die-hard scientists who believe they are the miracle workers of the twentieth century. The things science can do in some areas were unheard of only a few short years ago. But upon further reflection, antibodies, computers, heart transplants, and other significant benefits of advanced technology still have not prevented the state of crisis that envelopes the entire globe. In fact, matters have gotten worse, going from chaotic to catastrophic, while these same scientists gloat over their medical achievements. Based on available data and current research, a number of scientists believe that, within a generation or two, man’s lifespan could be extended significantly by decades if not centuries. How? By altering the DNA and gene structure, they are confidently forecasting that it is possible to extend and prolong life. I can just hear in the background asking these same scientists whether, along with their futuristic optimism, they can also throw in for the same price a

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guarantee that this extension will be accompanied by good health free of the usual illnesses that come along with the aging process. The idea of a dramatic prolongation of human life sounds great. However, will the average individual be capable of sustaining a comfortable sense of well-being? We should recall that, after many years of glowing forecasts, there is still no cure for cancer and other serious aging problems. A question that science and people in general prefer to ignore, said my master, is that ever-knowing kabbalistic question, why. Why has it taken until the twentieth century for science to reap the extraordinary fruits of its labor? Until we can arrive at some answers, we are still subject to the limitations of a physical universe. Remember, the kabbalistic approach to knowledge is that every physical manifestation and entity must, of necessity, have a prior non-physical, immaterial cause. Causes are never found nor determined at the physical level. Causes do and must exist at a consciousness or immaterial level. Well, if that is the case, then how can we ever come to any realization of causes when we are not programmed or presently capable of detecting or becoming aware of the cause level? We have been accustomed to the belief that we can comprehend things only by virtue of the five senses. And this is precisely the underlying problem, the reason why science has made so little progress in its attempt to improve the well-being of mankind because of its difficulties in dealing with the psychosomatic aspect of medicine where all medical problems originate. The medical profession cannot bring itself to face the reality of that influence in conventional medicine. The term psychosomatic has been used to refer to an illness or disorder for which a clearly diagnosed physical problem could not be established. Therefore, only symptoms can be treated and most of the time the

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disorder returns. Cancer, it has been determined, begins in the body long before the detection of the physical tumor, possibly 20, 30, or 40 years before its physical appearance. So it becomes quite apparent that medical research on cancer that will stop the cancer in its tracks must address this malady at a metaphysical, immaterial level. But how, is the call from out there? The connection between mental states and cancer, for example, has been known for a long time. The difficulty lies in its elusive nature. We just can’t seem to get a handle on the origin or root of the thing. Consequently, our diagnosis and therapeutic remedies are all directed at the newly discovered ailment. Even when surgery is suggested and is deemed successful, just what do they mean by success? If indeed the traces on the physical level are all gone, what assurance does one have that the origins have also been removed? The pruning of a tree’s branches certainly is not indicative that we have removed the tree itself. The most difficult challenge and hurdle that mankind will be faced with is programing our mental computer to search out the true and virtual cause, which we have determined will always remain in the non-material level of reality. To accept this provocative change in the way we think is what essentially will be called for in our drive to achieve restoration-immortality and not merely a reprieve from death or its postponement. The danger of falling back to our more familiar way of thinking is ever present. This is one of the most reliable cards Satan has up his sleeve. Once mankind elevates to this consciousness, namely, that physical activity of any sort follows a prior metaphysical, immaterial motive and cause, humankind has taken a giant step forward in our quest for control over our destiny, environment, and overall well-being.

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Consequently, in our endeavor to reach the primal cause we must of necessity explore the realm of metaphysics. But then again, how does one go about relating to or applying oneself to that unseen level of existence? A good starting point for our investigation is the Bible. We find that Adam lived 930 years. Quite a long time from where we sit. The Bible then goes on to record the length of life of succeeding generations. We will observe that with each following generation, the lifespan becomes shorter. The answer surely has something to do with the evolutionary process dictated by the cosmos. As the generations moved further away from the initial creation of Adam, the Lightforce of God became more concealed. This might be compared to a lamppost which has been exposed to soot. With each additional layer, the light becomes more and more obscured. Over the past millenniums, the internal fuel of our bodies or the Lightforce of God became dimmer with each succeeding generation. Why? This question I presented to the master. And with surprising clarity, the master responded by stating that when Adam sinned, he permitted negative, evil entities to link up with the essence and life force of Adam. The soul of Adam, the God like feature of mankind in Genesis II, was placed in a corporeal body. Without this material essence and substance, the presence of the soul could not be expressed. After all, our hands and limbs do not decide to move unless an internal, unseen force—our mind—motivates these limbs. By the same token, a soul without the body to make manifest the thoughts of our mind would forever be concealed.

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“When Adam sinned,” continued the master, “meaning he caused a negative action, he then established an affinity with these negative entities. They began to cling to the body and also become nourished from the Lightforce. Once they made their entrance into the physical realm of Adam, the negative entities, although metaphysical and unseen, began to eat away at Adam. The Lightforce of God’s exposure to these pestilences gradually made his presence appear dimmer.” I questioned the master exactly what he meant by “make his presence appear dimmer”? “Well,” replied the master, “the reason I said appear and not that it actually happened, is because there are no changes in the Lightforce nor does the Lightforce undergo or can it be affected by change. It’s like the lamppost or any bulb. When we add a piece of white cloth to the bulb, and then a tan cloth followed by a brown and blue cloth, the light becomes dimmer with each cloth. However, the light of the bulb or lamppost itself does not undergo any change. Whatever changes seem to appear as the light grows dimmer originate from the observer. With each additional negative activity that mankind adds to his basket of evil performances, we, our bodies, become distanced from the Lightforce. The intensity of the Lightforce becomes diminished. These evil entities, with each diminution of the Light, can penetrate the essence of the body even further. Negative, evil forces cannot co-exist with the Light. However, when the Light’s presence becomes progressively reduced by the accumulation of negative action (the cloth as a reminder) these evil forces penetrate even deeper into the physical body.

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This same idea applies to the environment. When mankind becomes consumed by his desire to receive for the self alone and not with a desire to receive for the sake of sharing, then these same evil entities, a part of the enormous armada of Satan, begin to proliferate in the environment and, before we know it, violence and crime become a way of life in the community. The problems of this tragic drama become compounded with the addition of further negative activity. As the energy and also the protective shield of the Lightforce become diminished, the body and the environment become exposed to further inroads by these dark forces. When these evil entities sense the Light withdrawing, they become more aggressive, reaching out in search of more light. When not fulfilled they attack ferociously in any and every direction in order to become satiated. In truth their desire is an unquenchable greed to swallow up the entire world. There is never enough once the door has been opened for them. “Where do these ominous creatures come from?” I questioned the master. “Certainly not from God inasmuch as God is only good and only good can emerge from God.” “We, mankind,” replied the master, quoting Rav Isaac Luria, who stated in his work Gates of Meditation that what these evil entities are all about is the power of an evil consciousness, which ultimately becomes manifest in a physical negative act. This negative consciousness becomes an extension or a cloning of itself. While cloning is a phenomenon only recently discovered, the idea was already discussed in the Book of Formation, authored by Abraham the biblical Patriarch some 4,000 years ago. Gleaning his information from

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the Book of Formation, Rav Luria leaned heavily on the Zohar for further classification of the idea of cloning itself. The idea of being in two places at the same time is a phenomenon that I have previously discussed in my book Wheels of a Soul, which introduces the layman to the heretofore guarded secrets on the kabbalistic perspective of Reincarnation. In the chapter on teleportation, which is the theoretical transportation of matter through space by converting it into energy and then reconverting it at a terminal point, I cite the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the main character, Lot, the nephew of the Patriarch Abraham. The western world, even after the phenomenal success of cloning in Ireland, still has not taken the subject of teleportation seriously. Rav Luria considers the possibility of consciousness or energy intelligence transfer as something very real and cites the following passage from the Zohar in which the energy-intelligence or consciousness of one individual became manifested elsewhere. “And the two angels came to Sodom at evening, and Lot saw them and ran to meet them.” Now Lot knew that if he extended any hospitality to these strangers, who were actually angels appearing as humans, he would face certain death. If anyone were found offering food or drink to a stranger, the people would immediately put the sharing person to death. This was the behavior of the people in Sodom and Gomorrah. They were evil as they could be. The Zohar questions Lot’s generosity. Why did Lot do this? Hadn’t Lot already experienced the cruel death of his daughter, who once offered a piece of bread to a poor man? When the townspeople had found

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out about this, they covered her entire body with honey, bound her, and left her exposed on the rooftop until she was killed by wasps. One might think that Lot would be careful of strangers. However, states the Zohar, his righteous uncle (Abraham) appeared before him and told him to totally disregard any of the consequences that might arise out of his hospitality. He told Lot that he would not be harmed in any way by the evil people of Sodom and Gomorrah. And therefore “Lot saw them and ran to meet them.” Clearly, the Abraham that Lot saw was a clone of Abraham, who at the time of his appearance before Lot was actually physically located in Hebron, a great distance from Sodom. The idea of cloning by consciousness has touched all of us at one time or another. How many times have some friends remarked to us that they saw us at a particular place or location where they had been? And we are certain that they must have mistaken someone else for us. We remark that probably the person they saw and thought was us probably just looked like us. We calmly dismiss it. However, bear in mind that at that particular moment we may have thought of being there and thus cloned ourselves. The subject of cloning is inextricably bound up with the reality of immortality. However, this matter shall be dealt with extensively in another work relating to the secret codes of the universe. For the present, let us grasp this incredible piece of information revealed to us by Rav Luria. Our consciousness, which in actuality is an energy-intelligence, creates these ugly, chaos-wreaking entities when we fill our minds and our lives with hatred, envy, and intolerance and then proceed to implement their awful states of

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consciousness with negative activity. There is no question among kabbalists that the reward for sharing experiences is the creation of positive, protective entities who are merely an extension, a clone of our consciousness energy. Consequently, when negative thoughts and consciousness overcome us and we do not exercise restriction but instead cause harm to others, the victim of this action are two people: ourselves and the ones we have inflicted pain and suffering upon. Therefore, the idea of Love Thy Neighbor is not at all bound with moral or ethical codes. Nor is the idea of restriction one which involves being dutiful or virtuous. It just doesn’t pay to conduct ourselves in any other way. The consequences are too compelling. For every negative consciousness manifested we create a swarm of negative entities that cling to us as bees to honey. And they will not release their stranglehold until they have exploited every available bit of sustenance and energy within our bodies and sucked out every drop of Lightforce. For those of us who simply want to play life’s journey with smart logistics, we have no other alternative but to behave in a positive manner. This entails never harboring or bearing malice towards our fellow man. This is quite unlike what I had been made to understand all my life before Kabbalah (if I consider that I lived before Kabbalah), which was that we must follow the Good Book, the Bible, because that’s the way the Good Creator wishes it. This was one of the finest and most practical lessons that was taught to me by the master. The truth of the matter is that, while much of society recognizes and reveres the Good Book as very holy, nonetheless, its influence upon us in our daily lives seems to be distant

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and has little if any effect upon our attitudes and behavior towards our fellow man. Intolerance and enmity for each other has, if anything, increased over the years following the major holocaust of the 1940s, and the moral conduct of mankind. The approach presented by the Master achieves the results of the Good Book in such a manner as to melt away the human barriers that man alone has erected. I now fully comprehend how the master enjoyed the kind of love he received from one million people who were not ideologically aligned with his religious convictions. Everyone that came in contact with the master fell in love with him, just as I did in our first encounter. At first I could not understand what was going on or what was happening. But now I do. When we meet people and make friends, we begin to feel an affection for them. This relationship develops to a point where we begin to feel a trust. However, as Satan would have it, misunderstandings and disagreements often do crop up. One thing leads to another until suddenly we find ourselves distant from each other. This situation unfortunately may well apply to family and relatives, as well. The reason, stated the master, is because the relationships do not reach a point of unconditional love. Our relationships with children, fathers, and mothers may not develop into true love relationships. Parents have responsibilities to children which many may confuse with love for “their” children. However, this kinship may have developed out of obligation. This same idea might apply to our relationships with friends. We have common interests and when we want to spend time “together,” more times than not, the friendship exists because we feel that there is a personal benefit in not sitting

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alone or in spending a vacation without being lonely. This is not unconditional love. However, the master had developed the type of sharing that he knew, with absolute certainty, was necessary for his own well-being. He was determined that he would be surrounded constantly with positive entities that would shield and protect him 24 hours a day. The master understood that in harboring ill will, he was also calling negative entities into his life, into his port. Now who wants that? Who needs that? Life is already full of enough complexities and problems. Why invite the enemy (ill will is nothing more than a negative consciousness), the fellow who will eat away at me 24 hours a day, seven days a week? We’ve got to be pretty stupid to look for and seek out that kind of situation in our lives. This was the kind of energy flowing out from the master. He had nothing to hide. He wasn’t merely putting his best foot forward. I mentioned before, the master was anything but charismatic. But they all loved him inasmuch as anyone that came in contact with him felt this unadulterated positive energy. He wasn’t doing anything because he had to. This was for the master the practical way of living. Plain and simple. Hatred and intolerance were the trademarks of 24,000 scholars, students of Rav Akiva, who lived around the first century. They did not have this protective shield. Thus this large number of people infested the entire environment with negative entities. With the withdrawal of the Lightforce, these same negative entities became even more aggressive, eating away at anything they could get their teeth into in their effort to draw to themselves the nourishment of

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the Lightforce. This was a Catch 22 of the highest order. Like the dog chasing its tail. The more they chased after the Light, the greater the diminution of the Light, and the fiercer the aggressiveness of the negative entities became. While all this was going on during the chase of Satan after the Lightforce, the people were becoming more negative because the Light was withdrawing at a rapid pace. This situation fueled the fire even more so. And consequently, stated the Rabbinic sources, the blood of human beings flowed knee-high during the destruction of the “Holly” Temple. It was only when I fully understood this paradoxical condition that I related it to the cancers that afflict mankind. The culprit in illness is Satan. In his quest for sustenance, he begins to drain off the Lightforce from this sick person. The Lightforce withdraws even further, and so on. When the heart, the lung, or any other section of the body is afflicted, the affliction is a direct result of Satan’s presence with his armada of negative entities. The effort that should be exerted is one of freeing the body from the clutches of these harmful, negative entities. An aspirin or surgery won’t do. But then again, how do we combat a metaphysical enemy whom we cannot see or observe? This is exactly what Kabbalah is all about. It contains the secret codes which can unlock the metaphysical barriers that prevent an all-out effort to wage war against these enemies of mankind. How to remove their stranglehold is what the teachings of Kabbalah are all about. The diseased heart or lung is the result of these negative entities’ efforts to search out the Lightforce, which of necessity continues to withdraw in the face of this relentless onslaught

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of negativity. The negative entities are free to roam around the body’s environment without any force to stop them or at least engage in battle with them. Unfortunately, medical support and assistance, however noble their intentions might be, continue for the present to merely prune the trees, so to speak. I certainly am not in any way implying that the medical profession has no place in our society inasmuch as they do not address the origin and causes of all the maladies that affect us. However, what I am suggesting is that, with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Kabbalah will make its grand entry onto the stage of human history, and that we had better be with it. But please do not interpret this as a warning. I’m simply relying on the following discourse to share some good advice. I’ve learned from the Master almost from the very beginning that noone has been empowered with the divine right to act as or consider oneself God’s policeman. “The task of a spiritual leader is to share knowledge, no more. And what the recipient does with that knowledge is their business, and their business alone. There is no coercion in spirituality.” At times, this concept is a difficult task to live by. With leadership comes responsibility, and sometimes we tend to forget that leadership means just that, to lead and not enforce. The free will of others must never be tampered with. The Zohar foresaw that in the Age of Aquarius a period of extremism will become the norm. In those days humankind will be divided into two basic categories: those who accept the principle of “Love thy Neighbor” and those who purvey the energy-intelligence of evil, intolerance, prejudice, and bigotry. “Woe unto him who meets up with that period and praiseworthy is it for him who encounters and is cast in that time. A glaring paradox of opposites.”

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The Zohar confirms that what will distinguish the Age of Aquarius and separate it from all other periods in history will be a restoration and infusion of the Lightforce into our cosmos. The dimension of the Lightforce will no longer depend upon the ability of mankind to choose the positive path of activity and thereby increase the presence of the Lightforce. The Lightforce will literally invade our space with knowledge and power, the likes of which was only known before the sin of Adam and for a brief period at the Exodus. “What does all this mean?” I questioned the master. His response was one of joy and sadness at the same time. “In this Age of Aquarius, the Lightforce has made its intentions clear to the world. It no longer will remain a passive force to be called upon when the need arises. The Age of Aquarius is the Age of Information. This has become increasingly evident by the rapid advances that have overtaken the long-sleeping doctrines of the scientific world. The outpouring of knowledge within the scientific community in the past seventy years has outpaced and surpassed the amount and significance of scientific knowledge over the past two thousand years. “By the same token, the same past seventy years have given birth to kabbalistic knowledge and information never before accessible to the people, including those unacquainted with biblical studies. Never before in history have the people themselves begun to assume control over matters involving their daily lives. Rather than surrender their future and place it in the hands of others, the people have begun to express their own desires and determinations. There will be more of an individualistic activity rather than activity controlled centrally by governments or organizations.”

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“This is good and bad,” said the master. “On the one hand, spiritualminded people will begin to reveal the hidden secrets of immortality and restoration as a direct result of the massive infusion of the Lightforce. Things that could not be observed and noticed just a few short years ago will have their curtains and veils removed merely by our consciousness. And people will see that the impossible is actually possible. The prospect of mind over matter will become at the beginning a novel treat. Then will come the more difficult illusions and barriers such as restoration of limbs and resurrection of the dead and ultimate immortality.” “However,” cautioned the master, “people with ill intentions will also make use of this available power and make every attempt to disrupt the onward march towards a life free of chaos and despair. However, they will be powerful only to the extent that the kind and righteous people are weak.” An expanded awareness and elevated consciousness, states the Zohar, is the secret message of Kabbalah in this Age of Aquarius. It is simply a matter of disengaging from the darkness of Satanconsciousness and illusion and becoming consciously connected with the reality of the Lightforce of God. Rav Azulai has repeatedly stated that the idea of resurrection or restoring limbs now only awaits the raising of our consciousness towards this miraculous period. And all of its information will be forthcoming by the year 2000. However, Satan will be there to discourage mankind from thinking regeneration or the notion that we shall retrieve our youth is possible. There will always be those of stubborn will who unfortunately will not reap the benefits available to those with an elevated consciousness.

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Now you might be wondering how this could be possible. When these evil people see the miracles taking place all around them, are we to assume that they will still remain fixed in their Missourian consciousness and use their rational minds to dismiss the restoration process as some magical trick? And the answer unfortunately is yes. This is precisely why consciousness takes on such importance within Kabbalah. So long as the realization that the physical realm is nothing more than illusory has not been accepted wholeheartedly, despite the overwhelming evidence to support this innovative idea, the miracles will not take place for these stubborn individuals. This unnatural, abnormal event will and can only take place in the final period leading up to the year 2000. This is what the master meant when he stressed the paradoxical nature of this period by the remark of “woe” and “praiseworthy.” This is what the unrestricted flow of the Lightforce of God will achieve, to provide this final opportunity so that mankind can elevate its consciousness to the level of freedom from the illusory grasp of the material world. When the ego of these stubborn, skeptical ones cannot be removed from their internal nature, then they have provided a link for Satan to enter and convince them the regeneration is some sort of trick and degeneration is the rule and reality of this physical world. So for those of us who have kept an open mind throughout this book, let us now join and rejoice in the revealed secrets on aging and the answers to all the questions we questioned at the beginning of this chapter. The master never left my side during the writing of the manuscript. I would like to thank my two other teachers, Rav Azulai and Shalom Sharabi who appeared during the second half of this writing, albeit

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they became visible to me in the form of two pigeons. I enjoyed immensely the flying passes you both made right over my head. However, the sensation of having you both perched on the chair next to mine was a thrill I can never forget. And last but not least, Rav Ashlag who remained a constant companion to the master during most of these revelations. Why aging and degeneration? When the moment arrives, the aging process will be reversed. This may come about shortly, as stated by Rav Azulai. The moment will depend upon two factors. The first is when the Lightforce determines that the heavenly gates of the cosmos become opened and the secrets of restoration-immortality begin to fill our consciousness. The second element is the level of humankind’s awareness of the opportunities that have been made available for them to grab onto and draw the secrets into the physical reality. The second element will depend upon how well mankind does in opening its mind and consciousness to radically new ideas. Some of you may be wondering why I fell back on a cliché of “Heavenly Gates” when that is a term used by religionists? The answer is quite simple and also critical. This Age of Aquarius is really amazing. When we were little children we would read about these pearly gates and how, if we were good, we would be blessed. Little did we realize that scientists would one day discover gates in the celestial realm that are now known as the Van Allen Belts. The entire space program including the launch schedule for the space shuttles would be dependent upon when these gates were open or shut. This idea was already conveyed by the Zohar when Rav Shimon provided the timetables for when the cosmic gates would be open for the extraordinary infusion of the Lightforce into the celestial and terrestrial realm.

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The fact that mankind has been oblivious to this very pertinent information for the past two thousand years is only another indication of how science in the past seventy years has begun to catch up with Kabbalah. The information in this book is another indication of how science will more speedily catch up with the breathtaking information flowing out of sublime wisdom. The case that I have made for the entrance of restoration-immortality onto the stage of human history rests completely on the dates provided by the kabbalists. Science has corroborated the dramatic influence of this Age of Aquarius by accepting the exciting possibilities of immortality. However, to repeat, the success of achieving immortality by the year 2000 will completely rest upon the proliferation of kabbalistic knowledge on this thrilling subject to the people and their acceptance of this reality. This is a task that will require a complete revolution in the way we see and understand reality. Along with this consciousness will be the requirement that we know how and why mortality superimposed its reality over and above the true reality of immortality. We have already achieved a full and complete understanding of where mortality originated. Adam connected with the consciousness of mortality, linking to an illusory realm of reality where the master magician, Satan, with his bag of tricks could lead us into a firm belief that the illusion was real. This all came about with the metaphorical story of eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Once Satan had achieved his most daring and devastating goal of opening the gates of man’s consciousness to the notion that mankind was now powerless in the face of the physical reality such as time, space, and motion, the rest was easy.

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Man no longer could fly or clone himself so that he could be anywhere and everywhere in the universe, celestial or terrestrial. Only as a result of the incredible breakthrough in the cloning of a sheep will the following words of the kabbalists make any sense. What the reader should understand in the face of this startling discovery—and please listen carefully to what I have to say—science is still stuck far behind the idea that an existing, developed human being can clone himself. The entire commotion that has emerged from the cloning of sheep is whether or not it is morally and ethically acceptable for science to clone a human. This would be accomplished by the taking of a cell and follow the same procedure used to clone animals. The cloning process would be done by medical biogenetic researchers in the laboratory. The idea that man can clone himself is a notion that scientists presently do not even consider as a dream. However, the Zohar reported this reality 2,000 years ago in its description of Abraham’s encounter with his nephew Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah, which is recorded in the Bible. Perusal of the biblical text does not reveal anything of the kind. This is just one of the reasons the Zohar considers the Bible the coded blueprint of the universe and a roadmap for mankind in achieving control over his destiny. However, for the average reader of the Bible, its contents have remained concealed for the past 3,400 years. Even with the deciphering of the biblical codes by the Zohar 2,000 years ago, not until the twentieth century was the possibility of comprehending the contents of the Zohar given to the people. And only because The Centre and its founder, Rav Ashlag, provided a peek into the ancient vault that kept the Zohar so firmly concealed are we and scientists alike making the unthinkable come to fruition and become a reality. The instrument for

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this revelation, for the extraordinary infusion of the Lightforce, is mankind’s ability to access into and scan the contents of the Zohar and other kabbalistic texts and material. Why do our bodies degenerate and age? We have permitted Satan the possibility to cling to the internal energy-Lightforce of the DNA. As we mentioned before, the Lightforce, recognizing the presence of Satan and his armada of chaos-producing subordinates—such as the Angel of Death—must of necessity withdraw in the face of Satan’s invasion of the cells that house the DNA. If the Lightforce did not withdraw, Satan would have an inexhaustible supply of energy. Please recall that, on the turf of this battleground between the Lightforce and Satan, the forces they represent—positive and evil—are immaterial and thus undetectable. This dynamic interchange may take, in physical time, 30, 40, or more years. If left unchecked, the Lightforce will continue to remove itself from that point of invasion. The DNA is fueled by the Lightforce and as the presence of the Lightforce is gradually reduced, the DNA begins its gradual slowdown of repair and replacement. Whereas the DNA is the building block factory for building and rebuilding the body, it must receive its fuel and instructions from the Lightforce. This revelation and what follows is, verbatim, what the master has imparted together with his colleagues. The master injected, with a bit of laughter, “Why haven’t the scientists raised the question how do the cells know, when they are in an undifferentiated state of existence, which one becomes a heart and which one a lung? Why do any cells become what they become? Where does this instruction come from, no less important than the instruction to continue to

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divide? The answer,” stated the master, “is the intelligent-energy of the Lightforce.” “Now,” continued the master, “there will be those who naturally reject anything where evidence does not accompany the information. However,” stated the master, “the information that has been with us a very long time is no less than the startling revelations of the twentieth century. The mere fact that this information sees the light of day, the evidence, in this Age of Aquarius, will be forthcoming in less time than we believe imaginable. Please tell the readers just to have an open mind so the information can be taken in. Mankind has for too long kept a closed mind and thereby prevented the revelation of this wonderful age of new phenomena. When thoughts such as relativity and quantum mechanics are expressed verbally and in writing, it is only a matter of time before the empirical evidence appears. Following the publishing of the information contained in this work, the results shall appear before the year 2000. “What an incredible and exciting adventure. That we shall bear witness to these extraordinary developments, such as Rav Ashlag’s discussions and writings surrounding the ideas of relativity and quantum mechanics. And the buzz of immortality that started only a few short years ago already reverberates around the globe and right through the entire universe. We must therefore,” continued the master, “make every effort to take advantage of this cosmic period when the gates are open and the world is in the process of receiving a remarkable, unlimited infusion of the Lightforce to accelerate the revealing of the unrevealed secrets of Kabbalah.”

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You, the reader, are probably wondering how Satan establishes invasion points. Another interesting question that should be raised is how the Lightforce can have such incredible cloning powers? Can one imagine five billion people in the world, all having their cells divided into trillions of other cells, and every single activity is guided by the Lightforce of God? How can we, as human beings, begin to grasp such a phenomenon? The smartest, largest computer that man will ever perfect can never perform a calculation that is infinite, beyond numbers. And therefore, out of necessity, science will back off from the grandiose plan of the Grand Unified Lightforce and give us explanations that will lead us away from the truth and reality. Each piece of DNA is responsible for its own activity, and all the DNA in the world does not receive instructions from, nor is it controlled, by one unified agency known as the Lightforce. Its consciousness is, then, one of fragmentation. Now if scientists lack again the imagination of a true scientist, we shall hear their objections loud and clear. These objections will go contrary even to their own beliefs and acceptance of a Grand Unified Theory which substantiates what the master has just taught us. Furthermore, they will be satisfied in their stubbornness to remain with the unanswered question raised at the beginning of this chapter. However, the people no longer subscribe to this approach. The chaotic chapter of mankind’s battle with these negative forces is drawing to a close and there is no going back to the ways we have always done things. And because we now experience an extraordinary infusion of Lightforce energy into our cosmos, the paradoxical nature described in the Zohar is already in full force. With all the well-intentioned research in all fields of medicine taking place around the globe, cancer

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and a host of other medical illnesses and disabilities are still at an uncontrollable level without any permanent solution in sight. Furthermore, new viruses, unknown only a decade or two ago, have invaded the halls of medicine. This in addition to the returning illnesses and diseases thought to have become extinct only fifty years ago. The existing medical approach appears to have lost its battle in the fight to eliminate disease and thus finally bring about the well-being of Earth’s inhabitants. A total overhaul in as to the way we view illness has been long in coming. The abnormal infusion of the Lightforce is increasing the food supply of Satan. It is precisely for this reason, states the master, as to why the pain and suffering of afflicted persons is increasing despite the many pain killers. Pain killers do not heal. If left unchecked, Satan and his horde of viruses and bacteria will run rampant and the biological warfare we see only in the movies will unfortunately become the reality. Woe unto those who will live in this period. The other side of the coin is the Zohar’s guarantee that, at the very same time, there will be those of whom the Zohar says, praiseworthy will be those who are present in this time, for they shall know how to maintain control over the very same evil forces that can devour the others. The thousands of testimonials by those who know the secrets of the universe are the empirical evidence that has revealed itself within the past year or two. However, not to leave the reader with the impression that the paradoxical nature of “woe” and “praiseworthy” is limited to the health and welfare of the body itself, permit me to cite the confusion and frustration that exists within the financial community. Undoubtedly, this

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chaos will ultimately have an adverse effect on the world’s well-being. Prosperity or the lack of it has always resulted in the toppling of governments with a negative ability to resolve the well-being of their citizens, plus a host of other dire consequences that sometimes lead to bloodshed. Markets no longer possess the stability they once boasted. The up and down swings of the stock markets, the erratic fluctuation of currencies are what the master questioned me to share at the Rosh Hashanah International experience. He questioned me to present a picture of unpredictable forecasts even by the most noted economists. “We have come to a point in time,” said the master, “where the old rules of the economists will go out the window.” And out the window they went. Each passing day, with its confusing announcements, has found the financial markets reacting like faces at a ping-pong match. Look at the onlookers, the way their faces sway back and forth. What one man has to say affects the entire global community. Everyone simply takes a stab and a guess as to what decision to make without giving a moment’s thought to whether the decision should or should not have a bearing on the world economy. These decisions vary from meeting to meeting and may not be representative of the reality. Uncertainty is the password. It reminds me of the old flipping of a coin: Is it heads or tails? “For us,” said the master, “this is proof that the physical reality cannot and does not establish certainty or uncertainty in our times.” These decisions, like cancer, are first determined on that metaphysical or immaterial level. The control of how and what shall become manifested on the physical level can only be determined on the immaterial level of existence or consciousness, as this entire book has labored so exhaustively and extensively to demonstrate.

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The well-being of each and every individual will always be determined by the outcome of the battle between the Lightforce and Satan. Connecting with the Lightforce, increasing its firepower, is what shall determine our future. This will be completely dependent on whether Satan is defeated or remains as a viable force in his effort to rain chaos onto our lives. While the presence of the Lightforce seems to be a positive step in achieving control over our lives, let us also remember at the same time that control refers to one aspect and one aspect alone. Despite the extraordinary influence of the Lightforce in the cosmos during the Age of Aquarius and the opening of the Heavenly Gates, if Satan’s dominion in any particular area has not been erased, then Satan too has this same unusual opportunity to tap the infinite source of energy in order to fuel his effort to produce chaos. What seems to emerge from the master’s revealment is the idea that the stranglehold Satan maintains over the cells must be surgically (in a metaphysical, immaterial manner) removed. And this must be accomplished long before the disease or ailment makes its physical appearance. To achieve this feat does not involve destroying the cell or Satan’s clinging to the cell. To remove the Lightforce and its DNA from the cell will accomplish the task of releasing Satan’s stranglehold. When the Lightforce is surgically (metaphorically) removed from the cell or vessel which is the receptacle for the Lightforce, Satan immediately senses that his lifeline and connections to the Lightforce, the cell or any other vessel, are no longer a channel or carrier for the Lightforce, and he sees no further purpose in hanging out or remaining connected to this particular cell or cells. He will immediately go on his merry way looking for other prey.

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The aging process sets in only when cells or vessels have become adulterated, which in essence means that, by our negative activity and consciousness, we have created an affinity with negative entities. This is the cue for Satan’s entrance into our bodies, our business, and our environment. Once he establishes a beachhead, all hell breaks loose. The Lightforce withdraws so as not to fuel the entities with unlimited energy. With each withdrawal the entities become more aggressive, sensing that their fuel supply is running low, and they begin invading other cells. I would be remiss if I did not devote some ink to the physical realm of activity. The balance between cell, Lightforce, and Satan depends upon the dominion of the negative entities over the physical body’s repair or immune system. This battle on the physical level does not have any influence on the undifferentiated state prior to the appearance of an undifferentiated cell, as we mentioned previously. This physical area is where therapeutic or alternative medicine may or may not restore the cells or vessels to their former state of well-being. What science is prepared to accept at this critical juncture in advanced medicine is the idea that the immune system is the vital ingredient in the battle against all bodily diseases. Where they have been unsuccessful is in their attempt to deal with improving the system. The matter of strengthening the immune system has been eluding medical researchers ever since they first became aware of the body’s immune system. Needless to say, the secret codes on strengthening the immune system have been recorded by the kabbalists over the past two thousand years. Only recently has the meaning of these codes begun

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filtering into our consciousness. This matter, too, will be dealt with in a later book. I know this might be frustrating to many of the readers, who want the information now. However, if we have learned anything from the master’s teachings, let us recall how disease and illness emerge. Nothing on an immaterial level evolves instantly. So too the true real solutions to these maladies must also evolve in a process over time. It is only on our perceivable, familiar physical landscape where instant, anything prevails—instant pleasure, instant fulfillment, and fast, fast relief, as the advertisement says. However, this is fast, fast temporary relief, on this illusory level of reality; it is nothing of a permanent nature. Here today, gone tomorrow. Why? For the profound reason that the master mentioned just a little while back. Satan can only access the essence of our being when we have consciously created negative entities by negative thoughts and actions. That is why, until an adulteration occurs, we are and should remain healthy. Negativity and the physical reality are both cut from the same piece of cloth. The essence of both is the Desire to Receive, which is the stuff Satan is made of. Instant is temporary precisely because everything on the physical level is illusionary. What could be more temporary than something that is here now, gone tomorrow? We can now begin to understand why immortality is real and mortality is the illusion. Mortality implies something of a nonpermanent nature. Mortality dictates that a body will endure for a limited time only. It is here now, gone tomorrow. Immortality is closely associated with an eternal or permanent nature of things.

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How strange that even here in the common use of these two words Satan has kept us away from carefully examining them. When I mentioned earlier that immortality is real and mortality is illusionary, the first response would naturally have been, “What are all those cemeteries about and where can I observe the reality of immortality?” Why haven’t the words themselves aroused us to question and examine their implication as to what is illusory and what is not? Medical science is aware of the regenerative process that takes place early in life. There is a constant recreation of every facet of our physical body. We are not the same person physically seven years after birth. Somewhere from the age of twenty onward, this regeneration and rejuvenation seem to slow down and consequently our bodies begin to deteriorate. Kabbalistically we understand why the regenerating process should be in seven-year cycles. And if the process were to continue uninterruptedly, there is no apparent reason we should not live forever. We should maintain our youth and consequently from whence should aging emerge? Apparently when we get older. Hold it! Why are scientists using the word older? Why isn’t the body maintaining its youthful appearance by reverting back to when the body was only one day old? This is supposed to take place every seven years. I can understand that, from day one to age seven, the idea of “older” may have some relevance, although I shall soon bring to your attention how the word “older” is borrowed from the lexicon of Satan’s library. The very first step in achieving restoration and immortality is to discard Satan’s consciousness. Satan loves the word “older,” which for him and subsequently for us is when the “getting older process” is

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underway. We are approaching a day, period, or time when we are old. Now what does old mean? Oh, it means many things to us. For one, when you are old you already have one foot in the grave. An old person can expect to be more vulnerable to illness and other major discomforts. One must slow down, cannot be employed any longer, and a host of other negative meanings and connotations. One is almost mentally programmed and conditioned both internally and by society to expect this life to come to an end, albeit, hopefully, a finale without disastrous effects. Some even pray for early death when life becomes unbearable. The newest trend is to be assisted in dying and thus relieved from misery. How are we to remove these illusionary concepts from our consciousness inasmuch as death and aging have been around for quite some time? We begin by elevating our consciousness and achieving a heightened awareness. We stop taking everything for granted just for the reason that it is the way it’s always been. Question, and above all accumulate as much knowledge and information as possible on the matter that appears to be surrounded by chaos. Let us now return to the regenerating process that comes with birth. This should make us aware that there does exist a youth-rejuvenating program right there in our own backyard. Simply because we have not learned how to keep the system going full blast or we haven’t located the repair shop for whatever seems to be wrong is no reason to discard the automobile, or in our case to accept death as inevitable because we have not learned enough about how the system works and what is required when repairs are necessary. Another opportunity that presents itself in our search for the fountain of youth is the celebration of our birthday once a year. Those readers

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who have never been to a Centre birthday celebration are really missing something: life. For most of us, a birthday party is probably a reminder that we are “getting older” and another year has gone by. And, to put icing on the fear of old age, it is customary to blow out the lights (candles). I’m telling you, Satan has won the war hands down. We do the job for him in the continuing saga of bringing chaos to our lives. A birthday at The Centre is an opportunity to go back to the future. We are connecting to that moment that we took our own first breath of air. Time does not go forward. Time is heading forward to the moment when it all began. This is the kabbalistic interpretation of time. It is always circular. A seed of an apple tree moves forward in time and motion, only to wind up as the seed of the apple that now appears. A birthday reminds us that the origin of our strength and future development is upon us again. The Lightforce returns in full again as it appeared in our first moment of life. As we accumulate more physicality in our life’s journey, we also provide Satan with more room and situations on which to hang his hat. Recall that physicality is the familiarity and similarity with Satan. When we revert back to the day of our birth, which is what birth-day is really about. We go back to that moment with our consciousness, shed the illusionary physical reality of 365 days, and become a “reborn again human being.” Our consciousness has the ability over matter. We have the capability to shed the trappings of 365 physical days in which we may have added some more negativity and thus caused the withdrawal of the Lightforce by feeding Satan with negative activity that did not exist when the full impact of the Lightforce was present. We’re not getting older. We have just returned to becoming a new baby once again. If

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this is the way God created our physical bodies to return every seven years for rebirth, then is there any reason in the world why our minds cannot return to our early beginnings? We simply never learned to view birthdays (and much more besides) from any standpoint other than Satan’s program for death. (I have to admit that what I have just written in the last few pages is what the master just told me to write. It’s amazing. Never heard it before.) Here, we even questioned, that after the apple tree gave birth to an apple, must the tree appear to die, only to become rejuvenated again? Why must there be a whole new process of budding, the flower, and then again the apple? “The answer,” responded the master, “is the secret of Life itself.” The master began by reiterating the kabbalistic principle that the Lightforce cannot express itself unless it becomes concealed in a physical vessel or channel. The master provided as an example the necessity of electrical appliances. Since electrical current is immaterial, it requires a physical procedure for it to become revealed and manifested. Similarly, the soul without a body remains invisible and unnoticed. So, becoming encased is virtually essential for the Lightforce if it is to have an opportunity to share its beneficence. However, becoming clothed within the physical realm opened up the gates for Satan to access into and nourish himself from the Lightforce, providing Satan with the extra fuel to create global and internal chaos. So long as the Lightforce remained divorced from the physical realm there was no danger to mankind or the world. This connection with the physical realm was important in achieving the purpose of the creation

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of the world. The subject as to what the purpose of God’s creation of the world is not the subject of this book. That matter has already been dealt with in other works. There is only one source of energy in existence, the Lightforce of God. How the energy is put to use is left to man to choose. It may be utilized for productive purposes or for malicious negative purposes. Fundamentally, the path of the Lightforce is to bring beneficial rewards to mankind. However, when Satan gains access into any form of existence, whether it be man or animal, vegetation or inanimate object, then Satan has the opportunity to make use of the Lightforce that fuels that particular existence. Physical existence permits this access of Satan. Fully aware of the potential threat and danger to all of His creation, the Creator devised a strategic plan by which Satan could not exercise chaos of an unlimited, unrestricted nature. The plan, stated the master, was that every entity undergo death and rebirth. Death would mean that the Lightforce would completely withdraw and would disappear when a new physical cell or any other vessel reappeared. Consequently, after the cells had completed their cycle of complete development (as when the fruit of a fruit tree finally emerges), which scientists estimate takes approximately seven years, the Light then withdraws and Satan “lets go.” When Satan’s appetite (Desire to Receive for the Self Alone) cannot be fulfilled, then he makes a quick exit. Through this procedure, the cells or any other form of existence are then free to return to their origin in an undifferentiated state of existence. In their differentiated level of being, they are subject to an

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attachment with Satan. Satan has no affinity with the undifferentiated state of existence and therefore cannot latch onto or be bonded with the cell and thus can never establish a beachhead on which the hordes of negative entities can swarm aboard and begin their devastating onslaught, spreading throughout the human body or other state of existence. “What I am trying to say,” continued the master, “is that when the cell reaches the point of becoming a lung or a heart or what is considered a differentiated state, Satan and his armada of negative entities can then link up with the cell. There exists an affinity between Satan and a cell which has emerged as a differentiated heart or lung cell. When the cell is still in an undifferentiated state, in this potential state of existence, Satan does not have the capability to bond with the cell. In a potential state the cell is beyond the grasp of negative entities.” This is in contrast to the differentiated cell of a lung or heart, which has a mature consciousness of Desire to Receive, inasmuch as the differentiated heart or lung requires the full complement of nutrients and whatever else is necessary for it to fulfill its task. However, before the cell becomes a designated part of the body, there is not yet an identified purpose in its existing stage and consequently its own Desire to Receive has not as yet become manifested. Therefore, in the lung or heart stage, Satan latches on and binds himself to the lung or heart in search of additional nourishment. Satan and all bearers of chaos, although fueled by the Lightforce of God, receive only a limited infusion just to be kept alive. Their energy supply can only sustain them, without any additional fuel to supply or exert their trade of chaos. It is only when they have penetrated the

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outer protective coating of a cell, or made contact with the Lightforce or DNA structure, that Satan is now sufficiently charged to begin his task of raining down chaos on the cell and devouring all the energy locked within its Lightforce-DNA. Once this contact with the DNA is established, the Lightforce must of necessity withdraw. This only angers Satan further and triggers an aggressiveness to search for more nourishment to fill his insatiable desire. So once Satan has made inroads into a body, where and when this will end is anyone’s guess. Once given the opportunity and access, the entire body is his domain. Wherever openings have occurred, Satan and his armada are prepared at a moment’s notice to spring forth and begin their journey as the Angels of Death. “What has caused these openings to appear?” I questioned the master. “Negative activity,” responded the master. “When an action with conscious thought affects another human being or violation of the universal laws and principle has come to pass, then the person who is responsible for this negativity increases his space with negative entities he alone created for himself. The natural, birth-given protective shield becomes vulnerable to these newly created negative entities.” “But,” I questioned the master, “why cannot this protective shield keep out these newly formed entities as it successfully keeps at bay the normal attraction of Satan and whatever other entities? Just as a newborn child’s protective shield thwarts the negative energies of bacteria and prevent them from causing harm, why can’t these negative energies remain harmless?

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Albeit they came about as a result of the person’s negative activity, still remain harmless? And here the master reminded me of a prior conversation in which he stated that, because these negative entities were of the individual’s own making, they had access whenever they desired. Consequently, the protective shield viewing the access code of these entities permitted entry to them, and once the door opened, it was kept open to permit other negative entities to enter, although these were not of the individual’s own creation. Once the floodgates were opened, there was no holding anyone back. Now in a normal situation, following its final stage of development, if the cell’s Lightforce-DNA remained intact, Satan could invade the cell or tree. However, as nature would have it, at that point in time, the Lightforce-DNA, having fulfilled its mission to bring about the finished product (cell or fruit), then withdraws, leaving the cell without any enticement for Satan to remain. Once Satan departs, the cell can return to its undifferentiated state of existence, to meet up again with its own particular DNA and start the seven-year cycle all over again. The reason Satan could invade the cell after it completed its task continued the master, is that the protective shield remains active when there is an ongoing productive stage to achieve before reaching the final state—the fruit in the case of a tree or, in a cell, the differentiated state of a limb or organ. However, once the final stage of the process has been reached, then the protective shield has no purpose to be activated. Hence Satan could then invade the cell. I don’t know about you, my readers, but the information just revealed by the master concerning the secrets of life seems so heavy. I’m just

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wondering how many of us really grasp the full implication of this heretofore unrevealed information. One question that immediately came to mind was the matter of the cell after the Lightforce-DNA withdrew. What happens next? It seems from what I heard that the cell returns back to being an undifferentiated cell. Well, then what happens to the heart or lung? After each interval of seven years, do our lungs or heart disappear until the process heats up again? Do we all return back to a fetus level before the heart or lung emerges again? What is happening while in between the time when not only the lung and heart but the entire body is undergoing this phenomenon? Do we actually disappear and reappear at a later date? This last supposition seems hardly plausible in light of the reality that life is a continuum without any interruptions. The master heard our dilemma and this was the incredible but beautiful response: “The Zohar realized that, in order to face the unknowable, it would be necessary to ascertain the cause of these unknowables, an undertaking that is extremely difficult and that contemporary physics cannot cope with. Yet the ancient kabbalists held the key to its understanding, as the following data will indicate. “Scriptures tell us that Elijah the Prophet flew straight to heaven. He did not undergo a funeral with his body interred in the Earth. The Zohar in a discussion concerning this event, interprets this event as indicating that Elijah never died. Elijah’s return to the physical realm is noted by two events. The first is the requirement of Elijah’s presence at each and every circumcision for it to be completely beneficial. Forgetting to openly and verbally invite Elijah is considered a serious failure, enough to affect the entire outcome of the circumcision. Another instance where Elijah is extended an invitation is the Passover Seder festivity. At

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every gathering on Passover Eve, a cup of wine is prepared specifically for Elijah. Tradition has it that Elijah visits each and every home and takes a sip of wine. A real cloning job if ever there was one. “Elijah had two bodies, states the Zohar: one in which he appeared on Earth and another in which he appeared among the celestial angels.” “Sounds just like a story about the astronauts,” I chimed in. “They too have a specially prepared suit of clothes, albeit astronauts have only one body, and in the case of Elijah, he had two bodies.” “What the Zohar reveals for us,” continued the master, “is a duality that exists in the human body. There is the outer or external body that we are all familiar with. The other body can only be observed and revealed to those individuals with an elevated state of consciousness, such as Elijah, who appeared among celestial angels in this other body. “This dramatic Zohar,” said the master, “will explain away all of the mysteries surrounding immortality—restoration in general and the questions you recently raised. The cells of that second body which undergo a rejuvenation do indeed return back to an undifferentiated state of existence. There remains another, translucent kind of body that Satan cannot bond with. This body is constantly present and sustains the individual at all times and more specifically when the second body undergoes a transformation from differentiated cells to undifferentiated ones. “When the outer body returns for its rejuvenation or goes back to the embryonic state of existence, the eternal body, the translucent one that in a righteous person does not decompose in the grave and is

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instrumental in keeping the outer body whole, supports the ongoing internal life system. While this transformation is taking place, neither the individual nor the observer notice any change going on. It is so subtle that not even Satan understands the Creator’s action here and assumes that he is still bonded to the same cell which in actuality has momentarily returned for a turning back of its clock and has become a ‘reborn cell again.’ “This is one of those moments when the master magician, Satan, has a beautiful illusionary trick played on him by the Creator Himself. The heart and lung of the internal translucent body maintain and keep the ‘homefires burning,’ keeping the ‘fort’ intact while body two has gone for its seven-year return to the fountain of youth.” This was really exciting. For the very first time I understood why immortality is the real thing and mortality is what appears to be the essence of reality. The first body never dies but, unfortunately for most of us, since we do not see it, it doesn’t exist. You know, the old Missourian theory. Yet, paradoxically the second body everyone sees and observes is precisely the one that all admit will die. Here today and gone tomorrow. Certainly fits the illusionary theory. Satan has us all believing there is nothing out there except what we can feel and touch, despite the fact that these same feel and touch things are here today and gone tomorrow. With this latest revelation, we can now focus on all the questions that were raised at the beginning of this chapter. First and foremost, why doesn’t the DNA reproduce new cells each seven years so that we can maintain our youth and subsequently enjoy the benefit of immortality? This does happen with nails and hair. The answer is

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rather a simple one. Since the world’s consciousness is bound to the belief in mortality, we cannot remove the hold Satan retains over those very same cells. They are prisoners of Satan and cannot therefore return back to an embryonic state of rejuvenation. Thus the aging process occurs precisely because of the fact that Lightforce-DNA is required to withdraw further and further as Satan continues his unrestricted, unimpeded march across our bodies. The aging problems remain so long as we do not apply the newly revealed secrets of the universe which can effect a withdrawal by Satan from the human battlefield. The Lightforce-DNA is ever-present to fire up newly rejuvenated undifferentiated cells. The Lightforce-DNA, while it is always there in our bodies and never leaves even after so-called death, however, must also live by the universal laws of “sharing and no coercion nor imposing beneficence upon a recipient” so long as the recipient is either not receptive or has opted for something else. Then the Lightforce-DNA must restrict or withdraw or withhold its Desire to Share. This universal law, claimed the master, is the basic underlying cause of all chaos in whatever area chaos may occur. In regards to the rejuvenation of new cells by a person choosing to permit his consciousness the ill-affordable luxury of negative-evil thoughts which result in the harm of others, this person, without realizing the implications of his thoughts and actions, has opted for negative entities which the person him/herself has invited and called into their most private domain, their own bodies. The person has, him/herself broken the natural healing-protective shield surrounding his/her body and thus paved the way for Satan to make his grand entrance through the very door we opened for him. Once gaining entrance, the host of other Satan subordinates, those whose specialties are

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heart, lung, and all other parts of our bodies, are all invited to participate in the festivities of lunch, dinner, and breakfast, all day and all night, all year, so long as the food lasts. The food, unfortunately, is our bodies, our businesses, and our social and family environments. The food, of course, will only last as long as the body does. Unfortunately the body dies. Mortality is a dirty trick played upon Satan and unfortunately on all those that are left behind. Satan and his armada are not prepared for this abrupt ending. Whether they devour one cell or the entire body, which results in death, Satan is disappointed about the food running out. After one cell, Satan must go after another and another until he suddenly finds himself running out of cells. And then he has a rude awakening that in his greed, his Desire to Receive for the Self Alone, he has only caused damage to himself, just as humans do when their negative consciousness and their Desire to Receive for the Self Alone makes them decide to harm others. But God, where are you when I needed you most? God is right here. Unfortunately, we have placed the shackles of restriction on our Lightforce-DNA when we opted for negativity, we then kind of said to our DNA, “Look here, I’m not into the sharing idea like you, LightforceDNA. Right now, I’ve got to do my, and only my, thing and that is to hurt so I can satisfy my anger (or other negative emotion). I’ve decided consciously (or unconsciously) to follow the path and rules of Satan. Look, hang out. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have time for you and some sharing.” What emerges from all this, said the Master and his companions, is that we and we alone are responsible for our chaos, pain, and

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suffering. It becomes quite obvious that refraining or restricting ourselves from negative consciousness and negative activity is not merely a question of morals and ethics. What it comes right down to is that it simply isn’t advisable. In fact, “negative thoughts and activities have been determined to be harmful to our health and may cause mortality.” The reader might be wondering as to why knowledge is so essential to our well-being at every point in the journey through life’s experiences. Well, strange as it may sound to most of us, since we probably never heard it before, knowledge is an integral part of the therapeutic remedies that have been considered in this book in our quest for immortality. Knowledge is not as most believe, a means to an end. Knowledge is by and within itself an end or an important link in the chain towards achieving the ultimate goal. Without knowledge, the goal or the fulfillment of a desire cannot be completely realized. To understand the nature of the physical world requires that we make connections with the metaphysical realm of existence. The reader may wonder why this is necessary and furthermore how one goes about making these connections. Unfortunately, what I have proposed is an idea that all of us are actually involved with despite our first reaction to the metaphysical as a realm beyond. This is one of the main purposes of Kabbalah, which is to peel away the millenniums-old layers of illusion so that we may be in touch with the real, internal realm of the Lightforce-DNA. Let us touch upon a few of those illusionary stimuli that we are comfortable and also familiar with. Knowledge, true knowledge leads us to understand that what is perceived by us may in actuality be

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considered reality but may essentially be the false impression of the illusionary world. The Zohar compares the death of the Patriarch Jacob to the sun gliding into the nightfall. The conventional idea that most of us have concerning the setting of the sun is based on the physical rotation of the Earth. This is based only on our observation of the relationship between the sun and earth. The Zohar, however, does not agree with the standard explanation that our Earth obstructs the light of the sun and therefore nightfall descends upon us. Is the Zohar attempting to tell us that nightfall is an illusion? Are we to understand that when we watch the beautiful setting of the sun over the horizon, that what we see isn’t real? The Zohar is not saying anything of the sort. What the knowledge of the Zohar provides us with is the connection to truth so that we shall not be caught up in the illusory world of Satan. What does this exactly mean? If we become caught up in the preeminence and dominant role of the physical, material world, then mankind has surrendered to the consciousness of chaos and Satan, with little chance to defeat the idea of mortality and chaos and achieve immortality. It is that simple and clear. If what I have just said is still not clear, then permit me to repeat the theme that weaves through this entire book. The physical, illusionary reality realm can never be considered a cause of things we observe. There is no disagreement as to what has been seen. Science says that what you see is reality, but not because your eyes see it. The eyes are not the cause of what you see. The eyes, being physical, cannot and do not determine what you see. What you believe or what is in your consciousness is why and what

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you see. Two people observing the same accident can disagree on whom to blame for the accident despite their equal distance and same position from the accident. The reasons for their opposite observation is possibly connected to their feelings for the particular automobiles involved. One sees their beloved Ford as a hulk of a wreck and is angry and blames the driver of the other automobile, whereas the other observer sees their favorite automobile as a victim of the Ford owner’s careless driving. What is in consciousness determines outcome. The cause begins by and within the immaterial consciousness realm. For the kabbalist and the student trained in the study of Kabbalah, the sun did not disappear in the evening. Its disappearance is not related to its physical appearance. The sun, states the Zohar, at an appointed time (what we call sunset) discontinues its intrinsic characteristic of sharing beneficence. The night is nothing more than the sun’s desire (consciousness) to discontinue shedding its light on Earth and now the moon has the opportunity to act as a conduit of light. Conventional interpretation and Zohar do not disagree as to whether the sun is shining. It does not shine at nightfall. What the Zohar is trying to impress us with is the significance of searching out the real reason, which will always reflect the immaterial, non-physical realm of reality. For too long, humankind and scientist alike have looked to the physical world for reasons, statistics, and all the available data that this physical realm can provide us with. What the Zohar is stating is that we shall never find complete answers on this physical level. We must reach out to the conscious, immaterial level where reality is never illusionary.

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“But there is something more important that the Zohar wishes to share with us,” remarked the master. “The fact that we are being denied vital information when we rely purely and solely on the physical facts available, which we can all agree are usually found wanting, is only a partial reason for our chaos. Ask the weatherman. With all the modern technology available that can now scan via satellites for accurate weather forecasting, there is much to be desired when we are told today is sunny and breezy, leave your umbrella at home, and sure enough we enjoy a thunderstorm and get all wet. “What is more damaging and detrimental (to the joy and pleasure of Satan) is the fact that we have become so far removed from the realm of immaterial, consciousness thinking, relying on what we can physically see, that we have lost the significance of that realm. We no longer depend on the power of the mind and consciousness. It is no wonder that chaos and Satan, the perpetrator of chaos, prefer that we remain unconscious of our consciousness. The proof is in the pudding. Millenniums of chaos and no relief in sight. No control over the physical realm, such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, and floods, which are all quite proof positive that the physical realm controls us and we are helpless to do anything about it. Go ahead! Stop an earthquake or flooding. Let me see you do it. That’s real capitulation.” Not so, says the Zohar. We can control all of these so called “natural disasters.” But first we must know why they occur in the first place. And secondly how we can control and prevent these disasters from happening. I hear you, my reader. Now I’ve gone over the deep end. Now, after coming this far in the book, you have your doubts. What I’ve written from my master sounds okay until now. But now I’ve gone

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too far with this. Controlling and preventing disasters. Preposterous! You’ll never get me to believe this one. Well, since you’ve come all this way, and I’m about to complete this part of the story, I’m going to let you have it with both barrels. How do you know you cannot control disasters? Have you ever tried it? Oh! You are afraid about what people might think of you. Or better still, someone might just go ahead and order the paddy wagon with a spare strait-jacket and drive you to the loony farm. How could you believe it? It’s just too good to be true. That’s right. I do not expect all of my readers to expect things that are too good. Another question. Why and how did you come to the conclusion that the origin and source of natural disasters is God? When was the last time you saw God? But what seems more strange is that, when it comes to disasters which seem beyond our control, we attribute them to God, an immaterial, non-physical entity. This path to the realm of the metaphysical reality, this is okay. What about the expressions of “lucky” or “unlucky”? On what physical data do we base our conclusions? Certainly these two terms do not relate to our known physical realm. But I would presume that these expressions are based upon another example of how “out of control” we really are. If one is a victim, then the reflection is one which he/she has been “unlucky.” If we are counted among the survivors, then we will describe ourselves as being “lucky.” Notice how the preceding conversation specifically leaves out any reference to what we think, unless we’re concerned with chaos, disaster, or being—for no obvious reason—“lucky.” Can’t you see

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the master magician at work? He never sleeps, even when we do. I’m naturally referring to Satan. He’s done an incredible job on mankind. Makes us think about God when things are bad, so as to keep us away from the truth about “mind over matter,” and that includes earthquakes. Satan might even be in deep trouble if we didn’t blame God. Anything and everything to keep us away from the true reality—consciousness. Well, I’m going to close this chapter and book by assuring you and all of us that the sooner we elevate our consciousness to its rightful place in the scheme of things, we shall have traveled 99% of the road to the elimination of chaos and the ultimate goal of our dreams, immortality. As a side note, we have blocked the consciousness of Satan from bringing about the “Big One” in California. The Zohar provided us with the consciousness behind the meaning and reason why earthquakes come about. Oh, I know all about the physical reasons how earthquakes come about. However, knowing how it happens doesn’t really interest me. I want the real reasons behind the reality, which the Zohar has taught us must come from the metaphysical, immaterial realm. Then and only then can we come to a state where mankind can put a stop to all the chaos that presently prevails. Once we have achieved this level of consciousness, then the remaining 1% knowledge of how to prevent Satan from carrying out the diabolical plans he’s stored up for mankind—the knowledge how to once and for all remove him from our life—will be forthcoming. The knowledge of how to implement “mind over matter” has already begun to flow into our universe. This is the least of our problems. The phenomenal

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spread of kabbalistic knowledge in this century far exceeds the growth over the past two millenniums. The area in which Satan still maintains a firm control over mankind is his dominion over their consciousness. With the information contained in this book, hopefully mankind will have taken a giant leap forward towards the ultimate dream of peace on earth and goodwill towards our fellow man. A dream that consciousness can bring about. God bless us all.