From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 07:36:36 EDT
In a message dated 10/6/03 9:43:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rjschn39@bellsouth.net writes:
> But the aim of the Holy Spirit is that we should understand that there have
> been woven into the visible narrative
> truths that, if pondered and understood inwardly, bring forth a law useful
> to men and worthy of God."
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> Bob Schneider
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Bob's quote is remarkably like this:
The contributors to the Zohar (a Kabbalist work) presented their ideas in the
most obscure and illogical way - as a simple commentary on the 5 books of
Moses. It is important then to understand how they understood the
interpretation of the sacred scriptures, and how they succeeded in using Biblical
commentary as a support at the very moment that they deviated most from the plain
sense of the Bible. for this is their method of interpretation, and generally
speaking, symbolic mysticism has no other basis. In the Kabbalist's own words:
"woe to the man who sees nothing but simple stories and ordinary words in
the Law... Every word of the Law holds an exalted meaning and a sublime
mystery.
The recitals of the Law are the vestment of the Law. woe to him who takes the
vestment for the Law itself! david had this in mind when he said,"Open thou
my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of the Law. [i.e., what is
hidden under the cloak of the Law - Ps. 119:18]
from adolphe franck's the Kabbalah, the religious philosophy of the Hebrews
from the chapter The allegorical Method of the zohar.
rich faussette
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