Religions Go With The Childhood Of Mankind
Question: From the Kabbalists’ point of view, what is the role of religion and other practices in the modern world?
Answer: Religions originated from the concealment of the upper world from us. Everything is concealed from us: the present, the future, what will happen tomorrow, what happened before our life, and what will happen after it. Religion is based on the lack of knowledge, on faith in something.
Kabbalah has nothing to do with it. It is a science. It absolutely does not operate with the notion of faith. It is a method of developing an additional possibility to perceive the world that surrounds us. But at the same time, Kabbalah expresses its opinion on events around the world, the reason for the development of beliefs, convictions, and religions.
In our world there is a total of 3,800 different methods, convictions, beliefs, religious practices, and so on. They appeared because we do not know what is happening and we exist in an unpredictable world. We do not see a connection between us. We do not see the reasons behind the events or what is about to happen to us around the corner. We do not know anything.
This is why people develop a need to somehow find out, or if that’s impossible, then to at least protect themselves, get some kind of insurance, a guarantee, if possible. And here arises the possibility for such religious methods. Essentially, these are psychological practices that provide us with comfort.
Naturally, there will not be a place for religions once we reveal the upper world. And this is why religions usually are not very fond of Kabbalah, the real Kabbalah, which works as a science because it reveals the things that were unknown to people.
But on the other hand, religions are necessary. They have appeared in us and exist in human society so that people would develop, so that they would think that something bigger and higher exists. Religion is a preliminary action, a preparatory stage, to begin to enter the upper world. For this reason, after several thousand years of different religious practices, there comes the time when people develop the need for an actual understanding of the world because nature simply does not leave them any other possibility.
Right now we are entering such a degree of resistance of nature that it will obligate us to attain it. We will find ourselves in such an unpredictable state, where we will not know what will be happening the very next moment. It is impossible to exist this way. We see that we are already destroying the family unit, we do not want to have children. Humanity is already moving towards a state where there will be nothing but drugs to get away from reality.
In other words, we are coming to a state where we must see the entire picture. Only then will we have the energy to have a reason to live, create, exist. Today we do not have a bright tomorrow of this kind. We have come to a level which is followed by nothing else but the revelation of the next degree, the next dimension.
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From Lesson 3 in Moscow 1/16/2011
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Now that it is clear that the religion only tryied to help people and finally where the people who had to overcome the big problems,and they succeded,is`nt the time for us to consciusly adhere to the Nature`Law?
So you can’t be speaking of Judaism because this in its form directly to the people of the tribes of Yakov from the Creator is unlike Religions which all came from an individual and transmitted to others. The TaNaK is also the origin of which all wisdom and SOD comes from. Shalom. Kabbala was not considered a science by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai or by the ARI It is treated as a deeper relationship with the Creator exactly like Rabbi Yahshua of the first century had and which was so misunderstood by many which caused an apostate religion to emerge after people of no attainment formed it. Shalom.