Liars are those who say that idealism is either inherent or a result of education. Rather, it is a direct result of religion. As long as religion did not sufficiently expand throughout the world, the entire world was barbaric, without an ounce of conscientiousness.

Only after servants of the Creator expanded did the posterity of the agnostics become idealists. Thus, the idealist is only so because of his ancestry’s commandment. However, it is an orphaned commandment, meaning without a commander (Baal HaSulam, “The Writings of the Last Generation“).

Initially, Baal HaSulam speaks about the spread of primitive idol worship in the world where people worshipped trees, stones, and the sun. Much later, the three major world religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) emerged; all of which arose from Kabbalah. If it weren’t for Kabbalah, from which all of its adherents, with the exception of a few, rolled down the hill and began to convert it into ordinary earthly practices, then today there would be neither the three main or all other religions.

Question: So when Baal HaSulam speaks about religion, does he mean the one that existed before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Answer: The Torah states that before the emergence of Kabbalah in ancient Babylon, there were various beliefs; each person worshipped his own family idol, and this was purely a psychological practice.

Later, King Nimrod wished to unite all the tribes that inhabited the state (the so-called seventy nations of the world) into one nation. For this, he needed something unifying, a single supreme spiritual image.

This is what Abraham, a resident of Babylon, began to work on. Abraham’s father, Terah, not only worshiped idols but also manufactured and sold idols. Abraham, unlike Terah, came under the influence of King Nimrod and understood that a single force was needed to unite people since egoism was growing, and dividing and increasingly alienating them.

To create a state and a single nation, a consolidating force was required. Nimrod stood for state authority, while Abraham fulfilled these functions as a spiritual priest.

But when Abraham began to develop the concept of a single spiritual creation and a supreme force that would govern everything, he came to the conclusion that this force already existed. He discovered it by trying to harmonize the many totems to one common source.

By generalizing this idea and turning all the deities into a single force, he understood that it has no image. It is so universal that it is devoid of any form.

Thus, the single idol they wanted to create suddenly “came to life” and became real. After discovering that one good force of nature exists that contains everything, unites everything, generalizes everything, and governs everything, Abraham began to teach this to the people.

This suited Nimrod because now he was the single ruler, king, and authority on earth, while God was in heaven. Practically all rulers used this model up until our time.

But Abraham gradually began to annul Nimrod’s authority: “Who is he? We must worship the Creator and deal directly with Him.” A strong confrontation arose between him and Nimrod, and Abraham was forced to leave Babylon with his followers who understood him and agreed with him.

Those who had not yet reached this understanding and wished for a normal, secure, egoistic existence decided to remain with Nimrod. But they could not do so because without the single unifying force that Abraham preached, egoism began to separate them, divide them, and set them against one another.

They realized that they had to disperse, otherwise they would destroy each other in an internecine war. This was a rational decision. Thus, they scattered throughout the world with their idols, while the servants of the Creator left with Abraham.

Question: What did Abraham and his like-minded followers teach? Was it the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Yes, a method for uniting people, for enabling them to rise to the level of the Creator.

Question: Do Kabbalists call this a religion?

Answer: In principle, what Abraham revealed is called Daat (“religion”).

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that the meaning of the one true religion is the attainment of the single force of nature that governs everything. A person can reveal this force if he follows the correct path toward its attainment, through which he acquires absolute knowledge of all the laws of reality.

Baal HaSulam does not pay attention to anything else.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 7/3/17

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