Kabbalah, Tsimtsum and Esoteric Eyes in Art and Movies
Kabballa and Hasidic Judaism are so closely aligned that you can make a case that one is concealed and one revealed but they are just twins on different parts. The esoteric and open parts of Jewish mysticism are hidden in overcomplicated exposition but the basic concepts aren’t as prohibitive when one digs them out of this thicket of mystery.
Tzimtzum, the renaissance codec and fruity faces
A topic that fascinates many is the strange consistencies within Biblical art that seem to make little sense. Most common but probably noticed least are the eyes in the background watching all that transpires via the methods used overtly by Hyronimous Bosch and Giuseppe Arcimboldo but used more subtly in renaissance Biblical art. These subiminal images appear in everything from Masonic boards to paintings of Noahs Arc. This is no great secret at this point and whether from Dan Browns Da Vinci hints or just observation, it’s revealed but the meaning is still very much concealed. The florentine codecs are intentionally complex and strange so as to keep the true meaning buried within red herring and complexity.
Tsimtsum: The Revel and conceal
One very dense topic within Hasidic Judaism is “Tzimtzum/Tsimtsum” which is only quickly explained as something revealed and then concealed. Another phrase used is “Presence Through Absence”. Allowing the Ein Soph (Gods eternal light that cannot be comprehended by man) to conflate and then take presence quietly by way of symbolic presence is the eventual shorthanded explanation you get to and while it’s buried under over explained metaphors for the most part, it is actually pretty complex.
Cosmic Enochian Kabballa astral projection remote viewing
It’s also speculated that astral projection by Qaballists utilises objects that appear facelike as an almost adoptive set of eyes. The information on this is as sparse as concrete explanations of the Kabballist texts like the Zohar.
Below is a quote from http://www.myjewishlearning.com. Note the subtle hints towards, eyes, nose and mouth and the anthropomorphic face.
“Primordial Man”
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Following this, a third element, a ray from God’s hidden essence (Ein Sof) entered the empty space and acted upon the existing mixture of reshimu and Din. This illuminating ray serves as a permanent link between Ein Sof and the empty space. The form of the divine produced by this first ray of light is termed the “Primordial Man” (Adam Qadmon). The latter is described with vivid anthropomorphic detail.
The lights shining from Adam Qadmon‘s “ears,” “nose,” and “mouth” constituted a collective or perfectly unified structure. But the light issuing from the “eyes” emanated in a different manner. They were atomized or separated into different sefirot so as to require their containment in special vessels or qelim.
The esoteric teaching of Hasidic Judaism points towards the presence of God or G-d as they put it, through hidden anthropomorphic faces.
Owl pictures, baroque swirls making up the horns of the ram and other subliminal images of eyes are certainly very common within the type of material you might suspect such things would appear. Below are examples from a wide range of sources that are possibly occult, tarot or Tsimtsum.
A Ram Hidden in Thicket
Reading the Old Testament using the esoteric teachings of Judaism and many stories of the patriarchs are thrown into a different light. These truths are hard earned but make a great deal of sense when considered that Jesus Christ came and took aim at one set of people. The Jews and their Pharisees.
While these aren’t particularly easy truths and many Christians are likely to recoil touting “Gods chosen people” and pointing the very truth of Jesus, I say that they simply amplify what he did. He came as one of them and ended the line that had become poisoned over and over by worshiping brass snakes, Baal or Moloch and indulged widespread ritual sacrificing of children on many separate occasions.
The Ram in Thicket and the doctrine of angels has been abused and misused by many different groups and even today new age tarot, a coded version of cryptic Judaism and Kabbala misuse this doctrine.
But the light issuing from the “eyes” emanated in a different manner
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Interesting post and especially an impressive collection of images! I’m very visual, so enjoyed looking at them.
As for the text of your article, it suggests and hints at many things but doesn’t really flesh them out. I don’t know much at all about Kabbalah. I gather that is a form of the occult as practiced in certain historical parts of Judaism. I guess every large community of people going to have their own occult subculture that crops up.
But I wonder whether Kabbalism is truly, necessarily tied to orthodox Jewish documents or doctrine. Saying there is a necessary link kind of strikes me as similar to painting all Christians as snake handlers. Or perhaps more like the charge leveled against Christians that the ceremony of communion involves literal human sacrifice and blood-drinking.
I have also heard through the grapevine that historically, anti-Semitic movements have been driven by the belief (or have utilized the charge) that all Jews are secretly, deeply involved in the occult. Do you have any posts that make a distinction between Jewish flavors of occultism and mainstream, orthodox, or historical Judaism? And do you, anywhere on your blog, denounce anti-Semitism? I’d kind of like to follow you, but I feel like I need to find out more first.
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Hi Jennifer, I do contend that Kabbala is at its core the spiritualism that guides almost all witchcraft but as far as I can see it’s Hasidic Judaism that’s the esoteric reading of the old scriptures.
Anti-semitism is awful as is all racism. I have a huge amount of respect for the Jewish people and the battle they fight. What I tend to focus on with this blog is occultism hidden within religion and that tends to be area based. Kabbalah is actually bigger numberwise in New York and Hollywood than with Hasidic Judaism and I cover both Greenwitch Village and Hollywood on the same topic. I have a series on Philippines as I have spent some time there and due to the colonisation their folklore and pagan practices is synchronised with Christianity. Similarly alot of African nations which I intend to do some articles on soon.
I tend not to pick moral positions and just throw out the info out there. As the blog has developed I have tried to steer away from politicising it though. Pretty much every culture and country has hidden ancient esotericism floating about just below the surface.
I know what you mean about fleshing out a centralised point with the info but on some topics it’s impossible. You have info that’s vague can be drawn together for truths but they are large and in many ways hard to literalise. If I could, I would 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to read and I appreciate the concern.
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Thanks, that is what I needed to hear.
It’s interesting that you have spent some time in the Philippines. I spent some time in Indonesia and I recognized some of the images in this post as similar to art that I’ve seen in Bali.
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Sorry for the late reply, I did spend some time there. Cool place. Bali, do they have spirit houses there?
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Um, probably. They have statues, idols, small temples and tiny votive baskets literally everywhere. I think some tiny houses may have been involved but can’t now remember. Bali certainly has way more than its fair share of hugely skilled artists, sculptors, and wood carvers.
A traditional Balinese housing complex has walls around it, various rooms for the family, and a family temple. All the doors and other features have to be oriented in certain directions and each part of the complex is conceived of as corresponding to a part of the human body.
I see you have added some new images to this post since my last visit.
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Creepy!
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For many years..this is the truth I have been seeking.
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What does it say to you Lawrence?
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I’m an ordinary, observant Orthodox Jew who just happened to come across this post while researching a little deep into the web on Kabbalah. From my understanding of the Torah and Zohar, Kabbalah flat out proves that the Holy book of the Torah is not a man-made book. It’s the wisdom that explains how/why the 613 Mitzvot of the Torah function. I’m not familiar with the whole witchcraft/freemasonry involvement with Kabbalah, but I heard that there are some who have exploited the wisdom of Torah/Kabbalah to fulfill their own evil agendas. I wonder how it’s all connected.
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