Liked on YouTube: Who is Metatron? The Origins of the Angel from the 3rd Book of Enoch - Sefer Hekhalot Mysticism https://buff.ly/3YF0cH6 Metatron is probably the most powerful and mysterious Angel in Jewish lore. But what are the origins of this being known as the "Lesser Yah…
Metatron is probably the most powerful and mysterious Angel in Jewish lore. But what are the origins of this being known as the "Lesser Yahweh (יהוה הקתן)" ...
the problem with Christian Gnosticism is that it is not gnostic enough, and Platonic and / or Christian way too much. the problem with Jewish "Gnosticism" (Hekhalot, Kabbalah) is that it is not Advaita enough, and Monotheistic and / or Neoplatonic way too much...
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I follow a Holistic Magick practice - no theology - removed the Gnostic duality. Don't use Solomonic. Angelic is all Sephirothic or Hekhalot. Rarely do formal CM anymore. More Ceremonial Witch now, animistic. Organic evolution after removing the dualist paradigm.
Metatron was the token trans of the Hekhalot.
Today’s writing is me trying to work through Sefer Hekhalot and b. Hagigah 15a and write about “heresy,” questions of theodicy, and notions of divine imperium.
Oh can't believe I never spotted that tank name. It's such a shame Merkava or Hekhalot literature & mysticism is abused this way, to carry out war crimes using the name of a technique that's meant to elevate the soul to the Heavens.
This study situates the Hekhalot adjurations in the context of late antique Jewish and Greco-Egyptian ritual literature and analyzes them as performances."
mysticism, stemming from Palestine and Babylonia in the fourth-eighth centuries C.E. The Hekhalot incantations are elaborate ritual performances to bring down high angels from heaven to teach celestial mysteries, to learn Torah, to answer questions in dreams, to heal illness, or