It is only in the realm of something that opposites exist and have contradictory meaning. Only in creation can we perceive of a Creator and creation. Yet, outside of creation, where all is nothing, i.e. Ayn, all opposites are integrated. Diversity is, therefore, simply an illusion. Thus even the place of creation (the triangle on the right) is as much in the Ayn Sof as everything else.

The unchanging Ayn is still unchanged by all that exists in the universe, which exists within it. For as far as creation expands outward, its inevitable conclusion is to contract inwards back into the Ayn Sof. In essence, creation is nothing more than a Divine "breath". Exhale and there is creation. Inhale and all returns within. Even the concepts of "in" and out" are superfluous and imaginary at the level of Ayn.

Transformational Meditation
In Kabalistic meditation we are taught to travel in our minds until we reach the level of Ayn, to merge with our Creator in the primordial nothingness. Now, if this were accomplished literally, one would cease to exist. This is why we use the terminology, "travel in the mind". The procedure for this requires of the practitioner to educate him/herself as to the inner functions of his own mind.

First, one learns to control one's emotions and to recognize them as tools for moving from one thought to another. Never are we to succumb to emotion, for this will lead one off the path and outside of the mind. It is not an easy task, to bridle the passions. Instructions in this matter are best outlined in Sefer Yetzirah, chapter one.

Once emotions are harnessed they become the servant of the mind, as the head is above the heart. Using the power of mind the practitioner educates himself about the ways of the outside world. The purpose of this learning is to intellectually the spiritual concepts. Contemplating these spiritual concepts one then shifts focus of attention from outside stimuli onto internal thought. In essence one gets lost in thought. Yet, remember the great rule: where your thoughts are so shall you be. It is crucial that your thoughts be controlled and directed towards a preconceived conclusion.

Eventually, even thought becomes "heavy" and the concepts of thought "fall away". Eventually one is left with the thinking process alone. At this point, the thinker merges with both the thought and the process of thinking. When the practitioner has advanced to this level, upon "descent" into the realm of diversified thought, he can "think" about the Hebrew letters of a thing and arrange them through meditative techniques known to certain Kabbalists. Upon his continued descent into the world of diversity, the meditator's thoughts of letter recombination will gather form and will indeed replace a previous physical reality. In this way, meditating upon a bar of lead can indeed turn it into gold. One need simply change its letters, or remove three protons from its atomic nucleus. In the dimension of mind, this is no hard task.

What is in a Name
Now that we have at least some concept as to the "what" and "when" of creation, let us turn to the Kabalistic reason as to the "why" of creation. According to the Ari'zal (the master Kabbalists of 16th century Tzfat), G-d created the universe "so that He could be called by His Names." For how can G-d be merciful if He has no one to which He can show mercy? How can G-d be just if He has no one to which He can dispense justice? G-d wanted a Name. This is why "He" created the universe. However, putting aside simple moralistic teachings, what does it mean that G-d wanted a Name? What is so important about a Name?

The holy Zohar teaches that the entire Torah is one long "name" of G-d. It continues to say that G-d "looked" into the Torah and created the world. G-d thus "looked" into or at His "name" and created the world. Just what is G-d's name? What is the Torah? What was (or is) this act of "looking"?

What is in a name? For most of us a name is simply a substitute title we use to address each another as well as to differentiate us from one another. Usually a name has no further significance. Tom, Dick or Harry are names given rather arbitrarily by one's parents without what seems to be much forethought. In most cases, it is the whim, which rules baby naming, even when a child is named after a relative. However, not all names are void of meaning. In many cultures names were chosen with great care. In these cultures a name was said to embody the soul, so the "correct" name had to be ascertained for the child, lest he/she not have the right soul.

Hebrew culture, in Biblical times, was of this mind set when it came to names. As we see from the Bible, children's names were chosen carefully and each name was a portent, a sign regarding the child's birth or a hinted to future destiny. As human names possess such value, the Divine "names" used to describe the Creator are ever so much more full of power.

Actually, a Divine "name" in the Kabbalah is far more than a simple title with meaning. Indeed the proper name of G-d as revealed in the Torah, YHWH, defies any mundane translation. The Divine Name defined etymologically would best be translated as "being". The name YHWH is actually based on the Hebrew verb "to be" (HWH). When the Hebrew letter Y (yod) is added to a verb it translates that verb from the passive to the active tense. Thus YHWH would translate similarly to "active being" or "being in action". It is somewhat hard to describe YHWH in English simply because our language does not contain a word or term which accurately describes the meaning of the "name".

According to the ancient Kabbalists, the guardians of the secrets systems of Biblical metaphysics, a name is more than a title, it is more than an expression of the soul. To the Kabbalist, a name is the specific formula which defines an entity's entire being. A Kabbalist would say that one's true "name" is their DNA sequence. For only DNA is precisely unique to every created thing. If then one's name is as unique as one's DNA and as descriptive, a true name cannot simply be a short and easy device used to refer to other people. Therefore, it is with the "name" of G-d.

The entire Torah is one long "name" of G-d. The ones who teach this are the Kabbalists. They understand that G-d's essence is indeed summed up by saying that He is "active being", but this has to be defined in more precise detail. These details are the 304,805 letters that make up the Torah. The Torah can be symbolically referred to as the "DNA" of YHWH. As such it reveals His manifest form. If G-d "looked" into the Torah in order to create the universe, indeed what He did was simply manifest Himself. With this in mind do the holy angels sing, "Holy, holy, holy is YHWH of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory" (Is. 6:2). The glory referred to here is G-d Himself, Who is the source of all being in the universe.

A name is made up of letters. All words are made up of letters. It is known that G-d created the world through words, words that are made up of letters. G-d said, "Let there be light, and there was light." (Gen. 1:3). G-d spoke light into being. Light was created through Divine speech. Divine "speech" contains words, made up of letters. Letters are made up of sounds. Thus the created universe was brought into being through the medium of sound.

On Mt. Sinai G-d gave the Torah to the children of Israel. What G-d gave us was words, words made up of letters, letters made up of sound. The Torah is simply a combination of sounds. G-d "looked" into His Torah and created the world. He "looked" upon the sounds, meaning He "spoke" them. G-d's name YHWH means being in action. There is being in action and being that is not in action. Action is manifest. Non-action is potential, that has not become manifest.

Prior to the creation of the universe G-d is not manifest and thus potential. With creation G-d's being becomes manifest. He is the essence of being, which is now manifest. Therefore, G-d is manifest being, being in action.

What is "being" is the composite forms that construct the multi-dimensional universe. At the starting point of creation G-d manifested those sounds, which were to combine in different forms to manifest the diversities in creation.

The sounds that manifested the diversity in creation later congealed in the forms of the letters, letters into words and the words into a book. Thus we have the Torah in the form it is today. In scientific terms we can say, in the beginning there was energy, which cooled down to form sub-atomic particles, which them formed atoms, then molecules, then cells, then . . . .
Now, words point to truths that they themselves merely symbolize. When a scientist or mathematician recites the Einstein theory and states E=MC˛, he is saying that the amount of energy in a thing is equal to its component mass times the square speed of light. The letters E, M, and C bare no relationship to the formula or to the underlying reality that it represents. The letters are mere symbols. They represent a greater reality, although they themselves are not it. In this same way, the Torah, its words, letters and sounds are truly monads of that energy which manifests the diversity that has come forth from that, which is not manifest.
The energy of creation, i.e., its life force, director and organizer, is thus the manifestation of unmanifest G-d. The energy in creation congeals and forms the Torah that we know and understand. The energy in creation, thus the Torah, is the "name" of G-d.

When a person delves into the Torah, unveiling the layers beneath the words and letters and connects with the underlying energies latent within, one may become aware of the fundamental principles and laws of nature, both of physics and metaphysics. Any person who understands and masters these laws in called a "Ba'al Shem Tov," (a master of the good name).

21st Century Science
The physical sciences today face the same problem as does the social science of psychology. It lacks focus and direction. In order for discovery to be expedient, one has to know in what direction to go. This requires of one to have a known starting point and a direction of trajectory. Yet, the modern sciences look at the world, be it the world of the physical sciences (outer space) or of the psychological sciences (inner space), and gropes around looking for clues and pieces to anything that can be found.

Why is there this lack of direction? Scientists will simply respond that they do not know enough yet of the "big picture" in order to prescribe a "unified field" theory. Therefore, everything that they discover, and every path they walk, is haphazard at best.

Here is where Torah diverges from their path. Regardless of the true nature of the Divine, the Torah was the first to teach (over 3,500 years ago) that there is a unified field in creation (and beyond it). It is this unified field that, conscious of itself, gives of Itself to create an appearance of diversity. Each independent monad exists unto itself, yet has its source in the original unified field. The purpose of creation, of each monad, is to specifically manifest some unique aspect of the whole.

Creation not only has a beginning. It has a beginner, a consciousness that directed all into being. This is the active being of the universe. Alternatively, as we would say it in Hebrew, YHWH.

Many modern scientists are admittedly prejudice against any concept of a Divine being, thus they summarily discount any revelation from such a Divine as having no legitimacy whatsoever. This is indeed unfortunate, for similar to the Torah scholar, the scientist is devoted to a search for the truth.

A Torah scholar accepts by religious faith that a path indeed has been revealed. The path reveals to us not only the secrets of inner human nature, but also the secrets of external physical sciences. By adhering to a set structure of guidelines Torah teaches us that we will continue on a pre-set road of discovery, which will take us from a point to a point, along a well-demarcated highway.

Deny the highway and you lose the path. Deny the builder of the road and you will never come to His, and thus your, destination. It is truly a shame how science moves so slowly because it refuses to accept a pre-conceived Divine plan.

If only modern science would explore the Torah and examine it as a book of science, as a code, as one long name of G-d. Indeed, this would be an entire new page in the history of religion. Maybe this is the page that mankind has been destined to turn since the Garden of Eden. Indeed, maybe it is the scientific exploration of Torah that G-d has wanted from us from the beginning. Maybe it is this form of exploration that will finally bring mankind to face its greatest challenge: THE TRUTH.

For if science follows the Torah, it will first put aside religious mythology, which the Kabbalists call the pshat (surface) of Torah. In other words, Torah must not be viewed as a book of stories to be read. Rather, the text must be investigated for mathematical relationships between letters. The laws of quantum mechanics and relativity theory need be applied to the letters of the text to see what secrets of creation are indeed concealed therein. All in accordance to certain patterns known to the Kabbalists.

The sequence of letters in the Torah must be viewed as mathematical formulas. The Golden Spiral and Fibonacci Numbers are well known mathematical principles, yet most do not know that these principles are to be found in the Torah. This has already been found. What else lies waiting to be uncovered? What is the relationship of the sequence: 2, 200, 1, 300, 10, 400, 2, 200, 1, 1, 30, 5, 10, 40, 1, 400, 5, 300, 40, 10, 40, 6, 1, 400, 5, 1, 200, 90, 6, 5, 1, 200, 90, 5, 10, 400, 5, 400, 5, 6, 6, 2? What about the sequence: 1 2, 3, 10, 400, 90, 100, 200, 70, 300, 9, 50, 50, 3, 4, 10, 20, 300, 2, 9, 200, 90, 400, 3, 8, 100, 2, 9, 50, 70, 10, 3, 30, 80, 7, 100, 300, 100, 6, 90, 10, 400? What do these teach us about the beginning?

There is so much to learn. This is Torah learning for the 21st century. More than this, this is the Torah of the 21st century B.C.E. The most ancient Kabalistic text, the Sefer Yetzirah, teaches that the end of a thing is in its beginning and its beginning is in its end. This is most true of the Torah. To discover the Torah of the future, we must explore the teachings of the past.

Sefer Yetzirah, Creation Technology Through Thought-Sound
Hundreds of years prior to the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, the Sefer Yetzirah was a form of spiritual technology disseminated by the patriarch Abraham. Endeavoring to teach the members of his generation about the falsehoods of religious mythology and idolatry, Abraham taught practical techniques how to experience and cognize spiritual reality.

Recognizing that all matter was made up of simpler forms, (the "letters" of their names), Abraham taught how to manipulate these "letters" so as to cognize and experience the underlying force within all the "letters."

The "letters" of the Hebrew alphabet are actually mathematical symbols, which represent specific numerical & mental processes which transforms the mysterious Divine essence into a state of pure will. From will to intuitive insight, from insight to cognized thoughts, from cognized thoughts to charged feelings, from charged feelings to manifest physical form.

The manner of this transformation is performed through specific sound techniques using the Hebrew alphabet. Many generations of Kabbalists have focused on the shapes of the Hebrew letters in their Ashurite form. Ascribing to these forms multiple meanings, many Kabbalists have used meditative techniques focused on the forms of the letters as a means of releasing their concealed powers. Unfortunately, the focus on the shape of the letters is not the way to release their latent power. Indeed, the present form of Hebrew letters (the Ashurite script) is not the original script in which the Torah was given. While this is a matter of discussion in the Talmud and most all Kabbalists believe that the Ashurite form is the original, they are all, nonetheless, inaccurate. History and archeology bears this out for those open minded enough to listen.

Regardless of the correct shape of the letters, the essential manner of their usage is through the medium of sound. The visualization upon their shapes is only a means to an end. The shapes assist a meditator in focusing his mind on the letters. Yet, the letters are abstract symbols for the powers they represent. The only way to unleash their latent force is through sound and not by sight. Sub-atomic forms are strings of sound, not little balls of particles. This difference is essential to understand for anyone who wishes to perform any type of function using "spiritual" energy.

Chapter one of Sefer Yetzirah speaks about the ten Sefirot. These are the vessels through which the Divine becomes manifest within creation. What is hinted to in the later chapters of the text is that these ten vessels are ten specific sounds. Specifically they are the ten vowel sounds used to enunciate the Hebrew letters. Many Kabalistic texts have diagramed the relationship showing, which vowels correlate to which Sefirot. Yet, what is not known by most Kabbalists is that the system of correlations used by them does not align with the original correlations outlined by the earliest generations of Kabbalists. The reason for this is that while it is all right for the outline of the system to be made public, specifics must remain highly guarded. Even acknowledging that there still is a concealed Kabbalah is frowned upon by many of my peers. Yet, some budding Kabbalists today are attempting to access the system of letters using the later correlations. If they attempt to perform anything using an inaccurate system they might cause a "spiritual" overload and cause harm to themselves and others. I have fulfilled my obligations to provide a necessary warning.

The correct techniques of using the sound meditations have never been written down by anyone, ever. Bits and pieces can be found in a number of places, but never is the whole system outlined. It is too dangerous. I myself will not document my sources on these matters out of fear of others making use of things that can cause them and others harm. Again, it is too dangerous. The system that I practice was not revealed to me from any book.

Twenty-six Hebrew letters are permutated with the ten vowels according to specific formulas. These formulas are in turn the "DNA" structure of sounds that underlie the formation of all material existence. Special "holy Names" are concealed throughout the Torah. The method of harvesting them is known to only a select few. I cannot say anything more on this topic.

Summary
Matter and mass interchange at the point of light speed. Physical and spiritual realms are defined thereby. Sound (string) vibrations above light speed form the angelic world. Sound vibrations below light speed form the physical world. The common denominator between the worlds is the medium of sound. Sound is an expression of thought, translating it from potential into actual. Thought-sound, therefore, is the great power which creates, forms and makes the known universe.

Thought-sound is the fifth dimension that gives rise to (and can thus destroy) four- dimensional space-time beneath it. Sound itself is not enough to manipulate change. Thought alone is impotent. When put together, there is creation or destruction. This is not limited to the power of G-d. This is a spiritual technology known to mankind.

This knowledge is, unfortunately, not limited only to spiritual, holy people. Some 20th century scientists have become aware of the power of oscillating sounds and can manipulate them in amazing manners. Nichola Tesla was one such scientist, and his research has been classified as top secret for the last 60 years since his death. It is alleged by sources that I cannot quote that Tesla did indeed discover that focused thought projected through specific electro magnetically charged sound oscillations can travel instantaneously anywhere in the world and manifest any reality that is thought of. The underlying technology here has also been well known in certain dark circles that manipulate the forces of thought and manipulate them as what we would call "black magic".

Thought, therefore, when coupled with specific sounds becomes the ultimate power source. Which specific sounds are used now becomes the ultimate important thing. It is these sounds and combinations of sounds that are the "holy Names" spoken of above. When sound is used for destruction, then such sounds are call "unclean names".

Thought entities, be they angels or demons, exist within their own realms, which is a dimension that vibrates faster than ours. As such, their scope of vision is wider than ours. They exist around space-time, not above it. Above implies a higher, better level, or one that is "closer" to G-d. This is not accurate. Around is a better term to describe these other realms. These entities do not exist within our realms and, therefore, are not always aware of what is going on here. Yet, as we have the ability to turn our heads and look behind us, so too some of these entities inhabiting this higher realm can refocus their mental modulations and thus "look in" on us.

The modulations of mind are through the process of thought, which "travels" along the directional boundaries between good and evil. As we have learned above, where you think is where you are. If you think about (or allow yourself to feel), for example, anger, then this is where your mind is at. Yet, do not think anger to be a simple feeling inside your head. Your thoughts are things, and they manifest in the fifth dimension as clear as lightning manifests in ours.

Thus, when we think a thought about a specific thing that thought manifests in the fifth dimension in the same non-physical area as all other similar thoughts. Thus our thoughts are self-reinforcing. The holy Sages of the Talmud understood this reality when they stated that a good deed creates an angel and a sin creates a demon. In other words, where your mind is there you are. Yet, you are not alone! You are with all the other thoughts and entities of that fifth dimensional non-physical space who keep you company until you leave that place. This is the secret of our self-created angels and demons that help us or haunt us at all times.

Departure from one place and travel to another (in the fifth dimension) is accomplished through a change of thought venue. This, of course, can be greatly assisted by the medium of sound. Music, therefore, has the uncanny ability to move our moods. Be it towards good or evil our thoughts surf along the sound of music. I have just revealed to you one of the great secrets of the Biblical prophets.

Images of the mind are impotent unless they have a means of external manifestation. As with all laws of physics, inherent energy is released from mass through the medium of velocity (E=MC˛). This secret too was known to the Biblical prophets in their own way. The prophets used the medium of music as a way to speed up their personal velocities. In other words, velocity acts as a motivation. The speed and vibrations of the music acted as the motivator to translate the energy latent in the prophet's thoughts and translate it into manifest action. In this way (and derivatives of it) did the Biblical prophets perform miracles, which appear to be outside the laws of nature. In reality, the prophets were practicing five dimensional living, with the realm of thought guiding all.

Music is vibrating sound. Different tunes manifest different vibrations. Each set of vibrational sounds actually is a combination of Hebrew letters. Indeed it is no coincidence that the super string theory operates in only 10 and 26 dimensions. The ten dimensions are the ten vowels, which vibrate the basic forms of matter, which are the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The extra four are the letters YHWH, which as is known to the masters of the Sefer Yetzirah, is the necessary component to combine with the 22 letters in order to manipulate mass. Without YHWH all mass will become corrupt. Again, I have revealed enough about these procedures.

Conclusions
I have written what I have here so as to reinforce the truth that Torah is not simply a document of religion. The science of the newly discovered "Torah codes" reveals that the Torah is definitely of "extra-terrestrial" origins. While most consider extra-terrestrial to be limited to life in outer space, I use the term here to include the Divine as well. For who more than G-d is extra-terrestrial? We must no longer view the worlds of science and Torah as being separate. It is not enough to simply proclaim the relationship between science and Torah and then expect everyone to become religious.

Science demands an openness of mind. Religion must do the same. I call for a merging of science and Torah. By this I am not referring to religious mythology, but rather religious truth. Kabbalah must be explored and understood in the best spirit of historical accuracy. Meditations and material manipulations must be scrutinized. We must analyze how miracles work and just what the Biblical prophets did.

It is not enough to ignorantly say G-d performed a miracle. Of course, He did. However, just what did He do? How did he do it? When the first born in Egypt were struck dead by a plague from G-d, what was their cause of death? If an autopsy were performed, what would be found? Did G-d release some form of a special genetic agent that attacked only genetically recognizable material inherent in firstborns of a certain type?

We may never know the answer to this and other mysteries, but we can explore. We can come to know, to uncover G-d, concealed in nature and come to know His TRUE being. We can emancipate ourselves from our bondage to myth and fantasy. We can finally know the truth that G-d has concealed within creation awaiting our discovery. This indeed is the beginning of the messianic era, the era of truth. We must do whatever we can, to explore and to research. We will find not a Grand Unified Theory, but rather a Grand Unified Truth. May it be soon.

Epilogue
For those of you who have braved through the reading of this material, I will now reveal to you exactly what it is that we have been doing. We have been fulfilling the greatest of all of G-d's commandments, we have been experiencing and exploring his "Glory". The study of science according to many Sages, including the original teachers of Kabbalah, was never a pursuit outside of Torah. On the contrary, scientific exploration is considered to be the heart and soul of Judaism. In Kabalistic terms and according to RaMBaM in Hilkhot Yesodei Torah, science is the study of Ma'aseh Bereshit.

In a midrash, a tale is related as to the time when a person dies and his soul ascends above before the Heavenly tribunal. After asking the soul a number of questions about how much Torah the soul studied a question is asked, "Have you gazed upon the merkava (the Divine chariot)?" Have you contemplated the movements of the universe, how G-d has placed all things in their relative places? Do you see the hand of G-d in all this, for G-d has no greater pleasure from men as to when they study these things." Most times a soul will be forced to answer no. (For if it answers yes, then will pursue a very involved discussion on theoretical science and advanced mathematics).

This midrash emphasizes that it is the study of science that is considered to be the study of the Throne of G-d and the secrets of creation. The Kabbalah teaches us that G-d concealed these secrets within creation specifically for us to discover. The human (Adamic) race was specifically created to carry out the process of discovery (i.e., to take care of the Garden). This is the path that leads us to collective human spiritual awakening. This psychic, psychological, spiritual, scientific level of human understanding is the long awaited for Messianic era.

By educating ourselves scientifically and mathematically, we learn to speak the language of the Creator and of It's universe. Only in this way can we find again our lost bodies of light and rise up back to our place of origin, in the stars and beyond.

Do not let anyone dissuade you from the importance of this line of study. Do not listen to words saying that Torah and science are not the same. Those saying such simply do not understand. Spiritually speaking we say that they walk in darkness, a metaphor that now we understand. Darkness means away from the light, i.e. the velocity of the speed of light. The rate of individual mental vibrations (from a string point of view) relates to the focus and parameters of one's intellectual abilities. The further one is from the truth, the further one is from the boundary of "good" in the fifth dimension. Such a one's inability to receive this knowledge only reflects their present mental place. (Where you think is where you are). Nothing can be done for these people, at least not here on earth. Thank G-d, we are not so limited.

We remember the Kabalistic lesson of the breaking of the vessels. This was caused by pouring too much light into a vessel unprepared to receive it. Therefore, the lesson is to hold back the light. In other words, these teachings cannot be for everybody, but only for those who truly wish to seek them out, and even then, knowledge must be given over only one lesson at a time. Too much too fast is no good. Everything in its right time, everything in its right place.

This is the secret of Ma'aseh Merkava, and the teachings of science. Learn this well, and give pleasure to our Creator. Amen.

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Edited by: GrayFriar Biblical Institute