THE HEBREW MODEL OF GALACTIC WISDOM

The ancient Hebrew sages possessed a similar galactic wisdom. As we saw earlier, the diagrammatic Tree of Life consists of thirty-two geometric elements, known as the twenty-two paths of wisdom and the ten sephiroth, or spheres of splendor.

In the Egyptian tradition, these twenty-two layers were represented by the twenty-two nomes that made up the kingdom of Set. Therefore, they correspond to the twenty-two paths of wisdom that lead to the seat of galactic wisdom. This was represented by the twenty-third nome, the first nome in the kingdom of Horus, where the oldest and most authoritative seat of Egyptian wisdom was located. Yet the twenty-third nome also served as the royal seat of the united Egyptian kingdom. Interestingly, in the diagrammatic Tree of Life, the twenty-third element, which is represented by the lowest of the ten sephiroth, is traditionally called Malkuth, the Kingdom, which is none other than the galactic kingdom upheld by the twenty-third layer above the half measure.

Upon completing its preliminary tour of galactic life by ascending through the first twenty-two layers, represented by the twenty-two paths of wisdom, the enlightened soul finally graduates from this initiatory school of wisdom, and becomes identified with the galactic being, the ruler of the galactic kingdom and everything in it. This represents the first real cognition of the kingdom of heaven and marks the first real stage of divine rule and wisdom at which are recognized all the higher spiritual worlds. At that stage, the human Ka becomes united with the galactic Ba and the soul becomes the very embodiment of the divine Ka-Ba, the first two phonemes in the body of Hebrew wisdom known as kabbalah (KBLH).

As we have noted, the earliest version of kabbalah was called merkabah mysticism; the Hebrew term merkabah means a divine “throne-chariot.” This term was used in the Hebrew scriptures to refer to the divine chariot that Ezekiel saw in his vision and that carried him into the heavens. The doctrine of merkabah mysticism supposedly dealt with the mechanics by which the soul could become immortal by ascending the divine ladder in the merkabah—the divine throne-chariot of God.

It turns out that the terms mer, ka, and ba were also words in the Egyptian language. The term mer, meaning “pile of stones,” was used by the ancient Egyptians to refer to the pyramids. We have already seen that the Ka and Ba were used to refer to two important forms of the soul, both related to human and galactic consciousness. Therefore, we can argue that the Hebrew term merkabah may have deep Egyptian roots.

The importance of the two phonemes ka and ba is also recognized in the tradition of Islam. For example, the most sacred site in all of Islam, located in Mecca, is called the Kaba. In their daily prayers, all Muslims bow their heads toward this site, and all are enjoined to make a pilgrimage there at some point in their lives. Upon arriving in the presence of the Kaba, pilgrims circumambulate it as though they were illuminated stars circling the center of the galaxy.

Given the fact that both Jewish and Islamic traditions trace their roots to Abraham, whose first recorded exploit involved a pilgrimage to Egypt, we can argue that all three traditions—Hebrew, Egyptian, and Islamic—shared, at least to some degree, the same galactic wisdom expressed in terms of the phonemes ka and ba. Yet these phonemes are not necessarily Egyptian in origin. Thousands of miles away, the Vedic seers also used them to mark the same evolutionary stages of the soul. It appears, then, that we are dealing with a universal spiritual science shared by ancient sages and seers all around the world and expressed in terms of a common phonemic language, which has since been lost. Whereas modern science is expressed in terms of universally accepted mathematical symbols, the ancient science was originally expressed in terms of universally accepted phonemic symbols, such as ka and ba, which transcend the boundaries of language, culture, and religion.

Although we have come a long way, the realization of galactic consciousness does not mark the end of the spiritual journey. Having cognized the galactic world, the soul must ascend beyond it into the vastness of intergalactic space, like a bird ascending on wings of fire. This leads us to the universal wisdom.