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TOHU AND BOHU
(A Spiritual View Of The Human Personality)
The personalities of mortal mankind are mentally and emotionally confused, as we have explained. The earth spoken about here represents the spiritually male members of mortal humanity who are called enlightened, but who have no light of their own. They did have light in previous ages when they were under the authority of the male Adam, but are now mentally and emotionally confused, because they have diminished their own energy and mass [by feeding off of themselves, instead of the male Adam].
Tohu , the mental confusion of mankind’s mortal mind; bohu, the emotional instability of mortal mankind; Satan, the dark, shameful side of fallen adam; and YKVK’s breath of life within the human personality, are the four spiritual elements which form mortal man, the emotional animal that Adam became when he fell down into this present world.
Hence, the earthen human personality is not mentally or intellectually formed in the image of God, is emotionally confused as to what will comfort it in a manner which will enure to its benefit, [rather than its destruction], and is, therefore, dominated by the mental and intellectual darkness of [Leviathan, the pride of mortal man, which calls its human expressions] the enlightened ones, and by Satan, the dark spirit that dominates the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind of fallen adam.
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(ZOHAR)
NOW THE EARTH WAS FORMLESS AND VOID, as we have explained. “The earth” here is the upper earth, which has no light of its own. It “was” at first in its proper state, but now “void and without form”, having diminished itself and its light.
Tohu (formlessness), bohu (void), “darkness”, and “spirit” were the four elements of the world which were comprised in it. Hence, “the earth was formless and void and darkness and spirit”. (ZOHAR)
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NOW Malchut, the personalities of mortal mankind (THE EARTH) WAS mentally confused (FORMLESS) AND emotionally confused (VOID), as we have explained. “The earth” here is the upper earth,(Yesod of Malchut) which has no light of its own. It “was” at first in its proper state, but now emotionally confused {“void ) and [mentally] without form”, having diminished itself and its light.
Mental confusion (Tohu) (formlessness), (emotional confusion) bohu (void), “darkness”, and “spirit” were the four elements of the world which were comprised in it. Hence, “the earth was mentally not formed (formless) and emotionally confused (void) and darkness and spirit”. (ZOHAR)
Sheila R. Vitale
Pastor, Teacher & Founder
CHRIST-CENTERED KABBALAH
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Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776
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