Beyond The Da Vinci Code - Did Jesus Study Kabbalah?
by Robert Waxman
What kind of religious philosophy were Jesus and his disciples studying
from 29 CE - 33 CE? They couldn't have been studying Christianity because
The New Testament wasn't completed until 325 CE (almost 300 years after
the crucifixion). They surely weren't studying Buddhism or Hinduism, so
this leaves just one possibility - they must have been studying the
timeless, ancient wisdom of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalah (which was
very popular in Israel during this time).
Jesus veiled many Kabbalistic truths when he spoke to the masses (Matthew
13:34). "All these things Jesus spoke unto the multitudes in parables; and
without a parable he spake not unto them" (KJV). Especially, when Jesus
referred to the innermost power of the soul, he spoke in metaphors. An
example of such a metaphor, is when Jesus refers to the "God-within" or
illuminated soul: "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you..." (Luke 17:20-21,
KJV).
He also refers to "The Father in secret": "...pray to thy Father which is
in secret..." (Matthew 6:18, KJV). This is another Kabbalistic reference
to the eternal spark known as "neshamah" or the God-like quality of each
individual soul.
When Jesus refers to himself as the "Son of Man" (Mark 10:45, KJV), he is
using a Kabbalistic phrase that was also used by Ezekiel and Daniel in The
Jewish Bible, "Son of man, speak to the children of thy people" (Ezek.
33:2, JPS), "there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of
man" (Dan. 7:13, JPS). In Kabbalah, the term "Son of Man" describes the
soul's downward refection of the original man "created" on the sixth day
(Gen. 1:27, JPS). This original man is known in Kabbalah as "The Adam
Kadmon" (the first and last Adam).
Paul refers to Jesus as the "the last Adam": 1 Corinthians 15:45, "The
first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit" (KJV). This title of A-dam Kad-mon is defined as, "the one and
only (or only begotten) 'Over Soul' of all humanity." According to
Kabbalah,, the first Adam breaks apart (or is crucified) into trillions of
"little souls". Each descending soul becomes a "Son of Man" that is
striving to reach spiritual perfection. When these trillions of souls have
achieved "messianic consciousness", they will reunite to form "the last
Adam". This "resurrection" of the last Adam Kadmon will come at "the end
of times", or the end of the physical Universe (that gave its life for the
sake of all mankind; Einstein's Big Crunch). At this final stage in
matter, all souls will experience an "ascension" back to pure Spirit, or
the One Divine Source.
When examining the sayings of Jesus, it becomes apparent that he was
familiar with the ancient wisdom teachings of Kabbalah and the messianic
power of each individual soul. His intended message came straight from the
heart of Kabbalistic philosophy: "the soul enters into this Universe by
immaculate conception (as spirit falls into matter), and then exits when
the Universe comes to an end (as matter ascends back into spirit)."
