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A Guide To the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...5 CE). Rabbi Akiva and several of his disciples were tortured and killed by the Romans, who felt threatened by his teaching of the Kabbalah. They fl... ...n in 1885 in Lodz, Poland, he absorbed a deep knowledge of the written and oral law in his youth, and later became a judge and teacher in Warsaw. In... ...eginning student like myself to first study the Bible, the written and the oral law for many years, before I begin learning Kabbalah, or can I start... ...s, geometry, numbers, graphs, characters and letters, etc. These approaches are codes, shown in the Bible, which inform us of spiritual objects and ... ...in the name. The transformation of a name to a number is called gematria. These codes refer to spiritual levels that we should attain. I live in Lon... ...oul, as well as the laws that describe its development. According to the law of spiritual development, man has to reach the highest spiritual...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

... of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, under that seal including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the se... ...e of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness; and send forth the law from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem; and ... ...s of John’s gospel referred to above, and in connexion with the eleventh chapter of the Romans; it appeared to me that the church of the Gentiles was... ...nial kingdom. And therefore they will need government, both civil and ecclesiastical, a law and a religion, or rather a law in a religion; that is, ... ... work of one of his most gifted servants. Now let this book be read as a voice from the Roman Catholic Church, and let the Palingenesia and Basilicu... ...nd preliminary, and not the conclusion of every well-conducted inquiry. If we had not a law, and a testimony, and a body of divine doctrine, as old ... ...test code which hath ever been devised in the idea of’ philosophers, or embodied in the codes of legislators, neither runs parallel with, nor ascend...

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...e protagonists that populate this work of fiction. In a way, therefore, this is a roman-a-clef. Still, names and circumstances were altered to p... ...d and proper. But under the circumstances that would probably have been against the law. This obsolete piece of magnetic media was different. Fra... ...s played host to King David and to Jesus, to King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you ... ...expounded Dan patiently – “There’s something on this disk that’s worth breaking the law for. Something on it makes people risk life and limb and ass... ...assorted documents in the file. One of them seems to catch his eye. “You studied Law in Berlin in 1929?” “Yes, Herr Reichsfuehrer, I did.” H... ... then all went dark for the second time in as many weeks. Chapter the Eleventh Codes and Ciphers “Steganography.” – said Dan triumphantly - “... ...ubbish or noise inside carefully selected and manipulated images. I tried with both codes – 204 and 420. Nada.” “Then it occurred to me: these cou... ... answer, Jew-dog!” – he barked shrilly. “My great-great grandfather was the wild, romantic artist type. He had a fling with a German servant-girl ...

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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

...measurably high." His grandfather took this very seriously and gave up his law practice to devote himself to U.G.'s upbringing and education. His gra... ...tioning of our actions is really the moral problem. We must have new moral codes of conduct. That is necessary, otherwise we can't function. That is ... ...s necessary, otherwise we can't function. That is the trouble now. The old codes are all out of date, anachronistic, finished. Who cares about sex? S... ... valuable for the society but that has nothing to do with this. The moral codes of conduct have no relationship whatsoever to this. Not that this man... ...xpression to it. _______ To talk of eternal bliss, love—all of that is romantic poetry. You see, if you translate what I am saying in terms of yo... ...ibed in terms of bliss, love, compassion and all that poetic nonsense and romantic stuff because you have no way of experiencing what is there betwe... ...ot is of no importance at all. You cannot talk of that state in a poetic, romantic language. And one in that state won't be hiding somewhere. He wil... ...ough the help of force. As long as it is advantageous to you, you talk of law. When the law fails, you use force. _______ The demand to understan... ...culture, first in the name of religion and then in the name of the family, law, war and a hundred other things. You talk of the sacredness of life an...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...m and demanded answers. In those days, life in Galilee was very harsh: the Romans persecuted Jews and continually invented new laws to make their liv... ...aper Kabbalah T oday. 8 THE ZOHAR However, despite the Romans’ prohibition, Rashbi immersed himself in the Kabbalah and tried to ... ...of his 24,000 students died in plagues, and in fierce battles against the Romans. Of the 24,000 students, only five survived, and Rashbi was among t... ... THE ZOHAR Mittuk (sweetening/mitigation) of a restriction law. Restriction is a ban for Malchut to receive Light. This ban is lifted... ...es), which, if available, enables Malchut to receive the Upper Light. The law, judgment, or restriction does not allow for the reception of Light in... ...tion unable to accept (perceive) the Light that descends according to the law of the first restriction. A similar distinction exists between Partzuf... ...t letter combina- tions. For this reason, Malchut’s parts receive various “codes” (combinations) of letters (properties) or names. All the words in t...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...s ways. When the federal gun ban was passed, their house was ransacked by law enforcement. Dad, being the smart, if not suspicious man that he was, ... ...d on him?” Josh leaned back and said, “Depends on the class. I took this law class in High School as an elective because I thought it might be inte... ... Josh. Lexi had her eyes glued to the article. “XCIX…XCIX…wait… that’s the Roman Numeral for 99. The group is Rebel 99. I remem- ber that thing at Mil... ...Should we go look for him?” Vincent shook his head. “No. Change the access codes. If he wants to come back in, he’ll have to answer to why he went m... ...ow the amendment went on to make exceptions for active duty military and law enforcement but still. I wonder if this was some type of militia town ... ...iminated their access to the Defense Net and re- scrambled all appropriate codes,” Callous reported. Zodiac clenched his fsts. “What about locating Vi... ...sterious and highly dangerous Rebel XCIX or Rebel 99 if you translate the Roman Numerals. This group was public in their goal to undermine and ultim... ...these cases, he had shown no fear. Now, the thought of having any type of romantic atachment to someone else frightened him beyond words…and he didn...

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Interview with the Future

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...y 3. The Four Elements that Comprise Us 4. The Right Environment 5. The Law of Equivalence of Attributes 6. The power of thought 7. A Chosen Peop... ...e real, and all of us, without exception, can attain them. The collective law of creation makes it necessary for each of us to advance to that state... ...t, which draws us all towards Him, is, to the creatures, the one and only law of creation. This force of gravity first affects us, and then the rest... ...syndrome’ (Masada was a fortress held by Jews that was under siege by the Romans in the first century A.C., who’s inhabitants preferred to commit jo... ... inhabitants preferred to commit joint suicide than to be captured by the Romans. C.R.). That feeling will never let us be until we discover the Cre... ...o is holding us under siege. In the land of Israel, he surrounded us with Romans, and in exile he surrounded us with anti-Semitism, the inquisition,... ...s concealed in it, as Kabbalists tell us. People search for all kinds of codes in the Torah, and find all the possible interconnections among its p...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ary university I have ever encountered and so the obligations flow beyond the law school. Professor Anthony Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educ... ...enomics, and my wife Lauren Dame, as- sociate director of the Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sci... ...hur, and Hewlett Foundations have generously supported my work, as have Duke Law School’s research grants and Bost Fellowships. My work on synthetic b... ...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...other ways. For example, DVD players are required to have one of six “region codes,” depending on where in the world they are sold. Region 1 is the Un... ...turers are not allowed to make players which can view movies from all region codes or skip portions of the DVD that the owners do not want you to skip... ... the metaphors. Yes, code is speech, it conveys information. But viruses are codes and they convey infor- mation too. Judge Kaplan explicitly invokes ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...nce XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality of Child Labor XXXIX. Law and Technology XL. The Author Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...dministered by some supreme, transcendental principle is restored. This sense of "law and order" is further enhanced when the theory yields predic... ...ons which come true, either because they are self-fulfilling or because some real "law", or pattern, has emerged. Alas, this happens rarely. As "Th... ...working on a shoestring budget in his garage - is a mythical relic of 18th century Romanticism. More often, innovation is systematically and metho... ...d contrivances. The advent of the Industrial Revolution - and the imagery of the romantic lone inventor toiling on his brainchild in a basement o... ...or instance. At the request of member-governments (such as Bosnia- Herzegovina and Romania) it has prepared detailed country corruption surveys cov... ...rs like corruption, civil rights, the composition of the media, the penal and civil codes, environmental policies, or the allocation of economic res... ...g", "protocol", "agreement" are all legal terms. Standards, protocols, behavioural codes - whether voluntarily adopted or not - are all form of Law... ... of monopolists release hitherto monopolized information (for instance, the source codes of software) to the public and increases competition - the...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...67 estimates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Inf... ... Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, F... ...trative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law, with socialist principles; new constitution adopted by referendum No... ...ive divisions: 7 districts Legal system: based on French and Span- ish civil codes; Plan of Reform adopted 1866 serves as constitution; no judicial re... ...e divisions: 18 provinces Legal system: formerly based on Portu- guese civil law system and customary law; being modified along socialist model Nation... ...ependent territory Capital: The Valley Legal system: based on English common law; constitution came into effect on 1 April 1982 Branches: 11-member Ho... ...s: 23 states, 3 territories, 1 federal district Legal system: based on Latin codes; dual system of courts, state and federal; consti- tution adopted i... ...ing to a 1982 redistrict- ing Legal system: based on German and French civil codes and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Nat...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...eapfrogging Transition IV. The Selfish Net – The Semantic Web V. The Law of Technology VI. Metaphors of the Net VII. The Solow Paradox ... ...rism.org and its commercial arm, Turnit.com, are the cyber equivalent of a law enforcement agency, acting after the fact to discover the culprits and... ...t is caving in to pressure and temptation, constructing its own censorship codes both in the cable and in the internet media. Institutionalization ... ...ium, such as the Internet. Computer technology seems to abide by "Moore's Law" which says that the number of transistors which can be put on a chip ... ...e parchment - the hypertext. Early Jewish and Christian texts (as well as Roman legal scholarship) was written on parchment (and later printed) and i... ...r. The monopoly of the big publishing houses on everything written - from romance to scholarly journals - is a thing of the past. In a way, it is iro... ... publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and fonts (Gothic versus Roman) were ultimately decided by consumer preferences. Multimedia was bor... ... is caving in to pressure and temptation, constructing its own censorship codes both in the cable and in the internet media. Institutionalizatio... ...ocol", "agreement" are all legal terms. Standards, protocols, behavioural codes - whether voluntarily adopted or not - are all form of Law. Thus, in...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...nation, contraception, and other self-centered desires run against natural law and the sanctity of the family.‖ —―Did you hear about the Ne... ... gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there i... ...self-centered needs of lions or monkeys and you see the oldest of ethical codes—I‘ll protect my young and I‘ll kill whatever meat we need to survive.... ...s kind.‘ Then a few hundred years later Christianity rekindled the Jewish law when Matthew wrote ‗So in everything, do to others, what you would have... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p... ...l from a societal perspective. In what is perhaps the most ancient of all codes of justice, that of Hammurabi, even if it was not a pre-meditated mu...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...mbrane Theories Return Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts the gradual energetic decay of ph... ...ne is more important than any other (in-built) "consideration". Time and the Third Law of Thermodynamics are pitted against Life (as an integral an... ...as the outcome of cosmic acceleration would merely be the culmination of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This is definitely true for our local su... ...inuum, or spectrum. Yet, this may be a simplistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield... ...inuum, or spectrum. Yet, this may be a simplistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield... ...not do who can do anything.' Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480? - 524?), Roman philosopher and statesman, The Consolation of Philosophy ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ... Why is there a debate regarding this question? "Thou shalt not kill" is a natural law, it appears in virtually every legal system. It is easily an... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ... in saying that it is "intelligent" or has a mental life. But – if it possesses the codes and the instructions – it could make independent use of th... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ... ...inuum, or spectrum. Yet, this may be a simplistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield... ...nihilation involves the alteration of the entity's context - its surroundings, its codes and signals, its interactive patterns, its potential partn...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ... Why is there a debate regarding this question? "Thou shalt not kill" is a natural law, it appears in virtually every legal system. It is easily an... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ... in saying that it is "intelligent" or has a mental life. But – if it possesses the codes and the instructions – it could make independent use of th... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ... ...inuum, or spectrum. Yet, this may be a simplistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield... ...nihilation involves the alteration of the entity's context - its surroundings, its codes and signals, its interactive patterns, its potential partn...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...ich distinguish between members and nonmembers, have definite regulations, codes of conduct, practices of worship, and usually legal status. Religions... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ... ...n? 35. See Myoho-Renge-Kyo, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, Tokyo, Rissho Kosei-Kai, 1970, pp. 307-8. 36. For example, Paul Tillic... ... the premise which pervades The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, particularly popular in Japan. Nevertheless be- lief in permanent, ult... ...many Puritans. There was also at this time a new doctrine in international law, called the law of vacuum domicilium, holding that those people who do ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...sponsibility Pg 287 Freedom and Irresponsibility Pg 288 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization ... ...lation: Antagonism and Competition Pg 366 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg 420 Science and Balance Pg 4... ...in a strict sequence. Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and o... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...ge, fear of the unknown. Because of all those fears: humans created abstract codes-laws-superstitions-ideas-rituals-values which each culture forced... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...rve old, dead, obsolete, idiotic beliefs, traditions, customs, recipes, dress codes, etiquette, myths, etc? One reason modern consumer culture is ... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...n the throats of the European Nations he conquered… including all of the civil codes of the revolutionary English Parliamentary system… have since be...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...mes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality." Thomas Sowell ... ...e might yet have invented an Ottoman "nationalism" to compete with Serbian, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cr... ...of a successful campaign - namely, over Macedonia. Serbs, Greeks, Montenegrins and Romanians subdued Bulgaria sufficiently to force it to sign a tr... ...ionalism) lasted four tumultuous years - it persisted for a quarter of a century in Romania ("infected" by Orthodox clericalism and peasant lores). ... ...very telling. At first it concentrated its fiery intentions only upon military and law and order personnel. Its reluctance to effect civilians was ... ...brand of guerilla. It revamped itself, creating directorates, offices and officers, codes and procedures, a radio station and a news agency, an elec... ...r than "shoot first or die". A mental transformation is required, an adjustment of codes of conduct and principles of thought. Should the KLA find ... ...ompanies, hospitals, managed healthcare, private clinics, academic departments, and law enforcement agencies rely, for their continued and exponent... ...anity in the strictest sense because it conforms to social and cultural creeds and codes of conduct in her milieu. Billions of people faithfully su...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

... of salt. Shutters groaned. “To strike a balance between common sense and law, this is the cause to which we must pledge ourselves. Our local tyrant... ...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft... ...ory and thought are broth- ers. But, make no mistake, thousands repeat the law and the scriptures and only a handful think.” I see his sparsely bear... ...ment when officials were in the crowd? Authorities wanted me to break the law by passing judgment. I was shocked by the woman’s fear, her beseeching... ...an of action. They bow over a map. Immediately, I sense that their secret codes are in operation. They guess that I am suspicious; I see that when a...

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Paradoxism and Postmodernism in Florenitin Smarandache's Work

By: Ion Soare

...out being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in th... ...had the revelation of renewal and, moreover, a kind of a prolonged shock: the Romanian- American “neovanguard” is the creator of a new practical and ... ... movement. But same reactions have had before me a series of some foreign and Romanian writers as J.Levenard, A.Skemer, Teresinka Pereira, Khalid Rai... ...ma is devil’s woman? -You’ll understand, my son, when you’ll have a mother-in-law. (-De ce zici despre bunica, mereu, ca e poama acra? -Ai sa intel... ... texts and of the majority of the postmodernist ones, “ leads after the inner law of these arts to the resumes and even the deformations of them”. Th... ...res of postmodernism: the epicization of lyrical speech, the intertextuality, codes’ heterogeneity, Babel totality, form’s deformation, relative ludi...

...by!), while others ignored him or they haven’t yet heard about him. Without being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in the two large fieldsliteratures and mathematics (but also in other art and scientific fields)....

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