Israel and Humanity - Doctrine of the Kabbalah on the original unity
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Doctrine of the Kabbalah on the origin of unity.
We know the point that Kabbalah is not exactly in favor with some Jewish school, but she allows us to consider this question of unityy of origin under a new aspect so appealing and so well justified the rights of Judaism as a universal religion, the truth that opponents of Jewish theosophy was very embarrassed to find themselves deprived of an argument so valuable because of where we pui-sounds. For our part, we obtain again, by producing a double bottom or at the same time as we increase the number of proofs of Jewish universalism, we demonstrate by the facts of what force would be deprived Judaism he never renounced this theology that forms, we believe, one of its integral parts.
A physical unity of all mankind in Adam, Kabbalah adds unityy of all souls in the soul of the first man. Between this theosophical doctrine that connects and identifies all the souls of Adam and the biblical teaching that connects to all mankind through Adam's only link to the offspring, an idea moves through belonging to Doctors who midrashic serve as a bridge between the Bible and Kabbalah. We read in Schemot Rabbah: "When the first man was lying still unformed, the Holy One, blessed be He, showed him all the righteous who were born to him, they were suspended above the head of Adam and those there in her hair each held to his forehead, the other in her eyes, nostrils, mouth or ears' Rabba [1]. The idea here is mixed, it is indeed a question as in Genesis of Adam's body, but it is no longer simply the offspring, it is asserted that the inherence or, as in theosophy, supreme identity.
Although the subject we are absolutely not required, [2] it is useful to try to penetrate the rational sense of kabbalistic theory and translate, if possible, in philosophical language. The life force can not proceed in the body, she had to precede the contrary to create it. But the parent body had necessarily precede that of children, so it is strictly speaking possible to imagine a regular transmission of this kind of strength that will always be the result of a body, except the first, because it they have received the life of any organization prior, it remains proved that the cause of life is independent of the organization itself. But any idea that it is done in the primitive organism, there is no doubt that the principle of life for all generations is contained in him. We have already noticed that Leibniz foresaw a positive nature and significance of spermatozoa, when he announced that we would discover in the phenomena of the generation that either sex provides something organized. And this statement corrects a strong sense just the theory of preformation syngenesis beings or nesting of germs, from which all the seeds from the original background of the world are contained in one of the first representative of each species. This theory, known by all the false comments embryogenic, is precisely because the organizing element of the male sex is essential for the formation of the embryo.
The doctrine of an androgynous Adam, if in favor among the rabbis, we can offer a solution by combining the two theories, that of all souls included in Adam [3] and that of an Adam to both sexes. It would be a way to agree Leibnizian theory with the current state of our knowledge. The fact is that with the exception of Claude Bernard, most modern scholars share the view of Leibnitz. Not to mention Bonnet and Haller is the system adopted by Cuvier as the most satisfactory of all hypotheses that propose to explain the mystery of the multiplication of living beings. Pflüger established the derivation of the egg from the ovarian epithelium and Balbiani complete history of the egg by an epithelium derived from this element, the polar body, released directly from the egg, thus it gives a scientific basis for the above theory. [4] [5] This hypothesis is admitted, it follows therefore that Adam suffered a sexual division, and his descendants with him, so that, as taught by the Rabbis and Kabbalists, each soul as Adam was bisexual and that man can not be perfect, if it is unityed with its true half.
The original unity taught by the Bible and Hebrew theosophy forces us to see humanity in one body and one great great soul and one can easily understand how important is such a doctrine for the organization of mankind.
