The Angelic Kabbalah for Our Time ~ What This Work Offers...Teachings which illuminate the long-hidden tradition of the Angelic Kabbalah and significant aspects of its ancient wisdoms, and dynamically profound, yet practical engagement with the Angelic Divine mysteries through the 72 Angels that reside within and among our humanity for our utmost fulfillment and the greaterness of all....
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The importance of the ancient Angelic Kabbalah coming to light in our time is that it gives us profound, yet specific and practical ways to engage 'the Divine within'. We are at a crucial time in the collective soul of humanity's diverse peoples. And in our 21st century world, there are perhaps more of us than ever before who have the consciousness, and desire, to approach the paradoxical mysteries of human life and relationship with the Divine beyond the usual borders of religious dogma. The groundwork has been laid to consciously engage with the paradox of an inherently diverse 'One' that is embodied and expressed through the diversities of creation. We have the possibility to bring illumination and fulfillment to the cryptic words of the ancient Greek Oracle, the mystical profundities of William Blake and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the multitudes of mystics and and visionaries in the centuries between them that brought forth this invitation in so many different ways: 'Know Thyself, and you can know God...Know God, and you can know Thyself.' The questions for each of us are about willingness and which of the many paths of Divine-Self discovery we are called to.
My lifelong study of multiple spiritual traditions, including almost 25 years of working (and playing) with the Angelic Kabbalah, as well as my own mystical experiences of ‘receiving,’ have focused into this heartful work and everyday practice: to give the 72 Angels a voice and presence for our time – to reveal how they represent the emanations of the Divine Itself in all of creation, and to help awaken and live the awareness that we are not ‘only human,’ but Divine-Human beings made ‘in the image and likeness of God' by virtue of the Angelic Divine that lives within us and supports us at every level of our being and doing. All this not only for our own fulfillment, but for the greaterness of our collective humanity and the fulfillment of the Divine on Earth through us, for us, and as us.
The entirety of the Kabbalah, which means 'the receiving,' is deep and complex, and as infinitely explorable as its cosmic origins. While I have studied Kabbalah teachings from a variety of ancient and modern sources and multicultural interpreters/presenters, I have been less drawn to the systematic complexities of the tradition, and more to the dynamic inspiring experiences of working with the 72 Angels as living, resonating presences of the Divine Light and Being within and among us. I will not claim that my work in the Angelic Kabbalah is more 'pure' or true than anyone else's, although it may be the most comprehensive offered in the English language for our time thus far. There is no 'global' purity standard, no one book, 'bible' or school of thought to measure it by or hold it to. Like most mystical traditions, the Angelic Kabbalah is love-based, revelatory, non-dogmatic and fluid, thus always open to ongoing revelation and interpretation. Thus, my works, and my teaching curriculum, include also my own ‘inner tuitions,’ inspired ‘receivings’ and further illuminations on historical Kabbalah teachings. In this, I continue to bring through as much ever-evolving truth as my willingness to bring myself in love enables me to do. That acknowledged, we are all imperfect filters at best, so I have always sought confirmation through research and the works of others, also both ancient and modern – as well as ongoing inner teachings as my growing consciousness has increased my ability to receive and understand.
Through the years, research of the Kabbalah has taken me all the way back to Abraham and Moses, before conversations, encounters and revelations with the Divine were written down. The teachings attributed to Abraham detailed the mysteries of Creation (set forth in the oldest known work on the Kabbalah, the Sefer Yetzirah, or Book of Creation) via the first Divine Utterances (as in "Let There Be Light," a primordial abracadabra), which ultimately became associated with the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. And then there was Moses, who Kabbalah teachings say received two 'downloads' of revelation from God -- the Ten Commandments, which were the 'laws' of God for man -- and the mysteries of humankind's true nature and potential in collaboration with the Divine, which were hidden from the people at that time. Centuries later, with the emergence of Jesus the Christ as the 'Word of God become flesh,' humankind was introduced to the love of God for man and further revelations that ultimately became the New Covenant, or Testament, of Christianity. All of this is represented in the ever-growing revelations and wisdoms of the Kabbalah, which are said to underpin all traditions as they were passed down since the beginning of time from mystics, Rabbis and teachers to disciples and students as an oral tradition of 'hidden knowledge.'
Beginning in at least the 12th century with Rabbi Isaac the Blind in France, the centuries of oral teachings began to include the private writings and records of the teachers, as well as correspondences to the revelations of other traditions -- especially the mystical Sufis, who had their own Tree of Life, and various Christian mystical traditions, Neoplatonists, alchemists and more). The teachings then began to be systematized, likely to preserve them, but also to lay some kind of consistent groundwork for additional research, study and revelations. Yet even from these systems sprang different schools of thought as new revelations emerged from successive teachers and students throughout time and numerous cultures.
It is in the nature of every generation of humankind and human understanding to take what came before and add something new. In the push-pull between individuation and togetherness, we are naturally impulsed to carry forward the wisdom of the past while at the same time bring forth new knowledge and understandings with the greater light of growing consciousness. Thus, through the centuries there have been many permutations of Kabbalah wisdom, and many diverse perspectives, interpretations and schools of study. Much of this was due to the continual persecution and migration of the Jews, and especially, the Spanish Inquisition in the 13th to 15th centuries which not only persecuted and banished the Jews, but anyone from any tradition or teaching that was not a church-sanctioned version of Christianity. And thus especially the Kabbalah, which encouraged direct relationship with the Divine without the need of intercessors, was heresy for the dark grasp of the Spanish Inquisition that attempted to suppress it. But very ripe for 21st century consciousness!
There have been, of course, numerous works and tributaries dealing with aspects of the 72 Angels tradition in play before and since my own work (see 'A Brief History of the 72 Angels Tradition' in the Knowledge Center). In the last 20 years, there has been the Kabbalah Center's books and teachings on the '72 Names,' as well as the work of Kaya and Christiane Muller, who introduced me to the tradition and whose works focus on the 72 Angels in the context of dreamwork. Since the release of my first book on the 72 Angels in 2004, a number of schools and practitioners of complementary philosophies, practices and products have corresponded the 72 Angels with their systems, such as the color philosophies and products of Aura-Soma, various essential oil therapy systems, different schools of astrology, and more. This has at times resulted in the assignment of qualities and functions to each of the 72 Angels that do not correspond purely to their qualities and functions, but are commingled with aspects and influences of those other systems. Although for many years I remained in my own corner of the world studying and writing 'in the wings' of what was going on in the greater world with other 72 Angels teachings, over the last couple of years I have been urged inwardly to bring ‘my own’ work with the 72 Angels more forward to offer in-depth knowledge about the 72 Angels and the Angelic Kabbalah so that these might be available to other students and teachers and give more depthful complement to other traditions and systems.
The Kabbalah says that we come into life to grow our soul-body consciousness and to 'bring Heaven to Earth' by rooting more and more Divinity within our humanity as we ascend in awareness and transform our 'base mettle' into the gold of greater consciousness. This seems to be the purpose of this work – to illuminate, as alchemy's Emerald Tablet conveys, that not only 'what is above is like to that which is below,' but that the above is within the below, embodied and expressed as the below, with unlimited potential to embody the above.
A great gift of this work is that as we become more aware of the Divine within, and we allow the Angelic Divine-Spirit-soul part of us to collaborate more and more with our humanity, being human becomes less effortful, less painful – and more understandable, more inspiring, more doable, fulfilling, and infinitely more joyful. And we begin to let go of our limited concepts of human possibility into the 'anything-is-possible life of a Divine-Human being.
My lifelong study of multiple spiritual traditions, including almost 25 years of working (and playing) with the Angelic Kabbalah, as well as my own mystical experiences of ‘receiving,’ have focused into this heartful work and everyday practice: to give the 72 Angels a voice and presence for our time – to reveal how they represent the emanations of the Divine Itself in all of creation, and to help awaken and live the awareness that we are not ‘only human,’ but Divine-Human beings made ‘in the image and likeness of God' by virtue of the Angelic Divine that lives within us and supports us at every level of our being and doing. All this not only for our own fulfillment, but for the greaterness of our collective humanity and the fulfillment of the Divine on Earth through us, for us, and as us.
The entirety of the Kabbalah, which means 'the receiving,' is deep and complex, and as infinitely explorable as its cosmic origins. While I have studied Kabbalah teachings from a variety of ancient and modern sources and multicultural interpreters/presenters, I have been less drawn to the systematic complexities of the tradition, and more to the dynamic inspiring experiences of working with the 72 Angels as living, resonating presences of the Divine Light and Being within and among us. I will not claim that my work in the Angelic Kabbalah is more 'pure' or true than anyone else's, although it may be the most comprehensive offered in the English language for our time thus far. There is no 'global' purity standard, no one book, 'bible' or school of thought to measure it by or hold it to. Like most mystical traditions, the Angelic Kabbalah is love-based, revelatory, non-dogmatic and fluid, thus always open to ongoing revelation and interpretation. Thus, my works, and my teaching curriculum, include also my own ‘inner tuitions,’ inspired ‘receivings’ and further illuminations on historical Kabbalah teachings. In this, I continue to bring through as much ever-evolving truth as my willingness to bring myself in love enables me to do. That acknowledged, we are all imperfect filters at best, so I have always sought confirmation through research and the works of others, also both ancient and modern – as well as ongoing inner teachings as my growing consciousness has increased my ability to receive and understand.
Through the years, research of the Kabbalah has taken me all the way back to Abraham and Moses, before conversations, encounters and revelations with the Divine were written down. The teachings attributed to Abraham detailed the mysteries of Creation (set forth in the oldest known work on the Kabbalah, the Sefer Yetzirah, or Book of Creation) via the first Divine Utterances (as in "Let There Be Light," a primordial abracadabra), which ultimately became associated with the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. And then there was Moses, who Kabbalah teachings say received two 'downloads' of revelation from God -- the Ten Commandments, which were the 'laws' of God for man -- and the mysteries of humankind's true nature and potential in collaboration with the Divine, which were hidden from the people at that time. Centuries later, with the emergence of Jesus the Christ as the 'Word of God become flesh,' humankind was introduced to the love of God for man and further revelations that ultimately became the New Covenant, or Testament, of Christianity. All of this is represented in the ever-growing revelations and wisdoms of the Kabbalah, which are said to underpin all traditions as they were passed down since the beginning of time from mystics, Rabbis and teachers to disciples and students as an oral tradition of 'hidden knowledge.'
Beginning in at least the 12th century with Rabbi Isaac the Blind in France, the centuries of oral teachings began to include the private writings and records of the teachers, as well as correspondences to the revelations of other traditions -- especially the mystical Sufis, who had their own Tree of Life, and various Christian mystical traditions, Neoplatonists, alchemists and more). The teachings then began to be systematized, likely to preserve them, but also to lay some kind of consistent groundwork for additional research, study and revelations. Yet even from these systems sprang different schools of thought as new revelations emerged from successive teachers and students throughout time and numerous cultures.
It is in the nature of every generation of humankind and human understanding to take what came before and add something new. In the push-pull between individuation and togetherness, we are naturally impulsed to carry forward the wisdom of the past while at the same time bring forth new knowledge and understandings with the greater light of growing consciousness. Thus, through the centuries there have been many permutations of Kabbalah wisdom, and many diverse perspectives, interpretations and schools of study. Much of this was due to the continual persecution and migration of the Jews, and especially, the Spanish Inquisition in the 13th to 15th centuries which not only persecuted and banished the Jews, but anyone from any tradition or teaching that was not a church-sanctioned version of Christianity. And thus especially the Kabbalah, which encouraged direct relationship with the Divine without the need of intercessors, was heresy for the dark grasp of the Spanish Inquisition that attempted to suppress it. But very ripe for 21st century consciousness!
There have been, of course, numerous works and tributaries dealing with aspects of the 72 Angels tradition in play before and since my own work (see 'A Brief History of the 72 Angels Tradition' in the Knowledge Center). In the last 20 years, there has been the Kabbalah Center's books and teachings on the '72 Names,' as well as the work of Kaya and Christiane Muller, who introduced me to the tradition and whose works focus on the 72 Angels in the context of dreamwork. Since the release of my first book on the 72 Angels in 2004, a number of schools and practitioners of complementary philosophies, practices and products have corresponded the 72 Angels with their systems, such as the color philosophies and products of Aura-Soma, various essential oil therapy systems, different schools of astrology, and more. This has at times resulted in the assignment of qualities and functions to each of the 72 Angels that do not correspond purely to their qualities and functions, but are commingled with aspects and influences of those other systems. Although for many years I remained in my own corner of the world studying and writing 'in the wings' of what was going on in the greater world with other 72 Angels teachings, over the last couple of years I have been urged inwardly to bring ‘my own’ work with the 72 Angels more forward to offer in-depth knowledge about the 72 Angels and the Angelic Kabbalah so that these might be available to other students and teachers and give more depthful complement to other traditions and systems.
The Kabbalah says that we come into life to grow our soul-body consciousness and to 'bring Heaven to Earth' by rooting more and more Divinity within our humanity as we ascend in awareness and transform our 'base mettle' into the gold of greater consciousness. This seems to be the purpose of this work – to illuminate, as alchemy's Emerald Tablet conveys, that not only 'what is above is like to that which is below,' but that the above is within the below, embodied and expressed as the below, with unlimited potential to embody the above.
A great gift of this work is that as we become more aware of the Divine within, and we allow the Angelic Divine-Spirit-soul part of us to collaborate more and more with our humanity, being human becomes less effortful, less painful – and more understandable, more inspiring, more doable, fulfilling, and infinitely more joyful. And we begin to let go of our limited concepts of human possibility into the 'anything-is-possible life of a Divine-Human being.
Blessings, Terah Cox
