Namo schrieb:
... im Jüdischen Zohar ('Das brilliante Licht') des Moses ben Shem Tov von Leon kann man die spirituellen Bedeutungen der Torah (Pentateuch) Geschichten als Symbole verstehen lernen, sowie z.B. die Geschichte des Jonah, über die ich hier auch schon schrieb und welche das Geboren werden in eine rauhe Welt (diese!) als Seele (Jonah = Möwe = Seele) parabelisiert.
Die Geschichte des Jonah ist eine Parabel, deren esoterische Bedeutung Jesus kannte. Er wies ja darauf in diesem Kontext hin. Die Zeichen der Zeit wie sie am Himmel stehen konnten, die die Gelehrten offenschtlich nicht beurteilen. Was ist der Kontext? Es ist das Wissen um die verborgene Bedeutung der Himmelsobjekte (Planeten des Tierkreises) nach der auch Hiob gefragt wurde, ob er sie denn deuten könne - und um die verborgene Bedeutung der Jonah Parabel, deren Bedeutung darin liegt, daß die unsichtbare Seele in einen Körper 'herabsteigt' wo es dunkel ist und wieder 'aufsteigt':
Das Hebräische Wort for 'Taube' ist 'Jonah' und seine verborgene Bedeutung, wie sie im Zohar offenbart wird, ist die menschliche Seele in ihrer Erfahrung von der Geburt bis zum Tode zur Wiederauferstehung und einem neuen Leben.
Im Zohar heißt es:
"The Retelling of Jonah
The biblical story of Jonah is read as a parable of human experiencefrom birth through death to resurrection and renewed life.
A parable of the lire of a human being in this world:
Jonah, who boarded a ship, I is really the human saul who descends to this world in order to enter iota the body of the person. Why is it called Jonah (denoting torment?) Because together with the body it experiences agony and affliction in this world, as it is said, "Do not wrong (afflict) one another" (Leviticus 25:17). A person living in this world is like a slip in danger of being shattered in the midst of the Great Sea, as it is said, "the ship was in danger of breaking up" (Jonah 1:4). And when a human being sins in this world, he thinks of fleeing from the presence of his master rather than giving thought to
that other world.
But the Holy one, blessed be He, sends forth a strong storm wind, the person's judgment continually in God's sight and pursuing its execution. The storm strikes the ship and directs attention to the sins of that person that he may be seized. By means of that storm the person is taken through illness, as it is written, "he lay down and fell asleep" (Jonah 1:5). But even though a person is afflicted with illness, his soul is still not moved to return to its Master that it might be redeemed from its sins. What is written? "The captain went over to rum and cried out" (Jonah 1:6).
Who is the captain? The good inclination which is in a position of authority. And it says to him, "How can you sleep so soundly! Ur, call upon your God" (Jonah 1:6). This is not a time für sleep, rather it is the time to present yourself für judgment concerning all that you have done in this world; repent of your sin. Consider these things and return to your Master:
"What is your business?" With what did you occupy yourse!f in this world? Confess concerning it before your Master. "Where have you come from?" (Jonah 1:8) Consider from where you have come "from a putrid drop -and you will not feel proud in His presence. "What is your country?" (Jonah 1:8) Consider that "from dust you were created, and to dust you will return" (Genesis 3:19). "And of what people are you?" (Jonah 1:8) Consider whether or not you have merit from your fathers which can come to your defense. Since you are about to be called for judgment before the heavenly court, this storm, which is a judgment-decree raging against rau, voices a Jemand of the King, seeking to judge His prisoners. All His counselors appear before Him
One by One.
It is then that the court is formed. Some speak in the person's defense while others press for conviction. And the court insists that justice be clone. If the person is not acquitted, what is written?
"Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to regain the share, bur they could not" (Jonah 1:3 ) - those who speak on his behalf strive with great effort to restore him to this world, but they are unable to do so.
Why? "For the sea was growing more and more stormy about them" (Jonah 1:13). The judgment of guilt rages with greater and greater force due to the person's sins until it prevails over him.
As is proper, three messengers are appointed to bring evidence against him. One has a written account containing both all the meritorious deeds and all the transgressions that he had performed in this world; another has a reckoning of his days, and the third is the One who has accompanied hirn from the time that he was still in his mother's womb.
It becomes clear that the demand for judgment for his sins is not appeased until, as it is written, "they heaved Jonah overboard" (Jonah 1:15). "And they heaved": they took him from his home to the gravesite, in accordance with the proclamations concerning him. If he is innocent, it is proclaimed concerning him, "Give honor to the image of the King." "Yet he shall come to peace, he shall have rest on his couch who walked straightforward" (Isaiah 57:2). From where? As it is written, "Your Vindicator shall march before rau, the Presence of the Lord shall be your guard" (Isaiah 58:8). But should he be found guilty, these proclamations are heard concerning hirn: "Woe to this
person; it would have been preferable for him never to have been created." It is written, "And they heaved Jonah overboard, and the sea stopped raging" (Jonah 1:15).
When they brought him into the graveyard following the judgment, the decree of judgment that had been raging now calmed from its fury. The fish that swallowed him is really the grave: What is written? "And Jonah remained in the fish's belly" (Jonah 2:1). The belly of this fish is actually the belly of Sh')ol. On what basis is this identity established? It is written, "From the belly of Sh')ol I cried out" (Jonah 2:3). And should it otherwise be understood simply as the belly of the fish and nothing more, it is here clearly written, "the belly of the Netherworld."
"Three days and three nights" (Jonah 2:1) - these are the three days during which a person lies in the grave with his inward parts split open.
After those three days, the stomach's filth is poured out upon his face as the body declares to him, "Take what you have given me. For you ate and drank all dar lang without ever giving to the unfortunate, and all of your days were as festive days while the poor were famished, never eating with you; therefore, take what you have given me!" This is as it is written: "I will strew dung uran your faces (the dung of your festival sacrifices, and you shall be carried out to his [heap])" (Malachi 2:3).
In this war it is confirmed that during the span of time following those three days, a person is afflicted in his eyes and in his hands and his legs, the rain continuing for a period of thirty days. During all those thirty days the spirit and the body together receive punishment as one entity and for this reason the soul remains present below, beneath the ground, and does not ascend to its own place, like a woman who dwells apart during all the days of her impurity.
Afterward when the soul ascends, the body decomposes in the ground until that time that the Holy one, blessed be He, will awaken the dead.
A voice will then resound among the graves, announcing, "Awake and shout für joy, you who dwell in the dust! For Your dew is like the dew on fresh growth; You make the land of the shades come to lire (You will cast down the land of the shades)" (Isaiah 26:19). When will this occur? At the time that the Angel of Death will be removed from the world, as it is written, "He will destroy death forever" (Isaiah 25:8). Since He will have swallowed death für all time, it then follows that "My Lord God will wipe the tears away from all faces and will put an end to the reproach of His people" (Isaiah 25:8). And
concerning this it is written, "The Lord commanded the fish, and it
spewed Jonah out upon the dry land" (Jonah 2:11).
Immediately when that voice will be heard among the graves, each grave will cast forth the dead which it holds, as it is written, "You will make the land ofthe shades (refaJim) come to life" (Isaiah 26:19). What are refaJim? The dead will experience healing, restoring them to their former condition, bone to bone, and so these are called refaJim (rfa, "heal"). And ifyou say, it is written (in connection with idolaters), "[they are] shades, they can never rise" (Isaiah 26:14), certainly all the world will find healing in the grave. But some will eise, whereas others will not. And it is concerning the latter that it is written "[ they are] shades, they can never rise." But Israel will have a good destiny, as it is written concerning them, "My dead bodies shall arise" (Isaiah 29:19).
In the account of the fish one finds words of healing for all the world, for upon swallowing Jonah the fish died, but after Jonah was inside the fish for three days, the fish was restored to lire and cast out Jonah, as it is written, "Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish" (Jonah 2:2). It is written hefe dagah and it is similarly written dagah in another verse, "and the fish in the Nile died" (Exodus 7:21); just as there the fish died, so here too, the fish bad died. The land of Israel is similarly destined to be stirred to new lire, and following that, all "the earth will cast forth its
dead" (Isaiah 26:19).
(From the Zohar)
Hieraus wird verständlich, dass es eine nicht offen sichtbare Bedeutung in den Geschichten der Bibel gibt. Zeichen zeigen. Das Zeichen des Jonah ist die nicht sichtbare Seele, die wie die Bedeutung der Zeichen der Zeit am Himmel für die Unwissenden (also Gelehrten, Christen etc.) nicht sichtbar ist.
Die Frage an Hiob, ob er den Tierkreis deuten könne, zeigt, daß die Kunst und Wissenschaft der Astrologie der Geschichte der Semiten einen Platz hatte.
Wenn dann die Parole (in der Torah!) ausgegeben wird: "Astrologen sollt ihr nicht am Leben lassen", dann ist es nicht verwunderlich, daß die Jüdischen Gelehrten um 30 C.E. das nicht mehr beurteilen konnten. Sie glauben nur dem, der zaubern kann. Das ist heute nicht anders ("Jesus wird sich schon um mein Karma kümmern - ich bin ja gläubiger Christ"). Das Nichts aus dem Nichts erzeugt werden kann und alles das, was woanders hin bewegt wird, dann dort fehlt, und daß nichts in diesem Universum verschwinden kann, kein Atom oder seine Energie, wollen manche Menschen immer noch nicht sehen. Man muß jeden cent zurück zahlen - Jesus hat auch darüber gesprochen.
Namo