LI6 4. However, while discussing the possible influences of Abulafia in The Mystical Experience, Idel does not give any particular relevance to Sefer Yetzirah. We have left behind father and mother, we have left behind vineyards and fields, we have left behind goods and the greatness of kings, and we have followed thee, so that thou shouldst teach us to know the life of thy father who has sent thee" The living Jesus answered and said : "The life of my Father is this : that you receive your soul from the race of understanding mind, and that it ceases to be earthly and becomes understanding through that which I say to you in the course of my discourse, so that you fulfil it and are saved from the archon of this aeon and his persecutions, to which there is no end. Many Jews today feel ambivalent about and tenuously connected to Rabbinical Judaism. Abulafia Cooper Messianic Consciousness Documents.
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