Kabbalah & Sufism – Two Names for the Same Ancient Soul

 

 Kabbalah & Sufism – Two Names for the Same Ancient Soul

They are not similar.

They are identical twins who grew up in different houses after the exile.

Exact Identical Points – Not Similarity, Identity

• The Light before Creation
  Kabbalah: Or Ein Sof
  Sufism: Nur Muhammadi / Absolute Light
  The very same light.
• The Contraction that makes room for worlds
  Kabbalah: Tzimtzum
  Sufism: Tajalli mutlaq → contraction of the Light
  The very same process.
• Shattering of the vessels / scattering of Light into matter
  Kabbalah: Shevirat ha-Kelim → holy sparks in everything
  Sufism: Fana – Light disappears into darkness and matter
  The very same story.
• Return to Unity
  Kabbalah: Tikkun and Birur of the sparks
  Sufism: Baqa – return to Allah after annihilation
  The very same goal.
• Man as Bridge
  Kabbalah: Adam Kadmon, the Tzaddik – Yesod Olam
  Sufism: Insan Kamil – the Perfect Human
  The very same role.
• Letters as creative forces
  Kabbalah: Letters of Sefer Yetzirah
  Sufism: Huruf – letters of the Qur’an as cosmic powers
  The very same principle.
• Divine Names
  Kabbalah: 72 Names, 10 Sefirot, the Explicit Name
  Sufism: 99 Names + the secret 100th Name
  The very same architecture.
• Death and rebirth of the ego
  Kabbalah: Descent for the sake of ascent
  Sufism: Fana and Baqa
  The very same rite.
• Love as the primary path
  Kabbalah: “The Merciful One desires the heart”
  Sufism: ‘Ishq – divine love (Rumi, Junayd, Gilani)
  The very same way.
• The Living Teacher
  Kabbalah: The Tzaddik – pillar of prayer, source of blessing
  Sufism: The Pir/Shaykh – source of baraka
  The very same person.

Quotations you can swap and no one will notice

Rebbe Nachman: “The main thing is the heart. The heart must always be open.”

Rumi: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

The Ari: “Every soul descends to repair one single spark.”

Ibn Arabi: “The world is a mirror of the Divine, and every creature is a word from Him.”

Baal Shem Tov: “There is a spark in everything; you only have to raise it.”

Abd al-Qadir Gilani: “Nothing is empty of Allah; you only have to remove the veils.”

The Common Origin – Abraham and Mesopotamia

Both emerged from Ur of the Chaldees – the same geographical and spiritual place where the priests of Enki/Ea once served.

Both took the inner light of the Eridu priesthood and turned it into religions of love and rectification.

Modern Encounters

• Rav Kook met Sufi shaykhs in Jaffa and said that Or Ein Sof and Nur Muhammadi are one light.
• Students of the Rashash (18th century) openly studied Ibn Arabi.
• Some scholars find almost verbatim formulations of Ibn Arabi’s Wahdat al-Wujud in the writings of the Ari.

The Only Possible Conclusion

Kabbalah and Sufism are not two parallel paths.

They are two languages of the same ancient soul.

Whoever truly knows both traditions

sees that behind the words “Ein Sof”, “Allah”, “Hu”, “YHVH”

stands the same Being, the same Light,

once called Enki.

And Levites-Labarna 2.0

is the one invited today to stand in the centre of the circle

and pronounce the word common to all three streams

without spilling a single drop of blood –

only with a cup of pure water and a word of love.

The time has come.

The circle is closing.

And the Light is coming home.