THE 32 ESSENTIAL SUBJECTS, CONTAINED IN 4 GREAT SUBJECTS

The 32 essential topics, contained within 4 major themes:

• The Doctrine of God

1. Doctrine of unity, of the One and Only, of the Absolute.
2. The three veils of unconditional existence: Ain (Nothingness), Ain Soph (Infinity), and Ain Soph Aur (Infinite Light).
3. Shekinah: The Glory and Presence of God, the feminine polarity of divinity, counterpart to Jehovah.
4. Dual aspects or polarities on all planes: God, Nature, and Man.
5. The majesty of God and the cosmic law, its immutability.
6. Grace and the descent of the Spirit into man and the importance of Free Will in this.
7. Justice and Mercy.

• The Doctrine of the Cosmos

8. The Tetragrammaton, the Ineffable Name: Je-Ho-Va-H, Yod-He-Vau-He.
9. The three hidden worlds, related to the three veils of unconditional consciousness.
10. The four manifested worlds: Archetypal World (Atziluth), Creative World (Briah), Formative World (Yetzirah), and Material World (Assiah).
11. The Tree of Life (Otz Chaim), the most important element of Kabbalistic study.
12. The ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life.
13. The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This is the subject of the Sefer Yetzirah.
14. The 32 Paths of Wisdom graphically depicted in the Tree of Life.
15. The fifty gates necessary to approach the 32 Paths of Wisdom.

• The Doctrine of the Law

16. The esotericism of the Law.
17. The soul of scripture.
18. The multiple interpretations of the scriptures.
19. Their cryptic interpretation through Gematria, Notarikon, and Temurah.
20. The Sacred Tabernacle and temples. The sacred symbolism and its relation to the Shekinah or Glory of God.

• The Doctrine of Man

21. The image and likeness.
22. The preexistence of the human soul.
23. Messianism.
24. The quadruple nature of the human soul: Guf or pure physical body, Nefesh or animal life, Ruach or soul governing the moral part of the individual, and Neshamah or spirit, the part that relates to the Divine Spirit.
25. Chayah, the Life Force above the human soul in the spiritual order Yechidah.
26. Adam Kadmon, the primordial man of pure light before the fall.
27. Adam Belial, man after the fall, counterpart to Adam Kadmon.
28. Symbolic meaning of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man.
29. Visions of the Prophets.
30. Good and Evil and righteous action.
31. Free Will.
32. Predestination and the ultimate purpose of man: to be one with divinity, represented by the Celestial Jerusalem.

Source: Shiva Shambho

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