Abraham Abulafia 231扇智慧的大门
Abraham Abulafia
现代人可能会对这个名字陌生。但是，他的的确确的是懂得卡巴拉的拉比里面最重要的一位。不仅仅是因为他将他的先知卡巴拉广泛的流传起来。同时许多数值的技法也归功于Abulafia。
这二十二字母是万物之源：他在一个轮回（Sphere，Cycle）上如墙壁一般，设立了二百三十一扇大门。而这轮回会向前或向后轮转，不论是由于善或者由于恶；善之外无有真实地快乐，恶之中无他只有苦痛。-形成之书 2:4
这里要介绍的是一种内修的技法。是最早出现在Life of the World to Come
那么很多了解形成之书的人会知道，在犹太卡巴拉秘术里面也有用231扇门来创造魔偶的技法。就是拉比Yehudah Loew ben Betzalel 1525-1609 这位拉比收到神的启示后创造了一个魔偶用来保护当时正在受迫害的犹太人们。
有一个说法是，形成之书的这一段其实是Abulafia加上去的。无论如何，他定然与这节有关系。
那么，如何进行这个冥想呢？
以 色 列 阿 ， 我 既 这 样 行 ， 你 当 预 备 迎 见 你 的 神 。阿 摩 司 书 4：:12
准备好你自己，整理好你的心灵并且洁净你的身体。选择一个特别的地方，这一你的声音不会被任何旁人听见。
Prepare yourself, unify your heart and purify your body and choose yourself a special place that will not let your voice be heard by any man in the world.
独身一人，并且特别的避免与其他人接触，坐在一个房间或者阁楼上。不要告诉任何人你的秘密。
Be one and special and isolate yourself without any other, and sit in the room or in the attic and do not reveal your secret to any man.
如果你可以在一个比较昏暗点的房子中做这个最佳。如果可以，最好是在晚上做。
And if you can do this in a house that is a little darkened, do it. And it is best and fitting that you do this at night.
在同一个小时你当预备好你自己与造物主对话，注意要清空你的思想，清理一切世界的虚妄的事情，并且祈求他宣扬他的勇气和胜利到你身上。
At the same hour that you prepare yourself to speak with your creator, be careful to empty your thoughts from all the vanities of this world and request Him to proclaim his courageous victories to you.
如果你可以戴上你的祷告披肩（Tallit）然后戴上经匣（Teffilin）在你的头上和膀臂上，籍此你会对正在你旁边Shekinah 感到恐惧和畏惧。
And adorn yourself in a prayer shawl (tallit) and put phylacteries (teffilin) upon your head and arms if you can so that you will be in awe and fear of the Shekhinah who is present with you at that moment.
如果你可以，接近你自己和你的衣服，最好穿戴白色的衣服，这些用助于集中敬畏和爱的感觉。
And clean yourself and your clothes, and if you can, let them all be white clothes, as all this benefits the intention of Awe and Love very much.
如果这是在晚上，点无数的蜡烛，直到他们让你的眼睛都闪闪发光了。
And if this is at night, light many candles until they make your eyes shine very beautifully.
在这之后，拿起墨水，笔和本子在你手中，这即将要见证你要快乐的以纯净的心进行神你的主的工。
And after this take ink, pen and tablet in your hands. And this will be a witness that you come to work the work of God your Lord in happiness and an innocent heart.
接下来开始组合字母，一个一个的来让他们在你的心中流动让你的心感到暖流。让你的心投入他们的移动和组合与产生。
And begin to combine letters, a few with many, and turn and revolve them speedily until your heart is warmed by their revolutions. And put your heart in their movement and what their revolution engenders.
这时你会感觉到你自己的心脏充满了暖流。这暖流是来自字母的组合的，你懂得了一些人类传播中没有的事情，这些事情不能因人类的智慧而得到，这个时候你就准备好去接受Abundance了。
And when you feel in yourself that your heart has been warmed very much by the combinations and you understand from them new matters that you did not grasp from human transmission and did not know them from yourself by intellectual effort, then you are ready to receive the abundance (Shefa).
Abundance会流淌进入你，并且引导你见到许多异像一个接着一个。预备好你的真实的思想来描绘神名，愿他的名为有福的，以及他大能的天使，描绘他们于你的心中，就如他们是人类一样。坐着或者站着围绕着你，有如国王旁边站着的使者，他的仆人想要汇报，他也准备好听他们每一个人的报告了。这就是从国王或者从他的仆人那里来的。
And the abundance flows onto you and arouses you to many things one after the other. Prepare your true thought to depict the Name, may his Name be blessed, and his superior angels; depict them in your heart as if they were people, standing or sitting around you and you amongst them like an emissary that the King and his servants want to deploy and he is ready to hear from one of them the pronouncement of the matter of his mission, if from the King or from one of his servants.
在你描绘了这一切之后，预备好你的心去明白一切在你组合字母时来到你的知识。学习他们，就如一个人被告知了一个谜语，梦或者寓言，或者一个人研究一本书里面的一个主题的智慧，深入那他无法理解的奥秘。这也会帮助你解决无法找到最佳方案的问题的解决方法。
And after you have depicted all of this prepare your mind and heart to understand in your thought the many things that will come to you from within the letters computed in your heart, and study all of them or their parts like a person who is told a parable, a riddle or a dream, or as one perusing a topic in a book of wisdom deeper than he can comprehend. And solve the matter that you will hear to the best solution and as close as you can get to it
自行判断你在这里面懂得了什么，然后就如前面我教导的一样做同样的事情。
And judge yourself according to what you will understand from it, and do the same with the other matters in all that they will tell you.
这会积累到你身上在你把笔和板子丢下或者他们掉下了，因为你的脑子里面被无尽的快乐充满了。
And this will all accrue to you after you throw the tablet and stylus from between your fingers or if they fall by themselves due to the plenitude of your thoughts and the multiplicity of your happiness.
要知道，值得荣耀的Abundance的智慧会在强烈的在你身上，所以你外在的和内在的器官会衰弱，你的身体在极大的动荡中感觉被掏空。
And know that as much as the honorable intellectual abundance will be strong with you, so much so will your external and internal organs weaken, and your whole body will be engulfed in a very strong upheaval.
直到你觉得，你即刻要死去了时，因为你的灵魂要为那无尽的快乐和他所懂得的事情立刻你的肉体。
Till you will think for yourself that in any case you will die at that time, for your soul will separate from your body due to the multitude of joy in its comprehension and knowing what you have known.
这会让灵魂在救赎中永生，你也就知道了你达到了能承受abundance的程度了。
And in this cause the soul will live a resurrection forever and ever. And then you will know that you have arrived at the degree of receiving the abundance.
如果这个时候你希望去荣耀那指导荣耀的美妙孩子名，并且真诚的崇拜他以你的生命和灵魂已经肉体，掩盖你的脸庞要畏惧去看神。神 說 、 不 要 近 前 來 、 當 把 你 腳 上 的 鞋 脫 下 來 、 因 為 你 所 站 之 地 是 聖 地 ． 出埃及记 3:5
And if you wish then to honor the honorable and awesome Name and worship Him truly in the life of the soul and the body, hide your face more and be afraid of looking at God and "do not come closer, remove your sandals from your feet for the place that you stand upon is holy ground" (Exodus 3:5).
这时回到你肉体的事物上去，从那里起身去吃一点事物喝一点水然后闻一些好闻的香味，让你的灵回到刀鞘中直到下一次了。让你的心为你被告知的事情感到快乐。
And return to the matters of the body, and rise from there and eat a little and drink a little and smell a pleasing fragrance and return your spirit to its scabbard until the next time. And make your heart happy with your share.
231门是如何组建的呢？
从Alef 开始以次与Alef Bet...等字母组合。 注意希伯来语是从右到左书写的，视觉化的时候也要按这个顺序。聪明的人可以建一个轮子出来，更聪明的人（比如我）会建两个轮子出来。
刚刚有聪明的小可爱我有提到视觉化这个词，其实组合字母是有三个步骤的
1.沉思字母，也就是让字母在你的心脏位置和纸上被视觉化
2.念出字母 念出来你组合的字母 比如Alef Alef 就是 念 A-le-f A-le-f
3.写出字母 把你组合的字母写在纸上
希望大家都能依靠这个内修技巧有所收获哦~
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