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Bnei Baruch Kabbalah As Philosophical Mysticism. Naturalization of the Category of God and Naturalistic Spirituality
Dorota Izabela BRYLLA1
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 1(124)2025, Publication date: 31 March 2025
Keywords: Bnei Baruch, Kabbalah, philosophical mysticism, naturalistic spirituality
Abstract In Bnei Baruch Kabbalah one does not believe in the Creator, but „attains”, „discovers” him in himself/herself, in the aftermath of experiencing nature and laws that govern it (with one general law: the law of bestowal). It is about the act of immediate feeling what should diversify Kabbalah and religion and make the first an exemplification of science. In fact, this experience of the Creator (the ideal of the so-called „equivalence of form with the Creator-nature”) determines the correlate of mystical experience which does not have to stay dependent on religious system. However, it is not a science case, but a philosophical experience case. Bnei Baruch Kabbalah is a philosophical mysticism due to its atheistic (hence atheism is combined with philosophy) and naturalistic (hence there is no traditional, i.e. theistic, conception of God) characteristics.
Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0003-4125-5248
E-mail: dorotabrylla@gmail.com