Why Should a Christian Study Kabbalah?

Many Christians, which are following conspiracy theories about the Kabbalah confuse it with the more occult 'Qabbalah'. We often see videos on YouTube where some preachers depict certain Tarot cards, etc., and call the topic they're speaking about 'Kabbalah,' while they often just take ideas from 'Qabbalah' to demonize it. The Qabbalah is a topic on its own; we should now elaborate on why Kabbalah is anything but demonic, but on the opposite, why it is a great enrichment for the faith of a Christian.

We nearly all grew up in a very paganized form of Christianity. Not that this paganism would be only bad, because through it millions, if not billions, of people found Jesus, but our very notion of Jesus is very distorted. We all grew up with imaginations that God would have impregnated a woman with Himself and that He Himself would have then walked upon the earth to teach us and subsequently to sacrifice Himself for Himself, to resurrect Himself through Himself, etc. Sounds already now a little bizarre if we follow this logically, right? Well, through inaccurate translations and later additions to the Greek manuscripts, we have received a very distorted version of the narrative of the New Testament, which is closer to the religion of the Greeks or Romans than to the actual Jewish roots of the New Testament.

The New Testament between the lines is full of hidden messages and hints to the teachings of Jewish mysticism, but we, through the eyes of our education, are normally just reading over these passages without ever recognizing the deep esoteric depth of the messages of Jesus and the Apostles. If you have studied the Kabbalah, you will find its entire system in the writings of the authors of the New Testament. When we begin to dig deep into the mystical language of Hebrew understanding, we're no longer in danger of over-literalizing certain passages through which we're led astray into a view of Christianity that is more in alignment with the esoteric traditions of the Greeks and Romans than the Jewish tradition. 

The New Testament is full of teachings on how we as mortal beings can climb a heavenly ladder into the mystical experience of transcendence. Besides our natural physical body, we also have a heavenly, spiritual body. Attaining the level of divination and prophecy means exactly establishing a contact with this transcendental realm. There we exceed the boundaries of time and space and enter a dimension where we can travel freely above them. This means that we already yearn for the home at God, which is described in the second letter of Corinthians. This entire physical world is an expression for the exile. We naturally feel that we're not at home in this world. This world is just a passage to a much greater promise. We must come away from a mere religious perspective, which sets every hope only on a reward in the afterlife. Rather, the New Testament encourages us everywhere to find a bridge to the hidden reality and to increase our supernal faculties, be it speaking in tongues, healing people, or the gift of divination and prophecy. Jesus said that he who believes will create much greater miracles than himself (John 14:12). The whole New Testament is about achieving a state of mind over matter. So the first step towards it should be about developing a right understanding of the Jewish roots of Jesus and his Apostles...