Kabbalah is an accurate method to investigate and define man’s position in the universe. The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us the reason why man exists, why he is born, why he lives, what the purpose of his life is, where he comes from and where he is going after he completes his life in this world.

As is known to many scholars of Kabbalah, much of the information available dealing with the theory of the subject has been derived, in some cases through two or three generations, from various works published by members, or sometime members, of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Kabbalah is a method of reaching the spiritual world. It teaches us about the spiritual world, and by studying it, we develop another sense. With the help of this sense we can be in touch with the upper worlds. The teachings derived from this source have helped many students to understand human nature and their relationship with the spiritual dimension.

Kabbalah is not a theoretical study, but a very practical one. Man learns about himself, who he is, what he is like. He learns what he needs to do to change himself stage by stage and step by step. He conducts his research through his inner self. All experimentation is conducted on himself, within himself.

That is why Kabbalah is called ‘‘The Hidden Wisdom.’’ Through Kabbalah a person undergoes internal changes that only he feels and knows are taking place. This activity occurs within a person; it is unique to him, and only he knows about it.

Much of this teaching included deliberate "mysteries" which led many students to believe that some areas are for ever beyond human knowledge. As far back as the late Nineteen-fifties, it became clear that the subject was misrepresented. This was because, as well as the "mysteries" mentioned, the teaching incorporated inconsistencies which led naturally to conclusions not borne out by experience.The word Kabbalah comes from the Hebrew word "lekabbel", to receive. Kabbalah describes the motives of actions as ‘‘the desire to receive.’’ This desire refers to receiving various kinds of pleasure. In order to receive pleasure, a person is usually willing to invest great effort.

The question is, how can one attain the maximum amount of pleasure while paying a minimum price for it? Everyone tries to answer this question in his own way.
As a basis for research, it was necessary to go back to what are believed to be the first published dissertations on the subject, namely the Sepher Yetzirah (or Book of Formation) and the text known as the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom. From these beginnings, it has been possible to build up a consistent scheme which does not incorporate an embarrassing number of "mysteries" and which can be verified by personal experience. Because there are readers who are being introduced to Kabbalah for the first time in these pages, it is necessary to start at the beginning with some elementary definitions familiar to students of any school of Kabbalah.

There is a certain order to the way the desire to receive develops and grows. In the first stage, man lusts after physical pleasure. Then he seeks money and honor. An even stronger desire makes him thirst for power. He may later develop a desire for spirituality, which is at the peak of the pyramid. A person who recognizes how great his desire for spirituality begins to seek ways of satisfying this desire.

The passage through the stages of the desire to receive makes a person become familiar with his abilities and limitations. Kabbalah deals with the upper worlds, the roots of our feelings and thoughts, which we cannot grasp.

Since we have no control over the worlds, we do not know how and why our feelings and thoughts are created. We wonder at experiences such as sweet, bitter, pleasant, rough and so forth. We are unsuccessful at building scientific tools to examine our feelings, even in the field of psychology, psychiatry and other social disciplines. Behavioral factors remain hidden from our understanding.

Kabbalah is a system for scientifically evaluating our feelings: It takes the total of our feelings and desires, and provides an exact scientific formula for each and every phenomenon, at each level, for every type of understanding and feeling.
This is the work of feelings combined with intellect. It uses, for beginning students, geometry, matrices and diagrams. When studying Kabbalah, they recognize each of their own feelings and begin to understand it. They know what name it should be given according to its power, direction and character.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is an ancient and proven method. Through it, man can receive higher awareness and attain spirituality. This is really his goal in this world. When a person feels a desire for spirituality, he starts to feel a longing for it, and can then develop the desire through the wisdom of Kabbalah that has been provided by the Creator. The differences in the arrangement presented later will not, therefore, become apparent until these preliminaries have been disposed of. From that point on, however, it will be found that the teaching progresses naturally into areas which have previously been considered enigmatic or paradoxical and thence to an exposition of "Jacob's Ladder" (Genesis) which not only incorporates "ten Sephiroth and not nine, ten and not eleven" (Sepher Yetzirah) but also consists of thirty-two paths (32 Paths of Wisdom) with no serious inconsistencies or paradoxes whatever.

Kabbalah is a word that describes the aim of the Kabbalist: to attain everything man is capable of, as a thinking being, the highest of all creatures.