Re - Member

“What does remember ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life – re-membering.

We see this in the vivid story from ancient Egypt, where Isis, the goddess of wisdom, re-members her husband, Osiris. As the god of the netherworld, Osiris weighed the souls of the dead to determine where each soul would go. Osiris’s brother, Seth, was so jealous of Osiris’s power that he murdered his brother and then cut him into fourteen pieces, burying them all over Egypt. When Isis learned of this, she scoured Egypt to find the pieces, and after collecting them, she put together all but one of them, restoring Osiris to life.  She re-membered him.

She put his members back together, a process of cosmic reconstructive surgery. Because she recalled him whole, through an act of remembering, both physical and mental, she brought him back to life. In mental imagery we re-member and restore ourselves from the fragmentation we experience both internally and externally from the disturbing situations that surround us. We bring ourselves back to life by aligning ourselves with the truths that come to us from the invisible universe.

This sacred realm knows what we need and is always available to us through mental imagery. The revelatory way of the prophets, the systematizers of Visionary Kabbalah, is alive today in the use of mental imagery for purposes of both healing and spiritual realization. This book endeavors to show readers how to invigorate their lives in the spirit of Visionary Kabbalah. In a modest way, the book aims to give everyone the means to become a practicing kabbalist.”
~ Gerald Epstein