Ethics and Qaballah

One of the major issues that others have had with the Qaballah is that it does not seem to engender a system of ethics, as Christianity and all other religions do. It is necessary for one, to distinguish Qaballah from other religions in that Qaballah is not a religion. It is not. Whatever else it may be, religion it is not. It is not, precisely so it does not encompass the problems that other religions encounter.

Ethics to the Qaballist is what is wishes to be. No, that's not quite right. Good and evil are a part of this world, only because we are in this world. Were Creation to be undone and everything restored to its proper state, the "accident" corrected to proper form, then good and evil would have no hold, they would become irrelevant and useless (because in the corrected form, there is no "use").

To quote Isaac Meyer (taken from The Secret Wisdom of the Qaballah by J.F.C. Fuller):

"The Qabbalah does not recognize in the Good and Evil, two independent, automatic, opposing powers, but both are, according to it, under the power of the Supreme Absolute Deity. It asserts that the Evil springs out of the Good, and only originated from a diversion of the latter. Evil exists, for God's own wise purpose, by the sufferance of the Absolute One, who gives us the blighting cold, frost, and night, and also the beneficent and blessed daylight, warmth, and sunshine. Man therefore partakes of two regions, that of the external, visible, matter world, that of Evil and Darkness, and that of the internal spiritual higher world, that of Goodness and Light."