{"id":16847,"date":"2026-01-28T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16847"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:13:40","slug":"the-spiritual-force-called-messiah","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-spiritual-force-called-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiritual Force Called \u201cMessiah\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q: What is the Messiah from the perspective of a Kabbalist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>&nbsp;The term, \u201cMessiah,\u201d comes from the Hebrew word \u201cpulling.\u201d This refers to the pulling of people up from the ignominious worldliness to a higher level. Messiah is a spiritual force, the Upper Light; the Upper Spiritual Force that descends to our world and corrects mankind, raising us to a higher level of consciousness. 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