There is a public doctrine in Islam, and an esoteric Muslim doctrine known as Sufism.
The Sufi initiates always recognized the light of Tawhid, the divine unity, can express in many ways. Elohim is the army of the voice: many masters, one universal consciousness.
The unity can express as Kether (supremacy), Chokmah (wisdom), and Binah (intelligence). There is no division there, since they are three aspects of one divinity.
In the name of Allah (Kether), the infinitely Compassionate (Chokmah), the Merciful (Chesed).
Praise be to God (Binah), Lord of all the worlds.
The Compassionate (Chokmah), the Merciful (Chesed). Ruler on the Day of Reckoning (Geburah).
You alone do we worship, and You alone do we ask for help (as Tiphereth, the human soul).
Guide us on the straight path (of Yesod),
the path of those who have received your grace (by controlling the mind and heart, Netzach and Hod);
not the path of those who have brought down wrath, nor of those who wander astray (in Malkuth).
Amen.
To understand the Qur’an, one must be a Kabbalist and alchemist.
When people do not know Kabbalah and alchemy, they enter into confusion.
Just as the Buddhists rejected the doctrine of Atman (self) in order to clarify the teachings of anatman (no self), so did the original Muslims seek to clarify the teachings of unity against the fanaticism and dogmatism of the Christians who thought the trinity signifies three literal people.
He it is Who has sent down the Book upon thee; therein are signs [verses] determined; they are the Mother of the Book [the Tarot, the High Priestess], and others symbolic. As for those whose hearts are given to swerving, they follow that of it which is symbolic, seeking temptation and seeking its interpretation. And none know its interpretation save God and those firmly rooted in knowledge (marifah in Arabic, gnosis in Greek, Da'ath in Hebrew, the hidden sephirah on the Tree of Life, hidden within the throat whereby the verb is gestated, the power of the Tree of Knowledge). They say, "We believe in it: all is from our Lord." And none remember save those possessors of intellect (intelligence, Binah). –Al-Imran 7
The last phrase, “possessors of intellect,” is an inadequate translation. The original Arabic is ulu'l-al-bab, “possessors of kernels” or “seeds.” An intuitive kabbalist can see into the core of things, into their seed, their root nature. This is the nature of intuition, to perceive and interpret the experiences of divinity directly without the interference of the mind. We do so precisely working with the sexual seed, the seed of life. Intuitive kabbalists also see into and interpret the heart or core of any doctrine, any knowledge, any dimension, precisely since they develop the power of prophecy, founded upon Yesod. —Arcanum 2: The Empress from the Gnostic Academy of Chicago
Kabbalah is at the heart of Islam, which is the science of La Baca [in Spanish, the Kabbalah pronounced backwards], which translates as the cow, the Divine Mother of Surah 2, Al-Baqarah.
The science of the Divine Mother is the sacred stone, the Ka'ba of Yesod. Remember that Prophet Muhammad, while meditating at the Ka'ba or cubic stone of Yesod in Mecca, rode the mystical animal al-Buraq (Arabic for "the lightning" or Kundalini power) up the seven heavens (awakening the seven heavenly chakras of the spinal medulla).
The serpent awaits its awakening through the science of Yesod, the Ka'ba, so that the blackened stone of sex can be purified once more.
The name Muhammad, using the Abjad system of Arabic Kabbalah, is constituted of the following letters with specific numerical value:
Muhammad: (م) Mim (40) + (ح) Ha (8) + (م) Mim (40) + (م) Mim (40) + (د) Dal (4) = 132
Muhammad has the same Kabbalistc value as the Arabic word for "heart":
قلب Qalb, Heart:
ق Qaf (100) +
ل Lam (30) +
ب Ba (2) = 132
The sum for both ب Qalb and محمد Muhammad is 132. Adding the digits together we also get: 32 + 1 = 33. This reminds us of the 32 paths of Kabbalah, the Tree of Life, that we must walk to achieve Self-realization. There are thirty-three canyons within the spinal medulla through which البراق Al-Buraq, the sexual power of the Divine Mother, must rise.
Therefore Prophet Muhammad symbolizes how from the Ka'ba, Yesod, we raise the Kundalini power up the 33 vertebrae of the spinal medulla in accordance with the powers and fires of the heart, in order to ascend to the superior worlds.
When you add 33 together you get 3 + 3 = 6, and the sixth Sephirah in Kabbalah is תפארת Tiphereth, the Heart. With just reason, Prophet Muhammad, stated:
There is an organ in the body that, if it is righteous, ensures that the whole system will be righteous; and if it is corrupt, the whole body will become corrupt. This organ is the heart.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust; and the polish for the heart is dhikr, the remembrance of Allah. –Hadith
The fires of the heart control the fires of sex when we know how to polish the mirror of our heart, so as to reflect the light of divinity.
Prophet Muhammad is "the Seal of the Prophets," signified by the two ת Tav's in תפארת Tiphereth. ת Tav in Hebrew means "seal" or "truth." Therefore, Prophet Muhammad represents תפארת Tiphereth within any disciple that is walking the path of البراق Al-Buraq, the Rune Sig or "lightning" of الله Allah. The seal of the truth or truth seal is Mahamudra, Dzogchen, upon which Padmasambhava commented:
"It is the secret, unexcelled cycle of the supreme vehicle of Tantra, the true essence of the definitive meaning; the short path for attaining Buddhahood in one life."
This is the straight path mentioned in al-Fatihah of the Qur'an.
Lightning, b-r-q in Arabic, is also a vajra. Vajra relates with Dzogchen, Mahamudra, the Truth Seal, the Seal of the Prophets.
So we see that Muhammad is a master of tantra or Vajrayana, the sexual alchemical teachings. That's how he ascended to the superior worlds. البراق Al-Buraq is the lightning or the אור Aur, "light" of תפ-אר-ת Tiphereth: תפ-אור-ת, in the heart, the center of the Tree of Life. תפארת Tiphereth therefore hides the Hebrew letter ו Vav or Arabic و waw, the spinal medulla through which البراق Al-Buraq ascends within our spinal column to take us to heaven, the straight path to leads the soul to liberation, as described in the first Surah of the Qur'an, al-Fatihah. All of this is accomplished through sexual magic and dhikr: intense remembrance of الله Allah, the Being.
Regarding the Qur’an’s meaning of Christ’s crucifixion,
see this.
Regarding the Divine Mother in Islam, see the Second Arcanum of the Tarot referenced below:
We have a course on ChicagoGnosis.org dedicated to these principles. See below: