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Bath-kol
Alternatively Bath Qol, Bat Qol,
Bat Kol and Bath Kol.
A prophetic voice of inspiration issuing
from the spirit of Yahweh himself. Also the name of the
holy guardian angel said to have visited in his cell the 2nd
century sage
Simeon ben Yohai, the reputed author of the Zohar. Nicholas Flamel, the notorious French alchemist, claimed guidance from this same
angel, deemed to be the angel of prophecy, in his quest for the Philosopher's Stone.
In the Talmud, Bath-kol was a heavenly or
divine voice — a lower level of revelation than that of the Holy Spirit —
specifically referring to the supernatural method of communicating and
announcing God's Will to men, in particular when the
Hebrew prophets had to come to an end.
"After the death of Haggai,
Zechariah, and Malachi, the last of the prophets, the Holy Spirit ceased
from Israel; nevertheless they received communications from God throught
the medium of Bath Kol." (Tosifta Sot. XIII. 2)
Bath-kol in Hebrew mean approximately
'daughter of the voice', or 'echo'. It was believed to have been the means
of ending the long conflict between the two great Rabbinic Schools.
Bath-kol was also the name used for what
was probably a method of divination
among the ancient Jews. It is said that the first words uttered
after the appeal to Bath-kol were taken as being oracular.
See
Divination,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Chakra Store,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1) Davidson, Gustav,
Dictionary of Angels:
Including the Fallen Angels, Free Press;
(2)
Cohen, Abraham,
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages, Schocken; (3) Scholem, Gershom,
On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead; Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah,
Schocken.
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