The following is some documentation on the Kabbalah, which gives insight as to why this study is considered to be occult. We are either all gods, or this practice is satanic. No need for a Savior, because there is no need for Satan if we are all gods. While old fashioned, Babylonian 'creations' can be ours through Kabbalah, no "repentance" or humilty seems to be guaranteed with such powers. Here's why I'm not drinking the Kabbalah water...
"The true essence of the Torah, on the other hand, is defined in the Kabbalah according to three basic principles: the Torah is the complete mystcal name of God; the Torah is a living organism; and the divine speech is infinite, and no finite human speech can ever exhaust it...From the magical belief that the Torah was composed of God's Holy Names, it was but a short step to the mystical belief that the entire Torah was in fact nothing else than the Great Name of God Himself...the Torah has been passed on with the understanding that it is a living structure from which not even one letter can be exised without seriously harming the entire body...Had it not been for Adam's sin, its letters would have combined to form a completely different narrative. In messianic times to come, therefore, God will reveal new combinations of letters that will yeild an entirely new content. Indeed, this is the 'new Torah' alluded to in the Midrash in its commentary on Isaiah 51:4, 'For Torah shall go forth from Me.' Such beliefs continued to be widespread even in hasidic literature." (Kabbalah - Gershom Scholem [pg's 169-174]).
"Ba'al Shem (Heb. 'Master of the Divine Name'; lit. 'Possessor of the Name'), was the title given in popular usage and in Jewish literature, especially kabbalistic and hasidic works, from the Middle Ages onward, to one who possessed the secret knowledge of the Tetragrammaton and the other Holy Names, and knew how to work miracles by the power of these names. The designation ba'al shem did not originate with the kabbalists, for it was already known to the last Baylonian geonim." (Kabbalah - Gershom Scholem [pg 310]).
"Sabbatai Sevi busied himself with inventing mystical allusions to himself by way of gematria (numerology). The numerical value of the full spelling of the divine name Shadday (Shin, Daleth, Yod) is 814, which happens to be the numerical value of the name Sabbatai Sevi." (Sabbatai Sevi - Gershom Scholem [pg 234]).
