b) The religious aim of Abulafia, perhaps the greatest
Jewish mystic, was 'to unseal the soul, to untie the knots which
bind it'. 'All the inner forces and the hidden souls in man are
distributed and differentiated in the bodies. It is, however, in the
nature of all of them that when their knots are untied they return
to their origin, which is one without any duality and which
comprises the multiplicity.' 'The 'untying' is, as it were, the
return from multiplicity and separation towards the original
unity'.
quoted from Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish
Mysticism, NY 1962, p 131.
c) 'When He who is immanent and transcendent is
perceived, directly experienced, then all doubts are dispelled, all
knots of the heart that tie an individual to this sensible universe
are completely cut asunder, and all the deposits of [past] karma
is wiped out.'
Mundaka Upanishad II:2.8