What is the Abraham Principle?

What concept did that venerable sage actually innovate? And how did he figure it out?

The suggestion in the previous post is that everything we want in life can be attained through a principle discovered by the patriarch and kabbalist, Abraham—a principle encoded in the midrashic legend about his search for the master of the universe. Love. Health. Wealth. Knowledge. Peace. You can have it all. “Who is this guy,” you may wonder, “that is making all these outlandish promises? And why should I believe him?”

Few, if any, have ever achieved such widespread fame and admiration as the Patriarch Abraham. He has been exalted by Hindus, Muslims and Christians as well as Jews.

The sun and the moon have a special relationship. While different as night and day (in light, in heat, in motion, in phases, and in seasons), they nevertheless share two remarkable qualities.

One possibility was that the control was within the system. That would mean, in effect, that the sun and the moon were coordinating themselves. But that did not seem feasible because seeing their individual orbits and properties, it was clear that the sun was not controlling the moon and the moon was not controlling the sun.

One of the properties that Abraham ascribed to the One Above is at once the best feature as well as the worst. It is the best because it has the greatest explanatory power. And it is also the worst, because it poses major marketing challenges.