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I’m reading and re-reading Attaining the Worlds Beyond. And it reminds me of those lion dances they do in China, where they are on 20ft poles, and each step must land in the exact right spot. The thing about this book is that every time I take a step that it suggests (and seems clearly to be contradictory and impossible) there is no pole there… no place to step. But a step appears there all the sudden as soon as I commit my weight to the step.
Thank God I stumbled across this section of Attaining the Worlds Beyond again today. Last time I read it it seemed interesting but meaningless. Today it is such a relief to see it, and it explains so much:
“if we realize that these states of darkness are necessary for spiritual advancement, and are even desirable, and sent to us by the Creator Himself, then we will welcome them. We will recognize that the Creator has offered us the gift of perceiving shadows, or the incomplete darkness, so that we may seek the source of the Light.”
The “screen” is deliberately not seeing the Creator because you have the strength in that moment, from His prior revelation, to proceed under your own effort! That’s what the screen is!
So you reach once when you’re weak, for the Creator’s help. And then you reach again, the opposite way, to apply your effort specifically without help. And you move, with the screen held between you and the Creator so that you’re not blinded by the Light. It’s like a machine.
*Mind blown*
I really appreciated Gil Shir’s comment at the end of the video on the Tree of Life. He mentioned that the first step from Malchut is to Yesod, and Yesod’s essence is like glue. So perhaps our first step is to look for ways to connect with each other? Maybe that is love. Love of Friends is a great place to start – and finish, and keep in focus for every step we take together. Hold on to each other! It’s going to be an amazing transformation to the benefit of all.
As I was reading about the intention while reading, being the only way to understand kabbalistic books, I began to wonder if my intentions were correct because I found the texts harder to understand this week…. Maybe I am trying to understand them by the power of my intellect rather than through yearning? How do I know if I am truly yearning or if I am proceeding because of curiosity about the subject?
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