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the closing part was a surprise to me! So there is no ‘free will’ ? Everything happens to us and we are not the ones making some of the decisions?
Sara,
That is what the kabbalist is writing to us, that is what they discovered.
Of course that is not what we feel in our lives.
It’s similar to a child playing in the playground, meanwhile the her parents are standing on the side making sure she is safe, watching everything she does. But to her, she is free to run around and play, but does she know where her next meal will come from, did she drive herself to the playground? Everything is managed by her ‘upper ones’.
Nevertheless, the child still must learn to play and act as if she is free, running around, meeting other kids, bumping her knee, laughing, all of this is how she develops and its the same with us. It doesn’t matter if we have true free choice or not, it feels like we do and we must act as if our life is in our hand and come closer and closer to the spiritual environment that influences us in in a postivie way.
Now of course as we acquire spiritual vessels then we will be like the Creator with everything available to us, both the good and the bad and then we can be said to have real freedom. But if today we don’t have the ability to be loving and bestowing like the Creator, then we don’t have a choice whether or not we want to bestow or not, we don’t have the ability, so we only receive and even when we are giving, if we examine our intentions, it is giving in order to receive something in return (honor, acknowledgment, reward, etc). This is not considered evil or bad, this is exactly how the Creator made us.
All of the true change will not come in our desire, but in our intention.
We’ll discover all of this together,
Seth@KabU
So, what I understand is that The Creator places challenges in our path to refine us and led us to revealing the Creators light within ourselves. How about when a vessel( person) has a deep seated ego. Wouldn’t that vessel be cut off of the Creators light within themselves? Does that mean if this egocentric person manipulates or is deceptive to another person, which leads to hurt. Does that mean this is the creators will or just an antithesis of it. Or is it the Creator way of teaching a person learning a lesson that for the other person to reveal more light within themselves?
Addontess,
There are many interpretations to this, as the wisdom is very deep and multifaceted.
What we can say now is that from the Creator, everything is good, is light, is bestowal, is love.
All of the opposite that we feel is a dashboard, is a measurement of our distance from the Creator.
Everything that comes to us only comes to bring us closer to our spiritual goal.
Seth@KabU
reached the end of Kabbalah Revealed Part 1 with a pretty good understanding of some basics but, apparently, there’s a lab that goes with that.
No sooner did I enter Part 2 did I hit a couple of inconvenient setbacks that elicited a familiar response. Anxiety and a little fear over the outcome entered my mind and my body responded with that uneasy feeling; grasping for immediate ways out.
I didn’t feel the Creator. However, I forced my attention on the the idea the Creator sent this to me to show me where I stood and where I stood wasn’t quite as solid as I thought. The intellectual part was there, but not the conviction; the belief. So every time I felt doubt and insecurity. The setbacks actually began to resolve but the insight remained. I’m not going to get too comfortable with my progress on the material without my progress on the belief.
Am I getting this right?
Eugenio,
Godliness is above us, there is no mind that can grasp it.
One can certainly go below reason or within reason, just to blindly believe in something and go because of some promise of some sublime reward in the future.
A kabbalist doesn’t exist like this. The kabbalist each time reaches the wall, reaches the boundary of his reason and then if he has prepared himself through connection to the texts and the spiritual society, then he is raised to the next degree, like a child that is picked up by his parent and carried there, each rising in degree comes both from our preparation and then the action actually comes from above.
Seth@KabU
Hi,
I just completed week 6 and am not sure, that I really grasped the teachings, specifically about everything coming from the Creator and seeing the Creator in all circumstances.
Maybe this example is best to ask, if I understood it correctly: 15 years ago (I was a church member) something happened that made me question everything and made me realize that I could no longer be part of a church. It even went so far, that I questioned my whole belief. I ended up leaving the church and „turning my back on God“. These last 15 years I did not actively seek Him, I did not search for „alternatives“, I never asked the Creator, if there was more to reality or deeper truths, which I could follow. Recently I have experienced an awakening, and also thanks to the Kabbalah teachings, I have reconnected to the Creator, in a depth I never dreamed possible. To be honest, I am regretting having „wasted“ these last 15 years, thinking that if I had not „let go“ so easily, the Creator would have led me on this path I am on now.
If I understand the week 6 teaching correctly, having regrets on the decision I took, I am in a way idolizing myself? The sin/mistkake is not rooted in my decision, rather in me shifting my focus away from the creator? Looking back now and feeling regret is wrong, as again it shifts the focus to me – another power/force – rather than seeking the Creator, in the  knowledge that this came from Him? So basically I should not ask for forgiveness for having missed out these last 15 years, rather ask for forgiveness for not having seen Him in the „driver seat“ in all that happened? Does this sum it up correctly?
Oliver,
I read your story and it sounds like you were standing at a spiritual gas station for 15 years filling up the tank and once the tank reached its fill, meaning once you acquired enought discernments and experiences and trying this and that, then the next degree illuminated for you. Meaning it was always there, it was there 15 years ago and even before you were born, but before you had arms and legs and a brain, it was impossible to think about it, to open a book, etc.
So, yes you are correct in your line of thinking. And you will understand it more after you have even more experience.
Seth@KabU
Hello, I have a question regarding the  purpose of reading Kabbalah texts is only to attract the Upper Light. Does that mean that even if I read and I don’t understand I am still connecting to the knowledge?  Also can you please provide an example of a proper type of prayer?
Brenda,
The meaning of what you are saying is like with a child that is born into this world, they do not learn “intellectually”, but by being around the influence of the “upper ones” they develop, they learn to speak, to eat, etc, they don’t learn it because they “studied”.Speak to the Creator like your closest friend, your closest lover, the desire of your heart is a prayer.
If you are looking for texts to read while you do this, open Psalms or the Siddur, the order of prayers arranged by the Sages of the Great Assembly.
Seth@KabU
I reached the end of Kabbalah Revealed Part 1 with a pretty good understanding of some basics but, apparently, there’s a lab that goes with that.
No sooner did I enter Part 2 did I hit a couple of inconvenient setbacks that elicited a familiar response. Anxiety and a little fear over the outcome entered my mind and my body responded with that uneasy feeling; grasping for immediate ways out.
I didn’t feel the Creator. However, I forced my attention on the the idea the Creator sent this to me to show me where I stood and where I stood wasn’t quite as solid as I thought. The intellectual part was there, but not the conviction; the belief. So every time I felt doubt and insecurity. The setbacks actually began to resolve but the insight remained. I’m not going to get too comfortable with my progress on the material without my progress on the belief.
Am I getting this right?
Eugenio,
Well, if you are advancing, then you do reach the limit of the intellect.
The mind wants to know, “if I give you power and excitement to do this study, so what am I going to get out of it”.
And the thing we are working on attaining is higher than the mind, so we run into a problem.
The solution for this is that a time of ascent we need to prepare ourselves and then we can surf though the time of descent quickly and again rise to the next higher ascent.
Seth@KabUThe lingering question is, what is the light that one rejects?
If an adverse event comes our way, is that natural aversion defined as rejection of the the adversity because we don’t sense the Creator? Further, does light from the Creator come in the form of adversity and prosperity? Is it our understanding and response to either what we’re all working on?
Eugenio,
Let’s say on the outside nothing changes. For the sake of this exercise, let’s just say that. Sometimes the tide rises, sometimes the tide subsides, sometimes the sun is shining, sometimes its dark.
That’s the will to receive, that is matter, that is the stuff of creation.
Now in addition to that there is another calculation, who is sending the waves, who is moving the sun?
That is where the spiritual action happens.
They physical action happens in your body. If you someone is going to hit you, so you get out of the way or hit them back, that is physical. You don’t stand there “rejecting the light”. However after a time of preparation where you calibrate your inner life to the forces that are operating on you, then you can also calculate how to work with the One who sends everything to you.
Seth@KabU
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