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Everything Comes from the Creator’s Infinite Power
Let’s start with the beautiful verses of Isaiah 45:5-7: “I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides Me there is no God: I will strengthen you although you have not known Me. ⁶ In order that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. ⁷ Who forms light and creates darkness, Who makes peace and creates evil; I am the Lord, who does all these things.”
These verses resonate with a profound truth – there is only one Creator, an infinite and indivisible force. The Creator, the source of all existence, emits a radiant light – these are the emanations that strengthen and nourish us. However, the Creator itself remains beyond our direct perception. We can’t grasp the essence, but we can feel the power of its light.
This light, though, isn’t the only element. The Creator also creates darkness. As we discussed earlier, with Genesis 1:26 as a reference, humans are created with a spark of darkness within us – the ego. This ego, mirroring the Creator in its potential for creation, represents our own will to receive, our focus on self-interest.
Everything happens within the realm of human thought. An experience, perceived by our five senses, triggers a reaction. This is where the ego steps in, whispering “what’s in it for me?” This constant drive for self-gratification is the darkness within us. Connected souls and a universe functioning according to a predetermined order represent a state of peace, while the ego’s pull towards self-preservation creates the darkness we perceive as negativity.
Here’s where things get really interesting. There’s no external force pushing us towards evil – it’s the darkness within, fueled by ego. Our ego craves pleasure and justifies actions that inflate it. In essence, the Creator creates “evil” by creating the potential for ego within us.
This realization brings a powerful shift in perspective. When we encounter difficulties, we often blame external forces – people, situations, fate. But if everything comes from the Creator, then the discomfort we experience might be a test. A test to see how we react, what light or darkness we choose to nurture within.
Feeling the discomfort, the egoistic urge to defend, attack, or lash out – this is the moment for introspection. Why is this happening? What lesson is the Creator trying to teach me through this challenge? Instead of succumbing to the ego’s whispers, we should ask ourselves, “What is my next action going to achieve? Am I contributing to the light or feeding the darkness?”
The beauty of the Creator lies in the infinite light it provides. Even after failures, fueled by egoistic desires, the possibility for correction remains. Failing can be part of the test. The next attempt becomes an opportunity to choose differently, to strengthen the light within by offering help and cultivating altruistic behavior.
This continuous “correction and connection” is the essence of the human journey. With every triumph over the ego, we shine a little brighter, pushing back the darkness within. But as the ego is inherent, the battle is never truly over. We must remain vigilant, constantly seeking connection with the source of light, the Creator, and striving to correct our course whenever the ego tries to take hold.
1) The fact that the Creator is responsible for EVERYTHING – “good” and “bad”.
2) The fact that we do have “free will”, but only in a very limited sense.
3) The fact that 2) – rather than upsetting me – is absolutely freeing, because there is no longer any need to experience guilt or shame.
4) The only error we can ever make is believing that there is any creator other than the Creator – and even that thought is given to us by the Creator so that we might learn from our mistake and cleave to Him even more tightly.
It is truly a closed system. Complete. Perfect. And perfectly mind blowing.
This has been an important week for me. Perhaps these things were building, perhaps the lessons triggered their release. Four things stand out from Week 1 of Part 2.
1. There is None Besides Him, and He resides in my own heart. The relationship I have growing in the Point in my Heart with the Creator consumes all my desire.
2. It is not important how I view other people, those not on my path. Everyone must travel their own journey, and time will take them where they are supposed to go. Focusing on my own journey is what matters now. The rest will fall into place. I can love all of them, for what they are and for who they will be eventually. We are all One.
3. What happened in the past was neither negative or detrimental to anyone, even though it appeared that way. No time or journey was wasted. I searched for a long time for Spirituality, all manner of divinity and even Kabbalah. When I reached the time of true hatred of the egoistic ways of my youth and adult life and truly opened my heart and begged the Creator to forgive me and show me the way to fix these things, I found KabU. They say, When the student is ready the teacher appears. Now I realize how blessed I am, to have been given these strong challenges that I have overcome in my heart. I do feel chosen, and appreciative of the great Joy that comes into my being every so often now.
4. The importance of being with others who are on the same path is starting to sink in. Finally I have participated in the Sunday Zoom session, and I walked away with such a feeling of connection, a feeling of Light that opened in my soul. I feel that connection here in online class and I crave my books as they return the same feeling, but being in that meeting has changed me.
Thank you everyone, instructors and students alike.
I’ve just read The Ari’s Poem – The Tree of Life, which caused an expansion in my heart and has inspired me to share an incredible Poem I found online a while back. Author is unfortunately Unknown. I pray it blesses the reader as it did me.
Vesica Pisces
The symbol of the fish, is not a symbol of a faith, but the symbol of a truth, not a creed, but a space, it’s the heart of the matter, the core of the Art, the equation of joining of parts.
The sign of the stars, is not a teller of fate, more a sign of the times, than the hinge of the gate, not a glimpse of the future, but the Ancient of Days, the revealing of the opening of ways.
Here is the door, Here … the space within a space, here is the core, Here the place within a place within a place, Here is the lore … Here is a trace of G_d.
The sum of the miracle, is not a time or a place, the arc of the circle, is not a line that we trace, But the sacred foundation, the axis of the art, that’s more than the sum of it’s parts.
The gematria is the numbering of life, the womb of forever, the husband the wife, the alchemical marriage, the binding of hearts … Revelation, the working, the start.
Here’s perception, Here the hand within a hand, Here conception, Here the land within a land within a land, Here perfection, Here is the face of G_d.
Draw the line and set the compass, the beyond beyond Divine, Chasing space, the Souls dividers, tracing secrets lost to time.
Here’s the magic, Here Creation’s golden cage, Here the mystic, Here the age within an age within an age, Here Majestic, Here is the space that is G_d.
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