We of course need the mind to perform calculations, but the main thing in the study is the heart. If you change the heart then the new mind follows. Even more, if you chase spirituality with your mind then you’ll certainly be led astray since the mind only serves the heart.

Born out of the image of the Creator. Him being the will to bestow, existence from existence, and the created being as the will to receive – the opposite – existence from absence.

Mrc,

Yes, that is correct. So you could ask the question why was the breaking of the soul necessary?

This is because in order to receive the abundance from the Creator, which is the purpose of creation, there has to be an independent desire to be in adhesion with the Creator. And before the breaking of the soul of a Adam HaRishon, there was no such independent desire, but rather everything was organized according to the will of the Creator.

Joseph – KabU

Mrc,

The purpose of creation necessitates that we reconnect the broken pieces of the soul of Adam HaRishon on all four levels of still, vegetative, animate, and human. These four degrees exist in the whole of reality as well as in each and every part. To reconstruct the soul on all levels means to achieve the final correction. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah this can be achieved only through our connection when we become similar to the Upper Force.

Joseph – KabU

Mrc,

Generally speaking, humanity is undergoing the process of the recognition of evil, meaning the increased awareness to what extent the will to receive governs our reality and separates us from the Creator.

If I understand your question correctly, then the matter of ascents and descents is something spiritual. There are some who are already in this process, but for the most part humanity is still in the preparation stage of discovering the lack for spirituality.

Joseph – KabU

That’s not exactly how Kabbalists describe it. It’d be more accurate to say the “descent” is the introduction of the perception of separated parts instead of one whole. The greater the descent, the greater separation until completely “in order to receive”.