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Baal HaSulam says that spirituality is a reality like going to London. One can say what he saw there, for example Big Ben. Centuries later, one who never met the first one can add on, that Big Ben is gold. The first one saw that it was gold but felt no need to write it down. This way, Kabbalists across the generations write about the same upper world. It’s something not personal or flexible but rock-hard, like our world; only it’s another world, an upper world. Regardless of one’s background before he opens this world up, he reveals the same world.

He is a force, and you are also a force, or a collection of forces that imagines that it is free. He’s not a ‘dumb’ force like we think about gravity, for example. He is more than us and all of us put together. A different kind of force. We’re in a reality consisting of nothing besides forces, and He includes all of them. He is, in the end, the only one acting. Through a more correct lens, we’d see there is no one in the world – because to live means to be free and here there are only complete marionettes.

It is said that all this reality was just an ‘adornment’. The Creator didn’t need it. But a decision was made that we need it, and, that it was all worth it. And now, our work is easy. It’s said that the Creator made man straight, but he preferred circuitous ways. We make it hard by not wanting to be corrected right away, but prefer anything besides coming to correction.

First, we have to say to ourselves that “there is none else besides Him,” the Creator did, does, and will do everything, and there are no people in this world who have free choice of their own. There is only an imagination of free choice. You don’t have free choice, they didn’t have free choice. Rather, the whole reality is how the Creator behaves toward you alone. That’s the way it really is. First, this needs to be accepted in you. Next, you behave toward the situation as is generally accepted as appropriate in society. If someone did something you usually sue for, I sue them – and so on. But inside, I relate as if all is done by the Creator.

An angel is a force. Gravity is an angel. There are other such forces. All of them work for only one goal: to bring each person and all of humanity together, to be as one body. There is nothing else going on in reality.

Faith Above Reason is a force of bestowal. The other two just need to be explained, because you understand those states from experience, while Faith Above Reason can’t be explained because it’s beyond one’s experience in this world.

For me the whole wisdom is about ascents and descents, so I’m not sure which texts you refer to.