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I feel like I have a grasp on the difference of intelligence and attainment. But to drive it home , this level of attainment that’s being spoken of regarding the language of the Kabbalah. The way we gaining quality or sense is through something that cannot be named ? Or what is it called? Is it because it can’t be explained through words it’s something we have to feel to know that we attained ? When they Say we can’t use our intellect/intelligence to gain attainment, then technically speaking is the process for attainment experience? By experiencing gives us wisdom and through wisdom we attain attainment?
Hello all, I hope you are all having a great day and that God is merciful to you. I’m enjoying the course so far, but one thing has been bothering me, and I was hoping someone could help shed some light on it.
As I understand from the Bible, the Earth was created in six days and is around 6,000 years old. Man was made in the image of God, formed from the dust of the ground, and had the breath of life breathed into his nostrils.
However, the information presented in this course seems different — it talks about the Big Bang, that we’ve been living on Earth for millions of years, and that we descended from monkeys, which sounds more like the theory of evolution.
Aleksander,
There is no problem here.
In spirituality there is no time. Time is something that appears to us in our limited perception. There is an infinite world outside of each of us and all that we perceive is the small amount of data that enters into us through our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and touch.
In order to describe the system outside of us, the system that we are in, kabbalists describe this using different languages. The wisdom of kabbalah uses a more technical language, the language of the Bible uses a language that sounds more like legends and history. There is no contradiction, only our limited perception of reality.
A newborn baby has arms and legs and ears but if you put him in a wonderful concert hall filled with world class musicians, he won’t appreciate what is going on at all. He will lay on the ground helpless until someone would help him, hold him, feed him, care for him, whereas a grown adult could sit and listen and be overwhelmed with joy and emotion from the music or moved to tears by its beauty.
So two people, at two levels of development experience the same thing in two completely different ways.
So follow the courses and you will understand what it means by six days, how it relates to the sefirah of Zeir Anpin in the world of Beriah, what are the 6000 years which are the period of time of the correction of the soul, which refers to degrees above this world.The Big Bang and monkeys, these things appear in our consciousness, when we study reality, it seems that this is how it is, and we will learn about that too.
Seth@KabU
texts are written within constructs of time and environment. Texts are documents which are copied and edited to be instructive adjusting for the evolving collective consciousness.
A student 5 thousand years ago would not have psychological and intellectual scaffolding we have
geometry and mathematics and 3 dimensional frames were the highest evolution at y th he time The message was interpreted in tryst contextwhile id find it interesting to be in Copernicus’ class I would know I had genetically inherited functions that would require further translation sophistication – beyond words including concepts and structures to be able to learn
Be where you are now, enjoy the history but read for the intent! not the obfuscation of archaic limitations
and careful for the egoistic view that you have the only truth the only path to peace
let us wrestle with words and meaning and inent
let us not assume superiority
let us not create us and them
isn’t there enough of that?
Do we not know what Enforced conformity does?
isn’t hearing each other, recognizing the familial common bonds between us through time space and dimension the core of Kabbalah?
Maggie,
You sound like a very intelligent person.
We are students of the authentic wisdom of kabbalah, we are studying the books of the kabbalists, primarily the method of Baal HaSulam.
Your response sounds more like a critique of the material and the method than a student’s question about the understanding and applying the material.
If you study the material, you will understand and feel what is the core of kabbalah, which is to reach adhesion with the Creator, to bring the reality of love and connection into our lives.
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth,
I submitted a question, but somehow it did not commit. Anyhow, I found the answer in “Kabbalah Revealed” p.94. Since I knew a bit of the name of the 10 sefirot I was a bit confused as to where were Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, and Yesod? I understand now that tese 6 sefirot are part of Phase Three—Zeir Anpin.
Next time I will complete the entire lesson including the suggested reading before asking a question 😊
Also, your proposal to write a lexicon in order to get familiar and remember the meaning of the basic Kabbalah Hebrew words become a necessity at this point in the study. I realized that.
Thank you for your time,
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