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Thank you for this course. Deep down I knew there was a way of looking at all sciences that would make them make sense.
My question is this. Some religions and movements have popularised the idea of ‘lesser’ beings, angels, demons etc. Am I right in thinking then that ‘there is none else besides him’ would mean that these are not a thing in spiritual reality? That the things we call demons are actually a part personification of internal psychological processes? And that people in the times of old scripture didn’t have the language to describe these things so used a kind of allegory?
Or is it a little more complicated than that but for now just trust it will be revealed in time?
Victoria,
All of these things have a place, but the definitions that we heard prior to the wisdom of kabbalah are not the same definitions that the kabbalists write. First we need to learn that a kabbalist only writes from his attainment, there is no philosophy or theory about what any of the words mean or may mean.
You are correct that if everything is Him, meaning there is no force that can act against Him, then what are these other forces.
And for that, it will be helpful to begin to look at these words as kinds of forces, for example when the water falls on the earth we call it gravity. When the water rises from the earth we call it evaporation. Forces operate that cause things to rise and causes things to fall…in our world. Neither force is called good or bad, in fact they act together in harmony to keep the system in balance.
As we learn about the spritual system, we will encounter all kinds of forces, but there is no force that operates against Him, all of them extend from Him.
Anything that seems like it is against Him is a testament to our degree, how far we are that we feel that way, and anyone who wrote about a force that is against Him, it is a testament to their degree of attainment that they didn’t reach a degree where all is one.
Seth@KabU
so it is only our will to receive is not a part of the collective soul ?
i mean , the only part that would make take us apart form the god is our ego?
why ?
isn’t it the truth that god made us look like this?Pier,
The Creator has a problem. He wants to give us eternal fulfillment. The problem is that if we are given eternal fulfillment then we would be immediately and completely absorbed inside of Him as One. Imagine on the one hand you have your life, on the other hand you have eternal pleasure billions of times more than anything you every felt. Is there any question which way you would choose? So we would have no free choice, we would be like a spark in the sun, or a drop of water in the ocean, completely absorbed into Him and in that state, there is no us, there is no creature who feels himself as unique and who feels the Creator. In that state, everything is One with no boundaries.
So what did He do? He made us opposite from Him, we feel ourselves as individuals. This is the starting place. Now we can learn to work with the screen and reflected light and step by step come closer to Him. By this we can receive all of the abundance that He wants to give us and on the other hand not loose our identity and we will be able to feel Him in all of His glory.
Seth@KabU
Seth,
Is it possible we can find in this lesson from Tony, also, a description from the language of roots of the first Commandment as in Exodus 20:3 and Deuteronomy 5:7 “You shall have no gods except Me” and what expressed in Exodus 20:4 to 20:7
Marcelo,
Here is a blog post from Rav Laitman regarding “You shall have no other god…” https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/publications/blog/laitman-com/232882We will open up all of your questions. For now, it is better that you ignite the flames of desire in your questions than we extinguish them with clever answers.
Write down you questions and let the desire to know burn inside, this is the foundation of a correct prayer and that is our most powerful weapon in spirituality.
Seth@KabU
I wonder if I will feel when I am practicing altruism, rather than ego-based action? Or is it easy to deceive oneself in this way, believing we are being altruistic, when we are actually being selfish or ego-driven? How is this related to self-doubt, or the “inner critic” that we hear?
Dina,
If you are holding a mug with a tea or a coffe in your hand, there is no self doubt or inner critic. It is a reality that in your hand is a mug. There is nothing to debate about.
Spiritual attainment is that clear, it’s not iffy or theoretical. The kabbalists are describing states that a person attains.
Seth@KabU
I have a question about something that seems a bit contradictory to me: if there is None Else Besides Him, how then can we be independent from Him?
There is said that we can only speak about a creature, if it’s really independent from the Creator (thats why in phase 1 and 2 there is not already a creature, only in phase 3 (the Malchut) because there an independent desire is forming.)
But this seems completely contradictory to the fact that there is nothing else than the Creator and that it’s the Creator that is operating in us, giving us thoughts etc. How then are we independent if everything that is done in us is done by the Creator? Are we really independent or do we just have the illusionary sensation of being independent ?
Bonnie,
Rav Laitman explains:
“Six hundred thousand” stands for six Sefirot of Zeir Anpin multiplied by ten Sefirot in each of them and then by ten thousand, the power of the ascent of Zeir Anpin to Arich Anpin which governs all corrections. 60 x 10,000 = 600,000. Hence, the common soul (the general, final, corrected state) is called 600,000 souls.
Seth@KabU
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