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“In many Kabbalistic teachings, I notice the word ‘nature’ is used when referring to spiritual concepts. I personally associate ‘nature’ more with the natural world around us, rather than the spiritual world. Could you explain why this term is chosen and how it connects the physical and spiritual realms in Kabbalah?”
Michael,
We have two general conducts in spirituality. One is what we will learn, the name Yud and Hey and Vav and Hey. That is from above, that is Endless Light that cascades from above down to our world.
On the other hand we have from below, Elokim, this is Godliness, the harmony of all of reality, all of the harmonious, integral laws of nature, everything in reality connected as one. The gematria of Elokim is the same as “nature”. The kabbalists explain that these words are even interchangeable. Of course we are not simply talking about forests and waterfalls, but all of nature from the smallest quark to giant black holes and galaxies.
Seth@KabU
Thank you so much for your response and the explanation about the use of the word “nature” in Kabbalistic teachings. It’s fascinating to see how these concepts bridge the physical and spiritual worlds. I do find, though, that sometimes words can feel limiting or inadequate when trying to capture the full depth of spiritual experiences. I feel that language can sometimes create barriers to a more intuitive or direct understanding of the divine. I’d love to hear more about how Kabbalah navigates these limitations and helps us connect beyond words.
Michael,
First we need to accustom ourselves to the language of the Kabbalists, we just have to put in the time to learn what they mean when they say words. Sin, evil, good, love…when the Kabbalist writes these words they don’t mean what we think they mean.
And then after that as we advance, and as we advance the words mean different things, they don’t change but as our perception changes we perceive what is deposited in the words and between the words.Now also consider that we have a certain form, with a mouth and tongue and throat and mind, etc this is what all of these billion of years and more developed us into, don’t is not a real argument to say we can’t use words, words are all we have that is what the system gave us. Of course spirituality is beyond words beyond anything we can grasp in that way, but we 100% approach it and communicate about it using the language of roots and branches that the Kabbalists for almost 6000 have been using to describe their attainment.
Seth&KabU
As i move on my journey in Kabbalah i understand so far that i should bestow these attributes of the upper world to enrich my understanding of the sixth sense and realize the beautyof this way of being
Jazzmon,
So far we are learning the structure of the spiritual system, later we will get into practical kabbalah, how and where we can work with these forces.
Now it is important to begin to identify and test these things on yourself. We are learning that the Creator created the will to receive, that that is the only creation. As we research ourselves, do we see that and feel that? Do we identify that the grass, the bird, the neighbor are all operated by this force? Where can we find this spiritual force, this freedom to love, to bestow?
Seth@KabU
When Tony was describing climbing back up the ladder through the worlds by increasing the ratio within us to encompass more and more the will to bestow, it made me think of Jacob’s Ladder. Are these related?
Albertina,
Yes, we will learn more about this in detail later.
Here is a wonderful blog post from our teacher, the kabbalist, Rav Laitman.
Seth@KabU
The perception of spiritual reality is carried out with the development of a 6th sense if I understand correctly. How does this new sense take into account the world below in our inner evolution by taking up the idea of the tree and its branches?
What links are there between this 6th sense which must allow us to develop our connection with the creator and our five senses which make us live in the desire to receive and allow us to exist in the corporeal world.
Guy,
We exist in a wondrous reality.
Even a small bunny has 100s of intricate systems of blood and nerves and respiratory.
We do not have to manage growing our fingernails and digesting our food, each lower degree is managed by an upper intelligence.
Our main focus is on the degree above us, the speaking degree.
The five senses are the foundation upon which we can measure, like a fulcrum, to leverage ourselves to the next degree.
Seth@KabU
Inner change creates exterior change – as within so without. I can understand that to change our inner state from a ‘Will to Receive’ into a ‘Will to Bestow’ is a practical step to perceive our exterior reality from a different “lens” with the chance at grasping the “bigger picture”.
But how does this perception coincide with a perception of the higher realms which are beyond the 5 senses & perhaps even incomprehensible to the intellect? Even yet, what are higher realms?
And are they dimensions we can experience / visit through the practical wisdom of Kabbalah?Dominique,
The reality that we depict is a result of our 5 senses which limit the infinite light and allow some data to enter and then our mind makes an apporximation of some reality. You can google opitcal illusions and see how the mind does a lot of work constructing our reality and that our mind does not just show us “exactly” what is outside of us but fills in a lot of the blanks.If you take a cat to a concert with you, you can be very emotional listening to the music but the cat sitting in the same seat as you will not experience the emotions you experience. It is not because the outer reality is different, but the inner reality of you and the cat are different.
Each creature depicts the world around it according to its signature will to receive profile. A crocodile has a unique will to receive and due to that he goes about living his best crocodile life, he’s not worried about his retirement account or his next vacation or what the neighbors said about him, etc.
For the kabbalist on the speaking degree, the law of love your friend as yourself is not some moral adage. Within the group of kabbalists the friends work to exit their egoistic framework and enter into the desires of the other, this is a means to the end of experiencing reality outside of the ego.
We will learn about this in depth later in the course.
Seth@KabU
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