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If I understood correctly, there is an hierarchy of desires: Survival+Reproduction < Wealth < Power < Knowledge < Spirituality.
As the desire for spirituality increases, shouldnt the other types of desires decrease? If so, how do You explain religious fanaticism, bringing violence over to spirituality, the opposite of what was just described?
Carlos,
We must first understand what does spirituality mean?
The kabbalists tell us that the Creator is 100% bestowal, to receive nothing for Himself, but only to bestow endlessly.
The Upper Light extends from His essence and cascades down through 4 degrees.
And what is the only thing that the Creator created? Only a desire to receive that delight and pleasure, that developed according those same 4 degrees.
That desire developed for billions of years according to those same 4 degrees. from the degree of inanimate, vegetative, animate and finally speaking.
And within the speaking degree itself, there is also those 4 degrees which you generally described.
Spirituality is not a corporeal desire. All of our corporeal desires are to receive. Spirituality is to be like the Creator, which is only to bestow.
But He made us to receive. So we must receive, but ontop of our reception there must be an intention to bestow. That is we receive, not in order to receive, but we receive in order to give contentment to the One who Gives and wants for us to Receive.
So, actually as we develop spiritually, our desires also increase.Regarding “religious fanaticism”, this has absolutely no connection with spiritual attainment.
Seth@KabU
Milos,
When you invest a lot of time and energy into working, you want to get a reward.
When you have a child at home, you go out and work to support him.
When you fall in love for the first time, you think about the person a lot, because it is important to you, sometimes you cannot sleep.
So you invest yourself in the books and the spiritual work so that you think about it a lot, so that you care about it a lot.
Seth@KabU
Hello Seth,
If I understood correctly, God is the bestowal force who created us to receive all delights, etc and our role is to develop this bestowal quality.
My question is if God wants us to love Him back, I mean when we develop the bestowal quality it will become natural that we love God back. So does God’s expectation from us to love Him or love others back considered an intention “God’s intention” to receive as well? God will also receive pleasure from us being grateful and loving Him?
In other words if we developed the bestowal quality we will normally love God and people and we want to see them happy, etc but we will also expect or will be hoping that God or people would love us back or appreciate our love. Will this be considered intention to receive “love”?
Thanks,
Mira
Hi Mira,
Let’s clarify.
The thought of creation is to create a creature and fill it with endless delight and pleasure.
The purpose of creation is to fill you with endless delight and pleasure…You.
As you’ve been studying, you already understand that as soon as the stomach is full, it can’t enjoy anymore. So we have a problem, we can’t receive endlessly and not only that, we are satisfied by a coffee, a hug, some money. We don’t even understand what it would mean to have a relationship with the Creator and to be filled by him. It’s like trying to explain to a 2 year old the benefits of the stock portfolio that you are giving him.
So, loving others is the method to transform us into a creature who has the spiritual mechanics for the endless light to pass through us. For when we truly love, there is nothing of our own that we can pass to the others, when we truly love, we are passing the light of the Creator through us to the others and on that there is no limitation.
Seth@KabU
I heard in a few videos that studying in a group is preferable and I also heard that there is a local group that meets in San Francisco. Is it possible to get connected with the local group?
In the materials, they mentioned that the Kabbalah does not correlate to any eastern teachings. In studying the Sephirot, they seem to correlate precisely to the chakra system, albeit with more nuance. Every tradition tends to say they are not correlative with any other, though with study, I see a great deal of synchronization between all of them. Why is it that this line in the sand in necessarily between profound wisdoms that seem to agree with one another?
Zachary,
We are experts in the wisdom of kabbalah as we received it from our teacher. In my 20s before I found kabbalah I learned meditation and yoga and studied some other methods, but in no way am I an expert in any of them.The kabbalists attained what they wrote, there is no hypothesis, or theories.
I imagine that if there is another method that is genuine . then it is also based on attainment.
We have no time to waste on theories.
So if it turns out that different people in different parts of the world penetrated the veil of the normal material existence and discovered some natural laws, then why is it any surprise that they find similar things.
However each method is very different, the wisdom of kabbalah is wholly different than the eastern methods in its approach to the work with the ego. You’ll understand that if you continue to study and absorb what you are learning.
I hope to see good things from you,
Seth@KabU
If I understand correctly, when one reaches unity with The Creator, we understand the purpose of life, the past and the future. At this point, can we see world history and the truth of how events occurred – in regard to the planet and to our own lives? Do we become aware of events that have been hidden from us during our life times?
Do we also become aware of other people/souls that we have known in this lifetime, or our lifetimes; and any animals/pets we may have c0nnected with?
What do we do in eternity?Hope my question is not too outrageous. Thanks, Sue
Sue,
Think about who your grandma was to you when you were 5 years old compared to when you were 20.
It’s not that she changed but your perception changed.
So when you reach a perception beyond time and space, you certainly will not related to any incarnation in the way that you think about them now.Hoe did Moses write about that Abraham said this and Abraham saw that? Â It is very common in the books of the Kabbalists that they converse with other Kabbalists across centuries. How?
When one reaches for example the spiritual degree called Abraham, he hears and sees what is on the degree called Abraham, and anyone who teaches that degree sees and feels what happens there.
Seth@KabU
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