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So should we pray for anything other than to do everything for her name? Because the light of the creator is in all things all the worshipper myself included just wants to be able to perceive it. But if it could be perceived then there wouldn’t be a need for prayer so naturally instead of feeling closeness other feelings come up and those sometimes form thoughts, ideas so should we pray about those things too?
Dana,
Not quiet. We want to do everything “for Her name”.
And when we attain that at our next degree, then as you said, it will become our new “reason”, it will be attained in the mind.
And then again we will pray to be above that to the next degree.
And then we will attain the next degree in our mind, our new “reason”.
And in this way we will ascend degree by degree.
Seth@KabUDana,
If you were in Texas you could tell me about what you saw there, smelled there, how to get from Austin to Dallas.
If I was also in the same place, I would know what you mean about this smell and that smell and that sight and the other one. I’d know about those roads connecting the cities.
Similarly, those who attain spirituality can communicate with each other about what they experience there.
How did Moses write about what happened to Abraham so many generations before him? The answer is that when Moses reached a degree called Abraham, he saw and felt everything on the degree of Abraham.
So, as you read the articles of the kabbalists who attained all of these degree, you will recognize your states in what they are writing and you will know that you are advancing correctly.
Seth@KabU
hi
This was to me the best and clearest lesson so far. I wanted to understand what Kabbalah says about Angels. So, in the past I had prayed to the creator to thank Him and also to ask for blessings for myself or my loved ones and at times I had Angels to help me with certain situations. I realize now there is no one else but the creator, however, I have felt deeply the help from Angels and am wondering if this is real or am I just making up something that my Ego needs or wants. Can you help clarify.
Yvette,
Certainly whatever happened was from the Creator and certainly there are innumerable forces called angles and certainly our ego makes up a story about what is happening to us…the evidence for the last part is that as we develop we understand what has happened to us in new ways, see deeper into it, so what we see at any time is a as a result of our consciousness at that time.
There is no problem to imagine that this or that happened that it was an angel or that the Lord of Hosts sent angels, or that the Creator Himself and not an angel, the main thing is to thank Him for everything, to invest in the spiritual environment which is our support and our life and to continue to advance and rise.
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth,
Even asking the upper force to change the way i think and feel, so i can perceive the thought of the creator and see everything as good. Is this not also asking him to change his attitude towards me? since God either would or would not answer my prayer and ultimately its the creator who judges my prayers and decides weather or not to reveal himself to me. Is that not still a self centered attitude towards prayer? That im still pleasure seeking even in the worst circumstances even if its just to feel the satisfaction in understanding the creators mind in why things are being given?
Because of course if i did pray to understand and immediately understood and saw the good in everything i would always just pray and understand right?
My connection to God feels flickery, staticy, like trying to hear a radio signal through static. I always seem to be caught off guard, and i always feel like im missing the point.
Oliver,
Of course it is still, as you said, self centered. But this is the process we are on. It’s like you’re a kid and see someone play guitar and you say, wow, I want to do that. So you get a guitar and it feels impossible, you’re fingers don’t move the right way, everything sounds bad, but if you do the exercises that the experts do and if you do them correctly for a few years, then one day, you can close your eyes and fly on the instrument.
You picked up the guitar on day one and you’re like, “why doesn’t it sound like that guy I saw playing on the stage, it still sounds like I’m a beginner”.
Oliver, how long would it take to learn guitar, how long would it take to be a master plumber or a good doctor? So why do you think that achieving your soul is going to happen after 10 minutes of speaking to the Creator?
Be more serious about this. This is a method that takes time, years.
Of course if feels flickery. Your body is asking for food, water, some comfort, and you need to give it otherwise it won’t work and we are absorbing thoughts and desires from the society around us and we inherited all kinds of tendencies from previous generations, so of course the signal is coming in “staticy”. You are not missing the point. You are doing the right thing, you are simply not understanding the process you are in.
If we were on a mountain top learning kung fu and you had to carry water for 5 years in the cold rain, you’d be asking the same question…how does this have to do with kung fu, but there you’d see the masters around you who have done what you are doing and you see what they achieved.
Here, we are all virtual and we don’t have anything physical to rely on like that. So be patient and keep investing in reading the materials and turning to Him like He is your closest friend and tell Him to open your heart and bring you close.
Seth@KabUYes, well ive never been dedicated to anything in my life, so i cant say i really know what that means. Ive never really been serious about anything in the same way. My passions are always initially strong and burn out fast, weather its been trying to learn a language, or instrument, or learning about philosophy and religion even down to my sobriety and spirituality.
I always get discouraged. Like it says in the freedom, its like my internal calculation for pleasure always comes in a deficit, and so it seems like nothing is ever worth the effort i put in. Theres always a feeling of self-pitying hopelessness that washes over me, when i start a new venture. My hands are too small for the piano, im too stupid to really understand japanese, its never really specific, like i just have some sort of unknown quality that makes me incapable of success in anything i pursue. So i use the evidence of lack of immediate results and the frustration of slow progress as an excuse not to press forward. In lieu of things that i know from experience provide me with immediate pleasure, namely drugs and videogames, alcohol, entertainment.
Im blessed in that, the only person i every really lived for was myself, and somehow i destroyed my life. I grew up to be a 36 year old man-child with many aspirations and no real accomplishments, and still sometimes the only force motivating me forward is just not wanting to live my life the way i have been before i decided to pursue this path again, wherever it may lead.
And though ive been going through many changes i can see i am in many ways the same person and that change takes time, and progress will be slow and arduous at times, and i know i should be taking things more seriously. Its an aspiration to be a little bit more patient and a little less reckless, and to put in a little bit more effort. Though i know its not good enough, i pray i can just keep moving forward and find greater levels of willingness to do the work.
Is prayer composed of words, feelings, or both? What should I say or feel when I am praying? Also, can you give me a specific example of a daily prayer? Thank you.
György,
The best is if we could pray all day, to remain in contact with the Creator all day.
Whether you feel it or not. Certainly when you feel it, take those opportunities to turn to Him. When you don’t it is more difficult to remember. You can compose prayers based on what you want, try it. Speak to the Creator like He is your closest friend and lover.
If it helps you can open the book of Psalms by King David (the general Malchut of Israel) or the Jewish prayer book that is composed of Psalms and other verses that the sages (kabbalists of the previous generations) arranged for these purposes.
Seth@KabU
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