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Hello friends, I just joined (re-joined?) the graduate environment after a long hiatus, and I couldn’t be more excited to be here with you.
I have a question about the last Grad Class with Mike Kellogg on Sep 29, 2022 – Crown the King Over Us. Mike said: “Spiritual love is that I exist only in the thoughts, desires and aspirations of the friends.”
My question is, how can I do that? It sounds like the I can’t do it and like it depends entirely on the friends. If so, what is there for me to do in this work? Is it to ensure that only the friends exist in my thoughts, desires and aspirations?
I also have a question about logistics – when/how can I join a 10? Looking forward to seeing many of you on Sunday.
Love,
Xavier
Hi Xavier,
You’ll get a ten when the next young group starts, which is soon.
You’re right, you need to ensure that you start forming a new place in your brain and heart where the friends can dwell. You’re not using this space right now, so it’s available. You have to develop it. This is developing the vessel in which the Upper World is revealed. For now, I have the senses in which only the world I’m seeing now can be revealed.
FAO Mike Kellogg
Dear Mike,
Re. Sep 22, 2022 – Rosh HaShana
Thank you as always for your classes
The lesson this week focused on the quality of ‘love’ being something completely outside the will to receive and presently beyond us.
I have been thinking a lot about what exactly the term ‘Love thy friend as thy self’ means and have the following questions:
1) what does the term ‘friend’ actually mean? is this the exclusion of all those who you do not term as being a friend.
2) does the term ‘friend’ just mean the rest of humanity regardless of their relationship to you whether the individual is indeed a friend or enemy, foe, somebody you distrust/ dislike etc regardless
3) if the term friend means the rest of humanity/ all people would it be better to say “love all beings else as thy self”?
4) If we take it that the term friend means everybody in the world I don’t know whether I would ever be able to come to terms with that. I mean, with such dreadful things in the world done at the hands of man it would be very difficult for me to love such people let alone those who are considered as being friends.
thank you ever so much. Lyndon.
Zohar explained that my desire should be the fulfillment until the next step. To concentrate on what I can do, not what I can’t do today. I am impatient to be placed into a ten, how do I wait? I am weak.
Hello David. You have an excellent opportunity at this time. One of the great tools kabbalists need is patience. However, we can’t develop this tool unless we really feel impatience first. So perhaps you should thank the Creator for giving you this situation and these feelings.
Lately, Gianni talked about the only point where we have free choice, situated in the middle third of Tifferet.
That is, if I am not mistaken, the center of the center, as far from above as from below. In the eye of the storm, so to speak. Does it mean that only in the center of our group (the Ten) once we have reached a mutual integration, is there an opportunity to choose life (spiritual life)? Are there more requirements to exert free choice?
Reaching the center of the ten is what we need. For this we need the entire wisdom of Kabbalah. To do so I would have to sort all the corporeal desires in my current Reshimo and raise the friends higher than all of it, so I only think of them. It’s still not the middle third of Tifferet, we don’t have something like that in our tools yet.
Question to Seth about “A Sage Speaks” from 13th September:
Hi Seth,
Unfortunately I cannot join your lessons live anymore, but I am still watching every recording at least twice. Your way of explaining is awesome. 🙂
A question burns inside me, though:
When the Ohr Yashar (100%) is rejected and divided into Ohr Pnimi (20%)+Ohr Hozer (20%)+Ohr Makif (80%) we get 120%. Does that mean that the Light grows bacause is has been reflected on the Masach or it just changes it’s form? Like a sunbeam hitting on a magnifying glass? You can burn a whole forest with a tiny little peace.
Thank you for your lessons!
Ralitza
Here’s a reply from Seth.
Ralitza,
Hi :)The light reflected by the screen called Reflected Light dresses onto the Direct Light (which is coming Direct from the Creator) and this Reflected Light serves as the vessel for receiving the Inner Light into the Guf of the Partzuf.For example, if someone you love with all of your heart gives you a glass of water, it is not the water that is so pleasurable, but your relationship with the giver of the water. That new attitude with the Giver are the new vessels that are formed. This is different than what happens on the inanimate, vegetative and animate degrees that simply receive the water or any pleasure and the relationship is to the received pleasure, not with the Giver of the pleasure.
The Reflected Light is the intention to only receive the Direct Light on the condition that it can be received for the sake of the Creator – this is the relation to the Giver. So if the Kli can relate to the Creator let’s say 20% and not to the pleasure itself from the Creator, then this attitude, this intention clothes the Direct Light.
This amount of clothed light can enter inside the Toch of the Partzuf.
To answer your question, it is not a second 20% that goes inside the Partzuf. To the extent that the kli can work and clothe the Direct Light, to that extent, the Light can enter into the kli. All fulfillment happens inside the kli, not in the Rosh. The Rosh is only the calculation. Remember that point.
Great question.Additionally, as the masach purifies the screen, as we are starting to learn now, the kli starts to understand its relationship to the Light, what it can receive, what it can’t, why, what is the attitude of the Creator, what is my attitude, etc. so even as the partzufim seem to get smaller with less light, it has more quality, kind of like what you said in your forest example…but let’s follow Baal HaSulam and it will become clear.
Wishing you all good and see you soon,
Seth@KabUHi Ralitza,
Seth usually doesn’t answer in this forum, but I can tell you that it still adds up to 100%. To the extent that the Partzuf can receive in order to bestow, it can receive the light inside. So, let’s say it can receive 20% of the Light. The Ohr Hozer (Reflected Light) is actually the measure of how much I am able to bestow – meaning I could totally overcome the pleasure and not receive it, and bestow it instead. That’s the test. And it turns out that, to that measure, I actually receive it – in order to bestow. That’s why you see both are at 20%. It’s like if I transfer funds from one bank account, you’ll see that same amount in the other.
Hello, I have just joined the GE but am unable to find information on joining a ten. How will this occur? Thanks, David
Welcome David,
We are so excited to have you in the Graduate Environment. As you many have heard, this week we are all connected to the Annual KabU Retreat and hope you are going to be with us at this special event.In the Grad Environment, you will experience a myriad of lessons every week, and the “flagship” is what we call the Young Group. It starts every few months and in it you will embark on the practical Kabbalah journey. This is where you will be assigned a ten and learn all about the work in a ten. Your Young Group will be starting a couple weeks after the Retreat.
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