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I’m having trouble understanding the receive in order to bestow concept. To me that sounds like two opposing terms. Can you clarify for me; I know how important it is to understand this!
Grady,
The purpose of creation is for the creation to receive abundance from the Creator, so the creation must receive.
However by receiving the creation becomes 100% opposite from the Creator who is 100% to bestow.
So what is done?
The correction of creation called receive in order to bestow.
For example your small child gives you a gift. Actually, it’s worth nothing, it is a small rock and it will just take up space on your desk, but of course you won’t reject the small gift from the child, so in this case, receiving from the child is actually giving to the child, you allow the child to be the giver and you the appreciative receiver, so your hands are receiving but your intention is to bring delight to the child.
Seth@KabU
Mitch,
Actually, there is nothing outside of the Creator, He is everything, but from our perception, we say that creation, the will to receive is outside of Him, meaning He is 100% to bestow and all of creation, everything you can imagine and think of is creation and it is all 100% outside of Him…100% will to receive, which is opposite from Him.
We will learn what are the 613 Mitzvot and how to use them, they are not simply what is thought of as acts with our hands and feet, but the kabbalists are referring to corrections of the soul to bring that 100% will to receive slowly slowly, 1% , then 2% , etc many corrections until it is 100% to bestow like the Creator.
Seth@KabU
Gates,
Inside of us we have host various positive and negative forces that have different names.
A demon is the inner forces of a person that act to our detriment.Our work is to hold ourselves in balance: to direct ourselves toward the meaning of life by developing relations of love among each other in order to match the absolute love that exists in nature. If we place ourselves in environments that support our calibration to achieve such balance, then we will avoid being thrown from side to side. Instead, we will become stronger in our ability to rise above their influence.
Seth@KabU
When I read about the concept of “the left rejects” it makes me wonder if a material consequence of this function in the spiritual world is what causes all my sensitivities and allergies. My whole life seems to be composed of trying things that work fine for everyone else, and discovering that I can’t use them. There are very few foods I can eat without problems. I’m sensitive to a lot of drugs. I am a “sensory defensive,” meaning I can’t function in most environments. I can’t tolerate most people’s entertainment… it gives me tics and nightmares. And I adore people, but they have little use for me since I can’t partake in most of what they do in life. So I mostly take a role of observe and emotional support from a distance, instead of having active relationships.
It’s like I am backed into a tiny corner of reality. I like my corner a lot. But it’s minuscule compared to what most people seem able to experience and consume.
Is this a side effect of “the left rejects?”
Logynn,
We are each given a unique life in order that through it we will turn to the Creator.
He gets each of our attention in different ways.
Turn to Him, speak to Him, request from Him that you want to be connected.
Regarding the left rejects, I don’t know if these things are pushing you away from the meaning of life or bringing you closer to the meaning of life, so I can’t say.
Regarding your sensory situation, it may be something in your corporeal life that is out of balance and treating it separate from your spiritual life could also be an approach, as if a person had a broken arm, they can pray but they also need to receive propoer medical treatment.
Seth@KabU
I’d like to ask for your help with this question:
If there is none besides Him, how is it possible for us to either be aware of Him or unaware of Him? In other words, since He is the source and director of all things, it seems impossible for a person to independently choose to be unaware of Him. Wouldn’t that, too, be entirely in God’s hands? I understand the desire to consciously draw closer to the Creator, but even that longing must ultimately come from Him. Or am I overlooking something?
Leila,
All of your questions are correct and just like exerciseing or any artistry or something that one excells in, it takes time and many discernments to undersatnd it and excel at it.
So you are doing all the correct exercises with these questions, expanding your mind and your feeling to hold all of these new thoughts and feelings.
In short, think of a baby that is born into this world, and you can know that this process is a branch of the spiritual process of birth.
A baby is born completely unaware of herself. She even has arms and legs but cannot use them. She has eyes, but she doesn’t know what she is seeing. Even when her mother holds her and nurses her, the baby calms down and suckles, but she has no awareness that I am the baby and there is mother who is tending to all of my needs.
But soon the baby grows and recognizes mom and even cries that Mom will come feed her.
Think about this process and replace the baby and the mom with you and the Creator and I even recommend writing your thoughts in your notebook, you will see that when you write you are forced to organize the thoughts and that helps a lot. After you have done this exercise, the questions may resolve or you may have new questions. If you do, ask again.
Seth@KabU
Why is it that Kabbalah is NOT a religion? Talking about the Creator, and that ‘there is none else besides him’, sound like a Monotheistic religion to me.
Anyway, I see that we will take care of this question in Week 3.
I was thinking about this question and it seems like the difference is that in a religion there’s a middle man telling you what’s what about reality and “(hearsay) about divinity.
Kabbalah is a system of protocols to discover for yourself and so far every protocol I’ve been able to implement had precisely the result they described.
Mark,
There was a time when we could call it a religion, but that is not what we are talking about in this context.
The kabbalists discovered the laws of nature behind the curtain, what force governs reality, us and everything, what forces are operating on us and what we can do about it.
Religions as we know them and there are thousands of religions and belief systems are not about attainment with Godliness.
We are focused on attainment, adhesion with the Creator.
Religions came after the nation fell from their degree and when not in attainment anymore, spirituality became materialized and that is what we have in the religions today, that each religion, through their ego materialize spirituality.
Seth@KabU
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