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Hello Tony and team,
Thank you for these thought-provoking lessons.
Could you clarify what you mean by the statement: “The purpose of life is to create a creature and fill that creature with unbounded delight”?
Does this describe the Creator’s purpose in bringing creation into existence, or also our purpose as human beings? Are we meant to participate in that same process—to create, nurture, and pass on what we receive?
I’m also curious about the word “delight.” Does it mean happiness, pleasure, deep fulfillment, or something more specific in Kabbalah? How does it relate to the concept of “Light”?
Thank you,
Tim
Tim,
This is called the thought of creation that emerged out of “His Essence”. The kabbalists don’t speak about His Essence, only about what can be attained, which is what emanates from there.
What they discover is that the Creator is a force of complete good that bestows complete good.
Instead of the pleasure being felt in our belly or with our skin, these are all garments on a spark of light. The true pleasure is the light itself. And the spiritual pleasure is to feel that light regardless of the material garment that it is dressed in, even beyond the material garment.
What word to describe it? What is delight? Well how would a 10 year old enjoy a fine scotch vs how my grandpa enjoyed a fine scotch. It all depends on the development of the vessel and this is endless.Seth@KabU
How can the will to bestow help us with problems in our individual lives if the only time it can be practiced is amongst a group of 10 of our peers?
The mention of the Upper Worlds being an increasing ratio of Bestowal over Reception as the 125 steps are ascended resonated with me for some reason. It makes it all seem more achievable. It’s a gradual shifting from Egoism to Altruism. At least that is how I understood it.
Chris,
Yes. Good.
If too much bestowal is revealed then we are drawn after it with no choice, the pleasure is too great. So we each time get just as much as we can work with to maintain the choice in that middle point between reception and bestowal. This is where the true Adam is.
Seth@KabU
In the additional lesson
“Additional Lessons
Watch senior Kabbalah instructors Markos Zografos and Chris Jones teach about your desire, where it came from and where it is headed. (1hr 27m.)”
I’m hitting on confusion when it comes to the diagram/understanding of “breaking” and the positioning of our world inside the diagram. Most probably due to previous knowledge wrote in “Shomer Emunim”, “Moses Cordovero’s Introduction to Kabbalah” etc. My previous understanding was that the shattering happened in Atzilut and cascaded down the worlds, and our existence is within Malkhut of Assiah, whilst the image produced in the lesson suggests the shattering was after the lowest world of Assiah and we are outside that? Is it a case of revised understanding or are both correct at the same time, in a way that I’m struggling to understand?Oliver,
I asked asked Markos.
He said, “The shattering happened in the world of Nekudim. After the shattering, the world of Atzilut was established as the corrected system, while the broken vessels and sparks descended into BYA, ultimately reaching the lowest state, this world, from where our correction begins.”
Seth@KabU
Bonjour à vous, le developpement du 6 em sens prend combien de temps?
Parce que je suis vraiment dans le besoin d’activer ce sens.
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