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I am a retired Christian priest who lost faith in any organised religion because the leadership seemed to desire power and to protect the religion in any way they could at the expense of the individual who they have wounded. I believed that in each of us is a God-shaped space and a me-shaped space in God. One of the early Christian fathers said ‘He became man so man could become god” I have always desired union with the divine not to win heaven or to avoid hell but because I love god.
Since beginning to study Kabbalah it seems to provide a system to achieve the unity I seek. I am constantly asking for that union. and desire to give in whatever way I can. Am I so egotistical/mistaken that the creator cannot or will not respond? At 74 am I too old/stupid? What more can I do? Or am I destined to continue to call out to that deep and dazzling darkness,
Stephen,
It sounds like you meet all of the preconditions for the awakening of the point in the heart, the desire to be adhered to the Creator.
You are very lucky, you found an authentic method passed from kabbalist to disciple back to Adam.
Be patient and pour over the material again and again.
You will see in short time how you are advancing,
Seth@KabU
He says we must have a need to move. Will we be taught to enter a state of need? In Kabbalah, is there a perception that I can obtain to progress in life outside of a place of lack?
To brainstorm my own question: Need is an instinctual feeling we are already gifted when entering this world. Opportunities come with a recipe of ingredients that is up to us to figure out and obtain before creating and becoming the experience. If all the tools and knowledge appeared instantly as one (the sparked desire), there would be no reason to move, and there would be no other opportunities. Need doesn’t have to mean lack, it can be a signal of expansion.
Kai,
We learn that all of reality is filled with endless light.
But we don’t feel it.
What do we need in order to feel it?
A need for it. A yearning and craving for it.
Some desires grow in us naturally like the desire for food and sex. We are just like all of the other animals and these desires arise at their natural time according to many factors.
Spirituality on the other hand does not develop in the same way. The original point does awaken in its time but after that, in order to reach the need for the endless fulfillment that we are going to learn about, so what to do?
We need to develop this need. This is done by the spiritual society that awakens this desire in us.
We will learn about this soon.
Seth@KabU
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