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If the purpose to become more and more like the creator (will to bestow), the creator wants to fill us with boundless joy. Who are we then bestowing “to” as we become more like the creator?
Dave,
Great question, because in the first place if we are a receiver and will always remain a receiver, what anyway can we bestow?
So on the one hand there is the desire to receive that developed according to the four phases: inanimate, vegetative, animate and speaking. During this time the desire is growing in order that we feel ourselves and develop a desire for the Creator, not simply a desire for food, sex, family like all animals and money, honor, knowledge and power like the other social humans creatures, but that we a new desire appears in us for eternity.
All of our work is not to attain the thing, our work is to attain a desire for the thing. We are sitting before a set table with all of the delights. We exist in the upper light, our problem is that we don’t discover it because we don’t have the right vessel for it. For us to develop a desire for love, for bestowal, really it is an intention, we remain as receivers but we work with our intention that we want to receive not towards ourselves but towards the Creator, the others, all of reality is outside of my imaginary perception. When I want only for myself that is called that I am a will to receive with an intention to receive. When I want to connect with the system with the life of lives, with the source of all good, with the integral connection of all of reality, that is called that I am a desire to receive with an intention to bestow.
Seth@KabU
How does one operate with ease in this world of receiving but also within the upper world of bestowal, assuming that as we transcend we still remain in the world of receiving. Are you saying that we lose the desires of the lower world and that we no longer operate in this way ; or is it that we have a greater awareness of when we are operating on the lower level and when we are not?. For clarity purposes please.
Yvonne,
You are correct that we remain as a desire to receive pleasure.
Here is an example from our world that can help you clarify your question.
If you have a child and you feed her dinner, so you are giving and she is receiving…it seems that way.
But as a mom, you receive pleasure and contentment when your child eats and if the child rejected the food, that would pain you, but if the child receives and eats the food, by eating she gives you pleasure.
So you can see that we are not talking about whether our hands are giving or receiving.
We are a creature that needs to receive pleasure. The spiritual change is in our intention as in the example above where the giver can be the receiver and the receiver can be the giver.
It’s an inner attitude, a shift that happens.
Seth@KabU
The Kaballah teaches us to release the ego and see creation as beautiful “I am walking down a street and I see trash on the streets, broken furniture on the sidewalk, and weeds growing”, our belief system begins to judge what our perception of a neighborhood should look like, then we are perceiving through our belief system that is base on Self/Ego. However, if you walk down the street thinking what a beautiful street then you are perceiving reality for what it is a beautiful creation.
Xavid,
It’s an interesting distinction here.
The wisdom of kabbalah is telling us that everything that we see is the Creator depicting Himself to us in layers of garments called concealments.
But behind the concealment, everything is one, together with Him.
So when we engage in our spiritual work, we aim towards a connection with the Creator and from that connection where I attain wholeness, then I actually perceive a reality that is whole without flaws.
Seth@KabU
This isn’t about lesson 2 but I read somewhere on the internet that the Kabbalah shouldn’t be studied for its secrets until you turn 42 because before then you like the life experience necessary to understand it and not misinterpret what you read. Where did that idea come from?
Emily,
There are things like that. It’s all very interesting and Baal HaSulam writes about it and we will study it later.
We are in a unique period called the last generation. We are the first generation to advance together as a global humanity.
So first things first, we want to give a simple and clear explanation for what is the wisdom of kabbalah, that it starts to explain to me who I am, where I am, what are the forces acting on me.
Later we will learn a bit more about how this wisdom got passed through the generations as the generations developed.
Seth@KabU
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