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From Attaining the Worlds Beyond:
1. Can you please explain a bit more about “Malchut” and “Shechina”? I don’t really understand the difference between the terms/concepts.
2. I’m finding the “faith above reason” a bit of a conflicting statement. You guys say that Kabbalah is a science and not religion. While Science does a require a bit of faith, it seems like the concept is more religious in nature. Is this because the reading defines faith as “the awareness of the Creator?” Can you explain a bit more about why it’s considered a science?
Kabbalah Revealed
What are the three boundaries mentioned in the reading (page 103)?
Will we learn more about how to identify Reshimot and how to address them in later lessons?
Nicole,
1. Malchut is the desire. The Shechina is the dwelling place of the Creator in our perception. When we take the desire in Malchut and learn to clothe that desire in a garment called the soul, there is the Shechina.2. In the wisdom of kabbalah, we have different definitions than the definitions that the world has or that religions have. Faith is literally an additional perception above the mind. It does not mean that I close my mind or shut off my mind, to the contrary, it means my eyes see and my mind perceives and above that I have an additional sense. This can be like when you go to the gym. You need to do another exercise, the body says no, the mind says, go take a rest, but you have some big goal (to be physically fit, to be healthy, to be strong) and this big goal is above the desire of the body and the mind. All three exist.
3. The three boundaries are Matter, Form in Matter, Abstract Form. We don’t have any way, any sense corporeal or spiritual to reach the Essence. It is written about but this is after the final correction of all of malchut. It is not related to our work. Continue reading page 103, and it will make more sense now.
4. We will acquire tools of perception through our study and our efforts and we will begin to discern them on ourselves.
Seth@KabU
Is there an example that can help illustrate what putting a different intention over a desire looks like? I’m having trouble understanding this. For example, if a person desires a really nice car because they are looking for prestige, and then they realize that this prestige (the intention) is egoistic, and therefore leads to misery. What would this same desire look like with an altruistic intention over it? Is it necessary for an individual to know this in order to progress?
Joe,
When there is a newborn in the family, that newborn doesn’t understand what is being said in the room. The newborn doesn’t even hear everything that is being said in the room, the words don’t mean anything, etc.
That is how we are towards spirituality, so when we speak of bestowal, we can be like a child who plays with a toy car, but we don’t know yet what it feels like to drive a real car, the road responding to the speed and the wind and the curves not to mention the color and shapes.
So we can’t bestow now, but we can be like a child towards it and slowly the light will work on us the same way it works on a child who one day starts talking, just by being under the influence of the upper ones.
In the meantime, play with these things, but understand that now we are learning the fundamentals of the system, how it works, we like a child are not driving the car, but we play with our toy car.
Later after the fundamental courses you will be able to join a group of other students where you can actually work on these things practically with other with the same spiritual goals like you.
Later later after we already reach a spiritual attainment will we understand how to do these spiritual actions everywhere in our lives.
Seth@KabU
To be in harmony with the Creator, do we have to turn egoism into altruism and forgiveness, meaning that we have to give all we have of our wealth, lives and energy to others? What is the amount of forgiveness? In what areas is this forgiveness?
My English is not very good and I may not use the right words to convey the meaning, I apologize
Zohreh,
1. Live a normal life with family, work, house, food, comfortable, safe, healthy.
2. Slowly learn the wisdom of kabbalah.
3. When you learn, write down notes, important things, special things.
4. Let those special things work on your heart.
5. Later we will see how it relates to the physical world. Now we are discovering what is behind the curtains.
Seth@KabU
Hi Derek,
For sure we can see similarities. Anyone who studies our species well will see these patterns.
For example Darwin talks about a progression through time from a starting point towards the future.
The kabbalist starts with the final goal, details the cascading of the upper light through the sefirot, partzufim and worlds, until we reach our world at the bottom of the world of Assiyah. And then same steps back up (which Maslow observed some of this pattern from below to above).
Seth@KabUHi Derek,
For sure we can see similarities. Anyone who studies our species well will see these patterns.
For example Darwin talks about a progression through time from a starting point towards the future.
The kabbalist starts with the final goal, details the cascading of the upper light through the sefirot, partzufim and worlds, until we reach our world at the bottom of the world of Assiyah. And then same steps back up (which Maslow observed some of this pattern from below to above).
Seth@KabU
We have a limited processing capacity in our brains that cannot process all the information around us, we would become simply overloaded within seconds and would go mad. I thought that the job of our 5 senses was to throttle back all the potential data from this world to prevent us from becoming overwelmed by it rather than coming from our egos ?
Hi Philip,
We are going to learn about the structure of reality and then your question will become more clear.
The upper light is endless. But through the structure of reality, we have a way to make a spiritual vessel in which to perceive that upper light, because to perceive one tiny piece of the endless upper light, is actually perceiving the endless upper light.
It’s something very distant from us now, it is like a plant somehow becoming conscious of the animate degree that plants it, harvests it and eats it.
Each of our 5 senses is a branch from it’s spiritual root, for example, hochma = eyes, bina = ears, etc…
Seth@KabU
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