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Will we learn more about the “Tree of Life.” I only know of it abstractly and I am not even sure if it related to Kabbalah, but since this is week 2 and I have heard no mention of it I thought i would ask. Is it related to the ladder and steps?
Claudia,
The whole of the wisdom of kabbalah is defined as a sequence of roots that hang down (from above) by way of cause and consequence, weaving into a single exalted goal…our discovery of the upper light, the Creator.The Tree of Life is that cause and effect chain. It emanates from the upper light and fills reality. Each of the spiritual worlds conceal the light until it is a tiny spark called our world.
We in our world go back up that same ladder, that same tree from below to above, we first maintain ourselves like the inanimate degree, then we grow like plants (vegetative degree), then we move like animals and finally connect socially as humans. Eventually we feel the upper light acting on us, we feel a certain emptiness, this marks the beginning of our ascent from this world up the Tree of Life to our source.
Seth@KabU
Hello,
I do not understand why the purpose of creation is to fill a creature with unbounded delight. Could you please explain this a little more.
Thankyou
Celeste
Celeste,
We discover that all of reality is a desire to recevie. This is a foundation of the wisdom of kabbalah, one of the first and most imporatnt discoveries that a student makes on the path. She studies herself and the natural world around her and sees that a creature does not move, a cell does not move unless it will receivce more pleasure or more benefit from the move. I don’t lift my finger to scratch my nose unless I will receive more pleasure than leaving my hand on the table. Observe this closely in yourself and in the world around you. It is a very big awakening to begin to see how the desire to receive is operating all of reality.And opposite that is a force, a bestowing force, the light of life that enlivens all of reality of which we perceive only a tiny thin light. Nevertheless we taste a spark of it in the pleasure of food in the pleasure of sex in the pleasure of all the things in this world that we taste for a moment and then it is gone.
Why? Because our desire to receive is built in a way that once the spark enters and fulfills the desire, the desire is satisfied and does not yearn to be fulfilled anymore. And then once again the desire grows, feels empty, which causes us to go searching for fulfillment, then we get a small spark and again the cycle repeats.Our study is fix our spiritual vessesls, not our stomach and our hands which can only hold so much money or so much cake, but in our spiritual vessels we can feel the endless light.
Seth@KabU
Mr. Kosenic, you speak of selfishness and you define it as the will to receive, if I am not mistaken. I am a Spanish speaker and sometimes concepts can be different in English ( English is my second language). I will try to explain this: in Spanish egoismo is ” Immoderate and excessive love of self, which makes one pay excessive attention to one’s own interests, without taking care of the interests of others.” which translated into English would be something like “Immoderate and excessive love of self, which makes one pay excessive attention to one’s own interests, without taking care of the interests of others.” I looked in the Oxford dictionary and found this definition of egoism “a person who thinks that he or she is better than other people and who thinks and talks too much about himself or herself.” Well, for me both definitions are quite similar in this case although the Spanish definition seems to me a bit stronger. Now, when you talk about egoism, are you referring to those two definitions as well?
Hi Jehoseph,
We are made of the still degree, vegetative degree and animate degree.
This is called our necessity and it is not praised nor condemned. We don’t speak of ego in relation to our desire for food, sex, money, etc.
Ego is when we want something at the expense of another.
Beyond what I need as a creature in nature, I need a house, maybe even air conditioning, food in the refrigerator, family, etc.
Ego is when on the human degree, above the animate degree, I want on the back of another, I want at the other’s expense.
That is the ego that we will be working with and correcting from in order to receive to in order to bestow.
The Creator manages all of nature including our desires and He gave us this excessive will to receive and it is in order that we will make a correction on it so that we will be able to receive His abundance, in vessels of bestowal.
We need to come to that through our efforts and we don’t enjoy something without a lack and the more the lack, the more we enjoy from the fulfillment. Thus you see how humanity arrived at its current state.
Seth@KabU
Thank you for the lessons thus far.
I understand how there are 125 levels in relation to the 5 worlds on the spiritual ladder, however, I am unclear about where the 620 levels come from? How or where did we derive the 620 from?
Melinda,
I take the will to receive that is revealed in me and transfer it to bestowal. That is called to make a mitzvah.We will discover these desires thus we need to perform 620 commandments, it’s not something with hands and legs, it is only within the desire, it is mainly to correct the heart of man, meaning the desires of man.
These 620 corrections which are 613 plus 7 Mitzvot of our sages. The 613 Mitzvot connect within them into 248 and 365, and these comprise the structure of the soul. The soul itself consists of ten parts, ten Sephirot, or Ten Commandments.
Rabash writes like this, “There are 613 Mitzvot, and in each Mitzva a light of a unique degree is deposited, which corresponds to a unique organ in the 613 organs and tendons of the souls and the body. It follows that while performing the Mitzva, one extends to the corresponding organ in his soul and body, the degree of light that belongs to that organ and tendon.”Seth@KabU
Melinda,
With spiritual vessels we will discover these as spiritual desires which we correct (the light corrects) from in order to receive to in order to bestow.
Seth@KabU
One thing I in particular struggle with, very deeply, is maintaining an optimistic perspective or belief for the future. I feel overwhelmed by the severity of the climate crisis, the seemingly unsolvable conflicts between humans as persons and nations … I’m sure you know what I mean. I understand that Kabbalah teaches the radical possibilities of healing and redemption, and I want to participate in such a collective enterprise of saving the world (more or less, as grandiose as that sounds).
But on a gut level, I’m genuinely terrified. Perhaps I lack “faith” or perhaps the spiritual understanding to perceive a positive world to come. What can I do in times of severe doubt and sorrow. in feeling like somehow we are living at the end of the world and the mass extinction of all who live on it?
Thank you. I have tried to write honestly, even if I sound bombastic in style.
Aoife,
Hi my friend. If you were happy with only football and video games, then you wouldn’t be searching for your soul, for eternal love, so first of all, be grateful that you feel the deficiency in your heart, that you are searching for something eternal, for something meaningful and good.
Next, after your gratitude, take away all of the ‘clothings’ as it were that surround the emotions.
For example, you have a deep emptiness in your heart or your gut and on it, you dress all kinds of stories about the climate and about wars. Of course, that is normal, but for this exercise, imagine that you are taking away all of those garments that clothe on the emotion and just take the emotion, that emotion comes from the Creator, that is a great minus (-). And our work is to add to it a great plus (+).
We can do this, not the animals or plants and rocks who live instinctually , they have choice in life, but only to follow their inner program, but the human degree of nature can do this.
And you know that this planet went through many millions of years of being a fire ball and many more years of being frozen, so these are not new phenomenon, what is new is that now there is a creature, a human who can balance all of the forces in creation, yes, that is what we are learning. And this does not require some kind of blind faith in something.
We need to learn who we are, what forces are operating on us and how we can do something to participate shift reality to all good.
It turns out that precisely from the big (-) and the big (+), we will feel the great upper light pass through us and onto all of humanity, onto all of creation and illuminate it and bring it into balance.
In the meantime, I don’t want to calm you down but I do recommend that you understand that you have found an ancient wisdom that describes all of the systems of nature and all of the degrees that humanity is going through, precisely. So take your studies seriously and pour that emotion into feeling the essence of what you are learning and leave the outside world alone for the time being. It will still be there when you return, but as you start to learn and format yourself to this eternal wisdom, you will start to feel how everything is happening according to a process.
It’s not easy after all to take stardust and raise it through millions, billions of years to a creature who will as it says, be like God, knowing good and evil.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, but we are on our way.
Hold on for the ride of a lifetime and be confident that you found a place where there are people from all around the world with deficiencies like yours and we are all going together hand in hand.
Seth@KabU
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