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Wow. I do not have a question, but this is all sounding increasingly intriguing. I can begin to get the sense of how this can lead to profound life changes. Many thanks for making this available.
to move from knowledge to spirituality, how can we balance desire and the Creator>Â there are times i always try to do bestowal, but there are times i get abused. how does one balance – receiving and bestowal?
Elizabeth,
We are not bestowing at all. We are learning about bestowal. We are like a child with a baby doll, one day we will be a parent and have real emotions towards a child. Now we are learning about a quality of the Creator.
In our world we are a creature like all of the creatures. You need to be safe and comfortable, you need to stay away from people who abuse you. You wouldn’t see a giraffe going to play among the lions. That is not natural.
Arrange your life with work and family and health and recreation in a comfortable way. We don’t need excess, but a good comfortable life and on top of that we will build our spiritual perception and learn what is bestowal.
You can work on both things in the same day.
Like a mother who can go to work but in her heart she always cares about her child.
Seth@KabU
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
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