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1. I understood from past lessons, that the only reason for these blows to happen is when we don’t try hard enough to advance by studying.
Why are some students who really want to connect and study still being forced away from it by threats on food and shelter security?
2. What has to happen until a student reaches the very first spiritual degree?
3. Will the first spiritual degree help someone to avoid the cause of animal anxiety?
Eliyahu,
1. We are in an interconnected system, just like the body. The body can have a healthy liver and heart, but if there is a small splinter in the finger, the whole body has to stop and deal with the problem. We cannot say that if I sit in the chair and concentrate on my studies more then all of the blows will stop. It’s incorrect. Sometimes I see that something that I thought was bad, it turned out to be good.
There is some confusion in your understanding. Imagine that I am with friends enjoying the day but I don’t know that a tornado is coming. So I feel good and I don’t see the bad.
Or maybe it is a beautiful day but already I feel that the tornado is coming so I can make a move before the tornado hits me. We will start to understand this more and why these things happen too.2. We have a few works in our preparation to the first spiritual degree. 1, we need to hear/read from the books of the kabbalists so that we can start to arrange our inner life not according to what the animal world shows us with the animal mind and heart but according to the upper perception. 2, we will learn together in the following courses how to work with those forces between us.
3. Animal anxiety comes from uncertainty and fears. When we approach the spiritual degrees, we understand where all of these forces are coming from, why and how. Imagine the feeling of everyone in the world supporting you, caring for you and loving you. Now imagine even more than that 🙂
Seth@KabU
It is possible to attain reality in this life?
Why we are programmed to distort
true reality if the real purpose of the creator is to bring bliss to the whole creation?riverroad,
That is exactly what we are working on. Baal HaSulam writes that this is possible for every person.
The answer to your second question can take a few thousand pages to answer and that has all been written already. We will study the structure of the spiritual worlds later and we will see that a spark in the sun does not feel its existence.
The purpose of creation is to create a creature and fill it with fulfillment.
And we know that there is no pleasure without first there being a craving for that pleasure. And if I crave something a little, then I enjoy it a little when I receive it. If I crave it a lot, then I enjoy a lot when I receive.
We will open this more and more.
Seth@KabU
This is from the book(in recommended reading – attaining the worlds beyond ) – ”
This can be explained as follows: people are much more
concerned with their own progress than with glorifying the
Creator. Thus, their tears are empty, and they leave this world
just as they entered it, with nothing.
The final fate of every animal is eradication, and people
who have not perceived the Creator are as animals. On the
other hand, if one concerns oneself with glorifying the
Creator, He will reveal Himself to that person”– What does it mean by eradication? Do we get deleted, are animals deleted as well? Do animals not have a soul and do some humans not have a soul? As I have felt that animals have feelings also…
Please clarify this for me 🙂 Thank you so much, the answers to the questions here are lovely.
Anthie,
This question is just like your previous question, but with more clarifications.
Rabash explains the two souls very clearly as a beastly soul and a Godly soul.
All living creatures have a beastly soul. For example we don’t consume white light. That light cascades down through all of the worlds of concealment until it reaches the lowest point and a spark becomes matter and then that matter develops from star dust into vegetation into animals to us. So when we want to consume pleasure we can’t simply consume white light, the light is dressed in a mango or in a touch, the spark of light is dressed in matter. That is called the beastly soul that every creature has that sustains it.
The Godly soul is what we talked about below in the answer to your previous question.
Seth@KabU
hello, I have a question. What is or how do we feel the ‘sixth sense’? Is sixth sense the visions that I see in meditation? Are they the dreams where I receive the guidance that I pray for?
Hi Anthie,
We have 5 spiritual senses, when the soul clothes the light in 5 degrees, nefesh, ruach, neshama, haya and yechida. Are corporeal senses are like branches from each of these spiritual roots. Four senses on the face and touch as the “lowest” sense.
There is no mistaking a feeling. When you taste sweet, you are tasting sweet. When you feel heat, you are feeling heat.
It’s not a dream, it’s not a vision, it’s nothing blurry, it’s a sense, but it’s a spiritual sense, you don’t feel things from this material world in spiritual senses.
How do we feel spiritual senses, well that is what the whole wisdom of kabbalah is about. Kabbalah means to receive, the wisdom of kabbalah is how to receive the endless fulfillment that the Creator wants to give to us.
For that we have many processes and operations that we go through, many ups and downs and all of this is to start to measure.
Remember, we start in a field of endless light. Everything is filled evenly in all directions with endless light.
Then we learn at first we plant ourselves in the community of people who are studying the books of the kabbalists and I start to develop my soul which is the vessel in which some of this light can fill and be felt.
Very excited for you and the adventure you have embarked upon,
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth,
Please could you help me, because I am not sure if I am going in the right direction… Is it possible to perceive reality and feel a disconnect from it at the same time?Helen,
On the one hand the wisdom of kabbalah sounds like the most psychedlic or the most out of this world thing ever, to go beyond time and space, to have no barriers in any direction.
On the other hand a kabbalist has work in this world, food, sex, family, honor, knowledge, power, all the regular things from this world.
It can feel very disorienting sometimes to move between this and that.
About that we have many advices. For example, as a ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.
In that sense, with our physical form we are tied to this world, for example a mother feeds her child 5 times a day, 2 naps a day, etc.
A person works from this hour until that hour, etc.
And we also need to establish that in our spiritual work, so decide if you want to be an ox or a donkey :)) and you “burden” yourself (of course it is not a burden, it becomes the greatest gift, the key that helps open everything) with the spiritual work, you tie yourself to it in this world, establishing a time to study and a time to teach and a time to read and reflect, it takes some time, but you will make for yourself a routine.
In addition to that iron framework, you will travel up and down emotionally, in and out spiritually, connected, disconnected.
It is a little early to get into this more, but it is a good question and it will be clarified naturally as you continue with your study.
Seth@KabU
Shalom Seth ^.^
From a Kabbalistic point-of-view, should one be reading and re-reading the prescribed texts as to attune to a level of sincere prayer for connection with the Creator? The texts are truly spiritual gems, and contain a great density in very little words – I have felt many shifts in perspective since I began reading them.
Best wishes and many blessings,
Frankie
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