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Inner change creates exterior change – as within so without. I can understand that to change our inner state from a ‘Will to Receive’ into a ‘Will to Bestow’ is a practical step to perceive our exterior reality from a different “lens” with the chance at grasping the “bigger picture”.
But how does this perception coincide with a perception of the higher realms which are beyond the 5 senses & perhaps even incomprehensible to the intellect? Even yet, what are higher realms?
And are they dimensions we can experience / visit through the practical wisdom of Kabbalah?Dominique,
The reality that we depict is a result of our 5 senses which limit the infinite light and allow some data to enter and then our mind makes an apporximation of some reality. You can google opitcal illusions and see how the mind does a lot of work constructing our reality and that our mind does not just show us “exactly” what is outside of us but fills in a lot of the blanks.If you take a cat to a concert with you, you can be very emotional listening to the music but the cat sitting in the same seat as you will not experience the emotions you experience. It is not because the outer reality is different, but the inner reality of you and the cat are different.
Each creature depicts the world around it according to its signature will to receive profile. A crocodile has a unique will to receive and due to that he goes about living his best crocodile life, he’s not worried about his retirement account or his next vacation or what the neighbors said about him, etc.
For the kabbalist on the speaking degree, the law of love your friend as yourself is not some moral adage. Within the group of kabbalists the friends work to exit their egoistic framework and enter into the desires of the other, this is a means to the end of experiencing reality outside of the ego.
We will learn about this in depth later in the course.
Seth@KabU
I have this interpretation in my mind: I am stuck in a black box with five holes. I need to center myself in a white circle within the black box and open my soul to receive all the bits and pieces from the universe that will siphon into the tiny holes. I can then reassemble all of this information and allow it to expand to the confines of my black box. Is this correct?
Laura,
It’s a very interesting and fascinating situation that we are in.
First of all, we learn that the Light is endless, that it fills reality in all directions evenly and eternally.
But our experience is opposite from that. Even the greatest pleasure we feel starts and ends. Even if our stomach was endlessly craving food, our body would get tired and we would stop enjoying.
So how can we feel something eternal when all we feel is so limited?
So the Creator specifically gave us the will to receive.
Specifically from this oppositeness we can as if measure and feel the Light. In that empty vessel is the place where the Upper Light can dwell.
In the material reality, we have devotion, but that devotion is in order to reach some goal.
In spirituality it is not like that, in spirituality, the devotion is the goal, the yearning, the vessel that longs for the Light is the goal, for in that yearning vessel the Light can fill and the vessel will not be extinguished, unlike a corporeal desire that is extinguished when the filling enters.
Seth@KabU
Marie,
You can take a seed from an apple tree and travel all around the galaxy with it. You can come back to Earth and take it on vacation and bring it to work, but until it is planted in the fertile soil, with the right conditions it will not develop into an apple tree.
Similarly our egoistical nature needs to go through a transformational process similar to being planted in a good environment with the right conditions.
We will learn about this in upcoming classes.
Seth@KabU
I think I gather that when we are occupied with the will to receive we are more likely to that which satisfies a desire to continue to receive. How does one turn their attention to that which cannot be sensed? Do we become more discerning about what we receive as a way to express our desire to become more like the creator? Or maybe develop and become more aware of the desire already expressing itself? How does one begin correctly and on target?
Jimmy,
Excellent.
The answer to your question is as King Solomon wrote, “as light excelleth from darkness”.
How are we to see something that has no form. How can we touch something that is not made of matter?
But what do we have? What did the Creator create? He created the will to receive.
As much as we can reveal it operating us, to this same degree we can be in touch with Him and ask Him to add his besotwal agains what we revealed.
In all of the lower degrees in nature, this happens naturally. Water absorbs as much salt or sugar or dirt as it can and then the liquid becomes saturated and cannot absorb any more.
Or an animal in the wild gets hungry and eats until it is satiated.
But with humans, we absorb desires from each other, this is by design so that our vessel will expand, but until that vessel is corrected, that vessel wants to receive for itself and we want to devour ever thing and everyone for our own benefit.
Even the 10% ‘altruists’ among us who prefer to do good deeds over bad deeds, they do it because it would pain them not to, they do it because that is what their ego dictates, to protect them from shame or to give them a feeling of meaning, but 100% of everyone is operated by their will to receive.
So all of the lower degrees in nature balance the deficiency and the filling.
However on our degree of nature, the deficiency constantly expands. There are eastern methods and religions that teach a person to limit his desire and by that avoid suffering, but the wisdom of kabbalah aims to bring us to adhesion with the Creator, with His abundance and for that our vessel must grow, our will to receive must grow.
And it is upon us to enter a group that will all the time advertise to us the connection with the Creator so that we can draw upon us that Upper Light that will balance the negative force that reveals and grows in us.
Seth@KabU
What are the signs of transforming from a place of receiving to bestowing in my physical being? Is this something that I will notice in my thinking, or mental states first?
Dina,
Actually spirituality is on a degree above the body, but as you advance you will notice many things in your thinking. Slowly you will identify the matter that the Creator created, of which we are made, called the will to receive.
You will feel that the body is operating and you are looking at it, with all of its biological systems.
This is the will to receive that was created by the Creator.
This is the substance that was given to me and I can do with it what I choose.
We don’t identify with this substance,
We discover ourselves outside of it, independent of it and we sculpt it.
I who think, I who feel and according to what I think and feel I am close to Him.
As He relates to the substance of creation, that is how I relate to Him.
All of the work is above the will to receive, not in it.
Seth@KabU
I’ve been taught that the New Testament is a very advanced section of the Bible. Although Judaism teaches Torah only, which is an amazing teaching in and of itself, I sense within Lesson 2 that the New Testament also teaches us how to become more like our Creator. Taking all the teachings as a whole, appears to be the essence of a transformation from the qualities of the Will to Receive to greater and greater qualities of the Will to Bestow. Isn’t this the essence of how we transform our heart and mind? Hebrews 12
Bonnie,
Many places speak of these Godly degrees, there are many paths that lead to the place.
Here we are learning an ancient, authentic kabbalistic method that we received from our teacher in an unbroken chain back from teacher to student for all of these thousands of years since the wisdom was revealed to humanity.
At a certain point in a person’s life she must find a way to reach these sublime things that we read about.
Those people who must know, they find the wisdom of kabbalah which directs a person step by step from concealment to revelation as much as she develops her vessels to feel the source of reality.
Seth@KabU
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