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“The intention of the Creator is to raise man through all of the worlds until man is equivalent with the Creator.”
When man is equivalent with the Creator, does this mean that man IS the Creator, or that man is an additional, new Creator?
I’m confused as to whether there is One thing (none else besides him) or Two things, The Creator and the creature (who eventually grows into a Creator?)
Will we grow into essentially the perfect counterpart for the Creator, or discover we are the Creator?
Shel,
Your curiosity and the development of your questions is correct.
You will have to get used to that the answers in the wisdom of kabbalah do not enter a person’s ear.
It is correct that in wrestling in your mind with the concepts and formulating the questions, this is the correct method. But that you will hear a few words and that will resolve the question, that is not correct. Our method is built on questions and answers, this helps us to build in our internality a correct vessel.
You can speak to your son about going out on his first date, but until he is there on the date with the apple of his eye, with all of those emotions and chemicals coursing through his body, this he needs to go through himself.
So we can speak a lot about what will happen after you acquire a spiritual vessel and what will you feel there and what will it be, but this doesn’t mean anything to us except for fun facts to write in our notebook.So, for fun, let’s give you some fun facts for your notebook 😉
All of our study deals with a process called the 6000 years of creation. Of course you should already know that we are not talking about how many times the earth travelled around the sun, these numbers all speak of qualities, not quantities. That 6000 years is the time for the correction of the vessel until the “end of correction” when the entire vessel has changed from reception to bestowal.
Keep in mind that during this entire time we remain as a desire to receive, this is the creation that the Creator created. Currently we are a desire to receive with an intention to receive.
All our work is to draw the light that develops us to invert that intention to receive into an intention to bestow.
In spirituality proximity is measured by equivalence of form, so as we become bestowing, we become like the Creator, more than like the Creator, it is called that we are in dvekut, adhesion with the Creator..until we reach the end of correction, this is the degree that the authors of the Zohar wrote to us from.
What happens in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th millennia, our books don’t speak.
When we get there, we will know.
Seth@KabU
Roger,
How do you know when you are in Spain?
You bought a plane ticket, you packed a bag. Exactly what wind conditions and delays, turbulence, that you didn’t control, but you did many things that are clear in order to arrive.
And when you are there, it’s clear that it’s not Alaska. It feels different, you feel that it is a different place.
If course in spirituality it doesn’t matter to us about getting on an airplane, but we acquire new vessels of perception and with them we feel.
We feel the eternal existence that exists outside of our self serving ego.
Seth@KabU
Hello,, I am new to Kabbalah,but not to religion. The Bible tells us to examn ourselves, and repent for our sins. By doing this we feel we are being watched and judged. We ask for forgiveness so we feel better towards ourselves. I now see that is religon. If I understand the Kabbalah view now, We are to examine ourselves to see how we are not in line with the likeness of God. We are told to repent so that we will examine ourselves. Yes?
Thank you Seth, so just keeping the intention and examining our choices to become a vessel for the Light enough?
Roger,
Is there something in your life that you have spent a lot of time and effort on? Maybe to become a musician? Or do you read books? Maybe work in the garden or kitchen? How about being a dad. Even video games.
You know that when you become an expert or more than a lay person at it, you start to understand and feel all of the nuance and discernments.
You tell a 5 year old to kick the soccer ball and you tell Messi to kick the soccer ball. It means two totally different things. With Messi, it’s 100,000 hours of training and coaches and traveling and victory and losses.
So let’s say “keep the intention” and “examine our choices” but we understand very clearly that we are at the beginning of understanding what this means.
Seth@KabU
Don,
Everything in creation is the Creator. He operates our reality through two general forces, you know about them, you’ve read about them all your life, in the beginning of the creation of the heaven (+) and earth (-).
The (+) force we call bestowal, that is what emanates from the Creator and enlivens all of reality.And all of reality, creation itself is a will to receive pleasure, a (-) force that manifests on four degrees: inanimate, vegetative, animate and speaking.
Until now we are 100% controlled by that will to receive. Examine yourself and see and the more you can identify this the more you will be able to advance quicker, as it says the Lord is high and the low will see. Specifically when we can see that we are totally governed by Him in everything, he controls all of our desires, then we have a need for Him to give us a second nature, a nature of bestowal like He has.
On the three preceding degrees: inanimate, vegetative, animate, they receive instinctually. On the fourth degree, our degree, we receive with the intention to receive for ourselves at the expense of others. This is what separates our quality from that of the Creator.
We will remain a desire to receive since His goal is to fill us with delight so we have to receive, however we need to receive with the intention that our reception will be to bring contentment to Him.So don’t worry we are not sinning now, we are 100% led by our desires. We need to be free of our desires, half way between bestowal and reception and there is the choice.
So for us in our preparation stage we are like little kids, trying as much as we can to think that all we do should be for His sake and to try in our hearts to aim all of our life for His sake and along with the study and the practical work in the Kabbalistic group called a “10” that you’ll have the opportunity to work with in the future, you will develop towards this.
Good luck,
Seth@KabU
When I feel moments of connection with All Life through my heart and it is beautiful beyond words; and, at same time sense the opposite quality of my ego (disconnection, hatred) : then feel a desire (from an outside source) , for the Creator to change me so I may receive the ability to be grateful for everything as Good and Perfect and align with this quality – am I experiencing the Light of Reform? It is difficult to put it into words and fleeting, yet the feeling of interconnectedness in order to receive and give unconditional love simultaneously keeps pulling at me and sometimes pushing me… Perhaps I should just say thank you for the teachings! The words seems to get in the way! Is this cleaving to the Creator? ❤️
Rae,
We have 1000s of names for the Light. We call the Creator by many names all according to our changes.
For example, someone calls you daughter and someone else calls you mom, another calls you friend, etc. But you are you.
In actuality, reality is just you and everything else is the Creator relating to you.
The Creator’s attitude towards us is arranged in a very systematic way so that we, the lower ones can climb from a lower to degree to a higher degree.
We are advancing according to the surrounding light that is advancing us.
When we will truly achieve the Torah, we will see that we take it above our egoistic calculation. When we are immersed in the ego so much that we see how much we must have this light to reform us and without it we are unable to exit from this control of the ego.
Seth@KabU
If our heart, not our words, is what the Creator listens to, then what do you mean when you advise students to “speak to Him a lot, talk to Him, ask Him to be with you, to help you, to guide you”?
Scott,
You wake up in the morning and you have some feeling in you and then your mind goes to work…how to deal with that feeling…so you think “c-o-f-f-e-e”. Then “I’ll take a shower, then I’ll feel more awake.”
We are desire. And from there it rises to our thoughts and is clothed in words.
So we can use this system and even prompt our desire. Start formulating words, even mechanically. Of course asking the Creator to help me be connected to the Him, to the friends, to the sources … it doesn’t change Him, but it slowly calibrates me to Him more and more, it starts directing my desire more and more.
And when the desire does arise in me, in my heart as we say, as you wrote, so that itself is a prayer. The desire of our heart is the prayer. So speak to Him in your heart if it awakens and also use your mouth and your thoughts when you can as well.
The main thing is we are working to calibrate ourselves to a bigger, integral reality, our spiritual nature, which we refer to as our second nature and to not stay all the time in our first, instinctual nature which is always focused on me, me & me.
Seth@KabU
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