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How can the spiritual have no effect on the physical when from my understanding the spiritual gives birth and is before/ the cause of the physical? If we are the branches and living in the branches that are corporeal realm, then how would the spiritual roots that the corporeal branches stem from not be influenced by them? According to the statement made by
what Are Sefirot? (Tree of Life Unlocked Pt 2) – bit.ly/kes-Kab… – To learn more about Kabbalah join a free online course at KabU.Ricky,
This is a fair question.
The shortest answer would be like saying that the king presses his ring into the hot wax to imprint his seal.
The wax now takes the exact shape of the kings ring, although in opposite form, but the form in the wax and the changes in the wax in no way affect the king and his ring.
The longer explanation and a more thorough understand will come from studying the perception of reality, which we will go into more depth later. We need to understand how we depict this reality in our senses and why it is depicted in such a way. As we learn our true nature and the nature of the reality we are in, we discover where is that place that we can touch something eternal from this reality.
Seth@KabU
I feel like I have a grasp on the difference of intelligence and attainment. But to drive it home , this level of attainment that’s being spoken of regarding the language of the Kabbalah. The way we gaining quality or sense is through something that cannot be named ? Or what is it called? Is it because it can’t be explained through words it’s something we have to feel to know that we attained ? When they Say we can’t use our intellect/intelligence to gain attainment, then technically speaking is the process for attainment experience? By experiencing gives us wisdom and through wisdom we attain attainment?
Ricky,
In this world a baby is born with all of the parts, but doesn’t use them yet.
Maybe he will be the best dancer or a beautiful singer, maybe he will become the father of the next Einstein, but while all of these parts are on the baby, they are not in a state katnut. Later when the baby develops, he will be in a state called gadlut.
I’m using a corporeal example to describe a spiritual phenomenon.
To be more accurate, first we need to be born into the spiritual world, which like a birth in our world, the baby has to turn upside down so the head is down, meaning the intellect goes back to zero to be born on the next degree.
There are many secrets in the processes of birth and embryo, etc.
Seth@KabU
Hello all, I hope you are all having a great day and that God is merciful to you. I’m enjoying the course so far, but one thing has been bothering me, and I was hoping someone could help shed some light on it.
As I understand from the Bible, the Earth was created in six days and is around 6,000 years old. Man was made in the image of God, formed from the dust of the ground, and had the breath of life breathed into his nostrils.
However, the information presented in this course seems different — it talks about the Big Bang, that we’ve been living on Earth for millions of years, and that we descended from monkeys, which sounds more like the theory of evolution.
Aleksander,
There is no problem here.
In spirituality there is no time. Time is something that appears to us in our limited perception. There is an infinite world outside of each of us and all that we perceive is the small amount of data that enters into us through our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and touch.
In order to describe the system outside of us, the system that we are in, kabbalists describe this using different languages. The wisdom of kabbalah uses a more technical language, the language of the Bible uses a language that sounds more like legends and history. There is no contradiction, only our limited perception of reality.
A newborn baby has arms and legs and ears but if you put him in a wonderful concert hall filled with world class musicians, he won’t appreciate what is going on at all. He will lay on the ground helpless until someone would help him, hold him, feed him, care for him, whereas a grown adult could sit and listen and be overwhelmed with joy and emotion from the music or moved to tears by its beauty.
So two people, at two levels of development experience the same thing in two completely different ways.
So follow the courses and you will understand what it means by six days, how it relates to the sefirah of Zeir Anpin in the world of Beriah, what are the 6000 years which are the period of time of the correction of the soul, which refers to degrees above this world.The Big Bang and monkeys, these things appear in our consciousness, when we study reality, it seems that this is how it is, and we will learn about that too.
Seth@KabU
texts are written within constructs of time and environment. Texts are documents which are copied and edited to be instructive adjusting for the evolving collective consciousness.
A student 5 thousand years ago would not have psychological and intellectual scaffolding we have
geometry and mathematics and 3 dimensional frames were the highest evolution at y th he time The message was interpreted in tryst contextwhile id find it interesting to be in Copernicus’ class I would know I had genetically inherited functions that would require further translation sophistication – beyond words including concepts and structures to be able to learn
Be where you are now, enjoy the history but read for the intent! not the obfuscation of archaic limitations
and careful for the egoistic view that you have the only truth the only path to peace
let us wrestle with words and meaning and inent
let us not assume superiority
let us not create us and them
isn’t there enough of that?
Do we not know what Enforced conformity does?
isn’t hearing each other, recognizing the familial common bonds between us through time space and dimension the core of Kabbalah?
Hi Seth.
I find the unique and very narrow interpretation of this one among many Kabbalist experts to be inconsistent and problematic.
Kabbalah is by ANY measure multidimensional.
Creator is All and one.
there cannot be therefore only one right interpretation or one right was to peace.and! read Job, this presents suffering as deserved (that unacceptable link about Jews dying the holocaust because they were proud and egoists.
Yet this training is a constant demonstration of self promotion, judgement towards others,Dao was made available at the same time as this version of Kabbalah – costs nothing to go through all levels of training, and never suggests that it is the only way to wisdom or peace – it accepts all the traditions.
suffering should never be presented as avoidable.
no one – not your leaders – no one lives without pains. You all have a responsibility to be aware of the seduction these programs have to people feeling fragile – and some are not able to not incorporate potentially dangerous self criticism and self loathing as less than the ideal you suggest is achievable if only willing.
I am in a trajectory that may lead to death soon
i I love Kabbalah and hoped for a shared deeper dive
Thankfully I do not think I caused this illness I know I am joining All that is
I know no one gets a pass on this last great challenge
I hope this helps you all think more clearly about ethics really showing and being a part of loving
Maggie,
You are right.
There are many paths to the truth.
Just like there is a different path for the beautiful leopard than there is another path in life for the majestic, giant blue whale and one path is not suitable for the other. Within humanity there are many kinds of people some more sensitive, some not sensitive at all. Some who feel eternity and others who feel only what their eyes can see and all of this together creates one whole creation which lacks nothing but the connection between all of those parts in adhesion with the Creator.
From the side of the Creator who always was, is and will be, in Whom there is no change, no suffering.
The kabbalists describe in their books that the only creation that the Creator created is a desire to receive all of His abundance. And all of creation, all of our reality is only that desire developing (in what seems to our perception like time).
Thank you for your insight and wishing you all good,
Seth@KabU
Maggie,
You sound like a very intelligent person.
We are students of the authentic wisdom of kabbalah, we are studying the books of the kabbalists, primarily the method of Baal HaSulam.
Your response sounds more like a critique of the material and the method than a student’s question about the understanding and applying the material.
If you study the material, you will understand and feel what is the core of kabbalah, which is to reach adhesion with the Creator, to bring the reality of love and connection into our lives.
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth,
I submitted a question, but somehow it did not commit. Anyhow, I found the answer in “Kabbalah Revealed” p.94. Since I knew a bit of the name of the 10 sefirot I was a bit confused as to where were Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, and Yesod? I understand now that tese 6 sefirot are part of Phase Three—Zeir Anpin.
Next time I will complete the entire lesson including the suggested reading before asking a question 😊
Also, your proposal to write a lexicon in order to get familiar and remember the meaning of the basic Kabbalah Hebrew words become a necessity at this point in the study. I realized that.
Thank you for your time,
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