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It seems I’m being prompted to ask a question again in the same forum (first was on the Introduction to the Four Phases of Light and second under the video discussing The Screen), so I’m posting a second question here. I wanted to clarify that in case there’s any confusion.
I understand that the work described in Week 4 concerns an inner change of intention, and that only the Creator can ultimately bring about that change. Yet there is still an effort I need to make.
This is where I feel uncertain: I can choose outward actions, but I don’t feel capable of changing my inner intention through my own efforts. What practical actions can I take to prepare for or ask for that inner change?
For example, is there value in declining certain pleasures, limiting how much I receive, or pausing to pray before enjoying something, such as a meal? How should I approach these actions so they support the inner work, and how can I recognize whether I’m making the effort that is actually required?
Michael,
We are speaking about the inner desire. If you fall in love, who needs to tell you care for your beloved.
All of our work is to increase the importance of spirituality. If that means write a song or run to help your friend and carry his bag, cook a meal for the friends so that when they sit to study they will have energy, who knows what thing you need to do, certainly it will be many things, but it is not the things that you do that are the main thing, it is that the work is in order to increase the importance of the Creator, of spirituality.
Good luck,
Seth@KabU
My understanding is that the five phases of creation are a recurring process that unfolds throughout existence, including in our own daily lives (at all macro and micro scales). Whether this is correct or not, how can we consciously understand and/or participate in these phases to advance spiritually?
Michael,
You are correct, the four phases of direct light are the structure of all of reality, every thought, desire, everything develops according to these degrees.
Read the authentic texts, they are in all of them:
Root, One, Two, Three Four….you’ll see them in the degrees of the soul nefesh, ruach, neshama, haya,yechida….you’ll see them in the sefirtot…keter, hochma, bina, zeir anpin, malchut…you’ll see them in the worlds….Adam Kadmon, Atzilut,Beriya, Yetzira,Assiya, etc, etc..
Read about it, yearn for it and you will draw the surrounding light upon yourself and these things will clarify.
Seth@KabU
Hi again,
more questions arise. In the first stage, the Creator wanted to “share” ? his unbounded fulfillment so he created a kli to receive his total light. (But if he is complete and whole why must he do anything?)
He thought? that the kli would then know what it was like to be the creator bc she received his total light. And he thought she would have equivalence of form to him bc she had/knew everything he had?
The kli in the second stage understood that to be like the creator she had to “give” & the only thing she could give was the unbounded light she received from the creator back to the creator?Hi and good morning from Portugal,
I feel like I understand less than before. The first 3 stages were a development of a desire to be like the creator? To give unconditionally. The last stage is a development to fully understand the thought of the creator in that being- the root pleasure in unconditional bestowal? We can “learn” to give unbounded fulfillment but to be equivalent to the creator we need to not just understand but “know” that initial desire of the creator to make a kli solely to receive?
Naomi,
First of all everyone who learns this is confused. It’s like going to school on the first day or arriving in a foreign country, no different than that, actually even more strange because we are talking about things that are spiritual, not things we can see, smell and touch.
These four phases of direct light are the spiritual DNA of reality, every thought, desire, action and thing all develop from these phases. (Phase 3, Zeir Anpin contains 6, so all in all its 10 complete phases).From the side of the Creator there is no time and space, from the side of the Creator there is no before and after or cause and effect. The ARI says that thought arose in the Creator (we’ll have to learn what that means another time) and at that same everything was done, the whole of creation from start to finish all the way to the end of correction, the development of the Big Bang and the planets, stars, all the way to the development of Earth and humans and all the way to the final correction where we reunite again with the Creator all as one…all of that happened in that same instant, because for Him there is no time.
From the side of the creature who develops slowly incarnation after incarnation and her vessels of feeling develop from generation to generation from inanimate to vegatative to animal to eventually human, and within the human a few humans start to ask themselves, wait a minute…who am I, what is happening to me…what is the meaning of all of this. And then the human sets out to discover this and what does she discover first?
Well to answer that, we first need to understand the problem here. How can the Creator on the one hand give the feeling of eternity and also give a creature the feeling of independence. If the Creator filled us with eternal delight, we would be like spark in the sun, we would just be absorbed in the pleasure and we would have no free will, no nothing, we wouldn’t move, we only move in order to attain greater pleasure, even if it is just to scratch our cheek, get a drink of water, etc, but if we felt eternally fulfilled we wouldn’t move.
So the first things we feel as we develop and the light begins to shine on us is that we are a desire to receive. And the more the light shines we realize that we are completely a desire to receive and that becomes our measurement of what the Creator is, we measure Him as opposite to that, like an old fashioned scale where you put your item on one side of the scale and then you put weights on the other side of the scale.
Think about this, try to write out the process yourself and let me know how it goes.
Seth@KabUThank you Seth. So once we correct our desire to receive (meaning transform it from one of just receiving to one of receiving and bestowing) then that essence is opposite of what the Creator is? As it was corrected -like ingredients for a cake (being just receiving) but then we “correct” the ingredients & make a cake – that we can enjoy and others can enjoy too. And the Creator is the baker/bestower that not only gives us the ingredients and the wherewithal to bake the cake but also delights in watching us eat and share the cake? (So opposite us?)
So if I understand correctly, the screen is an intention which is to not enjoy solely for myself but to enjoy for the sake of the Creator. And when this is done correctly, the pleasures are felt differently. It is a superior sensation compared to enjoying for myself only. The more I learn to enjoy for the sake of the Creator and not for self, the greater the pleasures are?
Thank you Seth. So once we correct our desire to receive (meaning transform it to one of just receiving to one of receiving and bestowing) then that essence is opposite of what the Creator is? As it was corrected like ingredients for a cake but then we made a cake. And the Creator is the baker watching his creation actually eat the cake?
Chris,
Imagine if we were a rock, what pleasure could we enjoy. How about if we were a flower, what pleasure could we enjoy. Ok, what if we were a wolf, what pleasure could we enjoy?
But give us a mouth and a brain and time to figure it out and we can make cake and whisky and bbq a steak.
So imagine that above rock, plant and person, there is a spiritual degree. When you say “screen” you are talking about a diaphragm like the ear drum for example, some screen that the Upper Light strikes it and we percieve. You can put a seared steak on a rock or on a flower but they won’t enjoy because they didn’t develop a mouth and an imagination.
Similarly, Upper Light can fill the room we are in, but without the development of the spiritual vessel of perception, we won’t feel it.
Seth@KabU
Hello Seth, I hope I’m not asking a question that has already been answered. What is the Kli made of? Thank you!
Mary,
The Creator created one thing and all of this reality, our universe is made out of that one substance, it is called the will to receive. This is the force that hold atoms together, that makes plants stretch towards the sun, animates an animal to get up and go eat, etc.
Seth@KabU
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