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Why does the Creator need to create a perfect creature, if He is only a giver, why does he need a creature that will receive in order to give
Milos,
Before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, there was no “Creator” or creature. Everything was one simple light, no beginning, no end. From there emerged what is called the thought of creation, to create a creature and to bestow endless good upon it. This thought…and you know in spirituality it is not like in corporeality. In corporeality, you have a thought to build a house, so you need to make drawings and collect materials and dig a hole and pour a foundation and then construct and furnish it with appliances, furniture, etc. In spirituality, the thought and the deed are at the same time, there is no time and space.
The thought to create a creature and fill it with abundance, sets all of reality alive.
In order for the Creator to give endlessly, there must be a creature who receives endlessly.
The next part of your question, why does He need a creature that will “receive in order to give”, this is something else, this is the means by which the creature can receive endlessly. If a creature receives for itself, then it is limited by the size of his stomach, the size of his pockets, but when he bestows upon others, there is no limit to how much light can flow through him to the others.
Seth@KabU
Ramar,
Baal HaSulam straightens this out for you in item 3 of the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. He says,
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3) The above-mentioned order of cascading, which brings the will to receive to its final form in this world, follows a sequence of four phases that exist in the four-letter-name [HaVaYaH (Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey)]. This is because the four letters, HaVaYaH, in His name contain the whole of reality, without any exception.
In general, they are described in the ten Sefirot, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, Malchut, and their root. They are ten Sefirot because the Sefira [sing. of Sefirot] Tifferet contains six internal Sefirot, called HGT NHY [Hesed–Gevura–Tifferet Netzah–Hod–Yesod], and the root is called Keter. Yet, in essence, they are called HB TM [Hochma-Bina Tifferet-Malchut].
These are four worlds called Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. The world of Assiya contains this world within it. Thus, there is not a creature in this world that is not initiated in Ein Sof, in the thought of creation to delight His creations. Hence, it is innately comprised of light and vessel, meaning a certain measure of abundance with the will to receive that abundance.”
Here is a link to the article, https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/kB3eD83I?source_language=en
Good luck,
Seth@KabU
Good Day!
(1) The Screen is an intention, an additional sense (the 6th), a thought, a way to feel the spiritual worlds (a tool of sorts), and the only way proper reception can take place. It also seems that it is its own force (as in, once in place it can have its own momentum and affect other desires and perceptions). I am certain it is far more than I can envision at this time. Am I on the right track thinking of the screen in those ways? Do I need to narrow my focus on this for now? Have I already misunderstood or am missing something vital?
(2) I also got the impression that I can choose to build the screen. However, there are obstacles, such as the fact that egoism is my main program that interprets the 5-sense data to promote selfishness as well as blocks a clear perception of the spiritual worlds, and that my very nature is opposite of the Creator. How can I make an authentic choice to build the screen with these obstacles? Is that then the purpose of study with authentic teachers, books, and groups to inform, promote, and aid in making that choice to build?
I know I’m missing something. Any clarification is appreciated! Thank you!
-Allen
Allen,
There is nothing you can “do” to build the screen.
For example, a newborn will get fed, but what will it do besides cry?
It is the Upper One who does all the doing. The lower one only needs to want.
So for us it is about what we want. The Light performs all spiritual operations according to the desire of the kli.
Your approach is backwards, you are looking for some formula and some understanding of something that is out of grasp. How to explain to a 10 year old what it means to fall in love…some things you can explain, other things, there is no way to explain until he grows and has those desires in him.But your passion to want to know, that is the main thing here. So continue to try to understand and think about it, but also understand that the answer is not that you will hear something and then you will understand. The answer will come over time as you advance in the study and your desire grows on the one hand and your development in the fundamentals of the wisdom grows and with this heart and mind development, things will clarify for you internally.
Good luck,
Seth@KabU
Ok “we” receive in order to give, but what “we” really want is to give. In this, we never will enjoy receiving as is the purpose of the creator unless “we” become totally egoist”. In this scenario, I personally, will give all what I do not need (if there is that limit) and when I say “have&give” I include all, love, knowledge, faith, compassion, help, counselling you named. Especially if the other soul, know that isn’t coming from me but from the creator. Of course, this is rational and materialistic thinking. On the other side of the same line of thinking, I should be glad to suffer what some else should be suffering, but how the other soul will know, he/she is not suffering because some else is suffering for Him/Her? (Me in this case). NOTE: I say “WE” because the scenario is after the CLI is crack and divided.
Boke,
The will is the desire. This we don’t have control over.
We get hungry, we get tired, etc..
The intention is the human part that dresses on the will.
We are born, as it says, as a “beast”. It means like an animal. I get hungry, I look to fulfill that hunger.
When the degree of adam, “man” is born in us, then I eat, but I am eating not because of the unconscious desire that arises in me, which by the way I must fulfill … by nature, I must eat to live, every animal body must, but I now have a relationship with the One who emanated, created and formed reality into existence and I want to be connected with what the kabbalists call the Creator.
That He wants to fill all of the creatures with delight. So I am eating (will), in order to bring Him contentment (intention).
Seth@KabU
If the vessel was created only to receive, how is something able to go against its purpose, against the Creator’s Will for it to receive? This is like the clay vessel saying to its creator “why did you make me thus?” If the vessel has the power to think for itself and want to be like the Creator, isn’t that making ourselves to be A Higher Level than what we were created to be?
So what is embedded within the vessel during its’ creation that is built only to receive, that causes it to realize “it is better to give than to receive”? Is that also given by the Creator and part of the vessel? If so then the vessel is NOT only a will to receive but it also contains some sort of hidden “gene” or “potential” to realize and be activated?
Is this hidden potential, the cause of our noticing the difference in the pleasure to only receive versus the pleasure to give that it is experiencing in Binah?
Alejandro,
There are many processes and operations that happens as the Light cascades from Ein Sof until the mixing of Malchut with Bina, the shattering of the vessel, etc.
We will learn about this later.
In short, the vessel also receives, not only abundance from the Light, but it also receives from the Light the quality to be like the Light.
At the end of the story, the vessel has to receive as the entire purpose of creation is to fill that vessel with endless delight, however, the switch that will happen is that it will receive, but it receives, not for itself, but receives to give contentment to the Creator.
Everyone wins 🙂
Seth@KabU
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