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Please, explain the difference between Phase 4 (complete acceptance of the role humans play within the relationship with the Creator, and Phase 2 (desire to give just as Creator does).
Yelena,
These four phases are the blueprint of reality, the DNA of not only creation but also of every thought and desire.
We are learning about a process that took place “before” the Big Bang, before time and space as it were. From the perspective of the Creator the entire process happens at once from the beginning of creation until its completion.
All of these phases, and years are from the perspective of the developing, feeling creature. (but there is no human who can feel yet)The thought of creation, called the root phase or Keter is to create a creature and fill it with delight. This causes the first phase called Hochma. Hochma is a “vessel” that is the same shape as the infinite light. All of the light that the Creator wanted to give, He creates a vessel that can receive it all and fills it.
This should be the end of our story, however, this is similar to giving a billion dollar inheritance to a newborn baby. That little creature has no way to enjoy the billion dollars let alone understand and feel what it is and what it means.
So the creature continues to develop.In addition to receiving all of that light in Phase 1, the vessel additionally receives the nature of the Giver as well. So Phase 2 is that now the vessel has the quality of bestower, since it also received this quality.
Keep in mind that all of this is orchestrated by the Creator called from above. There is no “decision” on the part of the vessel even though we speak like that.
For example if you open up the garden hose to water the garden and then one area of soil gets saturated and the water is diverted to another area, we wouldn’t say, the soil got filled and decided not to take anymore water and diverted the flow of water in another direction….
So we need to remember that all of this is happening from above, much later we will see a reaction from the creature below.It is important to understand that as people, all of our vessels are limited, my stomach can only hold so many cakes and my eyes can only take in so much of the visual spectrum so will I eventually be able to receive infinitely? I will need a spiritual vessel that is infinite, so we will have to later acquire vessels that are not limited, they are called vessels of bestowal. As long as I am bestowing to creation, then I can receive infinitely,the more that I receive, the more I can spread onto creation.
Back to Phase Two. Phase Two doesn’t fulfill the the Thought of Creation which is for the creature to receive endless delight because in Phase Two the vessel is bestowing, not receiving, so Phase Two develops into Phase Three and says, in order to continue the process of the Thought of Creation to fill me endlessly, I will start receiving again, however I still want to be similar to the Creator so I’ll also still bestow.
And Phase Four, called Malchut which is the entirety of creation, every star, every sunflower, every elephant and every person, every atom and every thought is all part of this one Malchut, this Malchut in Phase Four will become creation. So here in the four phases of direct light, what we are learning is that in order to enjoy, we need to desire the thing we enjoy. The more we crave and yearn for the pleasure, the more enjoyable the pleasure is. So whereas in Phase One the Light filled the entire kli, but the kli was like an infant that couldn’t feel or understand that light, now in Phase Four, the vessel desires the entire light.
And our story is just beginning….
Seth@KabU
Brenda,
Actually all in all there is only one simple light that fills all of reality.
For example let’s say there is a room filled with gold and anyone who enters can take whatever he wants.
Let’s say you enter, a child enters, a cat enters and a bug sitting on the cat’s back enters.
So only you even have the vessels to comprehend that you are in a room full of gold and that gold has value and that you can take it and use it.
It’s the same thing with the light, we are in a field of light however what we see is a world that is depicted to us by our vessels, we don’t see light, we see people and trees, but behind them all is just light, as if you are looking at a movie that shows people and trees, but behind the people on the screen is just light being projected on the screen.
All of the names given to the different levels of light are all according to the degree of the vessel that is perceiving the light.
Seth@KabU
Peace and blessings.
From this week’s lesson, I understand that everything I perceive is shaped by my current level of development, and that the work is not to change external reality, but to refine the intention behind how I receive and relate to it.
My question is about applying this in real-time interactions with others. If all perception is internal and based on my own vessel, how do we practically work with situations where another person’s behavior feels clearly misaligned or disruptive? How do we balance seeing everything as part of our own perception while still responding in a clear, grounded, and responsible way within the relationship?
Ricardo,
The wisdom of kabbalah is called the hidden wisdom not because you can’t find it, anyone can go online and read the Zohar, anyone can open the Tree of Life by the ARI, but all of those invisible forces, the ones I feel and the 99.999% that I still don’t feel, how to reveal the field of love and bestowal?Now is called the time of preparation. Identify the forces operating you, identify what is operating the others.
If you are a father or an employer for example, you have a place to guide behavior, otherwise, in general we are not going out to the world to “correct” anyone.
If you are in the army and you are in battle and your job is to kill the enemy, so that’s your job.
But just because you see broken people..that is not surprising, the whole world is broken.
Behave in this world like the best version of a normal person in this world.
And soon you will have the opportunity to work in a kabbalistic group where you learn how to work with these forces that you feel from the others, in that group where everyone is working together, you can then use those forces you feel from the others as springboards to higher degrees of revelation of the Lights. And we will learn how this work in this holographic workspace affects the whole world.
Step by step,
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth, I am returning to this course after a few years as originally I didn’t find it practical enough. I’m starting to see/feel I have a lot less free will than I thoaight I had. My will power is limited. How do we invite the creator to give us the strength to go about this material world or is that the wrong question
Hi Terence,
I understand.
It’s a very correct question.
The world is shattered on purpose. We can’t fix the problems in this world by making a better government or recycling, etc
Of course, as we correct ourselves, so we will naturally have better government and more natural way to live and of course we shouldn’t retire from society, but we should realize that a kabbalist lives in two worlds and he is very realistic about this.The time is ripe for the awakening of our soul, the world is crying out for meaning, we see that now when all information is available to everyone, it’s as if knowledge doesn’t even matter to people, just that everyone wants to feel better.
We enter the spiritual environment and let it influence us. Just like the world is advertising all kinds of nonsense all day, we need positive influence over us every day. From the influence of the spiritual society and the reforming light that comes from studying the authentic sources, we begin to feel another reality above this reality.
Good luck and I hope to hear about your progress,
Seth@KabU
I have 2 questions this week:
1) In the Bonus Video Gil & Asaf talked about how to read Kabbalistic texts. As I understood it, it´s more important WHY I choose to read than WHAT I get out of the text at the moment. Is this correct?
2) Regarding Kabbalistic texts; we are encouraged to read original material. Would the Kabbalsitics books from Gershom Scholem be considered as this, or would they just confuse me as a newbie?
Thank for taking the time to answer all our questions! 🙏
Olav,
You are free to read whatever you want.
What we are doing in this academy is to learn from the kabbalists who planted lights in their writings.
All of the books of the kabbalists are imbued with lights, that is what Gil and Asaf are talking about.
There are also lights in the Torah, the 5 books of Moses, however there is a difference between how we can draw those lights according to the suitability of our souls.
Find articles on our site, specifically by Baal HaSulam, Rabash or Michael Laitman. Find materials that speak to your heart and read those, they will have the greatest effect.Seth@KabU
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