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Daniela,
From the side of the Creator, called from Above to Below, everything is predetermined.
How will the Light of Ein Sof, the abundance without and, how will it fill and delight a creature so that the creature will know that there is such an infinite Giver and to enjoy all of that delight and pleasure. We understand from our own life that when the pleasure is very great it overrides our judgment and controls us completely. So if the Light of the Creator were to be revealed to us we would become like an angel doing whatever the light guides us to we would have no free choice to chose to do anything other than the will of the Upper Light in each and every act we do.So after creating the vessel the Creator made a restriction on the vessel (we say the vessel restricted itself, but as we already said actually everything is being operated from above) and then slowly slowly drip by drip the light can enter in the vessel as much as the created being is able to work with the light with his own forces and to not be consumed by it like a spark inside a great flame.
Seth@KabU
While I was thinking of my question I may have answered it but will ask it anyway. suppose I am doing work I do not enjoy or working with people I do not enjoy exposed to a toxic boss – someone who has harmed people I care about and who threatens my stability with each interaction. This is the opposite of the friend who has made a feast comprising of all my favorite things. How do I correct the feeling of dread within me and transform it into the will to bestow?
Ellema,
If you are in a dangerous situation you don’t need a Kabbalist’s advice, this is standard self preservation.
Take care of your regular material life in a regular material way. This is not a spiritual calculation.
For example if it’s dinner time and you didn’t eat all day, so it’s time to eat, it’s not a spiritual calculation.This world is this world. The spiritual world is the spiritual world.
Seth@KabU
Ellema,
If there is a big angry bear running towards your car, that is not the time to transform the fealings of dread into bestowal, that is a time to step on the gas and go somewhere safe.
We are going to learn together how to work with these inner forces. First things first we need the light to shine so that we can see what is going on inside of us, like bringing a candle into a dark room, there we will discover what forces are operating inside of us and how based on that it depicts our reality.Regarding your work relationships and other worldly relationships, the advice is to organize your life in the best way that you can and then as you develop spiritually you will see how you inner life will stabilize.
Seth@KabaU
I understand that one must crawl before one takes baby steps, and one must take baby steps before one can run. I’ve been writing each request in my journal as a thanksgiving and praise, as though the Creator has already bestowed it upon me. Now I am beginning to add before each line, “as it is Your pleasure…” to each thing I write.
Is this a way to let the Creator know that I am trying to have Him turn my egoism into altruism and my search from knowledge into the search for attainment? Is it a way to make that small spot in my heart?
Guy,
The point in the heart has already been revealed, that is what led you to search out and discover the meaning and purpose of life.
The exercises that you are doing are good. They too can become just a mantra, just a habit that looses its flavor or it can be your true prayer. The words themselves are not the important thing, the important thing is that you are making efforts to express your desires to the Creator and asking Him to help.
The Creator, is unchanging, but these requests of ours transform us each time.
Seth@KabU
Para desenvolver o sexto-sentido, temos que trilhar o caminho do autoconhecimento, muito estudo individual e em grupo? Podemos nos desenvolver solitários ou o caminho é sempre recomendado em grupo?
Hi Seth, thanks for answering our questions! I’ve been reflecting a lot on my relationship to the ego. Through the additional material with Asaf and Gil, I’ve come to understand more clearly that, in some way, it’s about using the ego. I can’t simply “skip over” it or fight against it. But what if the point in the heart has already grown to the extent that there is a soul (Ruach, Neshama)? Is the ego still the driving force even then? I also find myself stuck with the concept of the Masach. Simply saying “I receive, but not for myself” feels like a kind of trick like a spirtual bypass. Even in that case, I am creating the Masach because I want something—namely, spiritual progress. Do devotion and humility actually play a role here? Maybe you can help me clarify a bit the role of the ego and how it is placed in relation to the soul.
Anna,
It turns out that to build the soul we need both lines.
If you know how an incandescent light works its a good analog example.
Energy is passing from the negative terminal towards the positive terminal.
If you put a filament, some screen between the flowing energy, then it glows. If it is too thin it burns, we can call that each time we receive in order to receive. So according to the negative force, we need to add the suitable resistance and the light appears.
And if the negative force is 10x greater than the work against it needs to be 10x greater and then the light is greater.Of course we are still only doing this in order to receive a reward, there is no other way to begin, but little by little we accustom ourselves to the work and then we will work with bigger and bigger forces.
Seth@KabU
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