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If I have attained my Masach, it just means that I can receive the light of the creator correct? Not that I always will? I guess what I’m trying to ask, is that even if I attain my Masach, it doesn’t mean I will constantly be filled with pleasure like I was when I was going through the initial phases of Direct Light correct? I find it a lot harder by a few levels of magnitude to derive the simple pleasures that I once did, and I’m having trouble keeping hope and trust that this is the correct path, but if this emptiness is indeed a part of the process, then that would give me hope. Every video lesson and reading session I have, too many things are lining up for me to deny, even when my logic starts to override my faith, but, I just need reinforcement that this emptiness I feel is indeed a part of the process, that ultimately it will result in the correction and perfect state that I was given a glimpse of when I started down this road.
Kenneth,
Let’s leave the masach on the side for now because there we are already talking about spiritual perception beyond time, space and motion.
But just like a baby has all of the limbs but doesn’t use them yet, so we do go through all of those spiritual processes, but ‘in potential’ for us now.
What you are describing is exactly what happens and this is on purpose and you can be happy about it.
You used to be satisfied with a small toy and then you wanted a girlfriend and then you wanted a car and then you wanted to be wealthy, it is similar in spirituality. At every new degree the lower part of the upper one descends into the upper part of the lower one. The lower one feels this as bad, negative, uncomfortable. Imagine that you take a 5 year old out of the sandbox where he is playing and you put him at a dinner table with a famous, wealthy business mentor. The child has no vessels for this yet and feels rejected from it. But if he can equalize with the business mentor, he can acquire his knowledge and habits and become like him. Of course the child can’t do this and needs to wait another 20 years before he is ready.
But on our spiritual path, we have the ability to hasten time. When the next degree appears, it always appears like this and we need to work to equalize with it even though at first we feel rejection. It is the next level of bestowal which is against our bigger ego so of course the ego feels rejection, but this is all in order to build our equivalence with the Creator’s quality of bestowal.
Later we will study how this process happened in the spiritual worlds and cascaded to our world. It is called that the AH”P of the Upper descends to the G”E of the lower, then the G”E of the lower equalizes with the AH”P and the AH”P rises and G”E of the lower rises with it. Imagine a mom reaching to the floor and picking up the baby and bringing the baby close, and making all sorts of baby noises and the baby reacts with some noises and by this the baby begins to develop.
Hold on and keep going,
Seth@KabU
When Baal Hasulam says that the “Left rejects” does it refer to the screen or to the level of Behina Bet?
Is the restriction Tzimzum Aleph the screen itself?
Maria,
This is referring to two forces, a rejecting force and an attracting force.
All of our reality is built of these two forces, from the smallest to the largest particle.Tzimtzum Aleph is on operation, the building of the screen is a subsequent action.
You seem to have a good grasp of what is happening.
Seth@KabU
In regards the Eyn Sof, what does Kabbalah teach regarding the attainment in consciousness  upon return from the many to the One? My attention in stillness leads me to a merging with no longer any sense of separateness and relationship. In other words, I am no longer a part of, but rather the entirety of One Being.
David,
The entire reason for Creation is to make a creature who can be filled with delight, with all that the Creator bestows.
But there are conditions.
The first one is that if we felt that pleasure, our existence would immidiatly be nullified.
Before any emptiness can arise, it is already filled beyond contemplation. A person would be an angel or some other form that only carries out the commands of the Creator because a person would have no way to do anything against that incredible pleasure and fulfillment.
So we have these states left and right, left and right, empty and full, empty and full.
All of our work in the wisdom of kabbalah is to work on the side of the empty vessel, on the shape of that vessel.
The light of ein sof fills all of reality equally at all times. Our work is only from the side of the vessel how to draw the light into that vessel to format it into the right form to hold that light.
As we do this work, we build that vessel bit by bit until we can consciously hold more and more of the endless light.
Seth@KabU
I was a chemistry major back in college and I was always a visual learner. This lesson resonated with me so greatly because it was like a scientific formula that was so beautifully explained…it just clicked!
My question is this, as a non-Jewish, non-religious person of African American descent. I had always wondered about the persecution of Jews and I am feeling that is was to suppress the “chosen” people who were originally given this knowledge in Hebrew to later teach the rest of the world the formula of how to create a better life and a better world by repairing our vessels and acquiring the quality of bestowal. There is something here that strikes me as truth. Your thoughts? Thank you.
Thank you Seth. Your response absolutely thrills me! It raised more questions and thoughts than I expected. I look forward to participating in the system of Kabbalah. For a long time I have placed  attention on making changes by placing a focus within stillness and silence and from there imagining resolution of egoistic tendencies through affirmation and a full-faith expectation of an expression of that change in my consciousness. I did not have the vocabulary of Kabbalah nor the specific methodology. Sometimes I imagine my attainment to be well beyond my degree of attainment as I work so diligently to bypass so many steps and go straight to the source. Your answer is profound. Though I find peace beyond conditions, I find that I do return to conditions, perhaps a changed man, but not a completed man. I sense empty and partially filled vessels. If I’m to understand, it is only the filled vessel from which there is no return to a prior condition?
David,
The books of kabbalah are special. There is a wonderful, invaluable remedy in them. Although the student does not understand what he is learning, through the yearning and the great desire to understand what he is learning, he awakens upon himself the Lights that surround his souls.
The purpose of our engagement in the wisdom is not to become wise, but that the light in it will work on our matter, give a new form to our matter.
It sounds like you invested a lot of time and attention into your practice and from it you have acquired a language to describe your inner movements.
As you go through the materials in these courses and especially when we are reading and studying the sources that were composed by the kabbalists, make some room for what they are presenting that it can enter you and format you. It may be difficult for you since you have so much experience in your personal practice, you may be inclined to define everything they are presenting in your own language instead of their language.
The gates are open. It It all develops according to desire, how much we need it.
Wishing you success,
Seth@KabU
Hi Karen,
You are on to something.
But who persecutes and when and what makes that happen are also laws of nature.
The people of Israel are those people from ancient Babylon made up of all the 70 nations that were there who left with Abraham.
Today all of those who have the desire called Yashar El, straight to the Creator are those same soul.
We learn about all of this in our study.
We also have a an introduction to the topic on KabU.
https://kabuconnect.com/courses/v2-the-world-the-jews-and-the-science-of-human-survival/
Seth@KabUThanks for your response. I believe I can be receptive to a new vocabulary. The older I have become the less attached I am to a particular description or method of expressing. I am thinking a new and fresh way might be just the thing to carry me far deeper in my practice. This, I believe, is what drew me to Kabbalah at this time. Giving a new form to matter is appealing as for some time changes in consciousness have been awakening things I can only hint at describing regarding the nature of my physical experience. It’s as if I’m morphing out of the physical even while participating in physical life. It’s a wondrous thing that can hardly be shared with anyone. It’s like stepping into a heavenly state which I want to share but fall short in any effort. In many ways I’m left feeling very alone in an experience that I want everyone to have now with me, though even that aloneness is not a sadness of any kind. I am at peace. However, I do long for community. I do have a wonderful marriage and many children. Perhaps at the appropriate time, my desire for community can be met by a group I believe I can be part of in your teachings. Thank you so much. I do get so much from your replies.
David,
You are in our English language campus. We have similar programs in Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, French and others. The students that progress through these fundamental courses will have the opportunity to join a virutal group of friends who learn how to implement what we are studying together. There you will be among thousands of men and woman all around the world who are studying and doing this work together.
In the meantime I cannot impress on you enough how important and foundational all of these course materials are.
Keep a notebook, review the material several times. You will find that these efforts will pay off a lot as you progress.
The taller the structure, the deeper the foundation.
Seth@KabU
Hello Teacher.
I am from a Christian Background, though I am not Christian, my internal landscape is decorated with Christian ideas and when you talk about this process, in this lesson, I can’t help but draw parables to the story and fall of Satan/Lucifer. The idea of rejecting the light and believing you can give as the creator gives reminds me of this story as lucifer rejected God and believed he could do/give better. Do you think Christian stories like this explain some of these principles your talking about rather than having a literal devil who torments an tempts?
Warm Regards
NickNick,
We are studying a practical method, literally a science of the upper worlds.
We are now in the preparation phase, learning the structure of reality, after that we will learn how all of these forces are working on us, where we are in the system and how to relate and work with them.
After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the the wisdom fell into the domain of the powerful and egoistic rulers, religions were formed, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, etc..
Of course we will find all kinds of things in those religions that seem familiar to what we study in the wisdom of kabbalah since they all came from there.
Seth@KabU
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