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In Isaiah 14 we read:
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Is this a picture of Malchut? Is this our essence? It seems when we say Malchut wanted to control the Creator, it became the being that Isaiah called Lucifer.
My understanding of Lucifer is that it represents Pride (and Satan represents Wrath). I believe those are just two desires we are working to correct here.
Hi Haze,
Lucifer, I don’t have in the wisdom of Kabbalah. It’s a modern term that was used to translate to the Latin lux ferre from the Hebrew word helel (הֵילֵל) and then further interpretations were added by more non-Kabbalists.
The term Satan (שָּׂטָן, satan) is present in Job, the Zohar, and elsewhere in authentic Kabbalistic texts, where it means accuser. It’s just one of the forces in a person that pull him away from the correct Kabbalistic study.
I can’t answer because the original text was written by Kabbalists and the text you provided is a translation in which words have been changed and entire words and concepts that don’t exist in the original have been added. But also, the original is very high and I wouldn’t get confused with it because it’s not directly in front of us, but, believe it or not, what is discussed in this course, is. It’s a paradox – I get that – that here it seems as if high-flying in some distant upper worlds, while in a text like that one it seems that we can pretty much understand what’s going on.
Hi, I just realised I might have asked too many questions along that course, sorry for that, I feel just really intruiged by all of this, please feel free to just answer whichever seems to fit with the content of the course. Thank you.
Is Kabbalistic work including working in a group, in order to learn to bestow to friends, and by aquiring that ability to greater depths, allowing to attain the light more and more? Because only in bestowing, in the condition of Malchut, light can possibly be revealed?
I am wondering, which state Malchut will get into as she restricts herself from all that she is plus all her connection towards the other phases of light. I cannot think of a more „traumatic transition“ … and that state of deprivation… wońt she become „depressed“… or turn into something else, alienating her self from all she was before? I know spirituality doesńt work according to human psychology, but there was this deep impact of shame.  And then, if I would compare how Malchut is affected by that „once and forever decision“ and all the loss and restriction it contains, I would think it changes her nature?
No, Malchut is going into a desirable state. It’s not like our state where we don’t yet feel ourselves as participants or having any choice in the matter. I saw, for example, that it’ll be good for my little son’s mind and heart to block his device. I saw that he was addicted. How does he feel about this and how do I feel? I feel great about it, for his sake. As for Malchut, she sees how this will be great, we don’t yet.
Hi,
Why don’t we consider this restriction as a 5th phase after Malchut?
I have another question which is more generic please : Those phases apply to the human soul evolution? How can I know which phase I’m in?
Restriction is a response to the 4 Phases of Direct Light. Meaning something comes from Above – Direct Light – and seemingly there is a response from below, from the Desire: Restriction.
You can’t know which phase you’re in because you’re not in one of these Phases. These are prior to any individual person. We’re in a different state, after a Shattering of the Desire that is referred to here.
Was Malchut fill with the Light when she made the first restriction? If yes, where did the Light go to? Or the moment she made that decision, the Light that was inside her dissipated? If so, where did the Light go to?
You said that there is a rule in the Upper world, and that is, the Upper becomes a law for the lower. But it was malchut that made the 1st restriction decision and not the Upper force, the Creator. Please, can you elucidate me on that?
Thank, you
Malchut was filled with the Light. After the First Restriction, it becomes Surrounding Light.
“A decision for the Upper becomes a law for the lower.” So, Malchut of Eyn Sof made the Restriction. If it was a decision for her, for us it’s an iron law.
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