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Hi Seth,
My perceptions need to grow and change. I have always thought of the things that happen, that are by human perception “bad” events, as things that the Creator allows because we choose the path of pain —“the school of hard knocks”— because we are immature and our ego rules us. We know what God wants us to do, but we choose not to do it.
So, my question now is: if God is the only force acting in all of Creation, then we must think of Him as the Creator of all of man’s actions, and situations that man must face. He brings a Holocaust or any of the other atrocities we can see acting in the world. I know that God’s desire is to bring us back into adherence to Him, and being Omniscient, He knows what is required to make that happen. But, as one who has studied the scriptures for many years, the atrocities are difficult to attribute to our perfectly loving Father. In the book of Job, Satan is introduced as one who is allowed to “sift” Job. Is our Creator actually the force that performed this sifting?
P.S. How do I know when you have answered?
Sincerely,
Deborah — Truly Seeking — Calling Out to God to help me.
All that came into being came into being at His will, as a result of Him thinking and speaking. The Light entered the darkness and Creation began. From what I understand, the Creator restricted His infinite presence from a certain space and then He filled it with His Creation. He is omnipresent, both within us and surrounding us. He fills all things and surrounds all things. I focus on becoming more intensely aware of His presence working within and though me. My desire is to adhere to Him so fully so that I can lose my false sense of separation. I am His and He is mine — we should be so entangled that I have no desire to establish the self sought by the ego, but rather — in Him I live and move and have my being.
My best experience from the previous course was that I have found a course of study that is right for this time in my life. There have been points of light leading me to this knowledge for many years, but I knew to wait until the right time and the right way. This feels right. I expect to deepen my experience and awareness of connection with our Creator, His intention, and the souls I come in contact with every day.
I am inspired by a deepening concept of the potentiality of unity based presented by the concept of there being one fragmented soul and all parts will return to the unity. The path of suffering and the path of Light make sense to me. So far, the wisdom feels right to me — I look forward to the spiritual growth increasing my perception of reality. I have become aware of the reshimo in my path and the role my ego plays in my perception of reality. I am studying, praying, desiring the needed corrections and learning to walk with an intention to clothe my desire only to receive in the intention to connect and bestow. I am looking for the joy comes with perceiving more connection and less separation. Even Einstein said that our separation within the physical body creates an illusion of separation when in fact we are all connected. I have always been seeking adhesion to and the accompanying awareness of the Creator.
I wish for us all to continue to expand and connect our points in the heart with the intention to accelerate our spiritual development. Our intention must be to join together in a way that is beyond even what we have hoped and dreamed for — a unity in which we have no unfulfilled need as we desire to receive in order to bestow. We must become those who walk in the light, and emit the light to draw others into the light. So, I wish for us all to study and meditate on the concepts we learn until, as Rav has said, we have a feeling and a sudden understanding as what we have studied expands our spiritual attainment and awareness of the true reality. I wish for us all to be devoted to the the process we have begun as the Light draws us closer.
Oh how I love the attainment of this preparation. The soul fragment that is within me has always been calling me here. But, I have an enduring question. I have studied the holocaust to the point that I feel that I was somehow present within it. I feel the pain of it and other genocides that have been and are being enacted as if it were touching me… the connection of the soul, possibly. I am beginning to understand that this is the path of suffering the human race experiences to draw them toward the need to feel the connection.
So, the dangling question: The premise being presented that there are no “good or bad” actions (this is dependent on our level of spiritual attainment/perception) and that enlightened perception allows us to see the intention of perfect love behind every event– is Kabbalah really teaching that there is no evil force working in/through people who enact and willfully participate in these human atrocities? Is there no — Lucifer/Satan/fallen angelic beings that are seeking to destroy the human race through our own egoistic indifference toward others?
Thank you for sharing your insight on this.
Deborah Joplin
