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If people were connected according to the spiritual law of love, no one would be looking for reasons to fight over. Everyone would be expressing love and warmth to eachother.
I prepared a short speech for my family yesterday, to celebrate my 64th birthday.
I wrote about the cycle of life from birth to fatherhood and related the evolution of the human intention from pure reception, for food, clothing, shelter and much more as we grow into adults. When we become parents ourselves, we receive the keys to unlock the passageway into the power of unconditional love that flows in the other direction. Parents often give up hobbies, entertainment, nice clothes and dining out, but also sleep and other essential comforts as budgets are stretched.
Love endures because we parenthood attracts the full power of love from the source of all love. That love flows only in one direction: from us to that child. We do receive his love in return but that’s not even why we do it as we all soon learn when they reach adolescence and start to chase their destiny. We continue loving even when we’re disobeyed and misunderstood. Even when they hurt us from time to time, as children often do.
We endure this because pure love flows in only one direction. It is why we love others. Pure love, gives us a glimpse of the One who sent us here.
We can fortify our connection by developing the building blocks we have learned of so far.
The Ego that has been with us since birth, the point in the heart that has already awakened in us since we are here in this group, are the two essential ingredients. The ego must cooperate with the point in the heart to work with a guide, the sources and the environment to build a Masach (screen) so that our Kli can draw Makif (the Light) from the Creator.
I’ll take a chance here and say that the ego can be guided, or maybe the word is regulated or even governed by the point in the heart.
Transitioning from a self-centered perception of reality to one grounded in altruism entails shifting and constantly maintaining the intention to perceive the broader reality beyond the material world of the five senses.
The ego is wrapped up in Our World and fights the higher will. It chases shiny new objects all day long, It is constantly scanning for the next best thing, news, idle distractions, etc. It defends against threats to its comfort and gloats in success when times are good. It’s never satisfied.
When the Point In The Heart awakens, our spiritual nature starts to shed the cocoon of the ego. it sees the limitations of the ego, becomes dissatisfied with that and begins strengthening intention to ascend to the spiritual world where it belongs.
That is our how we rise to achieve equivalence of form to the Creator.
I’m beginning Semester 3 with a growing understanding of the science of Kabbalah and a real eagerness to continue along the path. I look forward to the lessons ahead and to learning how to strengthen my intention, deepen my connection with the group, and increasingly sense the Creator’s presence in everything within me and around me. More than simply gaining knowledge, my hope is that what I learn will gradually become something I can perceive and live.
My best experience from the previous course was beginning to sense the Creator in everything within me and around me. Every aspect of the course material contributed to that growing perception.
As the course progressed, my objective became learning how to maintain this delicate state by focusing my intention, continuing to read and study, and participating more actively in the group. What initially felt like brief moments of awareness gradually began to feel more stable. I began to understand that the work is not simply to discover the Creator, but to continually strengthen the intention that allows me to perceive His presence in everything.
I expect to this next semester will continue to build on the basics we’ve covered so far and that I’ll find another insight for correction
