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It’s simply that the Creator does absolutely everything, but most of what He does, we perceive in our ego as bad, while in reality, everything is gifts from the Creator.
We don’t usually say it that way, but it is expelled by the Screen, which is an expression of the intention to maintain the First Restriction. In truth, there is a question if we can use ‘kavana’ in this place, where it’s talking about ‘from above downward’. I would wait and see if Baal HaSulam uses those words.
Centuries ago, there were some who could advance that way because they had a very small Will to Receive. Most people were living nearly that way to begin with. So, you could try to afflict the Will to Receive even more so it had nothing but to let you go toward spirituality. But most still were not awarded, as Baal HaSulam says. That’s why we are grateful to the Kabbalists who made such corrections in the system that we can advance not through mortifications of the body, but through the Reforming Light in the study of Kabbalah. And with that, the door closed to advancement via bodily mortifications.
I don’t have “declaration of intent toward the light” in my lexicon. When the Screen rises to the Peh, then the Light is gone from the Guf, and the Guf is deficient of that Light which it had. The Peh is simply that crucial point at which all the Light has exited.
Purification of the Will to Receive, the cleansing of the quality of Malchut from the quality of Bina, so that it can exist in the quality of bestowal without the Will to Receive mixed in it.
