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0- Keter
1- Hochma
2- Bina
3- Tifferet/Zeir Anpin
4-Malchut
These is the order from Above down. The order from below up comes later. This section of study (most of this course) is about the Above-down process.
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Thanks for the question. It will never be clear before feeling it, but I’m happy to keep answering because you force me to delve into it myself. There are only two things in existence: the desire to receive and the Upper Force of bestowal. These forces clothe in many forms though. Two of them, you know from the 4 phases: the quality of Bina and the quality of Malchut. Now, in a manner of loose talk we can say these are Sefirot BUT here we refer to them as Phases of Direct Light instead. Why? Because the Upper Force guides this part of the process without the conscious participation of the Desire. He is guiding the desire through these stages. These Phases are the Blueprint of Creation when guided from Above, and everything has this blueprint in it, like fractals. Now, coming from below up, when we rise spiritually, the way we traverse these phases is called Sefirot.
No, it’s only in this era, only in this lifetime. In previous times, only a special individual just designated from Above to pass on the wisdom down the chain of generations could attain the spiritual world. Today, anyone can who truly wants it. If he applies the method of Baal HaSulam and Rabash meticulously. The fact that we can’t correctly imagine it isn’t a problem. The Reforming Light that we draw during the study is a force that changes us, builds in us the vessels of perception of the spiritual world – gradually, if we work on this tenaciously. Like how if you go into a cave or even lay bare directly on the Earth, there are healing, salubrious forces working on you. How? One doesn’t know, even the greatest scientists don’t know exactly. Here too: one isn’t going to know beforehand. But when one sees that it works, he’ll have proof that it works. For now, I need what’s called ‘faith in the sages,’ the Kabbalists who tell me it works – only in this lifetime, while one is still alive in the perception of our world.
Not coincidentally, I have a direct quote from Dr. Laitman from last morning lesson: Anything that can bring me to the feeling of the friend, to feel him as part of me, and the same manner with everyone. The more I expand my boundaries, the more I feel the Creator’s force in them.
Guided by the ego the act will be if I go according to what I advise myself. I need to replace my thoughts and thus my actions with those that are certainly coming from Kabbalists. That’s how I know they’re in connection with something higher than our world.
Hi Zachary,
No, generally there are no spatial directions as spacetime is an illusion as we discuss in the Emergent Universe course.  Here, Upper means more important, meaning in Bestowal compared to something that is Lower and thus less in bestowal.
The Four Phases of Direct Light also include a 5th thing called the root, which is Keter. Hochma, Bina, ZA, Malchut are the result of the Keter.
