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Nothing from the past needs to limit one’s spiritual advancement. I can’t say it in advance, but what has already happened was all the Creator. I have just one problem, that I’m still taking credit. A Kabbalist only looks forward. From now on, all my thoughts and intentions, I want them to be for the Creator, I don’t want to forget about the Upper Force that fills all of reality. And I’m not ashamed of anything because He’s doing everything. “Go to the Creator who made me, and tell Him what an ugly creation He’s made.”
Correct. In the way you’re speaking, the method of Kabbalah is not a complete teaching. In some places – in the Zohar, for example – there are some hints as to what happens after “the final correction” but Kabbalah does not teach about them. Kabbalah only teaches about what is in front of the student to do practically.
I didn’t hear from Kabbalists that there is a method like what you’re describing in the last paragraph. I’ll “look within” myself (which is 100% desire to receive, the opposite of the Creator) and “become directly aware” of the reality of the Creator (impossible because all those concealments were intentionally created by Him, and He didn’t provide in nature a secret key to be able to skip over them – as they have an essential purpose) “as what I am?”. This is not the case. I’m not the Creator, we’re the opposite of Him, the Desire to Receive, and it isn’t the truth that ultimately we find out that we’re Him. The end state is Creator & Creature, the Creature having overcome all the concealments, but in so doing (just as the completion of homework is not the end goal but what the child becomes out of completing it) we become similar to the Creator. We remain separate but similar in quality and then we’re together with Him as partners.
But your question is very similar to your last question, the essence of which was: why does Kabbalah contradict itself. If you have time and interest, I address that in this session on Psalms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJ9OsfFKKQ&t=543s
Hi David,
Because you arrived just after the beginning of a new YG, the next doesn’t begin until the second week of July. That’s why I said hang in there, and you will definitely be notified before it starts.
We never feel spiritual shame in our world but spend energy almost every minute avoiding ever feeling it. So, we can’t compare our idea of shame to spiritual shame. Shame and envy in our world, though, are both related to our sense of self, our feeling of being an isolated creation, independent of others. This feeling comes from the shattering of the collective soul. It’s an imagination, but an imagination that we can use correctly. Shame, for example, is a sensation that can keep us from acting out as our ego might like, and disturbing others. Later, I will be able to form proper intentions not to disturb others because we are all one soul and if I disturb others I harm myself. However, it’s still good to not disturb others, even to preserve my pride. Envy can also be used correctly. I need to build up the others who are, like me, on the spiritual path and envy their progress. As the Kabbalists write, “envy, lust and honor bring a person out of this world.” That is – only by these does one come out of this world to the spiritual world.
