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Nobody desires spirituality because spirituality is concealed. So how can I truly desire it. It’s like trying to long for a sixth finger. In the beginning the Creator activates me to give me an example of what it might be like to truly want spirituality. Then He takes that activation away, and I see that I don’t want it by myself. That’s when I must start working with the friends in the ten practically to advertise the greatness of this goal. And that will affect me. And I don’t have any hope of affecting myself directly.
It’s a relic of the fact that the inner spiritual work, when it became necessary to conceal the true wisdom, was turned into whatever signs could be found in our world. This particular tradition follows from the rule that I “do not name what I do not attain.” If I have not attained the Creator in a way that I attain specifically that Name, then I shouldn’t use the name. So, there are such formalities – not for the Creator’s sake, He doesn’t mind; but rather for my sake, as a reminder that I should not be silly, using different names for an Upper Force that I myself did not attain, but which I heard from Kabbalists, who wrote those names because the forms of the Kelim in which they revealed the Upper Light were in the forms of such letters that spell those names.
Malchut is Hebrew for Kingdom, or reign, as in “I shall rule” [instead of the Creator]
We’re studying the way the degrees cascade from Above downwards, in order to draw the Reforming Light. We can’t talk about us here because there’s n “us” in this picture yet.
Phase 4 is not deciding not to receive, initially. In fact, she is about to receive, in order to complete the act that was started in Phase 3, where it received Hochma in part and Hassididim in part. Now, in Phase 4, she will receive all the Hochma – the Light of the Purpose of Creation.
Here’s where you spoke about our world. But that’s also not the case. We don’t decide to relinquish our desires. We simply work on making a certain desire within us more important: the Point in the Heart. We need to nourish it all the time, as much as possible. That’s all. That will be enough.
The truth is, our other desires are not even considered receiving. Our pleasures are so tiny, they’re not taken into consideration. So, I don’t have a problem with them. I have a problem that my Point in the Heart is so tiny that it’s even smaller than all my other desires.
Thus, all our work is in growing this spiritual desire. That’s why I need the teacher, the books, the group of others studying with me…
We can’t understand these opposites in our broken state, which corrupts our vision, feeling, and thinking. If I base my approach on the idea that all depends on me, the whole correction, and when I correct my broken part, all others will be found in perfect connection in one body, I’ll find that it’s really that way. At the same time, each of the others is also in this process of correction with me. You can learn more about this here: http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/53008?/eng/content/view/full/53008&main
Hi Naomi,
All your saying is valid. Of course there are some unscrutinized things still. But “all is clarified in thought” and you’re starting to do that. In thinking and thinking about the friends, the connection, we’re actually scrutinizing the desire. Or, we can say that we’re opening ourselves to the Light to scrutinize our desire.
A couple answers:
The disputes with the friends – the main thing is to notice it and rise above it, without erasing it. Because we are incompatible because we’re all unique, special, irreplaceable. There’s no way we can have something in common other than mundane things of this world. I need to thus work to value each friend’s approach, wishing to take it as-is, as perfect, in gmar tikkun already. There is room for each of them to fill my heart up, and for their spiritual inclinations to control my heart. Then I’ll discover that these are actually my spiritual desires that were cut off from me. This is how we become one system, one man in one heart.
About making up your mind. I can make up my mind about anything but I should try. The reason I can’t is because the mind is an upshot of the desire and in the next moment the Creator will open a new broken desire in me, and in that desire I won’t agree to spiritual correction. That’s why I need to fill my group with all the loving spiritual nutrients I can, so that it will awaken me from my new, broken state, and I won’t take a long time to return to the correct work. This way I avoid a long unpleasant process of correction.
Impossible to update with the times as the times will change in ways that are to us as yet unimaginable. This is not talking about our world at all, except that the words used are familiar to students because there is a root and branch relationship between the forces that exist in the Upper World and the objects we perceive in our reality. In that Upper, eternal reality that existed before we fell into our perception of this world, and will exist as-is after our world disappears, as in a dream one was having, the Partzuf Abba (father, in translation) exists structurally above the mother on the one hand, while on the other hand he has no function or purpose or value in the system without Ima (mother), the Partzuf below her, and through Aba, the Light passes to Ima, and Ima passes it to lower Parzufim (spiritual vessels). Therefore, the times can change but these structures never change but remain as the order and structure that each and every person will find in their inevitable ascent up the spiritual ladder to the root of their soul. The examples can’t change either as they are such that they can be grasped at the level of our world, but later one discovers that they were eternal truths.
