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5 Partzufim per world x 5 Sefirot per Parzuf x 5 worlds = 125 degrees. Of course, there are many ways to divide things as we are talking about worlds here. As in our world, you can divide things in myriad ways to describe it.
You will always have strength to overcome the pleasure, if you rely on the group. You need to build your group up to the height/greatness of the Creator. That’s your work. The Creator’s work is to add more and more desire/aviut to you, to overcome, until you can overcome even spiritual pleasures. You will have to raise a group that looks like the importance of dust to you to the skies, every time. This is the mechanism of the spiritual work and how all the pleasures of Creation are first overcome and later received in order to bestow.
Those are something even greater than what we’re fantasizing about corrections in Atzilut. However, they are corrections of bestowing in order to bestow; and in Atzilut we have corrections to receive in order to bestow.
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
