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Hi Douwe,
Kabbalah is the study of what we are in essence, behind the illusion that I am in a physical body and in a physical world right now. Every person is under this illusion, and needs to figure out how to rise above this illusion to the feeling of the true Upper World. So, you’re asking about a sub-illusion of this general illusion wherein I am debating whether to take my own life or have the doctor do it for me. Kabbalah defers on this matter to what is acceptable in society, and legal: the laws of nature are the Creator’s laws. But if you want to know what a Kabbalist himself would do, he wouldn’t allow himself to be killed before his life ended naturally. By doing so I would miss a great correction that will then be awaiting me in a future incarnation. But this is not advice for everyone; it’s just the way one who has perception of the World of Truth would behave.
You can ask the Creator for each and every thing. He’d like us to turn to Him all the time. Here, it could be that I need some sort of professional help too – I don’t know. Because I need to deal with what’s on the plane of this world, with the means the Creator put on this plane. If, from the upper forces, it already appeared in this world, I can’t address it any longer with just inner forces. Only for what’s on the way to me from the upper world, I can yearn toward the goal of Creation such that the things that are in the queue for us can manifest in a good way.
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
