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“Above” usually means “of greater importance” in the wisdom of Kabbalah, but here it also means that the Right and Left Lines were already correctly established. It’s not that we’re already in either Left or Right. We’re simply not in this system at all yet.
It’s always Ten Sefirot. That’s the structure of reality. But these ten forces have different names in different places because it depends on our relationship to them. It’s like the same person could be dad, grandpa, professor depending on where he is and towards whom. We also don’t mention some of them sometimes because they’re not so important in that place, like we don’t mention Keter, root, in the name Four Phases of Direct Light.
The key here is to understand that on the one hand Kabbalists are writing about a real reality that they’re attaining. That’s why it’s so hard for us to put it together in our heads, and we just need to look for the Upper Light that through the wisdom of Kabbalah can change our qualities of egoistic reception, and then we will feel it all and realize that it’s all very simple.
To your other question, the root of the 5 worlds is Keter, Hochma, Bina, ZA, Malchut, respectively. So the root of Atzilut is Zeir Anpin. The wisdom of Kabbalah is all about Atzilut because it’s where our vessels can receive correction and filling with the Upper Light.
Hi Aaron,
Heaven (shamaiim) and Earth (Aretz) are Keter and Malchut. Between heaven and Earth is Bina. Or, we can simply say, Heaven is the level of bestowal that is higher than the degree I’m on. It’s not precisely the Middle Line.
The Middle Line is above the Left and Right but does not exist without them. It has to be built above them.
It’s good, Lyndon. Let’s continue. We have to take the concepts as axioms. That’s called “faith in the sages”. If a scientist has claimed he discovered something, and I want to check his work, I have to believe in him don’t I? Otherwise it’s not worth my time to carry out the work. We can prove in every way that all is interconnected, one system, and yet each one will have to correct himself to feel it. Because not feeling it comes from the fact that I am shattered. That’s why I see things and feel them as shattered. That’s why I need to work on love of friends. Because I don’t have a non-shattered attitude towards anything. I need to start with the group, then; to build an interconnected system there. I can start feeling it there and extend it later to the whole world.
Because there is pressure from the Light, to receive it. I also want to receive it. However, I must not receive it. So these forces collide.
