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Hi Ralitza,
Seth usually doesn’t answer in this forum, but I can tell you that it still adds up to 100%. To the extent that the Partzuf can receive in order to bestow, it can receive the light inside. So, let’s say it can receive 20% of the Light. The Ohr Hozer (Reflected Light) is actually the measure of how much I am able to bestow – meaning I could totally overcome the pleasure and not receive it, and bestow it instead. That’s the test. And it turns out that, to that measure, I actually receive it – in order to bestow. That’s why you see both are at 20%. It’s like if I transfer funds from one bank account, you’ll see that same amount in the other.
We don’t exactly see desires in our world. We see their manifestations. But we usually don’t see so much the relationship between the desires and their manifestations. In short, we don’t know ourselves almost at all. That’s why I can’t give precise examples of how if you break a desire, you end up with two desires, whereas you thought you’d end up with no desire. I can’t give an example because it’s not that there’s a certain example of it, but that there is no counterexample – meaning there is no situation where I can destroy one of the desires that the Upper Force has implanted in me – and this you have to check and see that it’s so. What a person can do is sort their desires, and grow the desire for spirituality. Using factors that are outside of me, outside of my desire, to amplify certain desires in me – that is possible.
You have a branch of the Partzuf in our world, which is the human form, in which there’s the head that decides what the body will do, like a ruler. (In truth though our body, the desire, dictates all our actions, which is why from the Kabbalists’ perspective, we’re still considered to be part of the animal kingdom). When I begin to rule over all my desires, instead of them arising and pushing me, then – and this is only after a very long and serious path, diligently following a teacher, a group, and the correct books – I begin to attain the Partzuf. Because the Partzuf is our future state: a desire that has a Restriction, Screen and Reflected Light.
Translation: Raise a child. Anthroposophy sees it. Waldorf. Every person is born with the desire to receive. How to deal with a child who wants a hug himself? I wonder how education could be different? It takes development to choose to be altruistic, but not by force, right?
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Education should be through a group, in circles. There’s a method you can read about in this book in Dutch. That’s more practical exercises while this English book is more of the theory side.
Hi Marko,
That’s the idea, exactly. Everything in Preface is somehow mentioned here, so that you’ll be able to not be completely lost there. Because all one needs is some grip in order to keep going, and the Light works.
Yes. Until this point, the lessons focus on aspects of the Upper World that remind me of how I think I already am. Meaning they talking about wholeness, and I think I’m already whole, because I’m me, and I’m the center of the universe, more or less. I can think otherwise sometimes, but each one feels himself as such. I don’t feel how all of humanity are part of me (even if I can somehow imagine that at times) and thus that that true picture is shattered in me. This part of the course starts awakening that sensation a bit, it’s closer to where I actually am as opposed to where I imagine myself to be – and that confuses and disorients me. It’s actually a stronger Reforming Light that shines here, and that’s why one usually feels like leaving or starting over here.
