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The part that is part of the process is that it’s impossible that I could be already right, and if I was already right in my thinking I’d already be in equivalence with the Upper Force, and that would mean I’m already in some level of revelation. But by asking, I receive a correction (even without getting an answer from a teacher). So, it’s different than in our world where I’m acting/saying differently than is some human’s preference. Here the difference is between me and the opinion of the Creator. As it is written, “Your thoughts are not as my thoughts.”
It’s impossible that I’ll be found in a ten that isn’t a reflection of my qualities. Now I need to correct my relationship toward each of those qualities. As Rabash says, “It is not the friends who should love me, but rather I who should love the friends.” That includes everything that I think of them.
It seems that if I were in the ten of Rashbi or the ARI that I’d advance more with such great examples. There’s a Perception of Reality problem by which it seems so. But how could it be if exactly what the Creator is giving me, I need to correct?
There’s a level, of course, at which part of the correction is doing something physical in our world. For example, if all but 3 friends left the ten, I should contact management and get a functioning ten. The correction is on the plane of this world. But regarding all the other variances, even if the perception of reality aspect has yet to sink in and touch my heart, I need to remember that we need to bring the whole world to correction. And here we’re talking about people who already have some desire for this goal.
Also, it’s not necessarily better that I believed in the Creator in a religious way before coming to Kabbalah. It’s good that it keeps me studying, so the Light is working. But it won’t make it easier in the end. Because all will have the same work above the ego in the end. Whatever was within the ego prior doesn’t matter and doesn’t support – not when I truly want to go above the ego. Everyone will have the same work whether they used to believe in the Creator or were atheists and only believe what they have proof of in their hands.
And the mathematics is, by the same token, not attained, but something we’ve seen seem to be true in every place. Which is why later we’ll see a different mathematics.
It’s not the spiritual shame Kabbalists speak of.
According to our potential though, we’re the height of Creation. According to our present behavior though, we like all the other animals, but lower. Because they’re not outright opposite to bestowal.
All of that is based on the truth, but incorrect.
In Phase 2, there is no shame. Shame comes only at the end of Phase 4.
Nor in this state do we need to “beg the Creator.” It’s the opposite: it’s as if He begs us to receive all the abundance (and, to be clear, it’s not “us”, but rather Malchut, which precedes our universe and human existence).
Nor in our world do we feel shame. We think we do, but we’ve never felt it. Rather, we’d sooner die than experience real shame and spend our entire lives making almost no moves other than to avoid feeling shame. We’re just not perceptive about this.
