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No, we can’t put ourselves into the feeling of shame. It’s impossible, and so it won’t be true. So, we need an alternative approach. We need to establish our relationship to the Upper Force that fills the whole of reality, operating each and everything and me and all my desires and thoughts and actions. We need to see how much we can tolerate swimming in this discernment.
And then, when we give it a good check, we’ll see that we also need to be in touch with a strong environment of those who are also trying to follow the same path, if we wish to succeed.
Hi Elena,
Sorry I missed this. These matters do not speak of us, as we are now. They speak of a reality we no longer feel, which precedes our existence in these bodies on a planet in a universe that exploded and expanded from a point. This is about a preceding reality in which all was one, and that One was a single desire, and inside this desire the Upper Light was entering and exiting, and thus developing that desire by this contact with the Light. We learn about this to awaken a force in nature that is capable of bringing us closer to these states, all the way until we return to the state of absolute perfection.
So, accordingly, this does not speak of you renouncing some pursuit you enjoy. It’s not necessary because it won’t help bring you closer to spirituality. Later we’ll see that there is something we need to renounce, and that it is only the intention to receive, and not the reception itself. Of course, the whole perception of reality turns on this intention, we perceive reality entirely through this intention, and accordingly it is far more difficult to change than even renouncing all the pleasures one can think of. Only through correct, consistent study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, can one gradually, gradually change the intention from in order to receive to in order to bestow. And then one has nothing else to do in this world, completes their purpose for existence in this world, and this world starts to disappear.
That is not so much learned as correctly scrutinized. Axiomatically, we can say the intention to bestow is the aim – what do I want from what I’m doing/thinking/desiring. I need to check this each moment. But there is nothing else in the wisdom of Kabbalah besides this scrutiny of the intention, since there is no other problem to solve in the universe. The correction of the intention aligns all the forces that operate reality. It’s very complicated to do. Into the correct intention one has to organize the whole reality, including everyone, and the alignment of this intention with the intention of the Upper Force that created it all. In short, for this we need the extensive study of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Both. This is the structure of the soul. It is not built yet. By learning about it, we awaken the Surrounding Light, and it builds these vessels in us through which we feel the spiritual world. The structure of Creation we study in this course is not the only means, but it is one of the means, and a pretty clean one – because w do not enter spirituality with our corporeal brain, and especially this part of the wisdom of Kabbalah does not enable me to clog myself with the imagination that I’m already in the states discussed, as I might elsewhere. Here, any reasonable person knows they do not have access to what’s discussed here, and that leaves the person with a deficiency to feel, and this deficiency causes the force in nature (Surrounding Light) to work.
It’s a system, and this action, the shattering that occurred as a result was a great gift because only by it every part in that system can become like the Upper Force. All together in one soup (the desire that consists of myriad desires all intermingled) it can’t. The shattering broke them such that they can only reconnect with the correct intention, and intention like that of the Upper Force. Of course it occurs in a special way such that it is as if there was a mistake, that the lower ones requested from the Upper to pass them the Light so that they could bestow, and the Upper Ones, Abba ve Ima did so, and so Abba ve Ima also get cancelled here, though they themselves only passed the Light downward.
All of the degrees are stages of development of the desire, interactions the desire had with the Light. Each interaction left a Reshimo, and we can ascend through the degrees because of this. The Reshimo includes everything – which world I’m in, with which vessels, with which Lights – from Adam Kadmon all the way down to the discernment of the imaginary world we exist in now, which is the discernment of having nothing spiritual and existing in some kind of dream. We got a vague longing for spirituality, which we need to magnify and amplify through the right kind of environment. It is the beginning of the first spiritual Reshimo.
