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Hi Francisco,
One is very far from feeling these matters. The 4 Phases do animate reality, and a person as part of it, but he does not feel himself operated by this program, like a small child doesn’t feel himself as a link in a chain of a million generations. Even when we learn about all those generations, as adults, we don’t feel that (and thus we don’t really understand that either). In short, we perceive ourselves as independent operators, free, and we’re wrong about that – thus, to perceive ourselves under such governance is opposite to our ego, undesirable, something we don’t want to know. And so it’s concealed from us, utterly. We would suddenly have to behave altogether differently, in every realm of life were we to feel it. We actually need to assemble ourselves in a Kabbalistic group to as if awaken ourselves to the stages that are precursors to entering the bottom of the bottom step of this spiritual system.
As for the Tzimzum, we can’t say that it is more important than anything else in the system, as the system is perfect, and so all its actions are indispensable. Metaphorically, the transition from Hochma to Bina, though, is like an older child that leaves his parents’ mansion and goes out on a trip in the great outdoors, but, you know, just in case, his servants wait a few hundred yards away. But it’s as if he’s on a spartan, rugged coming-of-age adventure. Of course, some such safari is not the same as one who is outside because they have no home and no nothing. The Tzimzum isn’t leaving the King’s Palace but I can return at will, and I have it standing behind me; the Tzimzum is that I as if burn my bridge back to the palace, renounce my name and birthright. The decision of Malchut to restrict is forever. It doesn’t matter that later the Plan of Creation will have to be realized, because for Malchut, in that state, it’s a decision that is as-if forever, final. And there are many more details to why Tzimzum is different from the transition from Phase 1 to 2.
Almost everything in the Blueprint of Creation course refers to what precedes our existence in this world, the steps we have to climb back up, now that we have been through the Shattering of the Soul of Adam HaRishon and feel ourselves now as individual people, instead of feeling our self as a single desire facing the Creator.
Hi George,
I gave it as an example, without any implications, except that we can somehow relate to that approach, and to the fact that there is a certain kind of satisfaction in this self-abnegation. It’s one approach to the Creator, although on this line one does not actually reach the Creator because by shutting down my desire to receive and settling for little, I’m shutting down the desire that needs to be turned into a Desire that has the intention of in order to bestow. Therefore, I will have to, at the end of the day, start over, with my full will to receive, and put it under the influence of a force in nature called Reforming Light, which is capable of changing the intention of the desire, which brings me to equivalence with the Creator, which is the goal of our living in this world.
Hi George,
We’re not a Partzuf yet – that’s for sure. So, let’s just say “as we evolve on the spiritual path”. Surely, our desires grow, including our corporeal desires, however our importance of spirituality must be raised alongside this – otherwise we’d stop advancing spiritually and simply sink into those now-greater corporeal desires and live unconsciously, on the path of suffering, as we did before finding Kabbalah. That’s why we need others around us on the same path, to raise this importance.
About being a Kli – we also are not a Kli. A Kli means that I connect with other parts in the Shattered reality we feel. That means to connect to others on the same spiritual path, and together we build the Kli. Right now, we’re broken parts of the kli that Kabbalah talks about. All the actions we learn about in the Upper Worlds are talking about a created being that is an already assembled Kli. No, we still can’t imagine how I feel infinitely greater fulfilment through those spiritual actions, and we even mistakenly think that now we’re enjoying but in these spiritual actions we won’t enjoy. It’s the opposite. Right now we barely enjoy in our lives and also don’t know the spiritual worlds – and I’m even being generous with that barely because later we’ll assess it correctly with more clear-eyed accounting and declare that there wasn’t any enjoyment here, but only a launchpad to attain true, spiritual pleasures.
GE and AHP are the names we use to divide the Ten Sefirot, especially when we climb back up the degrees that cascaded from Above downwards. Because they clothe onto each other in a special way, so that there will not be another Shattering. So, in AK we don’t need to think about GE and AHP yet, although the Partzufim in AK do clothe on each other in a special way, and in doing so, they build that part of the ladder of degrees that we will later climb up.
Taamim (tastes) are the flavors felt from the Light, and Tagin are the impressions left over from it. For example, you stayed at the Ritz in Paris and an impression was made from all the fun you had, but you’re not having that fun now, but you retain the impression. As you run out of money and can lo longer eat at the buffet, can no longer do other things, and finally can’t afford to stay at the Ritz anymore, this can be compared to the Light exiting the Kli because Light is pleasure, only here the pleasures are spiritual, and thus far greater than anything we imagine. Then, you have Otiot, which is the impression of what it was like as you ran out of money.
