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For the time being, they’re all beginners, below the first true spiritual degree. Also, they don’t need to be on one level. Each needs to work, however, towards the others as if they are all higher than he is. That is enough for each one to advance from where they are to their next development.
Spiritual attainment includes everything and everything. However, there’s no point in discussing that because with an x-ray that sees much deeper into the person than he even knows himself, a person is measured in their intentions, and the intention needs to be to attain the Creator’s qualities. Of course, this won’t be one’s sole goal because we’re egoists, but the Reforming Light in the study of Kabbalah works on the person and gradually shapes a more and more correct intention. But this is why a person needs to address all things corporeal in the normal ways, and what, if anything, needs to change according to a person’s spiritual advancement, will change.
Hi Chris,
The Light is indeed abstract – meaning we exist in an ocean of pleasure, however we feel it only if (1) we have a vessel in which to feel it, as you cannot enjoy wine if you have no mouth, no stomach, no brain, etc. We are missing the receivers to receive this broadcast of pleasure. So, we have to build the correct receiver. From birth we have a receiver that is both too small – the way a baby only wants mommy’s milk and so cannot enjoy any of the things you call pleasure – and our receiver is also in an incorrect, prohibited format. Meaning there is an Upper Law against the form we want to receive in, by our nature. That’s why whenever we’re about to receive, the pleasure evaporates.
About the pace, you don’t need to rush. This is an ongoing, self-paced course where the students in this cohort have started at different times and should they continue, will enter different groups as they complete the required courses.
The drama between the Light and Kli is all there is in Creation. Except we don’t feel it yet because the Kli is now broken and out of this brokenness we depict reality. The Light wants to fill the Kli but for that the parts have to connect. We are those parts. We don’t feel any Shame in our state because we don’t feel there is an Upper Force permeating everything and bestowing to us.
Adam HaRishon includes everybody, but he shatters. Now, we are his shattered parts. The whole perception of this world – and this is why we call our world imaginary – is an imagination of a reality in which the parts of Adam HaRishon are separated. We need to try to break out of this imagination by moving toward the true reality, which is that we stand connected, filled with the Upper Light. But we don’t feel that yet, and that’s why we need the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Sorry I missed this, Tom. It is hard to say because we don’t do anything like that in our world. A precise way to say it is that clothing means to take the form of. For example, the desire to receive will always be a desire to receive that can do nothing but receive. However, it can take the form of bestowal. Let’s say, like a child, that, with the qualities he has, tries to take on the qualities of his father. It is one object, dressing into the qualities of another, though it remains with it’s own qualities, it uses them in another form, in a form of bestowal.
