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It’s never good to take a break from Kabbalah, but you could read a different kind of text. For example, if the head is not working, work with something more emotional, such as the article by Baal HaSulam, There is None Else Besides Him, or the book Attaining the Worlds Beyond by Michael Laitman. Besides, the Light actually works on us even better when we’re confused, then our ego isn’t as much standing in the way.
The truth is there are as many kinds of Lights as their are Kelim (vessels). But Hassidim and Hochma are the two major forms of Light. Hochma is the pleasure of the fulfilment itself, of reception in order to bestow; and Hassidim is the fulfilment of bestowal. Not receiving to bestow, just bestowing in order to bestow.
Yes, although you have no work with your qualities directly – the work is with the study and drawing the Upper Light that knows how to correct them – it’s true that you’ll find later that you’re filled with special traits that can be inverted and used for spiritual progress.
Hi Helen,
All this is included in the simple ego. It doesn’t matter if it’s the desire to receive like this or like that. Either I want to receive more preferable qualities, because I see that with different qualities others are succeeding more, and I simply make a rational observation about the comparison between my qualities and the qualities of others, and I conclude bitterly that it is realistic to presume that I will not receive the fulfilments I might have, were I to have more successful qualities. And of course everyone is this way, so if you will demonstrate that you can succeed more with your qualities than others can with theirs, then they will hate you, precisely to the extent that they are aware of your success. It’s not spiritual shame. But it’s true that all that we do in this world is to avoid ever arriving at a feeling of shame, that I am somehow less than another.
Hi Helen,
No, we are considered to be on the Animate level in our world. To reach the spiritual Still, Vegetative, Animate and Speaking degrees is already something special. The spiritual Still is where I correct my properties of Reception so that I’m at least not negatively affecting my environment by my attitude towards others. I still can’t Bestow, but I don’t cause harm.
When we climb the spiritual ladder we become more egoistic because egoism is the Desire to Receive that also has the intention to receive for oneself, and all of the broken desires are this way, and ascending the ladder means getting more and more of these broken desires to correct, which means to first Restrict their usage with the intention to receive, and afterwards, use them correctly, with the intention to bestow. By correcting all the desires we achieve complete Equivalence of Form with the Creator. By these uncorrected desires we’re exactly opposite to Him, by inverting them we become similar to Him.
Hey Laura, you can say so, that we are more and more shattered, although, in truth, when the Shattering occurred, it was a complete shattering; and from Above, there is also no time and space, but yes, in our perception of reality generations come and go, but it’s actually the same desire evolving and its evolution appears this way in our eyes. Also, we see changes in the world, but it’s only the revelation of what’s already there. Let’s say you have a new romantic couple and they look at each other as if everything is pink. A force of nature comes between them that glues them, causes them to see the flaws in the other but this force covers the flaws “with love” (although it’s not really love, but let’s say). This love causes them to make all kinds of concessions for the sake of the connection because the force filling their connection feels like goodness. Now, in society too there used to be a force that covered all the differences between us. Let’s call it capitalism, the American Dream, this sort of romance. Those too are just kind of how the force that covered our crimes and flaws sort of manifested in our awareness. But that development is over, the way, in a romantic relationship, there is no way that that force of nature that came between you is going to naturally keep binding you together. That’s only for a time. If you wish, you can say that it exists long enough for you to get married and have babies, and possibly to raise them, and not much longer than that! Nature also bound us together only to achieve its aim with society, and that aim was to make us utterly interdependent. That was what was really happening all while we thought we were discover different trade routes, new lands, buying and selling slaves, spreading religion. All this was to intertwine us by so many ties – internal, psychological, religious, political, financial – in order to externalize what is very much an airtight integral system of internal connections between us, such that one cannot even think a negative thought about another person without instantaneously harming himself. So this world is for us to reveal that we are connected, but we’re connected in a very bad way. Moreover, it’s for us to finally “get it” that we do not have the tools to create a good world, not with green energy, not with democracy, not with communism, socialism, anarchy – whatever you can think of, it will be bad. And the more pretty it seems, the more of a holocaust the reality of it will be. It’s for us to understand that we don’t know the way, in our egoistic vessels. Not as individuals, not by democratically deciding together. Because the way to connection – and all historical development was, in the end, different attempts at finding the way that people living on a planet together could live, and possibly even enjoy safety and even pleasure – cannot happen among people unless an Upper Force comes to connect us. We are like croutons in a bowl that cannot be connected unless a soup will come into it and then we’ll be “together” bound by the soup. Now, the way this force connected us just a little but before, we need to now pull this force into the connection again. Of course, if we do this, through the Wisdom of Connection, we will discover that our world can truly be the Garden of Eden. We can’t fathom how it could be that every person, though their pleasure used to be only at the expense of others, will have their deepest hidden desires fulfilled to the point that they can’t imagine something more or better than that. But only if we will connect. And truly the world, especially the United States, is in a state now of connection or destruction. In either case we’re going to soon discover that the laws of the universe don’t work anymore. You’ll turn on some device and see that it doesn’t work somehow. Not to mention that the political systems and economic systems falter. A new law inheres: the law of connection. That if you connect correctly to others, through education in how to connect, then whatever you need as well as wondrous sensations, the sense of the Upper Force, will materialize; and the further you move away from connection more and more clearly you’ll see direct negative results emerging.
