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It should be clear, and even if it isn’t, it will get clearer. But an ascent isn’t necessarily when I feel good. Ascents and descents are entirely detached from my feeling. An ascent is when I move toward the Creator through the friends. A descent is when I’m moving away. If a good feeling is moving me away from them, then I’m in a descent; if a bad feeling is moving me away from the goal I’m in a descent.
We’re from the broken Malchut. We do all of the corrections so the Upper Light can fill it once again.
I answered you there. I understand, it seems all there is to me is my corporeality. “That’s the real me, and that’s how the friends will really get to know me, and then we can have a deep connection. Not just a superficial one over Zoom, based on texts.” And I explained why it’s the opposite, even though I may feel that corporeality is the main thing about me and thus the deepest parts of me I can share.
If it’s my group of ten, and for example, my mother-in-law was in the hospital recently, and I shared that with the ten in relation to how it was going to affect my spiritual work due to how it would revolve my corporeal life. My friends understand the emotions of our world that would accompany that, I didn’t need to go into it. Nor did I share the play-by-play of all the goings on with the medical care, etc. That wouldn’t bring the friends closer but overbalance things toward me, and corporeality.
We keep everything out except our Point in the Heart, the point of aspiration toward the spiritual goal – that is the ‘friend’. It’s not the person who several things happened to, and all his preferences, and with whom you can have a beastly connection, which we might think is a “deep connection” – but that’s a shallow, beastly connection from which nothing spiritual can come.
It’s not only pretending but acting that awakens the Point in the Heart, rises it above the other desires, and brings us to identify with the Point in the Heart. Thus, it’s a lie that brings us to the truth. The friends are the Points in the Heart, which have nothing but the aim ‘yashar kel’, direct to the Creator.
Hi Zorica,
Whatever’s in the group, I have to say is my perception, received upon my invitation to the Upper Force that I came here asking for such inner work. That said, there is also naturally confusion that I think here I’m supposed to be friends with everyone and behave the way I would with corporeal friends: I just need to really befriend them, and so on. When in fact the relationship should be more professional, like in a karate dojo or something like that. Meaning, although “the moves” in our case are between the hearts, in bonding, love, and integration – all of it should be very thoughtful. My ten especially is an echo chamber into which I should only put things that relate directly to the spiritual goal as written by Rabash. It’s not a place where I come to “be myself”, “express myself”, “air my grievances” or receive psychological support. The ten is only an amplifier for the things I need to increase. That obviates expressing doubts, sorrow, despair – in other words, anything corporeal.
In all of the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is no Atzmuto. It’s just that after a Kabbalist attains the 125 degree he feels there is something else, which he cannot attain, so that’s called Atzmuto. All that we attain is that we definitely do not attain that. We don’t know, perhaps when all of humanity attains, each one his personal correction and we become one thing, after that there are additional degrees for us. But that’s just “perhaps.” Gmar Tikkun is the 6000 years. We know, from Baal HaSulam that there are also the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th millennia, which aren’t written about. And that’s still not Atzmuto! If Gmar Tikkun is unimaginable, so the 7th millennium, we’re just making fun of ourselves to try and fantasize about it, let alone beyond that.
