[Ilya]

Becoming more aware that there is a law of nature and we’re much better off working with that law than against.

[Ilya]

Is there any commentary or clarification you can provide on the “Walking the Path of Truth” article. In the article, it’s written:

Let me clarify it to you a little: you shall see its tip, but not its entirety, except when He delivers you.

I’m not sure I see even the tip. He seems to be saying that there’s a middle line, it’s easy to stray from, and the effects are exponentially detrimental. Specifically:

This is because there is one who walks who is worse than he who sits idly. It is he who deflects from the road, for the path of truth is a very thin line that one walks until one comes to the King’s palace.

Are these the three lines?

1)

one wishes to complete one’s soul and return it to its root

2)

one wishes to understand the ways of the Creator and the secrets of the Torah

3)

one wishes to attain the Creator

And we need to want them all equally?

Does he crave the three above discernments equally?

Should I take away that the three main lines are 1) correction 2) the ways, how the Creator works 3) the Creator, and I should check that I desire all equally?

[Ilya]

I’m coming more and more to grips with the fact that we’re not alone. That there’s a natural force that acts on us and that we can come into balance with through our connection with others.

[Ilya]

This helps clarify, thank you. So the focus is on the spiritual environment, desire, rather than on trying to fight or nullify our ego directly.

[Ilya]

From the lessons so far, I’ve learned that I’m the will to receive and the Creator is the will to bestow. Further, that we become like the Creator by placing the intention to give to Him over our will to receive. In other words, to receive for His sake rather than our own. Then, on p. 43 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond, I read,

if we were to nullify all our personal interests in everything, we would immediately break the chains of our bodies and would experience our world free of pain and distress

So, I’m confused, are we to nullify egoism or to correct it with intention or are these talking about the same thing and I’m simply confused?

[Ilya]

Well, that the corporeal world in the end doesn’t exist. All we’re sure of is some reality that’s interpreted by our senses. Our senses change, our desires change, and so does our world.

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