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By desiring to be like the Creator, then intending to act like the Creator; i.e., bestowing all that we can upon others.
Dear Friends, I wish you all every blessing, that you enjoy this journey on the path back to the Oneness of Ourself, and that we all realize our true natures within this very lifetime! May our kindness and love for each other work to rebuild our collective soul and vessel for the Light.
Thank you so much, Seth! I’m so grateful for your replies. Please tell me if I’m on the right track. I’m now understanding this as akin to enlightenment, where we finally realize that these dichotomies of “good and evil” are merely illusions of living in our “will to receive” state. As we draw closer and in greater alignment with the “will to bestow” state of the Creator, such dichotomies will disappear. In its place, it will become self-evident what the true unifying Thought is behind everything. (Is that right?)
This is such an amazing and comforting thought, that nothing “bad” really ever happens to us, that there’s no devil or evil adversary out there. Events in life are just all part of the corrective process to get us back Home! Behind everything is our Creator’s intense love and desire for us. Mind blown!
As far as forces working in this world, from what I’ve studied and observed, I’ve always seen it as a confluence of effects that result from a multitude of actions, reactions, and consequences played out here in the physical world, which is also affected by the same playing out in the fractal infinity of other worlds all doing the same and casting their own shadows of events upon us here. Of course, this can also all simply be the machinations of the Infinite Mind of God. As Kabbalah suggests, there is nothing outside of myself except illusion and the internal processing of that which creates my “reality.” I’ve always struggled with this notion that the people I speak with are nothing more than illusions, mere manifestations of my own internal mind or process, like in a dream. I’m hoping to understand this concept better through Kabbalah studies. Thanks for reading!
This is the clearest and most perfect answer I’ve ever gotten. Thank you so much. Is it fair to say, then, that from a kabbalistic point of view, there is no such thing as true sin? For example, suppose we are thought to be living “a sinful life” from a mainstream religious point of view. Is it correct to say that a kabbalist would disagree, believing instead that we are simply exploring and learning as we make our way through “deep and dark” places that are very different from spiritual Light, on our journey back home to the place of spiritual perfection? Or, put another way, perhaps we’re playing out a role in a grand, cosmic drama that requires certain things to happen in order for other things to come into being as part of the unraveling of time and space–here in ordinary 3-D–of the perfection that already Exists? I’ve heard it said that God doesn’t care a whit about what cosmic games we like to play, or what kind of roles we like to enact throughout our various lives. Being raised with some heavy Catholic guilt, however, I find the idea of a Creator who is 100% loving and giving both an incredibly hopeful, yet hard to trust, notion. I want to believe it, though, and I also realize that some things just have to be experienced–which is why I’m here! 🙂 Thank you again!
Why has the Creator arranged things in this way, that we the Creatures would be separated and need to find our way back to the Creator? I’ve heard a number of theories on this, ranging from the Fall of Man (we started out as perfect and in harmony with the Creator but then fell from grace, now existing in this separated state of limited physicality), to the notion that the Creator is fun-loving and simply playing a grand, cosmic game of hide-and-seek with Itself, having iterated itself (blown itself?) into trillions of pieces which It then must find Itself through each piece as each piece comes back to together.
What do Kabbalists believe? Thank you SO MUCH!!
