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In concealment you explore every facet of the lack of the Creator, including the concept of the total non-existence of the thing you desire. The frustration and uncertainty causes one to either cling to shells in denial, or long more fiercely for revelation.
lol, I’m looking at what Craig wrote and it’s exactly the same thing, but more concise. But I want to share my whole depiction in my mind, since I can’t help making one. I’ll take any opportunity to get editing, criticism, and feedback on it.
The purpose that is at the top of my mind right now is from the reading material of the previous section.
It seemed to say that the sefirot themselves are composed of the reflected light. This would mean that the only way we can attain them is to perform the action of making a screen (a commitment not to accept a specific light into a specific desire) and then using it to redirect light (fulfillment of that desired thing) onto others, so that we would be able to see the qualities of the Creator in the redirected light.
I think this means that the purpose is to prompt us to make that action. To understand that the Creator is there and everything good is coming from Him. And with this knowledge, we reject some of that good coming to us in order to give it to someone else. And that the power of this comes from deeply desiring this thing for ourselves, and giving it away anyway, specifically because we know the Creator desires this. (The purpose of the course is to help us achieve this detailed understanding above reason without being able to see it for ourselves, since we are not in the spiritual world.) And in the results of such an act we might get to see the image of the Creator etched out, and know Him. And when we know Him we will have the ability to cleave to Him.
That is how it seems to me at this point based on the course materials so far.
Is the rosh the awareness of the Light?
To the degree Malchut is aware she’s rejecting the Light, and why she’s rejecting it, and from whom she is rejecting it, and this awareness shapes her intention… Â that would be the rosh.
And, equal and opposite to that on the other side of the screen, she could allow the Light to fill the toch to the same degree that her intention had become correct?
If we did not first learn the laws of an egoistic reality, we would have no opportunities to apply effort to achieve the true reality of bestowal. And there would be no contrast to perceive and achieve it in full understanding. We needed to first feel out its opposite in a million subtle and gross ways, to then appreciate the Creator’s qualities in each and every one of those opposing ways.
