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Michael,
We are speaking about the inner desire. If you fall in love, who needs to tell you care for your beloved.
All of our work is to increase the importance of spirituality. If that means write a song or run to help your friend and carry his bag, cook a meal for the friends so that when they sit to study they will have energy, who knows what thing you need to do, certainly it will be many things, but it is not the things that you do that are the main thing, it is that the work is in order to increase the importance of the Creator, of spirituality.
Good luck,
Seth@KabUMichael,
You are correct, the four phases of direct light are the structure of all of reality, every thought, desire, everything develops according to these degrees.
Read the authentic texts, they are in all of them:
Root, One, Two, Three Four….you’ll see them in the degrees of the soul nefesh, ruach, neshama, haya,yechida….you’ll see them in the sefirtot…keter, hochma, bina, zeir anpin, malchut…you’ll see them in the worlds….Adam Kadmon, Atzilut,Beriya, Yetzira,Assiya, etc, etc..
Read about it, yearn for it and you will draw the surrounding light upon yourself and these things will clarify.
Seth@KabUNaomi,
First of all everyone who learns this is confused. It’s like going to school on the first day or arriving in a foreign country, no different than that, actually even more strange because we are talking about things that are spiritual, not things we can see, smell and touch.
These four phases of direct light are the spiritual DNA of reality, every thought, desire, action and thing all develop from these phases. (Phase 3, Zeir Anpin contains 6, so all in all its 10 complete phases).From the side of the Creator there is no time and space, from the side of the Creator there is no before and after or cause and effect. The ARI says that thought arose in the Creator (we’ll have to learn what that means another time) and at that same everything was done, the whole of creation from start to finish all the way to the end of correction, the development of the Big Bang and the planets, stars, all the way to the development of Earth and humans and all the way to the final correction where we reunite again with the Creator all as one…all of that happened in that same instant, because for Him there is no time.
From the side of the creature who develops slowly incarnation after incarnation and her vessels of feeling develop from generation to generation from inanimate to vegatative to animal to eventually human, and within the human a few humans start to ask themselves, wait a minute…who am I, what is happening to me…what is the meaning of all of this. And then the human sets out to discover this and what does she discover first?
Well to answer that, we first need to understand the problem here. How can the Creator on the one hand give the feeling of eternity and also give a creature the feeling of independence. If the Creator filled us with eternal delight, we would be like spark in the sun, we would just be absorbed in the pleasure and we would have no free will, no nothing, we wouldn’t move, we only move in order to attain greater pleasure, even if it is just to scratch our cheek, get a drink of water, etc, but if we felt eternally fulfilled we wouldn’t move.
So the first things we feel as we develop and the light begins to shine on us is that we are a desire to receive. And the more the light shines we realize that we are completely a desire to receive and that becomes our measurement of what the Creator is, we measure Him as opposite to that, like an old fashioned scale where you put your item on one side of the scale and then you put weights on the other side of the scale.
Think about this, try to write out the process yourself and let me know how it goes.
Seth@KabUChris,
You are right.
However we are built a certain way by design. We absorb the thoughts and desires of those around us. So we plant ourselves in the environment of kabbalists and exert in the preparation, in the reading the texts and then when these decisions come, we have the power to move towards the good and pass each degree like this.
Seth@KabUMichael,
Very nice.
Reminds me of what Baal HaSulam wrote in Letter 5.
<<“On the contrary, I rejoice in those revealed corruptions and the ones that are being revealed.
I do regret though, and complain, about the corruptions that still haven’t appeared, but which are destined to appear, for a hidden corruption is hopeless, and its surfacing is a great salvation from heaven.
The rule is that one does not give what he doesn’t have. So if it appears now, there is no doubt that it was here to begin with, but was hidden.
This is why I’m happy when they come out of their holes because when you cast your eye on them, they become a pile of bones.”>>
In short, in our work we are always clinging to the right side, to the good, the Creator will take care of revealing the evil that needs to be revealed and the more that you draw the light, the more you will see what was before hidden in the dark.
Good luck and I look forward to hearing about your successes,
Seth@KabU
