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Gustavo,
The spreading of the light from above… we can say sketches out the contour of the future ten sefirot.
As the light exits, the ten sefirot appear according to the contours outlined by the spreading of the light.
When the light is expelled from the vessel, what remains is the otiot, the letters.
The otiot/letters are the state where there is no light, but a strong desire to receive the light in a designated form.
Seth@KabUTracy,
Nice insights. You are right. Final Mem doesn’t go below the parsa like you mentioned.
You already feel that the letters are describing our inner processes and transformation. Meaning that as go through our process of growth we reach the qualities of those letters.That square shape of the final Mem is the symbol of the desire to reach a whole state, to feel surrounded and protected by that love.
To use a metaphorical language in the way you asked, our inner process has two parts, the “desert” and the bountiful land. The journey through the desert is 40 (Mem) years, which is Malchut rising to Bina.
Seth@KabUSchalk,
It takes some time to calibrate to the language of the kabbalists.
The books of the kabbalists only speak of natural forces. What are the forces operating on us, who are we, or what are we and what can we do in the situation we are in…why is it happening like this and where is it leading.
I hiked in the desert this summer. By mid day, the sun was aggressive, burning our skin and drying us out.
The sun is the sun. We were caught in the mid day sun, in the desert.
As a kid I went skiing in a small town in Vermont, where the snow was great and the landscape was gorgeous. This week I saw a story online that the entire village was flooded…underwater…homes and businesses ruined.
Water is water.
So now back to our topic. In the wisdom of kabbalah, a force of bestowal is called male and a force of reception is called female.
On the largest scale, of light and vessel, to our personal relationship as all of creation as female towards the Creator who is male.
Seth@KabUEric,
Many things in the wisdom of kabbalah sound either out of context or strange to us.
The kabbalists are talking about a whole, integral system, as all of humanity as part of a single body that stretches over generations.
There’s going to be a process of calibrating to the language of the kabbalists.
Regarding sexy, the whole wisdom of kabbalah is about the interaction between the male (Creator) and female (all of creation) and their flirt in concealing and revealing and building the desire and their ultimate unification.
Seth@KabUAlejandro,
Each one’s point in the heart awakens when it awakens.
Some it takes more lifetimes and some it takes less.
Some pass many states over many miles and others never leave their town.
All of that is under the authority of heaven.
What is in our hand? According to the praise and gratitude that is given to the Creator, to that extent one ascends. It does not matter what he has. What matters is how much he is impressed by the nearing to the Creator. To the extent of the gratitude that a person gives, to that extent he ascends in degree.
Good luck in everything,
Seth@KabU
