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Henry,
Here, the important thing that we want to relate to here is a spiritual law.As in the example with a pillow, I will have to give it to my neighbor. This is called, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” “As thyself” serves as an example: you wish to take everything and give nothing to anyone. Now you give everything to others and receive nothing. That is the true meaning of “as thyself.” Since my natural self-love makes me desire everything, I have to love others in the same way – give them everything.
Now the expression “Love thy neighbor as thyself” becomes clearer. I have to prefer others to myself because previously I preferred myself to others.
Locating where is the slave and where is the master is a different matter.
Seth@KabUYvonne,
You are correct that we remain as a desire to receive pleasure.
Here is an example from our world that can help you clarify your question.
If you have a child and you feed her dinner, so you are giving and she is receiving…it seems that way.
But as a mom, you receive pleasure and contentment when your child eats and if the child rejected the food, that would pain you, but if the child receives and eats the food, by eating she gives you pleasure.
So you can see that we are not talking about whether our hands are giving or receiving.
We are a creature that needs to receive pleasure. The spiritual change is in our intention as in the example above where the giver can be the receiver and the receiver can be the giver.
It’s an inner attitude, a shift that happens.
Seth@KabURDB,
Sunlight travels millions of miles through cold and dark space.
When it finally hits the spheres around the earth and the earth itself, they light up and warm up.
Similarly, spiritual light is all around us, filling up the space. In order to perceive it, it needs to hit something. Since it is spiritual, it needs something spiritual to strike. Spiritual light doesn’t react to the ozone or to rock and dirt. The spiritual light can strike the spiritual screen.
But this is just technical information, the most important is to come to feel all of this.We have a small problem. We need some way to feel where is the place where I can make a spiritual action, a giving, altruistic action. It is not clear.
So there is something special here in the wisdom of kabbalah (reception). We discover that I am made of a matter and the nature of that matter is a desire to receive pleasure. I don’t have a choice, this is how I am built, this is how I live and not only me, all of reality is just degrees of the desire to receive.
I live my life thinking I can do something good, that I am a good person. It takes a long time until I discover the truth. The truth is that I’m a liar. The truth is that all I do, I do in order to benefit myself. But when I discover my nature of reception for myself, this is the first spiritual truth that I “attain”. Now I understand that according to my nature I can only receive and I discover that I need the help of the Creator, I need the force of bestowal.
By this I start to build a vessel for the light of bestowal to fill me.
And there is no light without a vessel.
Good luck on this great adventure,
Seth@KabUShaun,
Our work is to always cleave to the right.
The Creator provides the left.
The work between these two will advance us on the middle.
You see a war with your eyes and you feel disconnection, that is the Creator provides the left
You cleave to good connections with others, you build your desire for love, you work in the right line
The greater the distance between these two opposites, the higher one advances until the 125th degree.
Seth@KabU
