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Hi Anthie,
We have 5 spiritual senses, when the soul clothes the light in 5 degrees, nefesh, ruach, neshama, haya and yechida. Are corporeal senses are like branches from each of these spiritual roots. Four senses on the face and touch as the “lowest” sense.
There is no mistaking a feeling. When you taste sweet, you are tasting sweet. When you feel heat, you are feeling heat.
It’s not a dream, it’s not a vision, it’s nothing blurry, it’s a sense, but it’s a spiritual sense, you don’t feel things from this material world in spiritual senses.
How do we feel spiritual senses, well that is what the whole wisdom of kabbalah is about. Kabbalah means to receive, the wisdom of kabbalah is how to receive the endless fulfillment that the Creator wants to give to us.
For that we have many processes and operations that we go through, many ups and downs and all of this is to start to measure.
Remember, we start in a field of endless light. Everything is filled evenly in all directions with endless light.
Then we learn at first we plant ourselves in the community of people who are studying the books of the kabbalists and I start to develop my soul which is the vessel in which some of this light can fill and be felt.
Very excited for you and the adventure you have embarked upon,
Seth@KabUElizabeth,
Take any of our corporeal senses, our physical senses, such as the eyes. We do not receive all of the light coming from the sun. There is a screen (a masach) that reflects back most of the light and a small amount enters inside and from that we project in our brain a depiction of the outside world.
Also our ears. There are sounds 1000 kilometers away, if we had different ears, we would hear them. There are sounds in this room now that if our ears were stronger, we would hear them. So there are many waves and some of them, depending on the nature of the screen, those vibrations hit the screen and from that we perceive sound.
From these examples you can imagine a spiritual screen that works with spiritual light.
Seth@KabUElizabeth,
It’s very good to see how you are thinking of this.
We are learning about the system, we are visiting a factory where they for example process wheat.
So the wheat is harvested (of course before that it is planted and there are many steps there), and then gathered and brought to the factory where it is sorted, cleaned and processed to make flour and later it will become bread and cakes and many things.
So we are looking in the window and we are seeing one part of the process.
Let’s imagine for now that we are not applying this all to our lives. It is good to think about how it all fits, but in truth we can’t solve all of this yet because we are just looking at one part of the process we didn’t get to the part where our world is created and then our soul is created and shattered and then finally we come into the picture.
So far, in these four phases, there is no created being yet.
We are observing, studying the process.
The purpose of creation is to create a creature and fill it with fulfillment.
In order to do that we need a vessel that can hold all of the abundance, that is called malchut, the fourth phase.
Until then the vessel does not reach it’s completeness.
Let’s leave the husband and wife example aside for a minute since there are many many discernments in your example.
But simply if you have an idea, first the idea appears from the air, then you draw it, make some plans, then you collect materials and then you build. The final material goal is contained in that initial thought.
Seth@KabUHelen,
On the one hand the wisdom of kabbalah sounds like the most psychedlic or the most out of this world thing ever, to go beyond time and space, to have no barriers in any direction.
On the other hand a kabbalist has work in this world, food, sex, family, honor, knowledge, power, all the regular things from this world.
It can feel very disorienting sometimes to move between this and that.
About that we have many advices. For example, as a ox to the burden and a donkey to the load.
In that sense, with our physical form we are tied to this world, for example a mother feeds her child 5 times a day, 2 naps a day, etc.
A person works from this hour until that hour, etc.
And we also need to establish that in our spiritual work, so decide if you want to be an ox or a donkey :)) and you “burden” yourself (of course it is not a burden, it becomes the greatest gift, the key that helps open everything) with the spiritual work, you tie yourself to it in this world, establishing a time to study and a time to teach and a time to read and reflect, it takes some time, but you will make for yourself a routine.
In addition to that iron framework, you will travel up and down emotionally, in and out spiritually, connected, disconnected.
It is a little early to get into this more, but it is a good question and it will be clarified naturally as you continue with your study.
Seth@KabUFrankie,
Certainly. Like children who sit on the floor and listen to their parents until they themselves start to speak.
We sit and listen to the words of the kabbalists until we start to feel what they are passing to us.
Seth@KabUDenise,
This is correct.
You named several different states.
We call these discernments. Later when we start reading the Rabash articles together you will recognize all of these states as he writes about them, they are common to everyone who comes to the path and starts working on the path.
Keep a notebook, write them, but write them without your commentary which comes from your current perception.
Read the sources, the course material and write down what you understand and what changes you are feeling in yourself.
You’ll see from day to day, maybe hour to hour, certainly week to week and over the course of months how many different states and changes you are going through.
All of them are coming from the Creator. We don’t need to make commentary on them, we need to feel them and connect with the sources.
The sources will give form to the those feelings.
For example. Suppose I have a feeling of hunger.  If I live in the arctic, my thoughts and environment will clothe some kind of whale meat or seal meat onto my desire.
If I live in New York my thoughts and environment will clothe a hamburger or some other form.
Similarly, the hunger, the spiritual desire awakens in us and we want our form to be a spiritual form on it. So we immerse ourselves in the books of the kabbalists so that the desire can take the correct form to perceive the spiritual reality.
Seth@KabU
