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Swaggy,
We are in the process of learning things that are out of this world, wonderful things, beautiful things, very big things. At the same time, we still live in this world. For example, we reveal that everything is governed by one force in absolute harmony but that is not our experience. We feel empty, we have to renew our refrigerator every week, we have to work on our relationships all the time, we have to pay bills and deal with people who are less than kind to us.
So we are not looking to just find a great slogan that sums everything up, but we are looking to attain Godliness from our current degree.
At this point we do not feel that we are 100% governed by an upper force. Not only us, everything in reality is governed by one upper force, managing everything in harmony. Of course to us it doesn’t feel that way. But the disparity that we feel is our distance from that harmony. When we reach the spiritual degree, reality itself doesn’t change, our perception changes and because of that we perceive a different reality.
So now that we have entered the study of the wisdom of kabbalah, we want to begin to feel how all of reality is a will to receive on the four degrees of inanimate, vegatative, animal and speaking. Start to feel in a calm way how all of reality is governed by the will to receive, the one creation that the Creator created.
Don’t judge it as good or bad. See what the Creator made.
This is the first step. Let me know how it’s going. After that we’ll make some new discernments.
Good luck. Have patience,
Seth@KabUSarah,
The four phases of direct light is what emanates out of the Creator and begins to cascade down.
This is prior to the big bang, prior to time, space and motion.
There is no “us” to speak of yet. All of this is original primordial structure of reality.
Seth@KabUsaps,
Before this we were like a spark inside the sun. No “me”, no sense of who is the Creator, what is the Creator, how big, how great, what qualities, etc. We through our work build Him, discover Him. Of course He is there all along, but by our efforts we discover him in our vessels.
Seth@KabUsaps,
What is the purpose of creation?
To create a creature and fill it with endless delight.
In order for the purpose of creation to be fulfilled the creature must receive endless fulfillment.
So what’s the problem?
In order for us to feel pleasure, we need to feel empty first. The pleasure specifically fills the empty place.
So now we have a creature called Malchut of Ein Sof that is completely empty and when the pleasure enters it extinguishes the desire. You’re hungry, you eat, you’re not hungry anymore…in other words you can’t be filled anymore, so what do you do, you drink, ok, now what, you go watch a movie, ok now what? You get the point, this is a fruitless endeavor.
So we discussed the purpose of creation.
Now we need to discuss the correction of creation. Malchut of Ein Sof goes through many processes and we will study them together whereby she receives, but only in order to bestow to the Creator. So for her, everything becomes spiritual pleasure. She can eat…she feels the Creator there. She can give something to another…she feels the Creator there. It doesn’t matter anymore if she is up or down or giving or taking, she has new, spiritual vessels and in those vessels she is relating to the Creator. And in her material vessels, her hands, her stomach, etc, they remain in this world as usual.
Seth@KabUCraig,
Of course.
Good time to make a note, it’s not a great idea to hear one line, one slogan and base my life on that.
Why not? For example, shouldn’t I say that “there is none else besides Him!”?
Yes, you should, but who will get up in the morning and work to cover the mortgage and put food on the table?
So there is none else besides Him, and He made a world where we are required to work.
The point is that we are becoming master craftsman of the soul. Nuance. Many efforts over time.
So to your earlier question, I learn, I want to learn, I want to devour all of the kabbalistic texts, I want to understand everything….and I also need to come back remembering that all of that learning and understanding helps me build my inner vessels, but I can memorize every page of the Zohar and not attain anything and attainment is our goal.
The text says that the Torah will come forth from Zion (Tzion). Tzion from the word for exits. Meaning the light comes in and leaves and when it leaves it leaves a yearning for the next degree, then the light comes in and exits and leaves a yearning for the next higher degree.
This is how we advance, also with the left and the right and also with the mind and the heart.
Seth@KabU
