[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Tom,

You are talking about very lofty things. We are taking a class trip to the World Cup and we see the best players in the world on the field and we understand that simply they are trying to get a small ball into an big net.  Easy.

But to get on the field and run for 90 minutes with some of the best athletes in the world. Forget about soccer/football skill, just the lack cardio training would be enough to knock us out, coupled with skill at the sport, and game IQ and the pressure of millions of people watching.

So we are reading what the giant Kabbalist Baal HaSulam, the author of the Sulam commentary on Zohar wrote to us.
Don’t worry, we are not sinning, we are not doing mitzvot, we are like babies who are waking up. And we became little kids and we were taken to the big field and we are hearing about how the big Kabbalists do it.

In the one hand you need to do everything in your power to reach the goal. And we’ll learn about this more, at the beginning of each day (day = spiritual state) “whatever is in your hand to do, do.” And at the end of the day, to behave as “there is none else besides You.” Meaning even if I sat on the couch all day and didn’t get up and work with all my might, I’d still receive the same reward.
between these two opposites we build a correct model of our inner world using the system that the Creator prepared for us in order to reach Him step by step.
Keep asking if this is not clear.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Sara,

I can’t follow what you wrote.
Starting with 1. The purpose of creation the Thought of Creation is to create a creature and fill it with eternal delight. So how can you not receive?

So 2. you feel bad today because you don’t feel eternal delight. Why? Because in order to feel your existence at all, you were placed opposite the Creator. By this you can feel yourself and not just be a spark in the sun as it were who has no sense of self.

Now slowly we realize who we are and where we are and what system we are in and how the forces operate in this system.
While we must receive in order to fulfill the thought of creation, in order for us not to feel eternally separate from the Creator, we need to make our quality like His. So we continue to receive as He made us, but all of our work is in the intention, to make our intention to bestow as His intention is to bestow. Then we become similar to Him in quality.
In spirituality, a place with no time and space (and place), closeness is measured by similarity of qualities.  In our material life closeness is measured by physical proximity.
Now ask your question again, clearly  in 1-3 sentences followed by a “?” And I’ll do my best to answer.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Seeker,
Happy that you are on the journey together with us.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ehud,

We received our method, our books from our teachers in an unbroken chain all the way back to Adam almost 6000 years ago.

We did not receive any books from Jesus and we didn’t receive the Kabbalistic method from his disciples therefore we don’t study it at all.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Maria,

Each person must find a path that is suitable for their heart provided that it does not harm others.

The Kabbalistic method builds in a person an inner structure through many efforts over time wherein the she works with the negative force given by nature naturally and by learning to draw the upper positive force thereby rising ever higher revealing more and more light, balance, wholeness, contentment, etc.

This is a totally different method from that of a shaman or using psychoactive plants, whereby through ingesting a substance you alter your chemistry and it produces altered states even higher states of consciousness.  The feelings of oneness and unity are often described from such experiences.

However these are wholly different methods and the outcomes are very different. The kabbalist brings all of nature into balance, inanimate, vegetative, animate and human degrees by bringing her inner world into balance.

We will learn more about this in further courses.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Rae,

There is too much for me to follow in your question you are presenting a lot of concepts that you didn’t full digest completely yet.
First we are in a preparation period. As you continue you will have the opportunity to engage in the practical work of kabbalah with others who are studying with you. There you work on this love and discover more and more how opposite our nature is. Here we reveal our coarseness.  This state requires us to search for a way out of this prison of the ego. Despaired of our powers to break free from the grip of our ego we reach a true prayer and this draws the reforming light that changes our nature, enabling us to love the other as ourself. This is called building the collective souls wherein the light of the Creator can dwell.

Seth@KabU

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