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David,
Everything in our reality develops in 4 degrees. Every thought, every desire, everything. Baal HaSulam describes this throughly in The Peace article.First, let me present the view of our sages concerning the unfolding of the generations of the world: Although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation. The same souls that were at the time of the flood came also during the time of Babylon, and in the exile in Egypt, and in the exodus from Egypt, etc., until this generation and until the end of correction.
Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, for each time they clothe a new body and a new generation.
Therefore, with regard to the souls, all generations since the beginning of creation to the end of correction are as one generation that has extended its life over several thousand years until it developed and became corrected as it should be. And the fact that in the meantime, each has changed his body several thousand times is completely irrelevant because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes.
Seth@KabU
Nathan,
The wisdom of kabbalah is a sequence of roots, which hang down by way of cause and consequence, by fixed, determined rules, interweaving to a single, exalted goal described as “the revelation of His Godliness to His creatures in this world.” It means that from the endless upper light, there is a chain until this world.
Our path back up is the same path that the light took when it came down. Each next step, next record (reshimot) becomes revealed and we, by making corrections upon the desires that are revealed and turning our intention from 0% bestowal to 1% bestowal….100% bestowal is called making corrections, performing a mitzvah. In actuality, the upper light performs this, but we prepare the inner conditions for it.
Seth@KabUKenneth,
Let’s leave the masach on the side for now because there we are already talking about spiritual perception beyond time, space and motion.
But just like a baby has all of the limbs but doesn’t use them yet, so we do go through all of those spiritual processes, but ‘in potential’ for us now.
What you are describing is exactly what happens and this is on purpose and you can be happy about it.
You used to be satisfied with a small toy and then you wanted a girlfriend and then you wanted a car and then you wanted to be wealthy, it is similar in spirituality. At every new degree the lower part of the upper one descends into the upper part of the lower one. The lower one feels this as bad, negative, uncomfortable. Imagine that you take a 5 year old out of the sandbox where he is playing and you put him at a dinner table with a famous, wealthy business mentor. The child has no vessels for this yet and feels rejected from it. But if he can equalize with the business mentor, he can acquire his knowledge and habits and become like him. Of course the child can’t do this and needs to wait another 20 years before he is ready.
But on our spiritual path, we have the ability to hasten time. When the next degree appears, it always appears like this and we need to work to equalize with it even though at first we feel rejection. It is the next level of bestowal which is against our bigger ego so of course the ego feels rejection, but this is all in order to build our equivalence with the Creator’s quality of bestowal.
Later we will study how this process happened in the spiritual worlds and cascaded to our world. It is called that the AH”P of the Upper descends to the G”E of the lower, then the G”E of the lower equalizes with the AH”P and the AH”P rises and G”E of the lower rises with it. Imagine a mom reaching to the floor and picking up the baby and bringing the baby close, and making all sorts of baby noises and the baby reacts with some noises and by this the baby begins to develop.
Hold on and keep going,
Seth@KabUMaria,
This is referring to two forces, a rejecting force and an attracting force.
All of our reality is built of these two forces, from the smallest to the largest particle.Tzimtzum Aleph is on operation, the building of the screen is a subsequent action.
You seem to have a good grasp of what is happening.
Seth@KabUTove,
We learned and will learn a lot more about the structure of reality, built from the root phase (0) and phases 1, 2, 3, 4.
Our 5 corporeal senses of course extend from this spiritual blueprint.
When the lights of the wisdom of kabbalah shine on us, we can see more and more the nature of who we are, our nature of a will to receive that enjoys the world through reception through our 5 senses. Later we will acquire new spiritual senses and feel the vast spiritual world that we are in but do not feel now because of the quality of our current senses (which are all aimed inward).
Seth@KabuLisa,
You are correct, the desire remains a desire.
What will change is our intention, as you said, a wtr in order to bestow. Nice one!2nd Question. I cannot clarify this, we will advance and it will become clear.
We are in a field of endless light. We don’t perceive what is. We perceive according to what we are.
Seth@KabU
