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Tricia,
We are not talking about religion at all.
We are only talking about what we can attain. Religion does not deal with attaining Godliness. Religion deals with all kinds of actions with the hands and feet.The kabbalists discovered some special light that shines for them and in that light they can see who they are, what they are made of and what to do with it.
Those kabbalists write in their books that we are a will to receive pleasure. They say that all of reality is a will to receive pleasure. That desire to receive pleasure developed over billions of years in four phases:
1. Inanimate
2. Vegatative
3. Animate
4. Speaking
We are in the 4th degree. And we can see that all of reality operates to receive for itself, even when someone or something gives it is only to receive something in return, either now or later.
From discovering our true nature as being a big receiver, we can start to feel what we are missing which is the quality of bestowal, which is opposite from reception. And then sparks of love begin to shine and we slowly slowly discover the Creator who emanates this love.
Seth@KabUJamie,
All of the 125 degrees are already spiritual degrees.
It means that we have gone through an inner transformation from 100% with an intention to receive to 99% intention to receive and 1% with an intention to do everything for the sake of everyone, to bestow, which is the quality of the Creator.
One who goes through this transformation develops additional senses that are not felt by common people.
This is above the 5 senses.
Seth@KabUAbba,
This world is called an imaginary world. Like making actions in a mirror that does not affect matter, making actions in this world does not effect the Spiritual Worlds at all. In order to feel and participate in what happens in the worlds above us, the Upper Worlds, the Spiritual Worlds, then we need to rise in our perception above This World.
That is what we learn in the wisdom of kabbalah.
Seth@KabUDavid,
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@KabU
