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Maria,
Let’s look at this like this, when you get up in the morning, whose teeth do you brush? Whose problems do you think about? Who do you make coffee for? When you go to work to earn a living to pay bills, whose bills are you paying? When you are driving and thinking about life, whose life are you thinking about. When you plan to watch a show, whose preference do you consider when you sit to watch something?
In short, all day long, all we do we do for ourselves. That’s it.
Now, if you have destructive habits that you acquired by being around a negative environment with negative influences, so then you need to move yourself to a constructive, supportive environment (you definelty found one here). But don’t confuse having bad habits with being totally self-loving. Everyone does everything for themselves, and if they do for someone else it is only because there is a calculation that by doing for the other it is better for me.
Egoism is defined as love for ourselves.
Seth@KabUCarlos,
If you are sick you must go to a good, competent doctor. The Creator gave permission to the doctor to heal.
We do our practical work together in a special arrangement of Kabbalists called a group of 10, you will learn about it in the future.
From that work you will be able to develop a screen and with it you will be able to relate to all of your life.But now you can imagine while you eat and do all of these things that you are doing what you must but your intention is that all of the pleasure and good will pass though you and onto all of creation, to bring contentment to the Creator.
Seth@KabU
Carlos,
We must first understand what does spirituality mean?
The kabbalists tell us that the Creator is 100% bestowal, to receive nothing for Himself, but only to bestow endlessly.
The Upper Light extends from His essence and cascades down through 4 degrees.
And what is the only thing that the Creator created? Only a desire to receive that delight and pleasure, that developed according those same 4 degrees.
That desire developed for billions of years according to those same 4 degrees. from the degree of inanimate, vegetative, animate and finally speaking.
And within the speaking degree itself, there is also those 4 degrees which you generally described.
Spirituality is not a corporeal desire. All of our corporeal desires are to receive. Spirituality is to be like the Creator, which is only to bestow.
But He made us to receive. So we must receive, but ontop of our reception there must be an intention to bestow. That is we receive, not in order to receive, but we receive in order to give contentment to the One who Gives and wants for us to Receive.
So, actually as we develop spiritually, our desires also increase.Regarding “religious fanaticism”, this has absolutely no connection with spiritual attainment.
Seth@KabUZachary,
There is a concept of sin in the wisdom of kabbalah, but like all of the other definitions, that have been taken by others who stole them or just used them and then through the generations they were corrupted, so when we arrive back at the books that were written by the kabbalists, meaning, only by those who attained what they are writing, all that we read from Baal HaSulam was written from his attainment, there is no philosophy, no theorizing.
So we need to recalibrate ourselves to definitions.
Take a word from our normal life like “cool”, someone can say, “that’s so cool”. No go back 200 years ago and use the word “cool” of course someone would have different understanding of the word.
Now we are talking 1000s of years and not only that we’re not even talking about the same world. “cool” and “cool” seperated by 200 years are still on Earth.
But not only do we need to grasp the words of the kabbalists, we also need to grasp that they are describing a spiritual system, they use a special language called roots and branches, so they point to something in this world and refer to its root in the spiritual world.Regarding sin. In order to sin, one would need to do something, let’s say against the Creator. However, no one can do anything against the Creator since each person is 100% controlled by their desires and has no freedom of movement to the left or to the right and if he didn’t think he’d get more pleasure from say, lifting his finger to scratch his cheek, then he’d leave his hand where it was.
So on this degree, there is no such thing as sin. And there are many scrutinise and questions that everyone has about how and why and what about….
In order to sin, one needs to be in place exactly between reception and bestowal, half way between 100% to receive for himself and 100% connected to the Creator. From that place there is free will and from there it can be said that there could be a sin.
We will learn about this later.
Seth@KabUZachary,
The Creator created a vessel that is exactly opposite to his endless light so that his endless light filled every space and corner of this vessel called Malchut of Ein Sof.
Then the Light departed from the vessel so that the creature would be able to develop and feel itself, for while the light filled it completely, it was totally still, perfect, no movement, no lack.
So when the Light exits, there remains a yearning in the exact shape of the emptiness that the Light left when it departed.
All our work is to bring the Light that now remains outside of our soul as Or Makif (S urrounding Light) and to admit it inside as Or Pnimi (Inner Light).
The condition for the Light to enter the vessel and fill it is that the vessel needs to acquire the exact same qualities as the Light.
This process of making the empty vessel into a vessel has the same qulities as the Light is called building the soul. The soul is the vessel where the Or Pnimi (Inner Light) dwells.
That soul is divided into 5 parts that each one is more pure. From lowest to highest they are called Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida.
Seth@KabU
