Everything is grasped through comparison. By comparing the
Creator’s attributes to ours we realize both His might and our
lowness. One needs to be thus aware of His magnificence and His
omnipotence. Faith means actually feeling the Creator and His
Presence.
All souls go through the following stages:
1. The phase which precedes their descent into our world.
2. The phase during which they are endowed with a certain deficiency termed selfishness. This is what souls perceive as physical incarnation
3. The phase during which souls perceive themselves and the entire spiritual universe after the ultimate consummation.
The phase preceding the initial descent of souls is called "Olam Ein Sof”, the endless world where souls endlessly receive the light of the Creator. Afterwards the soul is enclothed in selfishness and descends to "olam ha ze”, this world, where its link to the spiritual world is remote. It no longer feels the Creator and no longer perceives its previous condition.
"This world" refers to the perception of the present moment, that is to say the part of creation, of the Creator we currently perceive by means of our sense organs. The selfishness is seated within the senses.
The next level is attained by bringing the sense organs under control. This higher level brings a wider perception of creation. This level is felt before the process of attaining "the world to come”, the world we will perceive supersensually, as opposed to the « real » one we live in now.
Both worlds are nevertheless currently perceived within our physical body. When we perceive our environment, and ourselves we perceive our, "his world". However, it is in the present that we begin to contemplate the future and the sensation induced by projecting oneself into the future is termed "the world to come". The process repeats itself "the next day" when the "world to come" becomes "this world" and so on .
A close examination of Baal HaSulam's writings may help us understand the process we go through at every moment.
Concerning man's spiritual behavior, ascent can only follow the "middle line" (i.e. behavior not polarized to its extras). Progression along this middle line establishes the condition in which Torah-the Creator-Israel merge into one thing.
All souls go through the following stages:
1. The phase which precedes their descent into our world.
2. The phase during which they are endowed with a certain deficiency termed selfishness. This is what souls perceive as physical incarnation
3. The phase during which souls perceive themselves and the entire spiritual universe after the ultimate consummation.
The phase preceding the initial descent of souls is called "Olam Ein Sof”, the endless world where souls endlessly receive the light of the Creator. Afterwards the soul is enclothed in selfishness and descends to "olam ha ze”, this world, where its link to the spiritual world is remote. It no longer feels the Creator and no longer perceives its previous condition.
"This world" refers to the perception of the present moment, that is to say the part of creation, of the Creator we currently perceive by means of our sense organs. The selfishness is seated within the senses.
The next level is attained by bringing the sense organs under control. This higher level brings a wider perception of creation. This level is felt before the process of attaining "the world to come”, the world we will perceive supersensually, as opposed to the « real » one we live in now.
Both worlds are nevertheless currently perceived within our physical body. When we perceive our environment, and ourselves we perceive our, "his world". However, it is in the present that we begin to contemplate the future and the sensation induced by projecting oneself into the future is termed "the world to come". The process repeats itself "the next day" when the "world to come" becomes "this world" and so on .
A close examination of Baal HaSulam's writings may help us understand the process we go through at every moment.
Concerning man's spiritual behavior, ascent can only follow the "middle line" (i.e. behavior not polarized to its extras). Progression along this middle line establishes the condition in which Torah-the Creator-Israel merge into one thing.
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