What Determines The Level Of A Soul?

Question: Regarding the development of a soul, is it a development of the desire to receive the Light of the Creator?

Answer: Yes. The Creator only gives. We can only receive. Receiving for the sake of bestowal, we turn reception into giving. This is why a quality of reception with the intention to bestow is called a “soul.”

Question: What determines the level of the soul?

Answer: There are five spiritual worlds—Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and Adam Kadmon—after which comes a world of Infinity. Each one has 25 levels of attainment in it, so there are 125 levels in total.

They come from the integration of Light and desire; therefore, we simply state this fact.

The level of the soul is determined by the number, that is, the strength of my desire from 0 to 125.

The strength of the desire is determined by where I am. If I am able to bring the right intention to my desire, then the Light of the Creator enters it, and all three components—the Light that fills me, my intention, and my desire—will be called a “soul.”

Question: What kinds of souls are there, for it says that there are still, vegetative, and animate levels?

Answer: They are simply gradations that have no relevance for us. You should not think that there is an animal soul in an animal, a human soul in a person, and an inanimate soul in a rock. It means that each desire contains five components: still, vegetative, animate, speaking, and universal.

Based on that, we say, “His soul has settled into an animal or a plant.” They are nothing other than levels of desire. Just as I have a desire to consume, let’s say, 100 grams of one thing and a kilogram of another, such is the difference between the animate desire and the speaking one. These are simply token names having no connection with our world.

Indeed, everything is accurately regulated, spelled out, and quantitatively divided according to levels of energies, strengths.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/14/18