The Film Projector Is Within Me

In fact I am not in the world, but the world is in me.

The process of “reading” the external reality as internal is divided into four stages and immediately at the first step I should be guided only by what I see.

And I see that the Creator is making this “projection” for me. It’s as if a projector is placed in me and it shows the whole world and all that happens to it. The light from the “bulb” of this “projector” passes through the “film,” divided into “frames,” and falls on the “screen,” i.e., in my mind; as a result, I see a current picture of the world. Well, the Creator Himself is the abstract Upper Light, the Light of Infinity.

So, in fact, the “film” is my Reshimot that create this or that picture for me. And if it were not for this mechanism, I would have not distinguished what is happening because theReshimot would have remained inside. However, the Creator, illuminating them, reveals my inner world as an external reality.

Baal HaSulam writes about this in “Introduction to The Book of Zohar.”
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/22/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam