Question: If a person thinks that he ascends in spirituality and then a thought suddenly comes up that it might only seem that way, does it mean that he has ascended or that it only seems that way?
Answer: It most probably seems that way to him.
A spiritual ascent is a very serious action that results from the absolute closeness of a person to a group and by receiving a special force from the group [1] that gradually raises a person who mutually cooperates with it. This is an ascent to the attribute of love [2] and bestowal [3], above our egoistic nature.
What is more, in this state nothing “seems” to a person because he has very accurate feelings down to the most elementary details of different desires and forces.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/20/16
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How Can We Feel The Upper World? [4]
What Happens To A Person When He Transcends The Machsom? [5]
Climbing The Steps Of Spiritual Development [6]