Question: Does the study of Kabbalah guarantee reaching the upper degree?
Answer: Study itself is not a guarantee. You can study physics your whole life and not be a physicist. Everything depends on realization.
If you have a group [1], a guide, if you hear what he says and realize it between yourselves in the group connection, attracting the Surrounding Light [2], which changes each of you and unites you into a unified whole, one united desire, then the results of the realization are evident.
You start feeling one force in one desire according to the law of the equivalence of form because you’ve created a united desire: one from many.
This desire contains the power of unity [3] in which you feel a unified power of nature, which fills the entire universe on all levels, in all dimensions, and this is all the outcome of your realization. If you want this, yes, if not, no. Study in itself will bring nothing; you can study all your life and achieve nothing.
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From the Prelimenary Lesson, the Prague Convention 9/9/2016
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