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Evolution of Discoveries

115.06Question: There are well-known periods of egoistic development: a sharp surge of the Roman Empire, then Byzantium and the Crusaders. But why did all this revolve around the Holy Land?

Answer: If we talk about the earthly level, then I believe it was all about politics, nothing else. However, in principle, all this happened in order to further and further develop humanity toward a gradual understanding of today’s spiritual processes. Everything was moving only forward, only toward the future goal.

With the emergence of the great Kabbalist Ari, the process of Renaissance began because the world started moving toward its correction. Prior to Ari, there was a period of breaking and mixing of various internal fragments of shattered humanity. But starting with him and onward, a period of purposeful flow toward correction had begun.

This is when the Hasidism of Eastern Europe and many Kabbalists emerged. Simultaneously, there was a general development, the discovery of lands by Columbus, Gutenberg’s printing press, and other discoveries and technologies—everything started to develop.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Discoveries” 10/31/11

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Lesson from Above

115Hasidism is a trend built on the exaltation of the teacher, the exaltation of the Creator. And a Kabbalist, besides this, also has a critical attitude toward a teacher because a person who studies Kabbalah consists of two properties: egoism and a point in the heart directed against the ego.

The fact is that the egoistic property of the Hasid is ready to submit to the teacher, just as small animals serve a person and they feel good next to him.

I remember when I began to study Kabbalah, literally a year or two later I met my friend, who by that time had moved to America, to the Lubavitcher Rebbe: “Michael, I found a Rebbe! I found a teacher!” He said this with such enthusiasm that I became envious: “And me? I don’t have any of this. And he is so happy, overflowing; he found the whole world.”

The next day I came to my teacher Rabash and told him everything. I was young, independent and said everything as it is: “I am, of course, uncomfortable in front of you, but I don’t feel that I have found a teacher that I am so happy that it fills me and I have everything in the world. I do not have anything. I didn’t find anything, I’m always under pressure, searching. In my life I have already gotten used to this, but why are the paths so different?

He replied: “You were given a good lesson from above—the feeling that you really have nothing in your hands.”

And it will get worse and worse until the person really screams, demands with all his might, feeling: either death or a decision. There can be no other. But to reach this point, he must invest a lot. He should not wait until it manifests itself, but put pressure on it all the time.

It’s very hard. It takes a lot of nerves, many, many years. All this applies to those who have a point in the heart. And those who do not have it, they have no complaints at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hasidism” 10/1/11

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Do Not Confuse Kabbalah with Mysticism

963.6Comment: Certain circles also study Kabbalah, and they are actually trembling after they read, for example, The Book of Zohar. They sit by candlelight and believe that something is happening to them there.

My Response: There are many mystics everywhere.

Question: What defines mysticism in general? Why is Kabbalah not mysticism?

Answer: Kabbalah speaks about things a person must correct within himself in order to attain what is written in Kabbalistic books. Most people do not feel the need for it. But they were told that Kabbalah is very important, so they study it.

I met such people at RABASH’s. The fact is that his father, Baal HaSulam, had students who really wanted to attain the upper world. They moved toward this and really became Kabbalists and entered into the feeling of the upper world.

But they had children without any need for this. They lived by sometimes studying Kabbalah or simply reading Kabbalistic books, some of them more and some less. They had no desire for more. I met them at RABASH’s.

Look how many students come to me—thousands! And then they leave because they see: “We need to work on ourselves, do something with ourselves.”

They are trying to find some secrets and interesting “gadgets,” just not to change themselves in order to feel the world around them through this.

But it is necessary to work seriously on yourself, to change the whole setup of your egoistic perception and thinking. “Why? Better show me some kind of trick,” but there are no tricks! They confuse Kabbalah with mysticism, become disappointed, and immediately leave.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Secret Information” 8/20/11

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The Difference between a Kabbalistic Organization and a Sect

547.02Question: Is it possible to develop a sect from Kabbalistic teaching?

Answer: A sect is a certain structure of a closed organization where there is an unquestioning submission of the members of the sect to the guru and the so-called truths they blindly bow down before. It is possible that sects have their own paraphernalia, some conditional actions, mantras, physical techniques: dances, postures, etc.

It is impossible to make a sect out of real Kabbalah because the most important principle of Kabbalah is the spiritual development of a person. Therefore, entry and exit are absolutely free! This is the first thing.

Secondly, Kabbalah is based on personal comprehension. Third, there is no pressure on a person to do something or think this way and not otherwise. As far as you can, you adapt this knowledge inside you.

In addition, all Kabbalistic literature, which has existed for thousands of years, is absolutely open to everyone.

Comment: But sects also use well-known literature, for example, the Bible.

My Response: Maybe. Frankly, I do not know. Sect, not a sect, I have never been interested in this. I am interested in teaching Kabbalah and spreading it.

And what they say about us… People will always talk! Sometimes such opinions are suddenly revealed about me that I cannot even imagine how people can think like that if we are open to everyone.

Books in all languages, television, the Internet—everything is absolutely available. Please, come to a lecture. If you do not want to leave the house, there are virtual classes. What is there to stir up the mystery if we act quite openly? And yet, sometimes people have such ideas!

I attribute this to the fact that a person must work out his understanding of nature, society, and the universe. Therefore, these representations are formed in it. A person needs to pass them.

So it was at all times. Kabbalists have always been in a terrible state of exile, even from their own society. They lived as if within the framework of the Jewish religion, but they were not perceived there, not revered in any way, in no way respected. It was very hard for them!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Kabbalistic Sect” 8/27/11

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There Is a Place for Everything in the World

507.05How many things in our lives do we take on faith without having the facts? We do not even realize how much we rely on what is going on outside. It is done purposefully and comes naturally. Thus, previous stages are worked out in us before the real attainment. Nothing in the world should be destroyed!

Baal HaSulam writes that all religions must remain. And even at the very last stages of the development of humanity when it will be able to see the whole picture of the universe, all religions and beliefs will remain in the culture anyway. Nothing should be destroyed. What dies, dies. What does not, does not.

The question arises: when everything is revealed to man and the complete picture of the worlds is attained, will there be room for faith? Of course not. After all, faith is what I accept without verification, analysis, and without making sure of anything. This will no longer be the case. But Baal HaSulam claims: whatever they want will remain as culture.

That is, everything should work out naturally. Man must go through all this, or he will not develop. You cannot drag him through a stage like through a class at school. He must gradually attain all this. Therefore, there is no violence in spiritual development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why do Sects Exist?” 8/27/11

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Preparation for Perceiving the Truth

549.01Question: Why are there things like cults and other similar elements in the common system? What are they created for?

Answer: These are the delusions of man, which he must go through in the same way as all religions. Misconceptions help him and develop him until he comes to the truth.

A person cannot immediately come to the truth! How many years have you been soiling diapers, making mistakes, and breaking toys? How many years passed until you started to understand something, to do something on your own? This is what we have to go through!

All theories and techniques work themselves out in our mind. We need them or we cannot perceive the truth. We have to prepare for it.

One can prepare for it through such “toys.” The way you played all sorts of games in your childhood, then onto more serious things, and then you started to more or less understand some truth. The same is happening here.

Without these dense beliefs, red strings, religions, all sorts of slander, and everything else, a person cannot develop. Then will have to be abandoned  except for everyday customs and cultural traditions and all these beliefs will be replaced with knowledge and attainment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why do sects exist?” 8/27/11

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Horrendous Profanity

961.1There are all kinds of movements that sell various “holy” attributes under the flag of Kabbalah. Well, how can you sell red threads? If you think they bring good luck, then give them to all of mankind and do not sell them for $20 per string!

Why do you demand payment for each of your movements? What are you leading the world to? What are you saying to the world? About being unselfish, kind, loving? Or do you also demand money for saying this? Are you selling love? I cannot agree with that!

It is also written by the ARI and other Kabbalists that amulets are forbidden in Kabbalah. They have always been attributed to Kabbalah because it was hidden.

And today, in the 21st century, selling these things under the name of Kabbalah is such a horrific profanity, that it cannot be worse! This is not just mysticism, as they say about Kabbalah, but the very opposite of it!

The very first thing Abraham did at the beginning of his spiritual journey was to break all the amulets and gods that he made himself and sold for money. Only after that he went the correct way and became a Kabbalist.

There is nothing more contrary to Kabbalah than “holy” attributes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Anti-Kabbalah” 8/20/11

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The Three Religions

202.0Question: Why did Christianity rather than Islam receive greater initial development in the history of humanity?

Answer: Islam is a younger religion. It has a different method of development. For many years it existed in isolation, but now it is starting its phase of spreading.

At the time the same was happening with Christianity. Crusades and other conquests of new lands were rooted in the spread of Christianity.

Only Judaism has never been spreading. It was considered prohibited because the religion along with its idea has been conserved until humanity matures. Then it will be possible to talk about who we are.

The thing is that we are nobody and nothing until an urgent need to use the method of correction of souls arises. This is the purpose of our existence in our world on Earth, and today we are approaching the actual realization.

Now Islam is experiencing its boom. Judging by the numerous turbulent phenomena, this should end very quickly. Then humanity will face the question “What should we do next?”

Today Christianity and Islam are experiencing a very strong intermixing: penetration, mutual rejection of religions, discernments, etc. Everything we see is happening more at the spiritual level rather than at the corporeal one. However, this is a necessary phase.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Three Religions” 8/12/11

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View from a Single Soul

632.3Question: How did the history of Christianity develop?

Answer: The development of Christianity historically was based on conquests so that Christianity would spread throughout the world. All wars were of religious nature because in this way humanity was preparing for the realization that there is a Creator and that it is necessary to somehow approach Him, to come in contact with Him.

People had to go through these stages in the measure of the breakage of the souls after the one common soul had been divided into three parts: right, left, and middle. Since then, they have not been connected to each other as they should be in a united corrected soul because they have broken into many parts—into pluses, minuses, and all kinds of neutral parts.

These different parts form the remnants of their attitude to the Creator. In other words, this is the same Kabbalah that in its corrupted earthly form (in the right, left, and middle) is a religion—Christianity, Muslim, and Judaism.

In this way, these religions correspond to the state of humanity today—defective, broken, and egoistic. And then the true correction will begin to become clear. It consists of rising above religions and above our world in the correction and unification of humanity.

Then all religions will be completely unclaimed in their highest form. They will remain as a culture of these masses that will not contradict each other. You have this kind of a culture, you are used to this kind of food, and I am accustomed to something else. You like to wear a red shirt, and I like to wear a white one. Who cares?

That is, religions will remain at our previous level because we will rise above from it like a rocket. We will leave them on Earth along with our bodies, and we ourselves will look down on them from our souls. And in the meantime, the souls will unite and correct in one soul as in their single source.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Three Religions” 7/30/11

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Through Forces, Not Mysticism

962.2There are people in our world who understand that they can be confused by anything, but the main thing for them is to attain the upper world. I could be confused too. I remember the states I was in. From all sides I was told this and that.

But some upper precognition or simply my nature itself directed me in one direction. I knew exactly what I needed: I must really attain the universe, find its physical and mathematical apparatus, and reveal the formulas by which everything operates. That is what I found.

All this is clearly written in Kabbalah. You begin to understand the whole system of cause-and-effect development that you follow and attain. You attain it clearly in nature by forces, not by mysticism.

For adherents to other spiritual practices, this is completely unimportant. The main thing for them is to feel that they are flying. Well, fly! Most importantly, this is cheating, selling all kinds of fetishes to people.

At one time, Abraham broke the figurines of the gods that he was selling. This is when he really became a Kabbalist. But they still sell idols to this day. This is the basis of the delusion of humanity. How is it possible to agree with this?

But they, not understanding even this, come to me and say: “Let us connect.” That is, they do not even feel the difference. Do you understand the darkness people exist in?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists do not Exist!” 8/20/11

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