The Ari Began The Process Of Correction

Dr. Michael LaitmanBaal HaSulam, Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot, Section 8: Indeed, that Godly man, our Rav Isaac Luria, troubled and provided us the fullest measure. He did wondrously more than his predecessors, and if I had a tongue that praises, I would praise that day when his wisdom appeared almost as the day when the Torah was given to Israel….There are not enough words to measure his holy work in our favor. The doors of attainment were locked and bolted, and he came and opened them for us….You find a thirtyeight-year-old who surpassed with his wisdom all his predecessors through the genius and through all times. All the elders of the land, the gallant shepherds, friends and disciples of the Godly sage, the Ramak, stood before him as disciples before the Rav….All the sages of the generations following them to this day, none missing, have abandoned all the books and compositions that precede him, the Kabbalah of the Ramak, the Kabbalah of The First and the Kabbalah of The Genius, blessed be the memory of them all. They have attached their spiritual life entirely and solely to the Holy Wisdom.

Baal HaSulam knew how it is necessary to bless and to honor the Ari who revealed the wisdom of Kabbalah to us. Thanks to him, we have the possibility of rising from the beastly level to reach the level of the Adam (man), the one similar to the Creator. If not for the Ari, we really would have lacked the means. It was he who saved us from a mere beastly existence of only life and death.

There is no Kabbalist closer to us who has helped us so much, of all who were before and after him. All the books that were written before him were only a preparation for its disclosure. Everything that was done after him is derived from his revelation. Therefore the Ari truly symbolizes the beginning of the era of salvation.

The Ari made the greatest revelation that was possible to make. He rose from within the exile and developed a new way for correction of the world, meaning he began the process of correction. The exile ended together with the Ari and the period of correction began.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/17/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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A Sacrifice To The Creator

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Torah, “Exodus” (VaYakhel) 35:20-35:21: The entire community departed from before Moses. Every man whose heart uplifted him came, and everyone whose spirit inspired him to generosity brought the offering of the Lord for the work of the Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.

We have nothing but the ego! We need to tear something off it and bring it to what we call “the collective pot.” This is of the common vessel (Kli), which we call the Temple or the Tabernacle. These are not corporeal figures but what we create between us. We create the center of the group where we put all of our yearnings, efforts, and desires that are above the ego. Everything that we collect together is the willingness of our heart, which we should do.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/10/13

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What Is Working With Intention?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How can we help others with our intention?

Answer: Nothing can help a person other than a prayer for him. It is said, “A prisoner cannot release himself from prison.” One cannot help oneself in spiritual attainment in any way; one can only help oneself in corporeality. And in spirituality, only others can help me.

Everything that I want to attain in spirituality, from zero to infinity, is possible only on condition that others will want to give this to me, will help me to get this, and will fulfill me. How can I make them help me? They will help me if I will make efforts to help them.

So we must think only about being included in the desires of the other and the correction of the other. Only in this way can I obligate the system to take care of me, and this desire will no longer be an egoistic desire.

I must gather and collect the desires from everyone because this work is called Yesod. My vessel is the desires of the other that I intend to fulfill, and I perceive them as closer than my own desires. I work on the desires, but because they initially seemed foreign to me, those of the other, they are called intentions.

What is the difference between intention and desire? The desire belongs to me; within me I feel a desire for me to enjoy myself. I don’t feel the desire of the other and so work on the desire of the other is called intention. It turns out that I am always working on intentions! This means that if I reduce my desire, penetrate the desire of the other, and work with his desire by placing his desire above my desire, it means that I am working with intentions.

In this manner I am building the head (Rosh) of the spiritual Partzuf. Instead of my desire, I take the desire of the other and work with it like my desire. And this is called working with an intention.
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/14

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Agreement To Be Loyal In Our Thoughts

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How can we hold on to the feeling of the morning lesson all day long? I leave the lesson and shortly afterward I notice that I am a completely different person. Why can’t I keep relating to everything that happens in the morning lesson?

Answer: The first reason is the lack of connection between you. The group lacks the general force that unites everyone and can provide support and the right infrastructure for everyone.

A person who leaves the group and engages in his business has to feel that he is connected to the group by a cord. He has to feel that the friends think about him and that he thinks about them because they have committed to support him and he has committed to support them. This is the beginning of the connection in the group, a union that later turns into mutual guarantee, and we have to make sure that it is so.

Why can’t you feel that you are in the group all day long? It is like wearing certain clothes before going out. You should dress in the group and go out! You have to do it, because without it you have no chance of succeeding. If you don’t dress in the group, the day will go by idly.

Let’s sign an agreement between us, and you will sign it and think about us. Let’s see how it will compel you. If you stop thinking about us, you will be causing great harm to yourself and to us, so you will be afraid, fearful, and worried as to how you can hold on to these thoughts. It is easy to tie one’s hands and feet, but how can you tie your thoughts to the group so that they will stick to the group?

How can I control my thoughts? After all, it is clear that you will forget! How can I make this thought obsessive? How can I keep myself from becoming someone else the moment I leave the group and go into the outside world?

There is no way you can remain connected to the group if the group doesn’t provide you with the power to do so. So you must come to the group and say: “Friends, I am ready to do anything that you ask, I am ready to pay you, to serve you, just help me not forget about you please!” Start asking for this!I promise you that the day you begin to worry about the friends, you will feel that you enter the group.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/24/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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“The Crisis In Ukraine Shows Why Strategy Is No Longer A Game Of Chess”

Dr. Michael LaitmanOpinion (Greg Sattel, authority on digital strategy and innovation, speaker, consultant, and author of the Digital Tonto blog): “Strategy is no longer a game of chess because power no longer depends on nodes, but on networks.

“Consider how this crisis started. Until very recently, Viktor Yanukovych held nearly absolute power in Ukraine. When confronted, he remained defiant, exercising every lever of authority he possessed, including his control over the media, political structures and finally, the use of force.

“His rivals were almost comically ill-equipped. They donned makeshift shields and helmets, burnt tires to obstruct snipers, and communicated via social media. Yet still, they prevailed through a network of unseen linkages that proved to be decisive. …

“A small group of passionate people can influence others that are slightly more reticent, still others take notice and also join in. …

“The 21st century is increasingly driven by semantic linkages, which increases with your number of connections and the strength of your networks. …

“Yet, as it turned out, none of that did him much good. As political scientist Moisés Naím explains in The End of Power, overthrows are becoming the rule, rather than the exception. He writes, ‘Power is easier to get, but harder to use or keep.’

“Governments, religions, militaries — and yes, companies — are having to learn to live with diminished advantages to scale. Superior capital, technology, and market share no longer confer the benefits they once did. In fact, they might even blind us to dangers that lurk under the surface.

“To understand better how power works today, we need to look beyond the nodes and start thinking in terms of networks. … Leaders who fail to recognize the power of semantic networks of unseen connections, and instead rely on traditional notions of power and influence, are fighting a 20th century battle in a 21st century world. They will find their traditional chess pieces a bit useless.”

My Comment: Coups will be performed with ease, and further management is possible only through the consolidation of the masses through their participation in training in good mutual connections, by the method of the wisdom of connection.
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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is bad about separation if there are clear general rules about cooperation between the separate parts, just as in the human body every body part has its own clear role?

Answer: There is nothing bad about separation except that we need to correct it. Here is the question that arises: What am I correcting it for? It’s necessary that the importance of this activity be determined by the right goal.

This means that I am not doing this so that I will feel good; rather, I rise to another level of decision making. My brain, intellect, and emotion, everything that is me will not belong to me personally but will belong to all. Every time that I rise to a higher level, I pass from an individualistic approach of determining my state, to a collective view, to a point of view that is for the benefit of all, like the head of a group who is concerned for the good of all of its members.

After that, the group is revealed to me with an even greater ego, with even greater mutual rejection than this, as if there is a collective descent, a fall. And so again I must raise myself to an even higher level of head of the group and again connect them together.

All of the work is to be a head that manages and corrects the entire separation; as it is said: “The world was created for me.”
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From the Preparation to the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/25/14

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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: At the time of Mordecai and Esther was the highest Zivug, which corresponds to the end of correction. What needs to be done in order to achieve this same state again?

Answer: We must live through all the material actions that have spiritual roots.

There were the all these events:ancient Babylon, Egyptian slavery, wandering in the desert, entering the land of Israel, erecting of the First Temple and its further destruction, Babylonian exile, constructing of the Second Temple, its devastation and exile—all these events took place for a reason. Now, we are approaching the very end.

The Purim events took place during the Babylonian exile. Since the destruction of the First Temple, we lost the Light of Mochin de Haya that was included in our Reshimo. This light was dormant and it was impossible to awaken it. It awakens only as a result of the action called Purim, only under its influence.

Due to the fact that the Jews won the Purim war, they were able to reveal the Upper Root. Now, we have to repeat this action on a worldwide scale. If not for the necessity to correct the entire world, we would build a Temple in the land of Israel out of our desire called Isra-el (Yashar-Kel – directly to the Creator.) We are talking only about spirituality, not materiality. At the time of final correction, the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking levels will be included in one spiritual degree.

Besides the people of Israel, there are nations of the world, and they are unable to directly connect with spirituality. That’s why the people of Israel were exiled and had to spread among them. During the last exile we mixed with the most distanced nations of the world. As to close nations, we mingled with them during prior exiles. The major connection happened between Persians and our people during the Babylonian exile.

Queen Esther is a real historical personage. Her son, Koresh, helped to build the Second Temple. He gave money to the Jews and brought them back to the land of Israel. He also helped to rebuild the entire country and invested a lot into its resurrection.

All these events should be revealed to the world as branches that originate from spiritual roots. Today, we reached the epoch of complete deliverance. That’s why there never will be a new Queen Esther, Ahasuerus, Haman—all these were material characters who participated in a theatrical performance. At this time, only spiritual forces that are yet to be discerned are acting.

These spiritual forces are detached from materiality, that’s why it is incorrect to state that modern Iranians are the same ancient Babylonians that were our enemies at some point. Not at all! We have to take a broader view. Anywhere in the world is the land of Israel, Babylon, Egypt, etc. We must not look at the map but at human nature. Today, we are in the state of the last exile that deals only with spirituality because at this time the world has become global, as one family.

Everything is just about one desire. We should split this overall desire into inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking levels. We have to filter these levels so that each time we regard things according to our current step, without connecting it to corporeality. There is no materiality. Everything is determined by the desire.

That’s why Purim, Mordecai, Esther, and Ahasuerus are only about spiritual paths. Spiritual forces are the only thing we should consider in this corporeal world.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/18/14, Writings of Rabash

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The Force That Fills All Of Reality

Dr. Michael LaitmanBaal HaSulam, the article, “There is None Else Besides Him”: It is written, “There is none else besides Him.” This means that there is no other force in the world that has the ability to do anything against Him. Only one force exists, all of us are under its authority and there is no escape from its influence because all of us are found under its control.

And what man sees, that there are things in the world that deny the Higher Household, the reason is that this is His will. This is because it cannot be otherwise. He intentionally confuses us, gives us a false feeling of independent existence, of seemingly private thoughts and feelings. It is as if we exist independently with some kind of desires and thoughts. The Creator arranges all of this intentionally. That is how He awakens various disturbances in us.

This method is called, “the left rejects and the right adducts.” This means that both from the left and from the right when this one power pushes us from feeling existence within Him and also when He suddenly is revealed and reminds us of His existence, all this is done according to a unique plan. All kinds of influences of this one power throw us from side to side.

Only He acts upon us, intentionally making us forget that “There is none else besides Him” and sending disturbances in different forms. He awakens a feeling in us of existing in this world, portraying a picture of this world: that we have a family, children, grandchildren, life, study and work. In fact, all of this is portrayed only within our own mind and nowhere else.

But the main thing is that He brings us closer through rejection, so that we ourselves, based on our capabilities, find the way to approach Him. And the benefit from the rejections is that through them a person receives a need and a complete desire for the Creator to help him, since he sees that otherwise he is lost. And will never be able to discover Him by himself.

And only if the person overcomes all the obstacles with the help of the environment, efforts, and perseverance, then he reaches discovery of this force. He intentionally places obstacles for each one of us and for all of us together, so that we will overcome them, find, and discover Him. Therefore, all of the obstacles, confusions, exhaustion, various difficulties, detachments, and lack of agreement are imperative only in order that from negative states like these we will discover this force.

And to advance from the negative states towards the attainment is possible only if we shut our eyes, meaning that we don’t think about all the obstacles that He places before us. It is up to us to advance beyond them, with what is called “faith above reason” or with “an intention for the sake of bestowal.”

And the more rapidly that the person advances, this force presents clearer, greater, and more sophisticated obstacles in front of him, so that precisely through this subtlety the person will understand Him better, will see the internal state of this force more clearly and will recognize Him more closely.

Therefore the confusion, the subtlety, the cruel flirting, exist only to oblige us to search for what the intentions of that force that is playing with us are. When we investigate His attitude toward us, we learn both about ourselves and about Him, why He surrounds us with various external circumstances specifically this way and why He changes the desires and the thoughts in us all the time. Together with this, He leaves us with only one possibility, to remember that only He does everything and to appreciate this opportunity of connection with Him that is called the point in the heart.

In the end, this force exhausts us so much that we become confused and sink into egoistic thoughts about our world and forget that this is derived from Him, or we ignore Him and don’t want to think about Him; rather, we want to escape quickly and become detached from the spiritual work. We begin to hate the behavior of the Creator and the method to attain Him.

But nevertheless, He brings us to a state where we begin to understand that only He can help if He will “take us by the hands,” and just as He confuses us, so He also will resolve everything. Therefore, our final decision must lead to the confidence that only He can and must do this and that I oblige Him to do this!

But we don’t want Him to ease our distress and bring us somewhere; rather, we want Him to be revealed to us because we agree to be under His control! We want to be in the characteristic of bestowal, in the characteristic of connection with everyone! We want to feel the unity because now it is revealed before our eyes as the only proper and most complete characteristic.

If a person works this way outside of himself in order to bestow, then he has a yearning to connect with the Creator, meaning a yearning to connect with everyone, for mutual fulfillment, bestowal, love, and support. When a true need is awakened in a person like this through work with the group (otherwise he doesn’t reach it and doesn’t understand why), then the higher force is discovered.

Rather, for those people who truly want to draw near the Creator…he is therefore given help from Above. How? …and so they will not settle for little, meaning remain as senseless children. So that everything will be okay, relaxed, good, successful, and this way day after day, … so he will not be able to say that thank God, I have Torah and Mitzvot and good deeds, and what else do I need?

And only if that person has a true desire… for the goal of creation, meaning that his soul needs to discover the Creator. ….will he receive help from Above. How? And he is constantly shown how he is at fault in his present state.  He has still not reached a state of connection with the Creator because his characteristics are absolutely the opposite of His. Namely, he is sent thoughts and views, which are against the work, against the Creator, against unity with Him. This is in order for him to see how far he is from the Creator, that he is not one with the Lord. That is how he is taken care of.

And as much as he overcomes, he always sees how he is farther from holiness (from bestowal), from love of others, than the rest of the friends, than others, who feel that they are one with the Creator, as it seems to him that they are more successful and more diligent. But he, on the other hand, always has complaints and demands, and he cannot justify the Creator’s behavior, and how He behaves toward him. How much time, how much effort and energy he wasted! What for? It is not clear to him what he is doing in life and therefore he cannot justify the behavior of the Creator. This pains him. What exactly? Indeed he suffers not because of his past! If he checks things correctly, he will begin to understand that his lack of agreement with the Creator, his lack of ability to justify Him, these are what cause him pain.

Where are all of those years that passed for nothing, the powers and efforts that he wasted? What is the purpose of all this? Is it truly possible to say that he yearned for something, advanced, did something? What was the benefit of all those years that passed?

Finally, he comes to feel that he has no part in holiness (in bestowal) whatsoever. Although he occasionally receives awakening from Above in regard to the friends or even in regard to the Creator, which momentarily revives him, but soon after he falls into the place of baseness. (This passes immediately and he sees that everything is artificial). And then he falls again.

But if he is stubborn and climbs the mountain all the time and falls, climbs and falls, then ultimately, after prolonged work, after a long time, he receives help from Above because he gathered enough effort in order to overcome himself for the sake of connection with the Creator.

He asks what the Creator wants him to do, and he does it. Does the Creator want him to do something else? He carries this out as well! If the Creator wants him to submit himself to the group, then he submits. Submit to the lessons and dissemination? Please, he also does this. He is ready to submit to everything that the Creator tells him! He doesn’t choose what to do. Suppose that he pays Maaser, studies once a week. It is not he who chooses this; rather, he carries out what our teachers say.

In spiritual work, the precise order of activities is very important, beginning from waking up in the morning, on which leg I stand up, what I do, which words I say, what is the first thing that I think about, what do I think about when I get up from the bed and go to the bathroom? I am saying this seriously! You can’t imagine how important the right intention is! Indeed every move that I make must be accompanied by the right and precise thought! That is what must be all the time, day after day, until this becomes a habit, something automatic! Otherwise, I will go back to various thoughts that detach me from the goal. Therefore I must immediately connect to the higher management. Everything that I feel and I think about, all these are from the Creator.

It’s very difficult to begin to think about the Creator in the morning. It is as if I am divided into two parts. All that I have is not mine, but comes from Him. Now I am going to the bathroom, wash, go back, do something else; all these are not me but Him. And so on. And the main thing is to accept everything gratefully, to elevate in my eyes the characteristic of bestowal that fills the whole world. And he who says that there is another force in the world that is the opposite of the Creator is absolutely disconnected from the supervision.

Basically, we are constantly involved with refining our characteristics, increasing their sensitivity, in order to begin to feel this force, the characteristic within which we are found. We learn how to tune into Him all the time, increasing our sensitivity to Him.

Come, let’s begin to feel Him together now. Where is He found? You see we are found within Him. Through your inner efforts, try to feel that He is found here close by! He is found within us, manages us also by means of the things that I am saying now and also what you hear from me; all this comes from Him. That is how He surrounds us within Him.

And if we become distant from advancement towards feeling the Creator, from equivalence of form with Him, and we fall, even then it is up to us to understand that He is doing this intentionally so that we will be elevated and feel the defect in the state through which we passed. Therefore, He intentionally arranges this fall for us.

And that is how it is all the time. If we become detached and fall, this says that the state through which we passed was incomplete and He is showing us where it is still possible to add a drop of sensitivity. There is no need to complain, because until today I advanced in the best way and that is what is interesting. Whatever it was, there is no need to be concerned about the past! Everything had to be exactly like that. Also there is no reason to be concerned about the future because the future is also from Him. It is the same thing regarding the present since what He is doing with me now is the best condition for me. So what remains for me to do? Just don’t separate from the thought that He constructs the past, the present, and the future both within me and outside of me.

If a person directs himself like this, he begins to feel that the Creator is working with him. And all of the changes within him, all of his thoughts and feelings, he begins to accept as the language of the Creator, as His turning towards him. What does the Creator say? The arrangement of all of my desires and thoughts is His appeal to me. On this level He speaks with me and awakens in me all of the internal changes. If I think about something now, wanted something, or didn’t think and didn’t want anything, He awakens all of this within me, He turns to me. And how do I turn to Him? I also direct my deficiencies and my thoughts to Him, understanding that He controls me absolutely.

And so it follows that I am in a dialogue with Him. I am included within the law of “There is none else besides Him,” because I am no longer the disturbance, rather I am mixed with Him, for nothing more than this is necessary. And so I see that the whole world and all that exists in it are my incorrect reactions regarding the actions of the Creator.

If a person feels that he is in a bad or good state, that something is happening to him, let’s say bestowal from the friends that formerly seemed to him to be a bad influence and now gives him inspiration, in sum this comes from the Creator and certainly this doesn’t happen because of our merits! And if we praise a friend, this says that this is how the Creator turns to us through him.

All of us must respect our friends because they are representatives of the Creator, for He chose them specifically in order to bestow to us through them. And it is necessary to be thankful for all of this only to the Creator and not to the friends. It cannot be that there is nobody to thank. If we say, “from love of the people to love of the Creator,” then everything proceeds in the right direction. Therefore the main thing is not ever to abandon the thought that we are not under the control of two or three forces; rather, we are under the control of the one and only force in the world! We have received the point of departure from Him, so that specifically with the help of our efforts, we will bring ourselves back into Him. The main thing is to imagine to ourselves (in our language) how it is possible to give Him contentment.

This is a wonderful discovery of connection; it absolutely frees a person and gives him immense possibilities of yearning only for discovery of the one and only Creator to all of humanity and even himself in particular. If we were to position ourselves correctly in regard to the Creator, then certainly we would see that there are no problems in the world at all.

I am talking about regular Kabbalists and not about those great Kabbalists, that need to be integrated with everyone and to suffer for all of humanity.

Baal HaSulam writes in the article, “Concealment and Disclosure of the Face of the Creator,” that when a person is in discovery of the face of the Creator, he comprehends the world as, “abundant, good, and great peace from the Creator and is always satisfied” and everyone who yearns for Him is found in wholeness. And the opposite, someone who doesn’t yearn for the Creator, is in confusion, deprivation, and disadvantage. This means that everything depends on how close we are to the Light. “There is none else besides Him!”
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From the World Zohar Week “Integral Education Convention” Day Three 2/4/14, Lesson 1

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Dr. Michael LaitmanFrom Baal HaSulam’s article “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” Item 4: From that you can deduce about the wisdom of truth, which contains all the secular teachings within it, which are its “seven little maids.” This is the entirety of the human species and the purpose for which all the worlds were created, as it is written, “If My covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth.”

This is what has sustained us thus far, to maintain the armies and the wall around the wisdom of truth, so no stranger or foreigner would break in and put it in their vessels to go and trade it in the market, as with the secular sages. This was so because all who entered have already been tested by seven tests until it was certain beyond any concern and suspicion.

The science that explains the fundamentals of creation is inside a person. It explains how one can change oneself so that one understands the creation in its authentic form called the world of Infinity.

When one senses the creation, one meets with its source, the Creator, the Upper Force. One feels that one was “created from nothing” and exists only to attain the Upper Force.

The science of Kabbalah is fundamental, as it is about the nature of the Creator and the nature creation and how the creation can attain the Creator. The creation senses this world under the condition that its perception are almost completely reduced. Instead of ten Sefirot (Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin and Malchut), the creation possesses only five material senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Working with these five organs of sensation, the creation learns the laws of this world and names them “material sciences,” which reveal themselves through the egoistic desire.

Our reality given to us in the form of intellectual perceptions and sensations of this world exists only to serve as a basis that allows us to reach the Creator. Attainment of the Creator is the goal of the creation. The creation must reach the Creator, i.e. reveal Him and attain His level and His properties. Scientists presumed that it is not worth revealing the secrets of science to small egoists so that they wouldn’t make them the objects of trade on the market; however, Kabbalists never prohibited spreading their knowledge. On the contrary, they disseminated the fundamentals of the wisdom to the nations of the world.

One studies according to one’s desire. This explains why Plato and Aristotle studied the basics of Kabbalah and then based on this knowledge; they initiated the development of earthly sciences. Kabbalists were never against dissemination of knowledge since it stimulated the world’s progress. It instigated a rapid revelation of malevolence, acknowledgement of the evil inclination, and the necessity to correct them, to ascend to the authentic wisdom, thus rising to the true state, the world of Infinity.

Conversely, the wisdom of Kabbalah could have stopped the egoistic development. That’s why Baal HaSulam wrote that premature revelation of the wisdom of Kabbalah caused many problems and launched numerous mystical teachings. We haven’t fulfilled things we were supposed to, thus, we have to go through pain because Kabbalah was revealed prematurely. If we behaved differently, the program of creation could have been more favorable.

Even though an untimely revelation of Kabbalah brought troubles to the people of Israel, today we are at the doorstep of the final redemption. From now on, our correction and attainment of the true world depends only on us. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is open to everyone.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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