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Posted on February 25th, 2023
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International Kabbalistic Convention, “Discovering the Landlord,” Lesson 3
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International Kabbalistic Convention, “A House of Prayer for the Whole World,” Lesson 4
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Coming closer to each other and the property of our commonality will give us the opportunity to connect with nature and see that we can use its laws in a completely different way. This will be a completely new discovery for us.
The sciences will be based not on man’s opposition to nature, but on the interaction with it, on harmony. This is a different mind, different desires, different thoughts, and completely different discoveries.
Modern science and current technology will completely step aside. They are in crisis because they are a manifestation of our egoism. We treat nature egoistically and from this, we create our sciences.
When we are in harmony with it, we will reveal it completely differently. We will not have physics, chemistry, geology, and astrology separately, but there will be one science about nature, which is called Kabbalah. Then we will be able to do great things, something that our ancestors, who were not yet so far removed from nature, partially were able to do.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mysterious Civilizations of the Past” 5/25/12
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Astronomy and astrology are sciences that reflect the inner forces of nature. I take these sciences seriously, even astrology, but only if it is real and not an amateur one. In ancient times, very smart people were engaged in it. Back then a person was closer to nature, he relied on it.
Today we have simply distanced ourselves from nature, we do not feel its inner forces, yet for our ancestors, these were very significant signs through which they felt various forces. After all, when you work with some material, you start to feel it.
Talk today with a scientist-astronomer who lives, as they say, among the stars.
He will tell you that they are thoughts, they are desires, they are some kind of internal actions, and each star has its own character. He will talk about them and about the entire universe as something alive, claiming: “The cosmos is just a brain!”
Question: Do astronomy and astrology have some kind of spiritual root?
Answer: Of course! They are a reflection of upper forces at our level.
We live in one single dimension. All the worlds are in it, but we feel only the smallest part of them, the vaguest manifestation of them, which we call our world. That is why Kabbalists call our world Olam HaMedume—the world that we imagine, because we feel it, being as if in an unconscious state, in oblivion.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Influence of Astrology on Life” 4/20/12
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Question: Does a person receive the upper illumination when he acts contrary to his desire and tries to overcome it?
Answer: The light comes when a person, despite his egoism, hatred, anger, and everything that repels him from love, from connection with other people, and from merging with them into one common desire, wants to be connected with them, and rises above the ego.
Naturally, he cannot immediately yearn for this, but gradually, in the way a child grows, he moves in small steps. Even if he relates to connecting with others purely egoistically, all the same, the light slowly influences him and he realizes that he is still in such a state.
After all, the descent and degradation of the power of the upper light took place on purpose, step by step, and through a system of filters, so that even we, who are in the opposite quality, absolutely egoistic, and want to receive only for ourselves, can attract its influence upon us. It is not directly like when we feel how it is awakened in us, but is in the form of the “surrounding light,” as if from afar, since we are opposite to it. To the extent that we become more and more like this light, we feel it even more clearly. This explicit manifestation of the light is called the revelation of the Creator.
Question: If the light is revealed in such a state, does it not simply burn and incinerate?
Answer: How can it be revealed in the opposite state? It can be revealed only according to the law of equivalence of form and in no other way.
The light is in front of you in a free, open form, and you can receive it, feel it, and call it upon yourself only to the extent that you yearn for it, its quality. Therefore it cannot be revealed more or less; you (not the light) command the extent to which it is revealed within you. Nothing depends on it. It all depends on the person!
Therefore to the extent that you perform within yourself some actions that guide, bring closer, and direct you to the light, it influences you. You cause its influence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. When the Light Comes” 5/19/12
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Question: The Royal Family of Saudi Arabia has decided to invest a billion dollars annually in a non-profit organization that develops life extension technologies.
The Hevolution Foundation will distribute grants for development of anti-aging drugs and their clinical trials. They want to find the means to delay onset of diseases and open them to the masses. They say that it will be not just for the royal family.
It is interesting that part of humanity is looking for how to depart quietly, without pain. And part of humanity is looking for how to prolong life and to be beautiful and young. Toward which part do you lean more?
Answer: I believe that there really is no particular sense in prolonging human life. It is necessary to invest in making human life meaningful. It takes many, many billions of dollars or riyals—no matter what currency—to convey to a person the real meaning of a happy life. But how long you will live, it all depends on public awareness.
People used to live for 30, 40, 50, or 60 years. I remember that when I was little, people died at the age of 60 to 65, and it was considered that a person had lived a normal life.
Question: So, are you in favor of turning the focus around, not to live long and healthy, but to live with awareness that I am looking for the meaning of life?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Interesting! This is a revolution in the mindset of a person.
My Response: Of course. If they had invented such a pill that instead of me shuffling my feet on my parquet for another 15 years I would cheerfully go to the next world but with a good result—finding the meaning of life—then it would be better.
If you offer me such a pill, I am ready, I will subscribe to it. Take away those 15 or however many years and give me the meaning of life. Don’t just tell me, but to make it so that I attain the real meaning.
Question: Tell me, when does this understanding arise in a person that he is ready to give everything?
Answer: It cannot be that our life has no meaning. This issue needs to be explained. Then, starting from it and further, we need to introduce a person gradually into the revelation of the meaning of life, its true meaning.
Question: Would even the richest people want to give all their money just to discover and achieve this?
Answer: That is what people will invest in with pleasure. Because if we develop such a methodology, such education, such upbringing, and such public opinion on the importance of finding the meaning of life, and we find this meaning and further develop it and advertise it everywhere (maybe even impose it), then, of course, our life will find true meaning. It is worth giving all the money in the world for this.
It is because while a person is young, he runs and rushes. Then, when he is mature, he rushes to somehow arrange his life.
When he is old, he rushes not to get sick and suffer less. Then he is done, he drops his hands and waits… The tired one leaves.
Question: And here, he is young all the time. In a constant search for the meaning of life.
The key question is what is it—the meaning of life?
Answer: The meaning of life is to know the eternity of the world.
Question: When you say “the eternity of the world,” what kind of world do you mean? What is the eternity of the world? I see this world. But what kind of world do you say is eternal?
Answer: I am talking about the eternity of the existence of the soul of man.
Question: Do you mean we need to stick to it?
Answer: Sure. Identify yourself with it and not with the body.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/13/22
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There was once a hefty dispute between David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharet. Sharet said, “What will the nations say?” And Ben-Gurion answered: “It doesn’t matter what the nations will say. What’s important is what the Jews will do.”
I agree with Ben-Gurion’s statement, but on condition that the Jews truly desire to achieve unity. No nation or other opinion would then matter to us. We would prioritize our unity over everything else.
The Jews have the ability to bring the condition of living in unity to the world. It is also why we are widely hated and blamed for being evil. There is a common feeling toward us that we host some kind of foundation, a force that can benefit the world, but which we keep to ourselves.
Despite Jews’ disproportionate success in fields such as science, medicine and technology, for instance, the disproportionate amount of Nobel Peace Prizes that Jews receive, we see that it leads to no special love for the Jews.
The Jewish people need to bring wholeness, love and unity to the world, and if we fail to do so, then nothing else we do counts.
In short, it is important that we unite and spread unity to the world through our example and teaching, so that everyone will know that their good future depends solely on unity. We will then all witness in practice what it means to be a “light unto the nations.”
Based on the video “The Dispute Between Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharet – A Kabbalist’s Response” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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