Our exile from spirituality is called four hundred years. In all our actions we go through four stages that correspond to the four-letter name of the Creator, that is, the full manifestation of the upper quality.

The stage following the exile is very simple: you felt the quality of bestowal, love, and it is now dear to you. Why? Not for the sake of your ego? Okay, not for it. Then for what, why? Where can you be ready to implement this quality? How can you define it further?

You must begin to unite with others. This is how you start the practical implementation. The whole of humanity is in front of you. Act! You do not have to enter any worlds. If you want to give and to love, everything is in front of you. Look at what is going on—the whole world is in front of you: inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, people.

You must first, at least in a small group, prove your desire to connect with others by overcoming your ego in order to use the common altruistic force that they want to accumulate in themselves to influence the world and help everyone else.

But there is a certain personal egoism in all this: we wish, we want, for myself, not for myself, for the whole world, and so on. You need to make a few more scrutinies as if purifying your desires, your qualities.

And if you remain inside the ego, will you still suffer but nonetheless rise above your circumstances to do good to other people? Can you? Would you like to? Not for yourself but for others—in everything? And how about you doing good to your haters, those who wish you the worst?

And here you begin the next stage of your purification until you become ready to belong to the quality of bestowal and love only for its own sake. In this case, you turn from a slave of your egoism into a conscious slave of altruism; that is, you choose, accept, and desire only that.

This is the so-called 400 years that a person spends in exile. And then he is rewarded with entering into the feeling of the quality of bestowal and love called the upper force of nature or the Creator. This is how the exit from Egypt or spiritual birth takes place.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Miracle of Birth” 4/7/12

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