Question: Does the Creator treat us like an experienced trickster treats a simpleton?

Answer: You can think of it that way. You have to always be on guard, because otherwise He will twist you around His finger and manipulate you as He wants.

And no matter how much you want to dissociate yourself from this, you will not be able to, because even before He begins to twist you again (and He twists you nonstop), He instills such thoughts and desires in you to which He initially knows your reaction. After all, where do all your actions, desires, thoughts, and your very essence come from? It is all from Him!

So He does not have to wonder about what your reactions will be; He does not need them; in fact, He does not need your entire path. It is you who needs it for your development.

Only as a result of the consistent, progressive development of “darkness–light” and “left line–right line” will you accumulate a certain amount of sensations that will ultimately give you the opportunity to feel Him, the Creator Himself.

This will develop in you awareness, feelings, and understanding of one against the other: darkness–light, different colors, different sounds, all the nuances of shades that you must master in order to perceive Him.

In other words, it is a progressive, sequential movement in your development, but the Creator personally does not need it. He is interested in your development to His level. The upper light desires to see you equal to itself, and that is why it acts upon you in this way. So there is no point to play games with the Creator, although you may do so on our path, and it is necessary.

Whether you view Him as a trickster or benevolent is up to you. The main thing is that you develop. You can relate to Him as you wish; it does not matter to the Creator, as He is the Absolute. All your reactions are clear in advance. They are of no interest to anyone in the spiritual at all, except yourself.

When it is said that a person introduces certain corrections or does something in the upper worlds, it is only in relation to the person himself. And the Creator does not need anything, as we think in our world.

We are dealing with the absolute, and all our internal changes are necessary only in order to begin to feel Him, to become similar to Him. That is, we will become as absolute as He is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/3/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam “There Is None Else Besides Him”

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