We have a group, a society, an atmosphere where thoughts circulate around us that all our progress comes from the revelation of greater and greater egoism. Therefore when egoism is revealed within us, we do not despair or fall, but rather joyfully embrace these revelations.

Here one can determine the state a person is in as they go through several stages.

The first stage is when a person is horrified by their negative qualities and seeks to run away from them, to turn away, to close their eyes and not feel them! Then they begin to accept these qualities as a given, as something that must be. After that they start to see them as necessary for their advancement.

Finally they come to feel them as a gift when the Creator reveals to them their true evil, the very evil He created within them.

At this point a person feels good about it because the Creator is working with them. The Creator awakens these negative traits within them, traits so vile that they are revolted by them. You feel worse than an animal, worse than anything imaginable. But this is exactly how it should be.

This is created by the Creator so that a person can, from this state, turn to Him and ask for correction. It is said: “I created the evil inclination, and I created the light for its correction.” And you exist in the middle, between these two qualities of darkness and light, and only ask for the evil to be revealed.

You then draw light onto this evil, and once again evil is revealed, and again you draw light. This is how you move forward—step by step, left-right, left-right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”

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