Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 108

Where in this Process Does the Recognition of Evil Occur?

The recognition of evil occurs when we realize that we are immersed in our own self together with the bricks, that we have exerted effort arranging them and thought about how to proceed by our own strength, disconnected from the fact that this entire process was arranged for us from above merely as a means. This whole world is only a means. Everything that exists, except for the end of correction, is simply a means toward that correction, including all spiritual states, and certainly our current state.

The recognition of evil happens when we see that we have forgotten all of this and have “turned the vessel upside down,” that is, we have mistaken the means for the essence.

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