The light created us with the desire to enjoy, and this same light sustains and develops it. We continually delve deeper and deeper into this desire from zero to the final, fourth level.

By working to an ever deeper depth of desire and turning it from receiving to bestowal, from evil to good, we reveal a new reality within it called the spiritual world.

That is, we realize and utilize this desire to enjoy through stages 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, transforming it with the help of the light from the power of the initial egoistic intent, the evil and hatred revealed in the layers of this desire, to love, goodness, and bestowal.

Within this desire to enjoy, we discover a new world, 125 stages or five worlds, depending on which desire we are already capable of turning from hatred to love in relation to our neighbor or the Creator, the light, and from receiving to bestowal.

And evil, of course, remains! Otherwise, on what basis can we build goodness? How can we appreciate goodness if there is no evil? The desire to enjoy cannot remain with good intentions unless it passes through all the opposite states on which we stand and ascend like a ladder to a height of 125 steps, returning back to the world of infinity.

Therefore, all this tension remains, all the potential through which we can rise above hatred, each time revealing it to ever greater depths.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/11, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Transgression Does Not Extinguish a Mitzva”

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