Question: What does it mean, “that which is not attained, we do not call by a name”?

Answer: In the wisdom of Kabbalah, unlike in philosophy and the perception of our world, there is nothing that exists by itself. Everything exists only in my perception and sensation. And only about this do I have the right to speak.

There is no Creator, no creation, no worlds, nothing that we could call existing. Only I feel that this exists, I think, I see. Only in this way can I say something about it. Everything is perceived within my senses, depends on my attitude, and is entirely relative to me.

Therefore, we speak only about what a person reveals and attains. The Creator in Hebrew is called “Bo-Re,”  “Come and See.” There is no Creator without creation.

The quality of bestowal, which is revealed inside our Kelim according to the equivalence of form with something outside, unattainable to us, we call Creator (“Come and See”): “Look what I saw!”
But I perceived Him in my organs of sensation, which changed within my transformed qualities. This change is within me.

I say: “The Creator has clothed in me!” Why? “Look at the form I have taken!” This form I call Creator. I do not point to Him Himself, but speak about the form clothed in my matter. This form I call Creator. The matter, the will to receive, has taken on the form of the desire to bestow.

Therefore, we evaluate and define everything only relative to the person attaining, and never outside of him. All the worlds are my Kelim, my vessels of perception. They only appear to me as existing outside.
In my inner desire I perceive myself, and in my outer desire I perceive the world since my Kelim are divided into internal and external. But when they unite together, I will have 10 Sefirot of the soul, and then the world will disappear, everything will enter into me.

Now I feel all those around me as existing outside, because my Kli is incomplete, broken. If it were whole, I would not distinguish anyone around me. I would perceive everything as the world of Ein Sof (Infinity).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Introduction to the Book ‘From the Mouth of a Wise Man’”

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