Question: Why is spiritual attainment not imaginary, like an illusion of this world? How do we distinguish the types of attainments?

Answer: Spiritual attainment is not a fictional imagination or anything else we imagine because it arises from a person’s effort to rise above himself.

This happens when I act against my nature, against my essence, and in this intention and effort, I rise above myself and acquire the property of love and bestowal in which I feel a new world. There one finds properties opposite to this world, and begins to find himself inverted, altered.

Question: Why did Kabbalists not write books that would simply and beautifully describe the spiritual world?

Answer: You would not have understood it anyway. How would they portray the spiritual world, in which words? In the words of our world? Then you would imagine our world.

Everything that could be said about the upper world is said in the Torah, in the Talmud, in all the holy books, but allegorically, because only The Study of the Ten Sefirot can describe it directly. It outlines pure mechanics: the rise and descent of various screens, the restriction placed on desires, the departure and arrival of light, and so on. It is impossible to tell what feelings lie behind this, because we do not yet have an adequate perception of these feelings.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/19/17

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