Even when a Kabbalist is already on high degrees, it is very useful for him to study the books of other Kabbalists. Then he can see reality through another’s qualities because each person looks from their own point of view. By learning how others perceive the spiritual reality, he begins to see it through every corrected soul, and thus he quickly joins the common soul.

At first, I am a point inside a circle. I have corrected myself and built my connection with infinity, a line from the center of the circle to the light surrounding it. I have connected with all the other souls, and thereby expanded this line, like a sector, over the entire circle. Now the entire plane of the circle is my corrected desire. I have completely corrected myself by uniting with the other souls.

But this is not enough. Because my circle is flat. And there are other circles, other corrected souls. When all these circles unite, they form a sphere, with one common center. This means that I must see all the corrections of all souls from their point of view.

Why? Because the Creator looks from above at every soul and brings it into action. I must reach that very same level. Therefore I need to clothe myself in each person and see his correction from his own point of view, from within his soul.

Only then do I attain equivalence of form with the upper force. It is not enough for me to correct my own plane. I must correct one plane after another, circle after circle, until they all unite into a sphere.

This is mandatory. Otherwise, we do not attain similarity to the Creator. And so each person connects with others and looks through them.

And then all must unite together. All the individual spheres combine into an even more “rounded,” perfect dimension. And then all private distinctions disappear completely.

But this stage is beyond our corrections.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/10/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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