Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 173

What Happens on the Degrees Before the Degree of the Creator?

All the degrees prior to the degree of the Creator are degrees of equivalence of form, which gradually lead us to complete equivalence. We have 620 desires, and we need to equalize the use of each and every desire with the way the Creator uses His desires. We align each desire so that it will be in order to bestow, which means that our use of the desire becomes identical to the Creator’s use of desires.

The Creator created this desire by means of a specific light that shines corresponding to that desire. If 620 lights emerge from the Creator, then each light creates a particular desire to receive in us. We correct this desire to “in order to bestow,” and then the vessel becomes like the light. That same desire becomes similar to that specific light because it bestows back according to the same action.

Therefore, we have 620 such vessels that bestow back to the Creator, just as the Creator, through 620 lights, bestows into those vessels. Consequently two systems are formed in which the actions of bestowal are identical, referred to as “the created being becomes exactly like the Creator.”

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