In the place where you find His greatness, there you find His humbleness (Shamati 47). We are under the rule of the egoistic desire that attaches importance only to the pleasure it can receive and cannot feel what is happening inside another person. This quality is called pride. It is not a flaw; it is simply a trait given to us from above.

If a person has a strong, developed egoistic desire, he or she does not feel others. The stronger one’s own desire, the more it locks one into sensing only oneself. A person cannot truly feel another at all; one only considers what loss or gain one may get from them.

To actually feel what is happening inside another, one must exit oneself and be in the spiritual world. Therefore, it is no wonder that we all feel detached from each other. In our world, we call this trait pride. But true pride exists only in the spiritual world where it awakens in a person in relation to the Creator.

When a person begins to correct himself, a special desire to receive awakens in him that compels him to disregard the Creator, to feel above Him, and to strive to rule on his own. It manifests in various forms, against which a person receives ten blows known as the plagues of Egypt.

He cannot lower and humble his pride by himself and requires special help from above. The more one humbles oneself, one accordingly reveals the greatness of the Creator in that place, and the more one discovers how humble the Creator is.

Humility is a symbol of perfection. Only one who feels some lack in something and wishes to fill himself, to feel himself in power, he demands honor, power, and recognition of being above others. But if a person is in perfection, this is the degree of Bina, and desires only to bestow (Hafetz Hesed). He needs nothing and therefore does not evaluate himself in relation to others at all!

On the contrary, if one feels oneself in perfection, a person wishes to convey this wonderful sensation of perfection to everyone. After all, it is the nature of the good force to do good, and the same desire to do good arises in the creatures when they acquire a good nature.

This is what happens with us if we can reveal the greatness of the Creator. And this depends only on us, for the Creator does not change, only we change so we can see Him as great. And then we reveal in our sensations that He is humble, because we ourselves have become the same. We perceive everything only within our own qualities.

If we discover that the Creator is great, it means we ourselves have become great. And if we reveal that the Creator is humble, it is a sign that we have become humble. This is how the law of equivalence of form works, and how we advance toward the cognition of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/14/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Place Where You Find His Greatness”

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