Question: Why is so much attention in the science of Kabbalah given to the structure of the spiritual worlds?

Answer: Five worlds separate us from the world of infinity, which is complete perfection and revelation of all forces; they are five concealments, filters, that hide the world of infinity from us. They are Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beriya, Yetzira, and Assiya, and under the world of Assiya in complete concealment from the higher worlds our world exists.

Each of these worlds is arranged in exactly the same way as the world of infinity, only it is weaker, less clear and shines less. But all these worlds are identical in all their details, both in quantity and in their connections between them. Everything that exists in each world, including our world, is the same.

And therefore, in our world, where the inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature and the human exist, they are all interconnected in the general structure by exactly the same connections as the forces in the spiritual world.

Only in the spiritual world the qualities of forces are different. But the connections between the parts are the same, and the order between them is one and the same.

And everything that seems to us as wrong, confusing, disorderly, and unjust in our world is explained by the fact that we are in total darkness and do not see the similarity between our world and the upper one.

But undoubtedly our world is the branch, and the world of Assiya is the root. In turn, the world of Assiya is the branch, and the world of Yetzira is its root, and so on up to the root of everything, the world of infinity. That is how everything is arranged.

We are in our world, and we have no choice; we exist now in a certain reality with our qualities.

My forces, my qualities, my mind, and my feelings are such that I reveal a picture called “this world.”

But through this picture I can begin to change my feelings and mind. And since the upper world is arranged according to the same model and differs only in its properties, it represents the very same picture, only more alive. Then I can try from the world I am in now to attain a higher sensation since the parts of the worlds and the connections between them are the same, except the quality of the forces is higher.

Therefore by studying the science of Kabbalah, I draw a force from above upon myself, I strive to attain the upper world, and in response this yearning brings me a light that returns to the source, the force that changes my qualities. It should not change either the composition of the parts or the order of things within me.

It has to change only one thing, the quality of my main property, so that instead of my egoism, I would acquire a bit of bestowal that is more exalted than mine. And then I rise with everything that I see and feel to a higher degree, to a higher dimension, and I begin to feel the spiritual world.
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From the “Questions and Answers” 8/30/09

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