In the entire general system of reality there are only two: the Creator and creation, the upper light and the desire that He created inside Himself as a black point that He develops. This point developed to a state where it began to feel itself as existing independently, that is, as a human being living in this world and left to his own devices.

It stopped noticing that it is inside the upper light that governs it, advances it, and constantly works on it. This black point, the human being of this world, has no idea that its entire existence: everything it does, says, thinks, feels, decides is dictated by the light, the upper force. We are in such concealment.

And all our work is in revealing this upper force and realizing that it acts inside us and leaves us no freedom in anything except for one thing: to wish that it would return and take power over us, as it actually does, only without our awareness.

Therefore, there are two worlds: the lower world in which we are supposedly left to ourselves and the upper world where we reveal that everything comes only from above, from the light, from the Creator. The main thing in this work is to determine the place of our freedom of choice, where we truly can, through concealment and revelation, find our freedom between them. Only in it do we truly exist as creation.

And outside of it, we are under the full control of the Creator, either unconsciously or with awareness of it. But somewhere there in the middle between one and the other there is a special point in which we can establish our independence. It can be found only by trying to walk with faith above reason. Then, gradually, the importance of the Creator is revealed, which is above the importance of the human being.

This is revealed from above, and a person begins, at least sometimes, to feel that the Creator is more important than himself, and he is ready to invest his entire life, all his strength, in Him. This feeling comes and disappears, and reappears. Such work is called faith above reason, bestowing above the force of reception. Before that everything was based on the desire to receive pleasure, which was revealed within a person.

It is called “the old and foolish king,” but it also constantly grows along with the force of faith, in opposition to it, in order to create an opportunity for a person between these two forces to establish his or her independence as a middle line. There, in the middle, in the middle line, the Creator and creation meet.

The realization of this work is possible only within the group, within the ten. Therefore, the attainment of mutual guarantee and unification around Mount Sinai is a necessary prerequisite for receiving the force of faith from above.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/18, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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