Question: Why is achieving the purpose of creation such a complex, multi-stage process that includes descent, ascent, and shattering?

Answer: Because from the very beginning it consists of two components that are opposite to each other: the light and the desire (the vessel, Kli), which build a connection between each other based on their opposite nature.

The process of development proceeds from two conditions and dictates a single law of development: what are initially two opposites ultimately must come to complete similarity.

The entire process inevitably follows from these initial and final conditions. We cannot replace anything in it or act according to a different logic. The conditions are rigid: the initial condition and the final condition.

Condition 1: There is an infinite distance between them.

Condition 2: There is their complete union to the end the very end.

Initially, one is entirely giving and the other is entirely receiving. On one hand, there is an infinite abyss between them, and on the other hand, there is a final point where they merge into one whole.
Now try to write a formula by which, from the first condition of complete opposition one can reach the second condition of complete similarity.

In the world of infinity, both the separation of these two components and their union already exist. Although there is light and desire there, they are fused and complement each other. This fusion is maintained by the power of the upper light.

That is, the final condition is initially ensured by the power of the light, the Creator. This enables us to reveal the formula for how to carry out this transition from one state to another.

The potential conditions have been created, now the realization must begin. And the whole reality is now sequentially unfolding, scene by scene, before our eyes; they are those very creations that exist in the world of infinity. We never leave it.

In this single place (the desire) created by the Creator, the light and the desire and the condition of their union exist; and all of this is now being implemented. Therefore, we ourselves are called the actions of the Creator, the results of His work: creations, works, beings.

It is impossible to change anything here: the conditions themselves, the initial and the final ones (“the end of the action is contained in the initial thought”), already determine everything that will happen, including the shattering.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/10, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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