We perceive this world through our mind and feelings; those are the two instruments we have. With their help, we gradually begin to understand the world we find ourselves in and we learn to use it to our advantage.
All that is wonderful, but the fact is that there is another world, a vast and higher world that we do not sense. We live the allotted number of years in this world, preoccupied with our family and work, and are unaware that an eternal and perfect world exists alongside us.
We see that people live and die, but it turns out that this is not all; there is another life, and it is possible to reveal it, attain understanding, awareness, and sensation of it. And for this, we need to develop.
We are born with organs of perception inherited from our parents, through which we can feel this world and settle into it. But it is possible to develop additional organs of perception through which we will feel the upper world and begin to live in it. As it is said: “You will see your world in your lifetime.”
There are people who are already born with a desire to reveal the upper world, and for others, it comes later in life. Some feel unhappy their entire lives as if they are lacking something in life. They do not understand why they live, and what to do with this life, but they do not know where to look for the upper world.
Namely, we want to attain the upper world, and there is a methodology called the science of Kabbalah that allows us to do this. But this is a very difficult path that requires great efforts, perseverance, and hard work from a person. The problem is that you do not break into the spiritual world by force; you need to format yourself correctly in order to enter it. I have to mold myself into a special form that suits the spiritual world.
This correspondence of a person to the upper world is the central point of the method of Kabbalah. That is, the question is how to explain to a person and give him the strength and instructions to adjust himself to the upper world, to find his place in the general spiritual system, to feel the Creator, to draw closer to Him, and to begin to serve Him. The science of Kabbalah teaches all of that.
In this world, a person uses the qualities given to him from birth: the mind, the feelings, and three-dimensional perception. But if we were born in another world, we would apparently have different qualities.
There are stories about Native Americans being unable to see Columbus’s ships approaching the shore because the ships were so large and unfamiliar, and the indigenous people were accustomed to the small boats they used. It was only by the way the waves surged around the hulls that they realized that something was in the water and discovered the ship.
I do not know whether it actually happened or not, but it very well could have. We exist in a certain world, and we format ourselves according to it. If I were suddenly to meet a person who lived several thousand years ago, I would not be able to understand him, because our minds are different and our approaches to life are different.
And the spiritual world is altogether completely different from our world. It is written about it: “I saw an opposite world.” And if everything is opposite there, then how can I imagine it and bring myself into correspondence with it?
Kabbalah answers: by working in faith above reason, which helps us acquire new vision, new sensory organs in order to see what others cannot see. Just as the Native Americans did not see Columbus’s large ships since they were accustomed only to small watercraft. We are in the same world, but I see and they do not.
This is the kind of spiritual vision we need to achieve. Although at the moment we do not see the spiritual world, we will gradually correct our sensory organs and will see it. In order to expand our senses to the perception of the spiritual world, we must work in faith above reason, that is, above our mind. Now I perceive everything in my mind, but by opening it, I will see the world differently; not as three-dimensional, but in other dimensions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/7/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”
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