The Creator is my corrected quality. The Creator is revealed within the created being, and therefore in Hebrew He is called “Bo-reh” — “Come and See.”
I must reach my corrected state, my corrected self; I will see my corrected qualities and I will call them “the Creator.”
I reveal the Creator only within myself, within my corrected vessels of perception. Outside of myself I feel nothing. I perceive all reality, everything that exists, within me, in my sensations. Therefore, The Book of Zohar says that all the worlds and all that fills them, including the Creator, are within a person. Because they are felt by him only within himself. It only seems to me that everything is outside, beyond me.
This illusion is given purposefully: through the tension between the sensation of “outside” and “within,” I acquire the ability to see the world, myself, and the Creator both from the outside and within — and I become able to perceive creation as He does: before creation, during creation, and afterward, in future “super-states.”
Spiritual perception is based on the feeling of “other people’s” desires, which I attach to myself with the desire to bestow to and love them. In this way, my desire grows. And to the extent that I unite with other desires, I reveal an ever-broader reality.
In our world, we reveal the world of Assiya, because each person is locked within himself, within his own, and therefore egoistic, desire.
If I begin to connect with a group, with desires similar to mine in their yearning for the Creator, then to the extent of this connection I reveal the world of Yetzira. I have united to some degree with the environment into a single desire, and within it I reveal the measure of bestowal I have attained, which is called “the Creator.”
The phenomena I reveal within my corrected desire are called light, and its deeper source, the Creator. Then a greater egoistic desire, my “I,” is revealed in me. And above it, in my effort to unite with the group, I attain the world of Beria.
In this manner we reveal all five worlds. Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” that all the worlds are within a person. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is the revelation of the Creator to the created being, within the created being, in its corrected desires (organs of perception).
By revealing the quality of bestowal, we also attain its source, its originator. This most inner attainment is what we call the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/09, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”
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Question: How does the revelation of the face of the Creator as benevolent in His governance occur? After all, everything we attain is attained in faith above reason, as if we do not want to reveal Him directly.
