Question: You said that until now all your students have not developed as a group. Then how did they develop? What kind of process was it?
Answer: If we take the history of humanity as a basis, then from Adam to Abraham there were twenty generations, so-called “ten plus ten Sefirot,” which constitutes the growth of egoism.
Following, in the state of “Babylon,” in the time of King Nimrod, who is a prototype of Pharaoh, there was an enormous, explosive growth of egoism.
After that, a person “fled” from this egoism with the help of a point within him called “Abraham,” and took along a small portion of desires toward the land of Israel (“Israel” – Yashar El, meaning “straight to the Creator”), with which he supposedly wants and is able to exit his ego.
Then these desires also begin to grow more and more, and within them an entire “Egypt” appears, the foundation of all of egoism.
That is, within desires that had already developed to the egoistic level of “Babylon” and with which a person first approached spirituality, egoism appears again. You purify it to the level of striving toward the Creator, work on it, and then the ego appears again within you. You purify it again and direct it toward the Creator, and then it appears once more, but at a higher “resolution,” and so on.
Thus, from the initial aspiration toward the Creator, called “Adam,” to Abraham, there were twenty generations, that is, twenty degrees, on which you constantly strive toward the Creator and must continuously choose: extract this aspiration and discard everything else as husk.
From Abraham onward begins a new stage of selection, a more refined sorting of the aspiration toward the Creator. A person leaves the entire vast “Babylon” of his desires and escapes with a small portion of desires that he selected from the quality of Adam through those twenty so-called generations, i.e., degrees.
Now, when he is in this state of selection, of subtle sorting, that leads to clarification of what it means to “strive toward the Creator,” he discovers that all of this turns into a huge egoistic desire called “Egypt.” Egypt (Mitzrayim) in Hebrew means “concentration of evil” (Mitz Ra).
A person enters these desires, develops within them, and tries to separate Pharaoh, who represents the foundation of his egoistic desires, from the “Jews” in Egypt: Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and Jacob. He tries to determine which of these desires truly represents a pure aspiration toward the Creator, and realizes that it is not a single desire, but only their combination.
When he selects their correct combination, leaving everything else in Egypt, he sees that he cannot simply separate from them, he must do so through an “escape” (a special inner action), internally detaching and fleeing with these desires. It is with these desires that he strives toward the Creator, toward the quality of bestowal, toward spirituality. This inner state is called the “Egyptian night.”
A person undergoes immense sensations of crossing the Final Sea (Red Sea), symbolizing the final egoism that separates him from the Creator.
Then he comes to the next stage called “Mount Sinai,” where all the qualities with which he fled Egypt undergo numerous processes of purification, like gold that is refined through heating, melting, treatment with acid, and filtering, removing all impurities until pure gold remains and everything else is cast aside.
Each time he approaches the next stage of purification, he sees that everything previous, which had seemed 100% pure, turns out to be almost completely impure and unfit for further use.
That is, each previous degree, although completely pure at its completion, appears entirely impure when viewed from the next higher degree because the resolution of his analysis has increased. This is how he gradually ascends from degree to degree.
Ascending Mount Sinai means that a person reveals within himself absolute hatred toward everything: the Creator, himself, and others. This terrible state leads him to the decision that he must make a radical change: completely nullify himself and accept the upper governance without any calculations, doubts, or personal desires.
In other words, he becomes ready to detach from all his current egoistic desires, thoughts, and abilities, and not use them anymore, and to use only those qualities that he will receive from above, from the Creator.
Why “from above”? Because he considers them higher than himself. In reality, they do not come from anywhere, it is simply how he evaluates them. In his system of values, they are now higher. This readiness is called “standing at Mount Sinai.”
What condition of the next stage does he now feel within himself? It is the condition of unconditional, unquestionable unification between all parts of creation so that they merge within him into one single whole. Indeed, that is how it truly is; the Creator created one unified desire. The moment a person reaches the point where he can first form this unified desire within himself is called his entry into the spiritual path.
Everything before that was only preparation, not to mention the state before Adam when a person existed like an animal. Then comes the preparation for spirituality: from Adam to Abraham (to Babylon), from Abraham to Moses (to Egypt), from Egypt to Mount Sinai, all of this is preparation.
Such preparation takes many years. In the past it took 20 to 30 years. In our time, it is shorter, perhaps 7 to 10 years. But still, these are years. They continue to shorten, because the masses are moving forward, and purification is taking place within the collective soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rise Up the Stairs” 9/27/10
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