Wise men say that even a centennial man feels as if he is eighteen when he sees graceful female bodies. The fact that human body is not able to do something doesn’t mean that a man have no desires.
This transition brings a man to the Middle line which is called “TIKUN” that is translated as Improvement. Improvement of Soul. With every change of mood a man improves a little part of his Soul and it goes on in this manner until he reaches the Complete Final Improvement. Sometimes to reach this state it is necessary to go through several circulations, several incarnations, several births and deaths.
There are positive and negative sides in it.
A positive thing is that such a society finds itself in high and joyful spirits all the time. A negative moment is that these people will never come to the Middle Line, will never reach Improvement – their mind is scanty.
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A man feels depressed and deserted because he doesn’t know how to imbue himself so that the delight would not disappear, so that he could feel joy and happiness permanently.
All the sciences are originated in order to teach a man to behave in an outer world, to get along with the surroundings. Kabbalah teaches how to live in harmony with yourself.
Human brain is an auxiliary instrument. It can not make up something that a man doesn’t feel, a thing that doesn’t exist. Man’s fantasy – it is merely a result of his inner sensations. Destination of brain cells is to analyze what we feel.
As it was already mentioned a man can feel only the reaction to outer irritation produced by his five organs of sense. The sixth organ of sense, the Soul, feels delight and suffering.
Delight is Good, Suffering is Bad.
Human brain analyzes whether it is True or False.
A man gets delight from sweet. Confectionery and chocolate is delicious and by eating them a man takes a sheer delight. That is sweet – is Good.
However, it is not a secret that this idea is False; sweet – is Bad, especially for those who suffer diabetes.
Here we can also list smoking, alcohol, drugs, etc.
Human brain can not feel; it can only analyze. That’s the reason why a man smokes, drinks alcohol, takes drugs and swallows up huge amounts of sugar and doesn’t feel that the sensations are false and that he harms himself.
A man will stop only when he starts to feel sufferings instead of delight.
As a matter of fact, a man do not have a freedom in choosing, – we seek for delight and try to escape sufferings and so we have no strength to abandon pleasant sensations and can give up the object of delight only when it starts to cause sufferings.
Instrument: Delight/Suffering, Bad/Good, True/False – it is very important for the development of human Soul.
The right understanding of what the feeling is and what analysis is – a significant part of Kabbalah Science.
Love, hatred, envy, and melancholy – these things reside in human Soul.
True or False – this is a product of mind. Here it is important to draw attention again to the fact that mind is secondary whereas Soul is primary.
Actually, therein lies a human structure.
Five organs of sense -˃Soul -˃Mind.
This is a principle according to which a man is created.
What Human Soul consists of?
What is implied in the meaning of human Soul?
When somebody says that he has a Soul what does he mean?
The structure of Soul.
As it was said above a man is created with the desire to get delight inside. To take delight from everything that surrounds him.
This desire is continually incites him to advance for seeking the possibilities to get delight. Whatever a man does is done for the sake of getting delight. We are unable even to move our finger unless we are sure that we will reap a reward from it. The desire of delight rules the way we lie, sit, walk, eat, and dress ourselves.
The absence of this desire is valued by a man as a suffering. Boredom and melancholy – these are the consequences of absence of an object of delight.
A man is composed of a great number of desires. The principle ones are – striving for Power, Wealth and Ceremonial.
Desire to eat, drink, sleep, have sex and multiplication of human specie and so on – these are the desires of Animal Body, animals also have them in abundance. It is impossible to change or destroy such desires; they always stay unchanged and bare no relations to Spiritual part of a man.
Of all the multitude of human desires and aspirations, the desire for Power dominates.
Command and rule over – this is the principal slogan of a man. As it was mentioned above, this virtue was inherited by a man from the Creator. He commands and rules over and everything goes according to His plan. A man tolerates no slavery, submission or dependence.
Aspiration for rest is another virtue of the Most High. We quit quiescent state only in order to reach even more quiescent state.
Money is a mean of getting Power and Rest – this is how it is regarded by a man.
Money can help you to buy power so that you could rule over others as well as to pay off from the entire World so that nobody would disturb you.
Money gives a man Power and independence.
It is an individual case that somebody becomes a Leader all by himself. It rarely happens and as a rule that man does not manage to hold the post for a long time. The more power a man has, the more opportunities occur for him and the more difficult it gets to withhold and not to exceed the bounds of permissibility. One Leader is replaced by another one. But this is true only for politics.
In religion it is quite different.
There is an Ideologist who rules over, he is a Leader of Ideological Movement around whom there gather the people who share his views.
A Spiritual mentor can be changed only after his death. He can’t be ousted or replaced before. The community who surrounds him strongly believes that their Ideological Leader is a minister of God and hands out the passes to Heaven and they are ready to follow him until his death.
Strong and Diligent people are tried to be subdued. Those who are not concordant are expelled or made to quit the group because nobody wants him to show the truth to people. People are ready to believe in lies until the end of their lives. They are not ready to hear the Truth. The reason for it is Hope.
As is well known hope springs eternal in the human breast that is first a man dies and only then a hope does (it is a joke).
A vivid example of it can be found in present day life – it is a book and a movie called “The Secret”. “The Secret” – gives people hope. People can wait for years that happiness will come to them.
Kabbalah is not for such people. All what is written in the book or can be seen in the movie is a fiction.
All the things in the world are in balance and so it is impossible that all the humanity will get reach or gain power simultaneously.
Only separate people who have their special predestination can have it. However this work gained such great popularity because it gave hope for a better future, and yet didn’t promise anything to people.
The book says that we should simply believe in Good, think about it all the time and then we will get it.
This is the main Law of Kabbalah.
In Supreme Worlds in order to get from one step to another a man should strive for it. He should not eat or sleep but constantly think about it. However a man can not get from one step to another by himself. And here comes the moment of Truth – when a man realizes that he lost his strength and then he appeals to the Creator, the Originator and then the Creator gives his helping hand.
The book lacks a very significant thing – the success will be a reward only for those who believes in superior power, that it is the Creator who rules over everything and that it is only in his competence to decide who will be a wealthy and who will be a president.
The danger of ideological movement is that if a Leader of a movement has suddenly gone mad then a crowd becomes irrepressible. Owing to the fact that there is no possibility to change him, everyone should subject to him. Our History taught us a good lesson with Stalin and Hitler. Stalin destroyed scores of millions of innocent people in Siberia, and Hitler poisoned with gas “inferior” races.
Both Stalin and Hitler did it because they were paranoiac while their subordinates blindly believed that they were saving the World. A glaring example of it is – Islamic suicide bombers. It is hammered into their heads that if they kill women and children they will get to Heaven where there are 72 virgins waiting for them – this is what Koran says. A man goes to meet his death having strong faith in that he is clearing the Earth of Islam enemies and saves the World.
To bring the society to altruism the Leader should first of all be an altruist himself, he should be an improved person who doesn’t use what doesn’t belong to him for the sake of his own enrichment.
Otherwise he will make use of the community for his own benefit; the community will wallow in poverty.
History has a striking example of it – it is a Former Soviet Union. The biggest continent in the Globe with inexhaustible reserves – it should have prospered as well as people who lived there and it should have served as an example for other nations and states.
In order to make desires for Ceremonial, Power and Wealth apparent, the Creator created the beings which resembled him.
Let’s imagine for a moment that there is only one man exists in the Globe. Being alone, he never feels a desire to rule over others. A man gets delight only if he dominates over creatures similar to him but not animals such as dogs or sheep.
Desire to get delight – is a main driving motive for a man.
We are always afoot, we are eternally seeking for something new, for something that can bring delight to us. We are constantly watching others for whether they have something we do not have. Our egoism gives no rest to us. In other words we strive for delight and escape from sufferings. Pain and anguish, even is they are not physical, like boredom, melancholy, envy, etc. – can also be called sufferings.
A man longs for Power, ceremonial and wealth and strive for getting new knowledge because he thinks it will imbue him.
Some people spend all their lives in chase of delight and then die never getting their own way. When we are young we say to ourselves that it will never happen to us and we will surely gain our ends.
But as we get old we start to feel astonished at how could we waste our life? – FUTILITY.
If a man doesn’t see a reward as a result of his physical effort (studies, work, etc.) – he has no power to take these efforts. We say we are flat-out, we have no strength. But in case of a fire in the middle of the night, if it has already reached our bedroom and the temperature went up to 40 Celsius we will dart out into the street as if nothing were wrong.
We say that we like psychology or physics or chemistry or electronics and it means that we take pleasure from dealing with or studying these sciences.
What do the phrases I like and I love mean? They mean that something or somebody gives pleasure to you – you get delight from it.
I love – means I get delight.
As soon as the delight disappears we start saying that we do not like or do not love it any more.
Here a conclusion comes – a man doesn’t love anyone and anything but its egoism. All we love is our desire to get delight and therein lies the essence of man.
Whatever we do, is done only for us, only for our own delight or in order to escape sufferings. Egoism can’t bear sufferings.
We help poor and disabled people just because we can’t bear looking at them.
We rescue our relatives, intimates and children from a rushing lorry or a train just because we have it in mind that we won’t be able to live peacefully knowing that somebody died in our sight.
We should teach our Egoism not to suffer, and then we will save both money and life. And those who press down on our pity and compassion – they are the most terrible spongers.
Under the cover of charity they heal their egoism to save if from sufferings. They give money but get honor and respect of a society instead.
There are no real Altruists.
A man is born to be an Egoist. He is taught from his very childhood to get what he wants and he can’t live differently. Our mind does not accept it that it is possible to give the better thing to somebody else keeping the worse one for ourselves.
How one can help somebody without indemnity. The truth is that a man realizes that when he is good to somebody he wants that somebody is good for him as well, that is he wants to Benefit from it.
Our mind helps us to understand it. If a man is a pinhead he will consider himself being an Altruist for the whole life and he will be sure that he works for the welfare of humanity.
Desire of getting delight is in human nature. The Creator made him in that manner. One can’t say about a desire whether it is good or bad.
We can say whether it is good or bad only about our intentions – about directions of our wish. Who do we do it for – for ourselves or for others?
There are a lot of examples of it. Let’s give some of them.
Parents love it very much when their children call on them. They try to lay the table in order to treat them. Majority of people get delight from receiving guests – they invite their friends, acquaintances and colleagues to have dinner with them.
When we, being guests, eat prepared food – we give grate pleasure to hosts.
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The principal parameter of the Theory of Relativity is the right choice of a reference point or a frame of reference or, to say it easy, What We Study – whether a person studies Surrounding World or whether he studies his sensations, his feelings, the way his Organs react to the World Around him. When a man is a child the world seems to be “Rosy”. As he grows up his desires change, he becomes more exigent to the Surrounding World. As Egoism grows inside a person, the Surrounding World becomes more cruel and unjust. A person acquires new feelings such as envy and spite, hatred and contempt. These feelings appear in an upcoming person due to the same reason – he has a desire to Get Delight. A person wants to revel in everything he sees around. Most often – it is impossible and so unjust towards him.
A Human Soul is a Part of the Creator, a part of the Supreme Spiritual Matter.
We can not sense the Creator due to the property difference but we inherited all His virtues.
The Creator is the Unique, the Only One and He rules over all the Worlds. He created all existent things and hence they all belong to him.
He set up all his creations in order to make them work for him.
The Creator is in absolute rest; – there are no movements in Supreme Worlds.
This is why a man always aspires to rest and can not bear a mere thought that somebody deserves more then he does.
What a man can sense?
A man has Five Organs of Sense. Eyesight, Hearing, Taste, Smell and Sense of
Touch.
We know from a course of secondary school that light wave reflects from objects around us and comes into our eye and hence brings us information about forms and sizes of those objects. Retina reacts to the light and by means of a nerve transmits an impulse to brain.
Sound wave striking against ear-drum in a man’s auricle brings us information about sound. Ear-drum shudders under the influence of a sound wave and acoustic nerve brings information about its vibration to brain. That is in other words all human sensations are irritation of internal, in this case – of acoustic apparatus. Brain receives information about ear-drum reaction to external noise that is sounds.
Organ of vision is arranged in the same way. Retina of an eyeball catches the light and transmits its reaction to brain.
It all means that a man can not know for one hundred percent what is going on around him. Mankind invents devices that help to see farther and hear better but they can not pick up something new. If a man finds himself in a room inaccessible for the light he won’t see anything and can evenly say that it is empty. Let’s set an example.
We all know a weighing gadget. A balance, just as the majority of measuring devices, consists of a Scale where units are indicated, a spring and a pointer which shows the weight.
You shouldn’t be a professor to understand that a pointer shows the amount of a spring change or to be more exact – its resisting force.
A spring spreads or shrinks and tries to get to an initial position while a pointer shows these changes to us.
If we use more or, on the contrary, less resilient spring we will have an absolutely different result weighing the same object.
If there was a possibility to change human organs to more sensitive ones we would have a possibility to see farther and hear better, even the faintest sounds, however these are only special devices that can do it now.
Here the conclusion comes: a man can’t know what surrounds him, he can only feel the reaction of its five organs of sense to external irritants received from the ambient space.
It is impossible to say what a man would feel if he had additional organs of sense.
We have already mentioned it above that the World around us is static.
Physiological organs also do not change; they only get older as time flies.
What makes us think that the World is changeable?
The point is that human organs of sense can catch only external noises but they are not able to evaluate them. Which human organ can feel joy or love or hatred or shame?
There is an additional organ of sense which can feel delight and sufferings. We can feel what is cold and what is hot, what is sour or sweet, quiet or loud, as well as what is Bad and what is Good.
Everything that gives you delight is good, while things that makes you suffer are bad.
Kabbalistic science states that a human being has an additional organ of sense which is called Soul.
When a man feels worried or distressed he says that he has an ache in his Chest pointing at the upper part of his body. That’s why we say my Heart bleeds, heart feels or heart loves. However the heart is simply a physiological piece of meat, it can not feel anything, and it can’t love; it can only contract and pump the blood over. It all is said about human Soul which has a physiological appearance, which is represented as a colloid carrier.
Human soul is a spiritual matter. Spiritual -which is derived from the world Spirit – in other words it means it is impossible to catch it by means of human organs of sense, it is impossible to touch it, to see or to smell it.
One should not mix up the word Spiritual with the concept of Clergy.
Human body can die and then his soul will abandon it.
Soul is immortal and infinite.
Spiritual means – not material.
Human soul can feel happiness and joy, sufferings and depression.
Kabbalistic science deals with human problems.
Kabbalah studies nothing but human Soul – the sixth organ of sense.
Studies of sciences help a man to get himself ready for living in this world. Comprehension of mundane sciences helps a man to adjust to a surrounding World.
All mundane sciences study the laws and forces of outside world which we can feel with our five organs of sense.
All human life and his activity is submission to nature laws. A man believes that he subjected nature to him; however it is only a fiction. A man would never be able to break the law of gravity, conservation of energy or preservation of rate of movement.
Unlike mundane sciences Kabbalah teaches a man the Laws of life. All sciences study the way a surrounding world influence us while Kabbalah studies the way a man himself can influence a surrounding World.
Kabbalah studies the laws which are valid in Spiritual Worlds. Having learnt the structure of human soul and the main laws of Supreme Worlds, a man will be able to control his feelings.
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All that is said in the context of Kabbalah science is said about the feelings of Kabbalist’s soul.
When the topic of stages and steps of Supreme World is touched upon, it implies perceptions and feelings of perceiving soul that is a human being. The thing that a man receives from Outside Supreme Worlds is called Conception.
Every new sense and every new feeling which differs from a previous one is called a New Step or a New Stage. Every new stage has its own appellation, its own name. These names are given to them by a Homo Sapience (lat.) that is by human’s mind.
Just as it happens when somebody gives names to its friends: Kind, Intelligent, Lazy, Attentive, Good or Bad.
But does it really mean that our friend is Bad or Good?
Actually this is how we perceive him. If somebody makes a person suffer mentally, not physically then he is conceived as Bad or Malicious.
And on the contrary if a man enjoys being with his friend then he will say that his friend is intelligent, equitable, etc.
A human being is created with the Desire to Get Delight inside. This desire is seeking for satisfaction incessantly. If a human desire to Get Delight is not satisfied in the shortest possible time such state is estimated as Suffering.
It is dull, dreary, mirthless, lonesome, etc.
Human sensations, that is his desire to get delight, this is the source of all existing metaphors and aphorisms.
A person says “Heaven” and it means he is delighted.
When he says “Hell” – he is suffering.
Devil, Witch – someone who brings a lot of sufferings.
Angel, Fairy – they are the delight.
The Kabbalistic Law of CONCEPTION works according to the following principle: The Thing that I do not Feel Does Not Exist for me. A man says – it is Impossible, it Doesn’t exist.
Human infant does not have any information about New World. His organs of sense serve him as helpmates in the process of conception of This World.
When an infant grows up a bit he starts speaking. The level of his speech development testifies to the level of its mental development or to be more exact about the level of his Conception of This World which is New to him.
Have you ever thought how a Kabbalist manages to comprehend Supreme Worlds?
Let’s try to find it out on the example of our world.
A human being is given Five Organs of Sense by birth.
Eyesight, Hearing, Taste, Smell and Sense of Touch that is the feeling hot-cold and pleasant-unpleasant.
When an infant is shown a toy and is said: Yellow, Square, Cold, and Firm – he memorizes it and keeps all the information in its mind. In this way he memorizes the Codes of the objects that surround him. Some words say nothing to him because he has never seen or has never felt the thing that corresponds with that code: is it a color or a material or a figure or something else?
In infant’s brain there is a connection between visual information and information received from other organs of sense.
We See some Color – we Hear some Name.
We See a Fruit – we Sense its Taste, hear its name, etc.
It is well known that children with hearing disorders learn to speak late. Why do you think it so happens? The reason is that they lack information about their surroundings – they see and sense objects but they do not know their names.
Parents teach their child what is sweet and what is hot. A child hears it and memorizes, – figures, colors, materials and then starts to repeat it all after them – this thing is sour, that thing is hot and this one is not tasty… He starts referring to objects by their names.
It is natural that a child starts speaking the language he was taught. And it doesn’t matter who his parents are. They can belong to any Race or Nationality; a child will remember only the codes.
There are a number of cases when a child is brought up by people of a different nationality and then he learns to speak their language and he does not know and understand the language of his native parents.
There are some other cases – for example in the countries where there are a lot of emigrants. Children who are born in a new country go to kinder gardens and schools there and hence learn the language of the country they live in and hardly know the language of their parents.
Coming back to the Law of Conception it is necessary to note that if a newly born hears wrong codes and names of the objects from the very beginning it will memorize them in the same wrong way. It will call white – black, sweet – bitter and salty – hot…
This is why it is essential to find an appropriate Teacher and not to make a mistake in this choice. If a “Teacher” is not competent enough in what he is going to teach, his students won’t have a ghost of a chance.
In other words a teacher who does not have full set of knowledge on the subject will give wrong definitions and names to these or those scientific categories and consequently a student will have a wrong vision or impression.
The most dangerous in this sense are the spheres of science where the theory can not be proved practically as it is done in exact sciences.
This fact explains the existence of a great many isoteric teachings, movements and ideologies.
It is impossible to discern charlatanry unless one has some previous experience.
It is also difficult to institute criminal proceeding against frauds, swindlers and spiritual pseudo-leaders unless they take drugs themselves of call others to do it or unless the Leaders of Ideological Movements publicly appeal for violence or commit sexual crime or blackmail under aged.
Some people have such a strong FAITH in almighty Teacher, Rav, who will spare them their Sufferings and Diseases and will issue them a pass to HEAVEN, that they are ready to sacrifice all they have and to pray to anyone who considers himself to be such a Teacher…
The main tendency of such Ideological Movements is worship of the Chief and Ideological Leader.
The main motive and managing force of such Movements is a small group of confidants who hunt out for Silly young people in the age of 22-30 years old who did not find their place in life. These young people are a cardinal potential, financial profit for the Leader of a Movement.
Young people who have strong character are being subdued or expelled because such sect or Ideological Movement recognize only one Guru or Rav who brooks no rivalry.
And surely this extortion of substantial sums of money and implicit obedience of a “Teacher” is explained by the benefit to the student and as a consequence the possibility to reach Heaven inter vivos (lat).
The more money a man gives – the sooner he gets to the Heaven. In addition he can be given a rank of the “Best Student” and rewarded with a diploma.
When we speak about the Law of Conception it is necessary to pay attention to that a person speaks not about the step but about his sensation and about his state, he describes the way he feels in the situation.
When two friends talk over a third one it is not rare that there will be different opinions expressed.
One will say: “He is a kind person, he is intelligent and just”. The other one will say: “No, he is no good at all, he is silly and cruel”. How shall we know what kind of person the third one is? Who of those two friends will you believe?
The answer is easy. You will believe the one you trust more, the one you love more. Your impression about the third person will be formed basing on what you heard about him from your friends. It is not humane, isn’t it? Never behave like that.
Never judge about others from what you hear about them. You can not know the intentions of people who speak negatively or positively about someone.
One might intentionally try to soil your friend in your eyes to change your opinion about him.
A man loves and hates with Ears.
However let’s think what two friends say when they talk over a third one.
They speak not about him but about their feelings towards him, they express the way they perceive him but not who he really is.
A person senses delight as Good and sufferings – as Evil. If we enjoy the company of our friends we say they are Kind People. If those who are around us make us suffer or feel uneasy we say they are bad people, we often use abusive language.
In superior worlds a number of people experience the same feeling when they are on the same step. The reason for it is that a Spiritual Step is a level of development of a Human Soul.
When they say: “Our views on life coincide” – they mean that for the current moment people have similar interpretations of what is love and hatred, betrayal and friendship. As time flows the views might change because one of the friends can go far away in its development while another one might not develop at all any more. It depends on the Root, the Source of their Souls.
The world around us is Static that is Permanent. These are only our sensations that can change. The surrounding world is changed in relation to our perceptions.
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Before the creatures have been created and the beings have been completed there had been only the Divine Light, filling everything existing.
There was no unfilled place or space, which wasn’t filled with It, everything was whelmed by this Divine eternal Light.
There was no difference between the highest and the lowest, the internal and the external; there was only the Divine Light.
This Light is called – Infinite, because It fills Everything and there is no limitation for its spreading.
When He decided to open its perfection and greatness, He decided to create all creatures and form all worlds, what has caused the creation of everything existent.