Why Spirituality Should Be More Important than Corporeality
At the end of his “Introduction to the Zohar,” Baal HaSulam writes that if we preferred spirituality to corporeality and spiritual laws to corporeal laws, if we chose a spiritual leadership over the corporeal one, we would organize our world correctly, exactly like the spiritual world, and then our inner values would not collide with the values that come down to us, and we would feel pleasure and peace instead of pain and suffering.
The Secret of Influencing Your Reality
When tragic things happen to us in this world, there is nothing we can do to change it. Things happen as inevitable consequences of earlier thoughts, and there is no way to act in the spirit against something that already descends on you from above. All you can do in this world is to try as much as you can to avoid bodily harm, in our world of consequences. If you really want to influence your reality to avoid future tragedies, you should rise upward, to your origin, your root, and the place where the root of your enemy lies as well, and begin to sort things out there. The immediate result will be that everything in our world will change, because there is nothing in our world that is not a result of the world above.
Spiritual Development Requires Practicality
In many Jewish homes there are copies of The Zohar, mezuzahs (a text from the Bible that Jews place on doorposts), and charms. People think that there is some power in them, but in fact they do not help us today. We’ve come to a point in history when we have to rise above these things; we should go beyond them and get to know the power itself, its operations on us, rather than thinking that if we put up a mezuzah everything is going to be all right. We have to start being practical and focus on the upper force.
Why the Study of Advanced Kabbalah Books Requires the Study of Introductory Books First
Before we study The Zohar, we must first study several introductory books. There is much to read and learn to know how to open the book and what to search for in it.
The Zohar is written for people who are already in the spiritual world. For those people this book is a guide as all holy books are, showing us exactly what needs to be changed in the upper world and the spiritual force to induce a change and correction of the situation in our world.
However, there are unfamiliar names and terms in The Zohar that confuse new readers and potentially alienate them. Although these words are closely related to your life, right now you don’t feel the connection, because you still don’t feel that you are inside all these worlds. If you begin to study this wisdom, you will begin to feel them and see them. Today every person is capable and worthy of seeing and feeling the higher spiritual worlds through this world.
By Studying the Books of Kabbalah a Person Becomes Connected to the Spiritual Reality
By studying about the upper worlds, you become connected to them and begin to experience the entire reality in a way that makes you see how it is possible to live without a body, only with our souls. You will see how souls descend to this world and become clothed in bodies, how our future is determined, what the past was, and what is the reason for everything. This way you will be able to know all the reasons and the consequences, and you’ll know how to relate to your future and correct it.
It is impossible to get to this stage without knowing the upper world. The Creator wants us to live in all the worlds, and He is already forcing us to begin the study of the upper worlds quite unpleasantly. We must take into account that the situation will not get any easier, but only harder. We have been given the land of Israel, but now it is time to start learning how to live there in order to obtain the spiritual power concealed in it. Only then will we be able to build the Temple in the heart of each and every one of us.
“Discover the Amazing Benefits of Studying Kabbalah” is based on the book, Awakening to Kabbalah: The Guiding Light of Spiritual Fulfillment by Dr. Michael Laitman.
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