Part 2:
Baal HaSulam. The Freedom (The Law of Causality)
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Reader begins: “It is worthwhile taking some time to grasp such an….”
1. R. (02:59) What does he say shortly, there is a reason and a cause for everything and every state there is a result and the cause and result they progressed and go on this way bringing us to some state in our final stage of development. We can learn this development as much as we are given and accordingly, we will already know how we can flow in this development to help ourselves to more comfortable development, faster or maybe in both. But there is a law that there is a cause and effect, a result, every matter has a cause from which state developed and it turns into the reason, the cause for the next state and such from state to state to state we develop. Each state we are in becomes the result from the state proceeding it and it is the reason and cause for the state that will come after so we are always between yesterday and tomorrow, in the state of today. This is how our development is and so with knowing the law of causality, understanding it is the most important thing for us because in this we can understand all of our history, all of the states that we go through and how to go through them in a better, faster and more correct manner. It all depends on the law of causality and also to what extent that we can or can't change each and everything of our development. It is worthwhile to know the law of causality.
S. Does this mean that there's no initial state?
R. It is called that you don't know about the state preceding it, the first initial state is that there is the upper force and that his desire is to create the created beings in order to benefit them, to do them good. Any more than this we don't know this is where the Kabbalists have reached and tell us but beforehand what there is and there are still more states there that we don't know, we haven't received it, nothing was passed on to us about it. Also, at the end of development we received from the Kabbalists, what they attained, that there is above and beyond this, outside this although there are hints that there are states beyond after the end of correction but also, we can understand it, so they don't tell us about it. The extent though, that we will advance, we will have a wider mind, sensation, more general and also to be able to understand states that are above time, space and motion. In this that all of this is drawn according to cause and effect is clear to us from this world, the Kabbalists say the same thing exists in spirituality. So, from spirituality it is illuminated over here, projected here.
2. S. (07:04) How can there be one cause for a certain state if we're in an integral, complicated system where everyone depends on everyone, what does he mean by the law of causality?
R. He means for the development of each and every detail and all the details together that in a formula and are tied together and such it is from the beginning of creation and the end of creation and we are in this formula as it is its components, it's parts.
S. There are many causes for a certain state.
R. It just seems to you but actually for everyone, for all of these causes and effects, these are results, there is only one goal and this goal is determined that the final action is in the preliminary thought, it is known ahead of time.
S. Sometimes we say that in order to know why something happens we have to be in the final correction that this system is so complicated because we can't understand.
R. Yes, Baal HaSulam also writes that we need to look at the end of the action.
S.
So
how
can
you
say
there's
one
cause
for
a
certain
state?
R.
Because
the
Creator
is
the
cause,
that's
not
hard,
but
it
all
comes
from
him,
all
is
done
in
one
thought,
all
the
worlds
were
created,
all
the
created
beings,
all
was
done
in
one
upper
desire.
Then
it
all
develops
according
to
the
same
desire
that
the
Creator
inserts
it
into
the
point
of
the
will
to
receive
in
creation
and
then
this
creation
begins
to
develop
and
reaches
states
that
they
are
in
that
same
thought
of
creation.
Other
than
that
same
thought
to
create
the
created
beings
and
to
bring
them
to
identification
with
himself
such
the
Creator
decided,
besides
this,
there
is
nothing
and
in
this
thought
you
have
also
the
desire
of
the
Creator,
also
the
process
of
the
development
of
the
created
being
and
the
entire
process
that
we
need
to
go
through
and
the
final
state.
That
is
written
to
us
in
the
first
part
of
TES.
S. The fact that it seems to me that it divides into endless or numerous reasons how to understand reality?
R. It is according to how you are broken that you are the result of the breaking, of the shattering and that you have many different desires and you cannot connect them because your intentions, you have different desires, they are all different, you want to enjoy for the each and every state according how to each and every desire obligates you in an egoistic manner. You don't understand that all of creation is directed to the state of connection, that all are annulled and reach connection, that all of creation is drawn to reveal in its connection, its source. That is the end of creation, that ultimately, we need to correct ourselves and all of creation we don't reveal anything new, this is called that you have the end from the ancient. Here we reach revelation of the Creator and the created being, this is the process that we are going through. That is the end of our development.
3. S. (11:26) There is a feeling that the states where the lights come from above are opposite in quality and they are not in order of cause and effect and here below we change the states?
R. That is true that they are operated on all sorts of lights from above and all sorts of different manners because we reveal these lights, these influences from above in our desires that they are broken, shattered. They are in opposition between them and so it is difficult for us to identify that they come from one source, that these lights push us to one goal above the division, which is called above our reason, above our broken reason. That we need to arrange all of these influences into one source, that we need to arrange ourselves to that same one source that all will be as one man with one heart and it all works out. It is all a matter of correction, the attainment of creation, of reality is only in correction.
4. S. (13:25) Why are the rules of the cause and effect that we don't see them?
R. Because we receive all of the influences from the Creator who is bestowing in broken vessels that are not connected or aimed and directed together and so we see the world, we don't see how everything is connected to one another. We look at how everyone is running around each in all different directions as Baal HaSulam says all of humanity is like those who are running from a field of battle. This is because of our broken will to receive, don't ask about creation but the reason, why are you revealing creation to be as such, because we are broken and in our broken desires such, we see the Creator is the single and unique, only there is no change. All the change we feel in our desire is being cooked up and being ready by the upper light like something being heated up on the fire and they are in it all sorts of things that are opposite and contrasting that are coming together that all depend on the desire that is constantly in change. But we are connecting all of these desires to connect to the Creator and this is called above the desire that we want to connect to the Creator in the source that in this we are actually directing ourselves to him and as much as we are and all sorts of different states, in the billions of states every moment, it doesn't bother us because it just helps us, it is the opposite. It is called the darkness illuminates as light, that we are connected to the Creator and it helps us to reach him in the whole adhesion.
5. S. (15:58) What effect do I have on this law of cause and effect?
R. You cause the connection of all the broken desires, so instead of feeling the law of cause and effect as broken and confusing matter then by this you connect in all of your awareness and your mind and spirit, that you are connecting your desires and thoughts together and by this you are directing them to the Creator and in this that you are not made as some cloud that grasps something, some influence from above in the 1001 manners, because you are broken. But rather that you are connecting yourself inside to one desire, one intention, that in this you are also revealing the Creator as one and that is called one receives one. It is not a problem that the Creator seems to you different, broken, multi-faceted that he is confusing you, the problem is in your vessel of how much your qualities need to be connected together and directed into one source and then there won't be any problems. So please it is all in your hands.
S. If the Creator does everything and is doing everything I still I'm not certain what can I do, if I desire for the connection?
R. You need to request from the Creator to help you to form your vessel of reception, perception that as much as you form and stabilize the qualities, your desires as much as you are forming them, you and this are revealing the Creator as there is none else besides him, the good that does good as one force. That is, it, that is what you need, you need to correct yourself and how do you reach this? By this, you are connecting with the 10 and through the 10 you want to locate the Creator and then that is called one receives one. The Creator receives from the 10 what the 10 requests of him and the Creator gives the 10 the force of unity and everything ends in that and works out.
6. S. (19:25) I have to now reach a state of restriction meaning I see that there is a long process relatively in front of me and I see it's not so pleasant, we go through states that are not simple and I also have no choice but to walk in this process. So, I see and understand the process, why according to the law of causality I have no way to change the states, maybe I can justify but I see that it stays the same?
R. All remains as it is, besides you if you will make an effort to connect yourself in each moment of life that what you receive, what you feel, you are receiving from the Creator and in return each moment in life you want to be connected to him, this is the force of the good that does good despite the fact you don't feel it. But you must relate to him back as the good that does good and then in such a manner you will reach contact with the Creator and then connection with the Creator do you have no other form to reach correction.
7. S. (21:04) We have a desire to understand causality and learn how the Creator works but it is written that a person doesn't have to understand everything in reason but to go above reason, so we do have a desire to understand. What is the right relation to understand the law of causality?
R. To understand that we cannot understand until we have suitable vessels, in the corporeal world we build suitable vessels accordingly for research each time, microscopes, telescopes and all sorts of different and unique programs. For the spiritual world we need to understand that spirituality is unity, unity of the Creator that he is a single and unique that we can investigate and understand him only to the extent that our vessel will also be as such. In order that us, the created beings will be ready for researching and investigating the Creator then we receive the breaking, the shattering and each one is divided many times separated from the others and if we begin to connect despite the barriers between us then we build a sort of device that becomes entirely connected of billions of cells. All of these cells after them. Beyond that, I still connect between them into one goal and so all of these cells become as one Ayin, despite the fact there are billions of cells there. If we will connect, in this gradually we are attaining the upper force, in the degrees of Root 1234 or Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida and this is according to the intensity of connection between us on the will to receive root 1234. There is no problem here, but to approach this spiritual investigation with the corporeal mind is impossible. It is impossible because you don't have a vessel and so whoever wants to do this simply doesn't understand just how much of a fool he is.
S. The desire itself to research and understand is this also bad or beneficial?
R. Of course it is good but it's on the conditions that you're doing it according to Nature. How can you investigate desire? The desire is the spirituality in man, it is not corporeal. Find me in a person his desire and show me what and where it is? It is above the matter. We have much to learn here and we hope that one day we will be wise, in the meantime have a wonderful day of rest and joy and connection.
8. S. (25:23) What you teach us, is a wonderful way and what we should have come through the connection as we see throughout history if we look at the past history except for the ones, the people of the Zohar, other people spoke about the law of causality in science how did they attain it without connection?
R. We see it from our life that we develop, look at history or geography, all of these things, it is all investigation according to the human mind, read all of the history books of each country and you'll see how much they all contradict each other. What are you going to find there? Truth? You won't find it there, if you really want to investigate you need to get into nature that manages the history and this nature is the effort force. All the best.