Kabbalah Five Basic Principles
I think you are going to say no to this but I want to ask you a question anyway. If you have a group of students who come to you for a period of time not just for an afternoon and you want to convey to them the essence of Kabbalah, the principles, the basic ideas. Are there five or twelve or some specific number of ideas that you want to convey to them?
About how many?
Participant: There are many three, four, or five principles. Okay let us say five.
First of all, that there is an upper force that we all live in and we are the egoistic parts that are opposite to it. Our egos evolved as we said for the past 2000 years in this world. The end of this development, we will reach a state that we have to unify with this force.
Who are we? That is the second principle. This upper force is entirely good, bestowing and giving and it created us opposite itself as the egoist in order that the ego will develop in us to a point where we can reveal that our nature is destructive and that there is nothing worst than it. And that we want to burst out of this in the same way that we would want to break free from an old skin and to become like it. The by the method of Kabbalah we will be able to become like it.
The third principle, we are one soul, one egotistical desire that was created by the upper one as one desire, the desire to enjoy. And we were shattered into thousands and millions of parts called individual souls and they are what develop during this process. We have to correct ourselves to become like the creator and that means that we all need to unify together. All the souls have to come back into one soul together. Really in the egotistical manner in which we are divided, we hate one another and our correction is to be the opposite that we should see that our ego is destructive and that we want to connect back together.
The fourth principle, when we reached the immense destructive ego of our times that is starting to appear, we see just how bad it is. There were now two ways to evolve either to the beatings that we received which is basically how we live our lives now that we run away from suffering all the time. I am not sure where I should run to, just as long as it is away from what is hurting me. Or that I reveal before me the goal by the method of Kabbalah and I develop in this so that it will attract me to my development.
The first is the path of evolution and that is called the path of suffering. And the second path is the path of light. And our choice is whether to evolve one way or the other and all of the development of humanity until this time without any freedom of choice. We were simply caring out what the ego told us to do. Ego, DNA, it does not matter what you called that. Rather people now have the desire that is for something beyond this world. They can not feel themselves with anything that they can find in this world. So they ask themselves why they exist and they do not know why.
Now they have the freedom of choice either to continue in the path of suffering, like they did before by getting punishment or they can evolve towards the goal that is drawing them. The path of spiritual development, the minute that one discovers the wisdom of Kabbalah, it begins to learn with the help of Kabbalistic books about his more corrected and his more advanced state and then when he reached about it he is drawn to this advanced state, then he does not need any kind of affliction, rather he is more constantly drawn to more advanced stages. But this is on the condition that he learns from genuine books of Kabbalah and from a correct eye, the only genuine Kabbalah books in our times, the book of Zohar, the writings of the Ari, and Balsallah.
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