On the Spiritual ladder (pdf) - Kabbalah-arizal.nl

tree without all those metaphors, seeming metaphors.
So all the three sources are from Zohar. And all three clarify the Torah and nothing else.
There exists only one Torah and one Zohar. Therefore, all three help us to understand the
spiritual and ourselves. Does everyone see it? All three are one. Only different, but not more
than these three.
And this work – the steps of the ladder – is only just given to the last generation, to us. It’s
only 15, 20 years given to humanity, because we are ready to do this enormous work on
ourselves.
All the previous generations could barely work on their Nefesj. They didn’t know, it was for
them… but it’s for us a life-­‐saving appliance. There has never been such a generation like
ours that has developed such a self-­‐love. On one hand it seems a handicap, because we are
far off from the Divine and on the other hand it’s a blessing.
Do you see it? Two things can fill the same part. Because we are so low, lower than any
generation before us. On one hand we’re in darkness because we have fallen so low and on
the other hand the lower you fall, and if you correct it, the higher light you can receive.
The generation of the auteur of Zohar was the only generation that was so high, but it was
only given to individuals, but we… every person of our generation can already work on
himself, while then it were only a phew.
It’s in our generation possible because we are so low to the ground, low in our self-­‐love –
this is all during the time, the power of the Mashiach, of the liberation power – therefore a
stronger medicine is needed. The worse the illness, the more powerful the medicine needs
to be.
Which medicine do we need? Of course Zohar and other higher things to arouse our spirit.
That’s of course great, but how can you arouse in yourself the separation between Nefesj
and body? Look to all the philosophers. Great philosophers. Aristotle, Socrates, all great, but
they could only arouse themselves for ideas.
They were great in their head, but the lower Nefesj was not corrected. And therefore we
need a very powerful medicine against our ego in our time, our very advanced self-­‐love, by
doing this study at night. Instead of sleeping, we get up.
Only by getting up gives already an enormous correction, because you overcome your body,
your nature. ‘Which moron gets up at night, don't make a fool of yourself!’. Our body, our
self-­‐love tell us: ‘don't make a fool of yourself, why do you have to get up, others sleep and
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