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

We can’t say what in essence the Creator is, therefore we say that the Creator is that which
we experience, therefore we say light. We can’t say what we don’t experience and the
Creator lets us experience through the light, pleasure, all kinds of forms of pleasure,
comprehension, wisdom, it all comes from above), because we have to know that at that
moment when a human being feels that he is far from the Creator (look what he says here)
at that moment he begins to believe for a little bit in the existence of the Creator
In the shortage we see that we come closer to the good. So at the moment when a man feels
that he’s far from the Creator, then he as it were begins to believe that the Creator exists,
because otherwise there would not be a shortage. A child consumes it, an animal consumes
it, plants consume it, done.
And only the man experiences it, of course when an animal doesn’t get food, he also feels it,
but that is absolutely instinctive, is not aware of it, only the man is aware of his shortage.
Look what he says, that shortage is a form of progress and not that we think where the
Creator is, when you ask this question to yourself, that you’re far from the light, then it
means that you know that there is light.
Even when it’s a little bit, that you know that there is light. And light is the Creator.) How
else could it be said that he is far from something that doesn’t exist in this world (how else
would a man say that he’s far from something that doesn’t exist, do you understand. That
already means that a man experiences, that you experience that you have shortage and that
means that YOU with that indicate that you believe that there is something, or a state, or
something that exists what is light, the Creator. And that is the beginning of the way to
perfection in every state.)
But it’s necessary to say that the human being has some shine of the light from a distance
(so it begins to shine at him from a distance and he experiences that as a shortage. He
doesn’t have the strength to see it as power, then he has a shortage.
So a shortage comes because there already shines something to the man from a distance.
Look how interesting it is, when the light shines from a distance, not in our kelim, when it’s
in your kelim then you can experience it, that means that it’s already inside, but if it’s not
inside and shines from a distance, then it feels as if there is a shortage, because it’s not yet in
me), that shine that shines at him will make him feel that he is far from the Creator (so this
state is structural.
Go outside and ask if someone has a shortage, of course he will have a shortage, but other
kinds of shortage, this is not good, that’s not good, etc. But when he feels within himself a
shortage, then it means that a light already shines at you from a distance, because you feel a
shortage with regard to the light, which is perfect.)
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