Introduction to the Book of Zohar (PDF) - Kabbalah Media Archive

I N T RO D U C T I O N T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R
This is described by the words: It passes through the system of pure
worlds and “dresses” in his soul. This is called the time of correction.
There is a preliminary period called the uncorrected state that lasts
until the person receives the point in his heart. It starts pushing him towards
the spiritual. From this time on the period of correction begins.
Thus, man ascends and attains the levels of the thought of creation
in the Creator’s Infinity, until he can turn his desire to receive for
himself into the desire to receive for the sake of the Creator.
Man gradually receives new portions of the correcting light. With
the help of this light, he gradually reveals his soul and the degree of its
similarity to the Creator determines the extent of this revelation. In
other words, as much as he can create the screen within himself, so can
he reveal his soul, his Kli. Man feels the light inside of this Kli. This is
what Kabbalah defines as man’s degrees of similarity to the Creator, the
levels of his spiritual ascent.
These levels help one another: the lower one helps the higher one,
and the higher one helps to reveal one’s soul completely with the emerging
of the Upper Light in it.
Man’s properties become equivalent to the Creator’s, since reception
for the sake of giving is a “pure” form, a bestowal.
What is a revelation of the Kli and the light that fills it? If I wish to
reveal and feel this light not for my own enjoyment, but to please the One
Who filled me (when I see what delight my revelations bring to Him), then
my attainment will be considered bestowal and will take place.
Man achieves complete merging with the Creator… Where does he
achieve it? Inside of what he reveals. There he discovers himself, his Kli,
his intention and the Creator who fills him. He no longer needs to look
at the Creator and reveal the Kli – now he sees both himself and the
Creator within this common thought.
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