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
only in the second state (so that we acquire it by ourselves in the
third state).
It should not appear as a paradox, or something unnatural. We
are in fact in the third state, and only exist in the second one with our
subjective feelings, in order to correct them to correspond to the real
situation.
We must not ponder ( there is no question) over the state of other
beings in the world (they are inconsequential for us), since man
is the center of creation.
We think that humankind cannot be the center of creation, because
we are lost, even on this planet. We exist on a thin layer of the
planet, sitting on a vibrating, steaming, and erupting volcano. We are in
a vast universe, dependent on some negligible star called “Sun”.
If we measure ourselves with respect to the nature of the still or the
vegetative, which are so abundant, it will seem that we are a tiny insignificant
minority. You can also say the same thing with regard to animate
nature, which is thousands of times greater than we in numbers are.
If we exist on this planet as animals, completely disconnected and
detached from the Upper World, without accepting upon ourselves the
purpose of creation, we naturally become tiny fractions in space and in
this world. If we begin to acquire the attributes of the Upper World,
we will become lords of the universe. During the ascent to the Upper
World, we begin to absorb it into ourselves, to the point of Infinity.
It turns out that without connection with the Upper World we are
insignificant. In fact, this is our actual strength. To the extent that we acquire
these Upper Forces, being the Light that controls, creates, sustains
and fills everything, and come to own that Light, we will rise higher than
all of nature.
We must not ponder over other beings in the world, since man (a
person who attains the Upper World) is the center of creation.
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