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

P R E FAC E T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R
it completely merges with the light in its nine first Sefirot. All images fade
and disappear, whereas we become one with the Infinite, white light.
41. Unless the Creator’s light spreads onto all created beings by way
of filling these holy Sefirot, how can the creatures be honored to
know Him, and to fulfill the following: “The earth will be filled with
knowledge of the Creator?”
An explanation is that the Creator tricks the Souls into believing
that all the changes in the Sefirot happen in Him. The purpose of
that was for the Souls to get to know and comprehend Him. Thus,
the saying, “The earth will be filled with knowledge of the Creator”
is going to be realized.
42. And woe to them who compare the Creator with any kind of
measure, or say that this measure is in the Creator, even if it is a
spiritual measure which appears to the Souls. This is especially so
if it is a material measure that stems from mortal human nature,
whose foundation is dust.
Although the Souls perceive all the changes that occur in them as taking
place in the Giver, it should be clear to them that there are neither
changes nor measures in Him. He is Divine, and it only seems to
them, as it is said: “I am similar to what prophets have said.”
Woe to them who err, because they will immediately lose their divine
abundance, let alone the fools who see Him as an embodiment in
flesh and blood, transient and flawed.
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