5 Minutes of Light
Passing the Text through Myself
Clip of Lesson by Dr. Michael Laitman, Bnei Baruch, Israel
September 6, 2009
If a person begins to be immersed in imaginations about spirituality, that could cause him harm,
because who knows what he imagines to himself, therefore one should try to pass the Kabbalistic
texts through his mind and heart. It does not matter how much he understands but that makes
sure that he is not imagining.
Spirituality is Tangible
You have to understand that spirituality is something tangible. It’s not theoretical or imaginary.
It’s even more concrete than our life. Only now it’s not revealed, so I need to forcefully begin to
reveal actions, forces, incidents, situations which are spiritual and that I will feel and sense them
stronger than how I sense the corporeal situations. That’s what I need to do with my efforts,
through the study and through the group. That’s how I should build my perception, just like we
learn from perception of reality. Right now I perceive reality the way I do and I need to reveal, to
emphasize, to develop. It’s like you develop a picture from its negative, just like pictures were
developed in the past. Where a picture of the general system becomes apparent in my perception
and that is given to me through the work with the study and the group and the original sources.
The Light Has to Build My Vessels
We are training, taming our will to receive. Our desire to receive—we are training it to become
more and more sensitive to subtle discernments. Like you train a dog or like you teach a little
child, that’s how you teach yourself, directly, and for that you don’t need the Light that reforms.
Ostensibly, the truth is that the Light that reforms works in that as well, but you don’t need to
address it, to turn to it for it to work; and that is called the egoistic corporeal system. The Light
works there as well but you don’t need to turn to it to create special vessels within you.
However, if we want to reveal the system beyond the corporeal system—an additional spiritual
system—that spiritual system is not in my sensation. I cannot directly sense it. Nothing will help
me in that. I cannot raise my sensitivity to the range that it allows me to perceive it. I can’t,
incapable. I must have the Light build the vessels within me to feel it.
“Year”, “Soul”, ”World” and the Existence of Reality
‘Soul’ and ‘world’ are called externality and internality of reality. ‘Year’ refers to the cause and
consequence by which reality develops with this inner energy called the existence of reality. So,
if you refer to what’s written through the discernments of ‘year, soul, world and the existence of
reality’ that explains to you about the whole process you need to go through. If a person begins
to feel that he develops through those four steps of ‘soul, world, year and the existence of
reality’, where does he write that this is how everything comes down to us from Above? It comes
down to us in a way that it allows us to begin revealing the true reality, the Upper Reality. It’s
the reality in which we live right now. How do we do that? Start reading correctly what’s written
in the books, start seeing how they talk about the ‘soul, year, world and the existence of reality’.
You need to describe yourself in a way it is explained right there.
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