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This inner attention eventually organized itself to the conscious structure now known as ego-consciousness. Imperceptable the way of thinking changed from “the law must be obeyed” to “I must obey the law”. The individual started to identify with the new structure of consciousness instead of simply acting and being. The latter could easily result in a hand chopped of or death in a shower of stones, so walking about with an ever-present self-censorship was more or less necessary to survive. |
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The ego-consciousness is the necessary intermediate tool, to be used as a step stone in Gods further development. The price for bringing about this ego-consciousness is an alienation within God himself, which to this very day are reflected in modern people.
We illustrate this alienation as two separate circles, the shaded circle illustrating the creation. The type of being is at this point described by the Sefirot arranged in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. In the ocean analogy, the creek have now (apparently) broken off from its source and become a small lake: |
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In the lake there is a small rainbow fish swimming around, as a symbol of our consciousness.
Just as the fragile rainbow fish would not be able to survive in the ocean, our consciousness must be shielded from the infinite light of God. The shield are referred to as Kelippot (Husks) in the Kabbalah. The creation, Sitra Achra, which are composed of these husks, supply the necessary darkness to hatch our consciousness. Besides the function of a shield the Kelippot also imprisons the consciousness at this stage: It is in a state of exile, unaware of its divine roots.
The Torah has at this point completed its special purpose for humanity as a whole: It has created structure and discipline. But it has also lead humanity down into the darkness.
The hidden keyHowever, the structure created by the Torah can not be used to create anything new. The structure is sterile and only reflects the light from God, just as the dead moon only reflects the light from the sun and does not shine itself. According to the Kabbalists there are only one God, one creater. |
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Therefore there is only one possibility if a sterile structure are to be made creative: God himself must reside in the structure. We can compare it to us creating a small robot, which can be programmed to perform various things. The programmed activities of the robot are sterile in the sense that they are not creative. To make the robot creative, a person must himself “reside” in the robot, e.g. by taking on a virtual reality suit and control the robot through this. And even then it is not the robot itself, which are creative, but the spirit dwelling in the robot, i.e. the person controlling it. |
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