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Date: 7/5/98 EDT
From: Mountain Man
Newsgroups: Project Mind List ...
Subject: Kabbalah series ...

On 7/5/98 EDT, Rabbi Yossi Markel (Moshiach@nauticom.net)
posted one in a series of posts concerning the Kabbalah:


	Subject: Kabbalah series 2.04.04
	Section 2 - Hishtalshelus
	Kabbalah Series - Hishtalshelus
	THE QUINTESSENTIAL LIGHTS OF THE SELF

	The light before the lessening.


In order to understand all the above, one must first
understand how the Sefiros are in the Inner Person called
the Yechida and how sefiros come out of a person into
action

now using Chesed as an example - if someone does something
kind for someone:

- there is the Kindness in his SOUL,from which the actual
  Kindness comes from,
- there is the Kindness in his MIND,like when he thinks of
  doing something Kind,
- there is the Kindness in his HEART,like when he feels
  (Kind emotions) for others,
- there is the Kindness in ACTION,when he actually does the
  Kind thing

And this is how it chains down.

Rabbi Yossi Markel
Moshiach@nauticom.net
MOSHIACH http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5246/
KABBALAH ON LINE  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5245/
The material in this series is authored and copyrighted by Rabbi Yossi Markel




  Mountain Man wrote:


   ...[snip]....


   It is my observation that many folk, when first starting
   out on the journey to re-discovery of their place in this
   world, often have difficulty coming to terms concerning
   an understanding of what these faculties (above) are ...

   What is the SOUL?  Great are number of folk who would
   find it difficult to answer this question, and many are the
   responses when they arrive, ranging from its denial, to the
   various descriptions afforded from cultural and mystical
   perspectives.

   What is the MIND?  Philosophers have argued to and fro
   concerning the nature of the mind for the length of the
   written record on this planet.  In our contemporary world
   we find inter-disciplinary conferences such as "Towards
   a Science of Consciousness" which are attempting to apply
   the investigations of inter-disciplinary sciences to this question.
   Considering this, even though each individual is of course in one
   sense intimately connected to him or herself, there is no real
   wonder that this question can engender many sub-questions.

   What is the HEART?  There is little help in today's scientific
   world for the seekers to the answer of this question.  Often
   referred to by singers and poets, by statesmen and stateswomen, by
   the common and uncomplicated folk of the planet, the heart is
   conspicuous in its absence amidst the current specifications of the
   discussions concerning the nature of  consciousness in almost all
   academic circles, philosophical and scientific.

   What is the ACTION?  How are folk moved to action? How do
   folk take control of every action? How can folk heal the action of
   others who do not understand themeselves or their actions?


   Such are the deep questions which come to one, not only at the
   commencement of the journey of life, but at many places along the
   path.  I have contemplated these myself for many decades, and below
   will outline the observations over this time.  I must warn folk
   that the following observation consists of an analogy, or a
   metaphor, which appears to many, far too simplistic to warrant
   serious attenton.  Nevertheless, all I can say is that it
   represents just one way of approaching the above questions, one
   mechanism of instruction, or one mandala of contemplation, which
   brings all of the above questions together in confluence, for
   indeed, of such faculties (above), is the "ecosystem of the soul".
   I would appreciate comments and criticism, for I too am just a
   traveller on another path ...


   The heart and the mind are akin to the binary system of the
   earth and the moon, hosting the terrestrial aspects of the visions
   of our lives amidst their ancient air and water, and the endless
   diversity of that ancient element of nature, earth.  Together, they
   bind the terrestrial into a whole, the one affording the place of
   nurture and growth, with abundance of the elements
   of life, the other the more objective and illuminating
   perspective,  upon the matters of the emotions, desires and indeed
   - life.

   The soul and the action (spirit) are akin to the sun and the
   sunshine, which are part of a higher environment, the cosmic.
   Neverthless, the sun, through the sunshine, is an eternal spring of
   the cosmic fire (EM energy to scientists) which permeates the
   terrestrial ecosystems, providing the motion of the winds, the
   cycle of the waters, and the energy for growing life.  It also
   provides the mechanism whereby the moon casts visible light, in the
   midst of the night, across the shadow of the earth-fields.

   We are as a cosmic ecosystem of the soul, and our natures are
   more than the terrestrial appearances, for these are indications of
   the movement of a cosmic influence, and one which we, as a race,
   have only glimpsed.  The deeper cosmos is as an immense ocean of
   fire (EM energy ~~ "star-shine"), and we, who are often so proud
   and arrogant of our petty knowledges, stand on the shores of a
   remote and scattered terrestrial island, as another evolution of
   the ancient mariners who looked out upon the terrestrial seas,
   under the sun and the moon of yesteryear.




Pete Brown
Mountain Man Graphics, Australia
Publications of Peace and Of Great Souls
http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown

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