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Perception of Reality

Lesson 2 of 5

 

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  • Our five senses block us from perceiving the true, eternal reality.

  • The program that runs our five senses is called “egoism.”

  • In order to know the greater reality that surrounds us, we need to develop an additional sense, what Kabbalists call “the sixth sense.”

  • All of our thoughts and actions are motivated by the desire to receive pleasure (or, “the will to receive”).

  • We evolve individually and humanity evolves as a whole through five sets of desires: (1) food, sex, shelter; (2) wealth; (3) honor, pride, power; (4) knowledge; (5) spirituality.

  • Human nature is a will to receive (egoism) and the nature of the Creator is a will to bestow, unconditional altruism.

  • The law of equivalence of form states that we are created in order to become equivalent to the Creator, i.e. to acquire altruistic qualities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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