Any understanding is given according to one’s own spiritual progress.  That keeps one safe from breaking.  It is very difficult to understand a person who lives a corporeal and spiritual life at the same time;  it is always bewildering to determine...

And since the big state reveals the small, and all that is concealed in the small state becomes clear in the big, he who is in a state of spiritual descent does not see the reasons for his state, but it all becomes clear to him when he attains the big...

If an infant were left along in his cradle without any attention and only his immediate physical needs were satisfied, it would become nothing more than a living, breathing body. We are incapable of developing unless we receive new and diverse...

The entire Torah* was written in this descriptive language.  It speaks only of spiritual forces, as do all the other holy books.  The books can be divided into those that use a legal tongue, such as the Talmud, or a historic tale tongue, such as the...

Hence one’s primary exertion should be to acquire a force that feels taste in bestowing, which is through lessening the force that feels taste in self-reception.  In that state one slowly acquires the taste in bestowing.   Baal HaSulam The Essence of...