Lesson 1: The Evolution of Ego

We begin the course with an introduction to the spiritual chain, hishtalshelut of the four olamot, worlds, that enables an imperfect and diverse material world to emerge from a perfect Divine will, a system the Kabbalist, Moshe Alshich, compares to “a ladder.” We outline the seminal work of Kabbalah, the Zohar’s description of the three lower worlds—Asiyah, Yetzirah, and Beriyah—and, drawing on later Kabbalistic interpretations, the gradual development of yeshut, selfconsciousness, that orders these realms. We examine the gradations of unio mystica experiences, which correspond variously to the three worlds.


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