The body is born, lives and dies in this world. There is a force that sustains it, with its unique attributes, character and skills. Together, these qualities form a being in our world that is no different from a beast. Animals live amongst themselves, separated from one another, but not as much as people, because they are not as well developed. The level of development is determined by the amount of the variations in that creation.
Everything that happens to you in your past, present and future belongs to this world. There are people who can predict the future, see the past, sense diseases and so on, but all that relates only to our world, to the animate soul.
Spirituality is above the body, above the desire to take pleasure in material things. It is therefore not connected with the body. A “body” , means “desire.” If a person has acquired a screen, he feels the dressing of the Spiritual Light within.
The sensation of the Light, the Creator, within such a desire is called a “soul.” The Light changes according to the screen, and any change in the screen is called a “reincarnation of the soul.”
A person in our world has only the animate reviving force, as do all other animals. If a person gets a desire to take pleasure in the Creator, a desire for the Upper One, a screen may be obtained by studying (there is no other way), and one will then receive a spiritual soul in addition to the animate soul. The animate soul does not change, but the spiritual soul changes all the time. A Kabbalist has two souls: the animate, and the spiritual.
Naturally, a Kabbalist is born with the animate soul and only later attains the higher, spiritual soul. It is said that everyone must come to the degree of Moses, meaning they must attain a soul such as that of Moses. Everyone must come to complete adhesion with the Creator and unite with the spiritual root that is in (the First Man), which contains all the souls within it.
A very noteworthy scientist of the nineteenth century described the basic quality of woman to be humility. Another whose comment is equally valid declared it to be an angry disposition. Another scientist who sparked off much controversy came to the conclusion that female nature is basically submissive, while yet another felt it consisted of the desire to dominate. One described women as conservative, still, another felt women be the truly revolutionary element in the world. And yet another said that the ability to analyze was well developed in women, as opposed to others who believed that women lack this quality entirely and have only developed the capacity for synthesis.
Jesus says once the spirit has been born as a male, the memory of the female experience may linger. As a male, mastering these feelings to obey the rules the new form taken is part of the job. God is watching to see if you’ll adhere to the laws of nature according to the form your body has taken. Word of advice… use common sense. You are a man. Don’t chase the dream of going backward. You cannot return to the female form. Master your male form.
As it is most common to reach your enlightenment while in the Male form because as a male you actually attain biologically both aspects having an X and Y chromosome. While there are many variations in Chromosomal Structure, persisting there is always the Male or Female
The Male form is the totality of the Masculine and Feminine
The soul does have a specific gender male or female we are aligned with, while this is more fluid than the gross physical genital attributes which are not apparent within our higher soul body.
That attribute extends from the root of creation, from the very beginning. Zeir Anpin (male) and Malchut (female) of the world of Atzilut are the prototypes of the genders in our world, and there are no greater opposites than these.
Throughout the system of creation, built from up downward, there is a division, a separation into a feminine part and masculine part. The lower the degree of creation, the coarser and simpler it becomes, and the more overlap there is between the masculine and feminine parts.
For example, in plants, there is almost no division by sex. But the more the creatures develop, meaning the higher up they are on the ladder of evolution, the more distinct they become.
In the spiritual world, this oppositeness is very obvious. One does not cancel the other but complements it. Without the feminine part, the system of creation is inconceivable. The masculine part depends on the feminine part and waits for it.
Yes, it is true that men and women have different kinds of souls. But the souls of men are neither better nor worse than those of women. They are simply different kinds of souls, and hence their corrections are different.
Regardless of the physical body in our world, masculine and feminine souls are two types of parts of souls that comprise the spiritual, also called the “right” and the “left” of the ……….. The individual who climbs the spiritual ladder alternates between the masculine part of the vessel and the feminine part. Consequently, at one time you are more of a masculine soul and at another time, a feminine soul.
An example of that is the soul of the First Man. It broke into 600,000 parts and then into a great many more. However, the content of the original is retained in every one of them, turning each part to a minute of its own. All the attributes and the forces of the entire creation that were concentrated in the first now exist in every little spark of it.
Those sparks are called “souls” of people. Each has its own origin in the First Man and each comes from a different ………….. within the ten ………… of the First Man. Those souls divide by masculine and feminine souls, and clothe the appropriate corporeal body accordingly.
We are born with only a certain task. Our corporeal-animate characteristics do not change, whereas our inner-spiritual attributes change according to our correction. Thus, a woman may experience masculine spiritual situations, but on the outside, her body, which is the dressing, the clothing of this world, will remain a woman.
In the spiritual world, however, the soul experiences corrections both in its feminine part and in its masculine part. In our world, the body is fixed and retains its gender – male or female.
The understanding of the Self is the most important understanding that the individual can have in life. If we fail to understand the nature of the Real Self, we never really quite gain an orientation or an integration in our life.
The Self begins with that which is the permanent atom of being and the cause out of which the effect proceeds. We call this cause the I AM THAT I AM, the Presence of the I AM, or the I AM Presence.
