We don’t have anything other than a desire to receive which is controlled by means of pleasure and goes from one state to another under the influence of two forces: the attractive and the repulsive. Light – is the force which animates the desire to receive.
A creation has only two components: a desire to receive pleasure and delight, leading the desire into the action. It’s a light and a vessel, a desire and a pleasure, filling and emptiness – no matter what we call it. They exist at various levels and stages: in the chemical elements, physics, etc. Take solids, crystal structure, fluid, biological, biochemical elements – living or inanimate. We can always uncover in them the level of desire and filling.
See how atoms combine into molecules according to free electrons, where at first molecules are connected from the chemical elements, like bricks. Then, these bricks are connected together into chemical compounds. Then they are connected into biological cells, each time in accordance with a different level. Different forms are created from the biological cells, for example, body parts, etc. But everything is based on a desire to receive a pleasure and a filling.
Question: Can we measure these fundamentals: the desire to enjoy and the filling, located against it?
We measure it on the material level by force, for example, gravitational force, the number of electrons, in chemistry as valence, etc. Then on the biological level, the connection of cells follows in accordance with a program in order to have a heart, kidneys, lungs and other parts. There is always the one and the same law, implemented each time at another level.
But if, as kabbalists say, any matter, as in our world and the spiritual world – is, ultimately, the desire to receive and its filling, let’s find out where my "I" lays. It seems as though everything is a material, a mechanism, and we are in a sea of selfish desires.
Is there something not originally programmed, which is the person’s "I"? Or the difference between a man and an animal is only that a person can determine in his mind that he does exist, looking at himself as if from above. Do we have (except for this realization) a chance to truly rise to a higher level?
This post is an excerpt translated from a larger article found at http://bit.ly/5B3U8