The Same but Opposite

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

The Same but Opposite

To indicate the difference in the quality of the substance in each world, the same elements in each world receive different names. The Upper World, for instance, contains angels, while our world contains animals. This does not mean that animals are angels. But if we keep in mind the world within a world concept from the previous chapter, we will recall that each element in reality contains five levels: 0–4. Level 3 of the will to receive in the spiritual world is called “angels,” and the same level in the physical world is called “animals.” The correspondence between the Upper and lower systems is similar to having an object, which you can sink in wax, in sand, in plaster, in cement, or in dough. The final result is different because of the different substances. The shape, however, is the same. Even

though the quality of the matter or its behavior is different, the
final form corresponds to the shape that made it.
But the matter is always opposite than the shape. If you press
a flat board with a little dome in the middle against the beach
sand, you will get a flat surface with a little crater in it. Similarly, 

the Creator is the shape and we are the matter. Because He is a
giver, we are receivers.
Just like the dome and the crater, our will to receive is the
exact negative of His desire to give. It contains all the elements
that exist in Him, but in an inverted way: what’s good in Him
is bad in us. And since He is only good, we are only … you get
the point.