The Screen

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

THE SCREEN
The Screen is the force of resistance against egoistic desires.
If you acquire this force, you are in perfect shape, headed
straight for the Creator. Here I must add that you cannot
build the screen by yourself. Rather, it must be obtained
by persistently demanding it of the Creator, which is the
Upper Degree. The Upper Degree in the spiritual world is
the degree directly above your current degree. This degree
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is the Creator for you. This is how you attain one of the
Creator’s names (which we talked about earlier).
At each subsequent degree, you will know the Creator
better, meaning you will be revealing more and more of His
names until you reach the complete revelation of the Maker.
So, when do you acquire a screen? When the Upper
Degree feels that you’re prepared to do anything to get it.
The plea must come from the bottom of the heart: “Give me
strength to bestow like You… Help me correct myself, I beg
You.” If your plea is sincere, you will receive the screen.
That is, you must “correct” the egoistic desire with the
intention to bestow. Every day, it is as if you place your “I” in
the Creator’s “clinic” and ask for the cure—the screen that
will enable you to open your eyes and see the true picture of
reality. In this clinic, you are given additional egoistic desires
with which you must begin to work and feel, to check your
attitude toward them, realize how powerful they are, and
only then to ask for the screen—the force that can protect
you from falling from this degree.
The goal is clear—to correct your ego, which is supplied
to you in portions as you ascend upward and mature.
Thus, you gradually move from degree to degree. Once
you’ve dealt with one portion of egoism, you are given an
opportunity to ascend, to draw closer to the next batch of
egoistic desires. And then you begin to work with them,
correcting your intention from egoistic to altruistic, so you
can say, “I receive and in so doing I am giving You delight.”
Every degree contains its own work, its own screen, a new
name of the Creator.
The Six Days of Creation correspond to the Sephirot in
the following manner: Hesed is the first day, Gevura is the
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second, Tifferet is the third, Netzah is the fourth, Hod is the
fifth, and Yesod is the sixth.
These six successive corrections, called “the six days
of creation,” are also the six millennia of Creation, or
the six degrees of delving into oneself. Throughout this
period, humankind labors arduously to correct its egoism.
Incidentally, we’re living in the 5770s, the tail end of the
sixth millennium.
Now you might ask, “What about the final, Seventh
Degree?”