What to do

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

WHAT TO DO
The book offers this advice: “Listen to the Abraham in
you.” Find him amidst the egoistic madness and give him
the freedom to act. Let the ego squeal and resist any changes
aimed at spiritual advancement, but it must be understood
that there is no other way. Everything else has been tried
and tested, and we can clearly see that it hasn’t worked.
Make up your mind, and everything will work out. The
Abraham of today will reveal himself to the world.
This is precisely why the wisdom of Kabbalah, hidden
from humanity for millennia, is being revealed today.
If humanity listens, we will follow the constructive path
of unification with Nature. If it doesn’t, we will follow the
path of suffering. But either way, we will reach the goal.
What does it mean to unite with Nature? Kabbalists wrote
about it almost 4,000 years ago in The Book of Creation.
All around us exists a single law, to which we do not
conform. The Law of Nature is one of absolute altruism,
absolute love. It acts all around us in full force. It is known
as the Creator’s Law.


What about us? We oppose this law egoistically. Instead
of correcting our constantly growing egos and equalizing
with Nature, we put up artificial barriers to protect ourselves
from it. That is what all our sciences and technologies are
used for.
This phenomenon of man refusing to correct himself
and seeking to dominate Nature instead is what’s referred
to as “building the Tower of Babel.”
Since the days of Babylon, our egos have been gradually
developing until they have reached their peak. Humanity
has become disillusioned with its ability to satiate its own
ego via technological or any other kind of progress. Today
we are beginning to realize that this whole journey of ours
was trekked in vain.
Due to the crisis and the dead end we find ourselves
in, you could say that the ruin of the Tower of Babel is
happening before our very eyes. Now all we need is to make
the right choice. After all, haven’t we made enough bad
choices and suffered for it?
The great Kabbalist, Yehuda Ashlag, known as Baal
HaSulam (Owner of the Ladder) for his Sulam (Ladder)
commentary on The Book of Zohar, wrote in the 1940s that
if humanity didn’t come to its senses there would be a
third and then a fourth world war, with only a handful of
survivors. These people will then unify with the universal
law, and the world will know true peace and love.
As always, we need to translate these words into the
language of the Kabbalah. When the ego isn’t tearing you
apart from the inside, you are ready and willing to give
yourself over to others, and love is the product of bestowal
that is felt by both sides.


“In the end, the Creator descended upon the earth with
seventy angels and held court over that generation.” This
passage speaks of the altruistic force (the Creator) “descending
upon the earth” as a result of the breaking. In other words,
this force entered the egoistic desire (the earth).
Don’t let phrases like “held court over that generation”
scare you. It simply means that we suddenly saw ourselves the
way we really are. This was made possible by the light of the
altruistic sparks that entered us. Like flashlight beams, they
illuminated the darkness and granted us sight, and we realized
that all our actions are dictated exclusively by self-love.
“I am an egoist!” This single egoistic sensation comprises
seventy individual egoistic desires (70 Sephirot).
Each of these desires was infiltrated by an altruistic spark
during the breaking, turning our whole lives upside down,
demolishing the usual order of things, and forcing us to
reflect on who we are.
Imagine how shocked people were when they suddenly
discovered that they couldn’t communicate with each other
in one language and were instead inexplicably speaking
seventy different languages.
In other words, in the illumination of the altruistic Light,
it was discovered that every desire lives only for itself. This is
how all people live. No one understands another, and all the
slogans about love and brotherhood are empty words. The true
altruism highlighted the abyss that truly exists between egoistic
desires—people, nations, and the world—and showed that egoism
does not allow us to love, be together, or speak the same
language. Egoism is when everyone cares only for themselves,
speaking their own language that others cannot understand.
The mixing of the languages happened instantly. People
addressed one another, but couldn’t understand a single


word. One said, “Give me water!” Instead, he was handed
clay. Another demanded, “Give me a rope!” Instead, he was
handed a saw. In one case, a man who received a saw instead
of a rope struck the man who misunderstood him, killing
him. A terrible discord and turmoil fell upon the land. The
people all picked up arms and began to kill their friends—
and so perished half of humanity.
In the altruistic Light, it becomes evident that the ego has
no friends. It is designed to drive us to the extreme, pinning
us to the wall. Only then do we realize that we are trapped,
slaves to the ego without any free will of our own, realizing
that everything we had done throughout our lives was at the
command of self-love.
Man suddenly discovers that instead of creating, he was
“killing” all along. Entrenched in terrorism and drugs,
feeling helpless and unfulfilled, he is ultimately brought to
a desperate state. He doesn’t see a way out and doesn’t want
to move in any direction. He has become so distant from
Nature that he doesn’t see from where salvation might come
or what he can do. This realization constitutes the “ruin of
the Tower of Babel” within us.
What happens next? Next, a wisdom known as Kabbalah
comes to the rescue. This wisdom was born back in the age of
Ancient Babylon, was kept secret for thousands of years, and
is now being revealed throughout the world, for humanity
will never know how to continue to develop without it.
Things will continue to deteriorate until humanity is ready
to utilize the method of the world’s correction as a solution
to all the problems.
Meanwhile, we’ve come to the end of the chapter about
Noah. Next, we will look into the chapter, Lech Lecha (Go
Forth).