Humankind is developing evolutionally starting from animal desires. Animal desires are desires of our body: for food, shelter, family, and sex. They all pertain to our body, and should we live outside of any society, or in the forest, we would still have these desires. The next stage of the development of the egoism is aspiration for wealth. Following this stage is the desire is for power, glory, and fame (combination of these). And finally, the desire that is the highest in our world, the desire for knowledge.
After having tried all these desires in the course of thousands of incarnations, after descending into our world thousands of times, a person reaches a state called recognition of Evil. In other words, each of us accumulates inner record which convinces us that nothing we do will give us pleasure.
Within egoistic desires when everything is filled to the brim, emptiness begins to be perceived – there is no happiness in life. The countries with the greatest prevalence of suicides are specifically the ones that have the highest level of life. The more opportunities a person has, the easier he can receive what he wants right away, and the faster he loses the pleasure from what he receives.
This occurs because there is no concealment or inaccessibility. Therefore the taste and the pleasure are lost. The Creator’s force is expressed precisely in the fact that He throws us in the direction that is opposite to Him. Then He gradually reveals Himself to us, and we begin to yearn for Him. From the person’s point of view, the main work is to discover the Creator’s concealment, the perception of being removed from Him, the perception of the necessity to find a person’s root and the perception of the surrounding light. As soon as we achieve this, we reveal forces within ourselves that pull us toward the Creator.
We know about men being polygamous from our ancient sources. All of our forefathers had several wives, and according to eastern tradition a man can have several wives, as many as he can support. It is quite another matter whether he benefits from it. But in reality this is our nature, and in reality this comes from the Spiritual World.
By studying the structure of the spiritual world we discover the way our spiritual prototypes were created. In the spiritual world our spiritual prototype is called Zeir Anpin (ZA) (Small Face,) and the spiritual prototype of a woman is called Malchut (Kingdom.) And they are created in such a way that there is ZA—one and only, but there are eternally many Malchut that exist. That is to say, that naturally spiritual roots define the polygamy of men.
From generation to generation, our ego, our desire to ask questions—to understand why we are living, what we’re living for, why we struggle so much, why life is so hard, and who pulls the strings—grows. All these questions make us restless.
Until a person attains true perception and real existence; until he transcends the boundaries of his world, while still living on this Earth, he will be forced to reincarnate again and again in this world; until he attains existence within the full volume of the universe.
