Nowadays the whole world is facing a very difficult period of crisis. In the past, whenever there was a crisis, it would be replaced by another crisis. If there was an economic crisis, it was replaced by a spiritual one. If it wasn’t a spiritual crisis, then it turned into a cultural one; and if not cultural, then technological. They somehow kept replacing one another, and thus humanity went on evolving.
But today, we’ve reached a point where no matter what kind of experts we talk to—philosophers, physicists, humanists, scientists, sociologists—all come to a screeching halt in their development. They’re completely lacking in the ability to envision the right path to follow. They’re unable to see or understand, and they feel unable to develop further.
It is possible to say that man is like a “black box” which feels and understands and receives only that which comes from outside . In all of our investigations, we are limited by our five senses. And all of the instruments which we build, and which are to be built in the future, do not escape the limitations of our five senses. They merely widen the boundaries of our senses.
This is because we are never able to imagine what our senses lack. Namely, what other additional sense we need in order to recognize the true reality around us. We feel no lack for this, as we feel no lack of a sixth finger on our hands. That for which we feel no lack, can never be something to which we would come to request. Therefore, all of the investigations of our world are only according to our five senses, and we can never begin to see and feel and understand what is beyond our senses. These are the limitations of our conceptions.
We see that the more we advance, it becomes more apparent that we cannot have a better life; on the contrary. It is not because we know less about the world; we know more. But we don’t know how to handle it correctly, or how to use it correctly. The knowledge of how to use it correctly is in the other half of nature, in the hidden part, which is the most important part for us now. Now we are in a situation where seemingly we can do everything—we can ruin ourselves completely or, if we could use the treasures that humanity has, we could create Paradise; yet we can’t.
That is why we are in a crisis. We do not know how to use what we’ve achieved correctly through the revealed part. We cannot invent these formulae, and use them correctly by ourselves. We have tried to, but have not succeeded; none has yielded anything good. Instead we have to find them in the hidden part of nature. Then we will have a good life.
We have to investigate nature in which we exist. Otherwise, we will not be at peace with this world, will not know how to obtain food, from what materials to make cloths. We have to study the phenomena of this world, and I would say, control them. To the extent a person masters the existing reality he can provide himself with all that he needs. The same applies in the spiritual world: as my body is unable to exist in this world without knowledge about it, so is my soul unable to exist in the spiritual world without knowledge the spiritual world. This knowledge can be given only by the science of Kabbalah.
