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To shortly summarize the first four stages in Gods development, it started with the Ein-Sof, which were the mystical condition characterized by a coincidence of all opposites. This condition changed through what the kabbalists calls Tzimtzum, a hiding proces, to something a bit more tangible. The condition were “colored” in various shades you could say and described through the ten Sefirot arranged in the Tree of Life. The shades became more and more complex untill they “broke off” and created a total new state of being in God, a beginning division in Gods being. This division becomes total at stage four, which we are now at, where the separated part is completely caught in the alienated state of being.

Because of the fractal structure in creation these stages are reflected downwards in lesser scales, and thereby also in the individual human being. It is known under the expression ‘as above so below’ or ‘the heavenly events are reflected on earthly events’. Biologists know the principle as the reflection of the phylogenesis (development of the species) in the ontogenesis (development of the individual).

The first four stages in the development of God corresponds to the following stages in the human:

The first stage is the baby stage, where the child has no consciousness. Or if the baby has a consciousness it is a consciousness that we as adults are cut off from knowing.

In the next stage, stage two, the child has learned some words that it knows how to use and knows more or less what means. E.g. the child sees another child eat an icecream and says per reflex “want icecream” or the child sees a fork with fried liver getting closer, and hears the sound “brummmm... bruuuummmm...” and says immediately “will not”. The language is simply used as a handy and practical tool.

The language of the child becomes more and more complex, as the child grows up and learns more and more words and how to put them together. Small sentences are created in the mind of the child, which it finds new ways of putting together to express needs, ask questions, etc.. This tool eventually becomes so complex that the child gets the possibility to identify with the tool instead of just using it. Freud would say that the upbringing creates an accumulation of libido, life energy, which finds an expression through identification with the language of the child. The thoughts that the child has about e.g. getting an icecream becomes the childs own thoughts... I am the one who wants an icecream... how do I make mom give me an icecream? ... last time I was angry I got an icecream, should I try that again?

This gives the child a practical possibility which it will have many possibilities to practice later in life: The possibility to lie. However, the price for this possibility is severe, because no matter how complex the language is, it will never be able to reflect the true nature of the child. This is where the ego are born and gives an inner tension between being and what the child actually is doing. E.g. it creates an angry face to get an icecream, even though this does not correspond to what the child feels like. The child hides its true self and instead shows a fake facade.

The fake facade is a distorted reflection of the true self. For a kabbalist this is the reflection of the cosmic catastrophe in the individual person. The fall from grace, where Adam and Eve hides from God.

The effect is only partially manifested at stage three, where the child at the family get-togethers is still capable of running around and simply be who it is – the facade or the ego are only used once in a while.

Soon the child is initiated in adulthood and learns to use the facade so frequently that it quite forgets that there were other options. So it sits very politely with the fork in the right hand and the knife in the left hand and all thoughts about pouring the redwine down the neck of uncle Dave to see if he is able to talk about anything else than who moved where and why, are swept away.

Many quickly gets accustomed to this new tool, while others feel a certain degree of discomfort. Didn’t I forget something? the candidate for confirmation thinks with a facial expression that reveals nothing, and glance towards little two-year-old Peter who runs around as if his feeding bottle contained Red Bull mixed with speed and not lemonade.

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