The four journeys mentioned in Kabbalah are:
1.) Descending
2.) Learning
3.) Teaching
4.) Ascending.
Two and Three
Usually 2 and 3 are done together. Descending refers to leave
the Absolute and enter creation.
This first stage may take thousands of years. Descending through the various dimensions and planes of nature to finally arrive here in the physical world, the furtherest reach of creation.
The second stage is the journey of making many mistakes and
learning from them. In the second journey of learning there is the payment of
karma and of course the dissolution of the ego.
The third stage - teaching is about giving to others what
one has learnt in the work.
Four
The fourth stage is ascension where one ascends definitely into
the superior levels of the Sephirotic tree.
Most of the Gnostics are in stages 2, then there are some in
2 and 3 and there are even some in 4, but much less in number.
End (1130).
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