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Spiritual existence is called that which is never ever lost. Thus, the
(selfish) desire to receive as it exists in its form in which it is found
only to receive (for itself alone) is called material existence, since it
will be lost from this form, and will receive a form of only to bestow.
The actual reality in spiritual existence - is called a real place for the
reason that anyone who comes there, i.e., to that spiritual place sees the
same form as someone else would too. On the other hand, something born of
the imagination is not called a real place- since, as it is a fantasy
everyone imagines it differently to himself.
That which we say that there are seventy faces to the upper spiritual
worlds means that they are 70 levels-planes. And, in each level the
spiritual existence is explained in accordance with the level in which the
person is to be found. However, the meaning of a world is it's reality,
namely that anyone who comes to one of the planes of the 70 planes of that
particular world apprehends it in the same form (level of reality) as all
of those that come to there.
And, from this comes what is written by the Kabbalists, who explain the
verses of the Bible and say: thus said Avraham to Yitzchak, and similarly
in the other teachings of the Kabbalists, where they teach what is
explained in the verses. And, concerning your question: how do they know
what one said to another? it is as explained above, that since they came
to the same level in which Avraham was found, so then they see and know as
Avraham saw and knew.
Author: Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag
Translation: C. Ratz
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