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The follower of modern Kabbalah pursues divine unification through personal introspection. The person-centered world so dear to contemporary belief is preserved, while being extended to cosmic proportions. Individuals right their own wrongs by seeing in their own failings evidence of their own ignorance of a larger reality. This larger reality descends directly from God, down through the various sephirot that occupy the Tree of Life. Each sephirah is suffused with a Divine light that contains a specific emanation of God. Each emanation of God is another piece in the complex puzzle that is the universal reality. The individual indentifies himself or herself with these specific elements, building up what is missing, and discovering what is unknown. Eventually, the top of the Tree is reached, and the practitioner of Kabbalah achieves the ultimate goal of changeless perfection.
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