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Kabbalists do not engage in prophecy. They cannot and will not say what will happen in the future. What they can do is explain the general tendencies of human development, i.e., how human egoistic nature drives us when we do nothing to correct it, or in other words, how the evolving desire to enjoy for self-benefit at others’ expense brings about increasing suffering until we invert our attitudes in a direction of benefiting others and nature.
Once we correct our nature, everything changes. What does this correction depend on? It depends on us exercising our free will, i.e., in the choice of the social environment we create to influence our desire to rise above egoism. Therefore, no Kabbalist can predict the exact timing or form of future events.
This is why Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam), despite writing and disseminating Kabbalah with great hope, eventually concluded that his generation was not yet ready. He even warned about the possibility of a third and fourth world war as a result of the natural direction of uncorrected human egoism.
A Kabbalist sees the trend, the trajectory, and the direction of evolution. But he cannot say when or how humanity will enter this process, because it depends on our free choice. Freedom of will must remain untouched.
That is why a Kabbalist avoids speculation. He cannot turn the future into a fixed script because the future is not fixed. If we engage in our correction process, we will come to see the future as good, harmonious, peaceful, and even perfect. On the contrary, if we fail to correct ourselves, then we will see a dark and dismal future with much more suffering than today.
There is no future in and of itself. We create our good or bad future with regard to the extent of our correction. I thus wish us all to try and upgrade our attitudes to each other. It is indeed possible to impact a major positive shift in this regard.
Based on the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on March 18, 2018.