Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah turns to Everything Exists to Reveal God's Perfect Light.
It’s been explained before (in Opening 4) that the entire governmental order of the Supreme Mind is directed only to revealing the perfect light of God, so that ultimately general beneficence will extend to all. Man and all the other created beings are nothing but the revelation of this order of government.
Why create us at all? Why go to all the trouble? Because, besides ruling the world, God wanted to reveal His government in and through creation, specifically through us.
Think of it this way: we're living embodiments of divine governance. Every aspect of humanity, every facet of our being, hints at the ways in which the Holy One, blessed be He, governs creation. It’s all there, encoded within us. Every organ, every emotion, every thought.. a reflection, however imperfect, of the divine.
He made man, and so too all the other creatures after him, in such a way that man in all his different parts alludes to all the different kinds of ways in which the Holy One, blessed be He, governs His creations. Included in this is everything that can possibly be said about this government.
The text goes even deeper. It says that the very fact that God's government is alluded to and revealed in the human body depends on the underlying Likeness of Man itself. This "Likeness of Man" is a deep, complex concept, referring to the archetypal human, the Adam Kadmon of Kabbalistic thought. It’s this underlying form that allows us to be vessels for the divine.
In other words, the fact that the government itself is alluded to and revealed in man’s body also depends on the underlying Likeness of Man itself, and so too in the case of the orders of nature and its laws.
And not just us. The orders of nature, its laws, its rhythms… they too are part of this grand revelation. It's all interconnected. We, the natural world, the cosmos, all pointing back to the source.
So, what does this mean for us, here and now? Perhaps it's an invitation to look a little closer. To see ourselves, each other, and the world around us not as random occurrences, but as living expressions of something far greater. To recognize the divine spark within, and to strive to reveal that perfect light in our own lives.
Maybe the question isn't just "Why are we here?" but "How can we better reflect the light that created us?"