THE DEFINITION OF RABBI MOSHE CHALM LUZZATO (THE RAMCHAL)

    Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato defines the worlds of creation, formation and making as follows — Emanation is the totality of the Creator’s forces, deriving from His limited ratzon, i.e., the sefirot in all their details and the totality of Divinity. These are the powers of control, and there is nothing more contained in the world of emanation. In the worlds of creation, formation and making there are two elements: (a) messengers acting to fulfill the commandments of the Creator, Blessed be He, and (b) illuminations watching over those messengers.
     These illuminations supervise and control the messengers —souls, angels and similar beings just as the soul guides man's body.
     The introduction of the spiritual forces nefesh, ruach and neshama in the worlds of creation, formation and making is dependent on the recipients of this introduction. Therefore, the introduction that comes to the world of making is inferior to the introduction that comes to formation since the recipients in the world of making are inferior to those in the world of formation. So it is in the other worlds.*

*     The following is a quotation from the “Maamar Ha’ikarim” of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato in which he explains spiritual forces:
     Just as the Lord, may He be blessed, in His infinite ability, created physical realities which our eyes perceive, so too He created realities superior to those, unfelt and unsensed by our senses. Just as he endowed these physical realities with unique boundaries and laws, so too he gave other laws to these superior realities, according to the decree of His wisdom.
    Know that just as there are different types of physical bodies whose unique laws vary according to type, so too in spiritual beings there are many types, all of a superior nature and each with its own laws. There is one general rule in the entire spiritual category: the subject and its limitations are incomprehensible to us (meaning, we are unable to grasp their spiritual essence), but we know of their existence and some of their subjects according to what the prophets and Sages passed down to us.
     There are three types in this (spiritual) category. The first is termed ‘the transcendent powers’, the second ‘angels,’ and the third ‘souls.’ Transcendent forces are pure and lofty spiritual, incorporeal beings. They are closest to the Divine Presence, which constantly dwells upon them. They are named according to their levels: the wheels of the throne, the ofanim, etc.
     Angels are spiritual beings created to perform the tasks of the Creator, may He be blessed, according to His wishes. Each one is appointed over the matter which the Supreme ratzon assigned it. There are, among them, various levels, one above the other, and each level has its own laws and limits according to what Supreme Wisdom deems appropriate.
    Souls are those spiritualities which ultimately will enter and join with bodies connecting with them. They, too, possess their particular laws according to their subjects and situations. This means that souls face varied situations.
    They have a reality in and out of the body. There are two kinds of reality outside of the body, one prior to having been in the body and one after having already been in it (i.e., after man's death). The latter are limited by these situations and made subject to various, and changing events, each according to its situation.
    All angels are His servants, and followers of His word, may He be blessed, and all things in the world are accomplished through them, whether good or evil. In this respect, they are divided into two classes: the good and the evil. This means that those appointed over good deal with good, whether physical or spiritual. Those appointed over physical or spiritual evil are called angels of destruction and demons.
    There is nothing in the lower world, whether object or event, for which there is not some matter above in the transcendental forces. Neither is there anything below which does not have a class of angels appointed over it, guiding and innovating issues or events, according to what the Lord, may He be blessed, decrees. The upper beings’ effect on material things is called Hashpa’a (while the result is physical or spiritual abundance).

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