#12 The Stormy Breakthrough to New Spirituality
8Collections 2:247; Patches of Clarity 86; Glimmerings 84

We know from the unbroken chain of secretly-transmitted wisdom¹

that there will be a spiritual rebellion in the Land of Israel and within the Jewish People

in the period when the beginning of the [Jewish] national renaissance stirs into emergence.

The material ease that a part of the Nation will enjoy

– and also imagine that it means that they have already arrived at their final goal –

will trivialize the soul,

and there will come days you would not want to face.²

Aspiration towards lofty and holy ideals will completely disappear³,

and, as a result, the human spirit will decline and regress.

[This will last] until a tornado hits, swirling up revolutionary change;

and then it will become clearly evident that the strength of the Jewish People lies

in eternal holiness,

in God’s light, in His Torah;

in our desire for spiritual light,

which is the perfect power that orchestrates all worlds and all their forces.

What makes this rebellion necessary is the tendency towards the material aspect [of life]

which will necessarily emerge in the totality of the [Jewish] People in an aggressive form

after so many long epochs have passed during which the nation as a whole

was totally stripped of the need and possibility of engaging with the material world.

And when this tendency [toward materialism] gets born,

it will stomp furiously and spin off storms;

and these [storms] themselves are the birth pangs of the Messiah⁴,

which will perfume the whole world through the sufferings they cause.