Animals

The Life-force of All Species

        We find wondrous abilities in animals that at times astonish us.  We can reproduce these only after great and long study.  Even then, however, we can only approximate those achievements.
        What gives these animals their abilities?  The lights of the life-force of all species are fragments of a great, supernal soul filled with wisdom and ability, which has been divided into many branches.  The glow of this great soul, which contains wondrous wisdom and ability, shines upon each branch in a minute amount—like a drop of water from the sea.
        Still, because the point comes from the all-encompassing basis of wisdom and an ability that is mighty and exalted, its essential impression can never be eradicated.  The impression brings forth its ability in accordance with the profound greatness of that wisdom; in accordance with the measure that [the wisdom] had had when it had been enclosed and connected—with a connection of a perfect life—to its perfect source; when [the wisdom] had been the content of the crown of wisdom, arranged precisely by the Supernal Consciousness.
        Orot Hakodesh I:358

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