The Law of Cause-and-Effect Development

What drives natural development? How do different levels in nature develop? What determines the length of development? What is the purpose of human development? The great Kabbalist of the 20th century, Baal HaSulam, in the article ““The Last Generation,““ depicted the law of cause-and-effect stepwise development of the universe, including inorganic and organic nature, up to a man (meaning both his matter, psychology, and ideology). At the heart of the universe are two forces: positive and negative. The development of the universe is a consequence of the collision of the two forces. Baal HaSulam writes: “Let us take planet Earth as an example: First, it was but a ball of fog-like gas. Through the gravity inside it, over time, it concentrated the atoms in it into a closer circle. As a result, the ball of gas became a liquid ball of fire. “Over eons of terrible wars between the two forces in Earth, the positive and the negative, the chilling force in it was finally triumphant over the force of liquid fire.