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Texts in the Language of the Branches

There are many books of Kabbalah, written in various styles and
forms, and written by Kabbalists in various degrees of attainment.
This is why it is crucial that we know which books to study.
When a Kabbalist grasps spirituality, he feels it experientially,
just as we experience the occurrences and incidences of this
physical world with our physical senses and feelings. Because
the objects in the spiritual realm are totally dissimilar from the
objects of our physical world, it is difficult for Kabbalists to find
the right words.
It happens in our world, too. We are not always able to explain
our feelings, and at
times we end up using vague
words and gestures.
This is why Kabbalah
books are difficult to understand.
Until we have a connection
to spirituality, what
we read is just words, without
any understanding of
the meaning behind them.
Remember, too, that Kabbalah uses the language of the
branches, described in Chapter 9. The spiritual world and our
own world are parallel. There is not an object, phenomenon  

or force in this world that is not a consequence of the Upper
World. Therefore, Kabbalists use names taken from our world in
order to describe spiritual objects, for these objects are the roots
of our world.
An ordinary person, as yet without a “spiritual screen,”
relates to books of Kabbalah as a kind of fairytale stories that
happen in our world. But
one who is already a Kabbalist
is not confused by the
words because he knows
precisely which “branch”
they stem from and which
consequence in our world
correlates to the “root” in
the spiritual world.