“The reason for creating man in the state which he is destined to achieve at the end of his development is his similarity to the Creator or merging with Him. This last form (state) is the reason for creation. It is said: “The realization of a plan is incorporated in its beginning.” All of nature’s laws are only aimed at the realization of this purpose. Man’s merging with the Creator occurs through reaching equivalence of form with Him, making man’s properties similar to the Creator’s.
Every person is obliged to achieve the purpose of his creation, meaning a complete merging with the Creator and the correction of his Kelim in one of his incarnations in this world. This must occur in this world.” The main condition is that man must acquire his spiritual body while living in his biological body. Thus, he simultaneously exists in both bodies.
“However, why should similarity to the Creator lead to merging with Him? We can understand it through the following example: every action stems from the mind of the person who acts. The carpenter’s mind and craftsmanship are present in the table he makes, because he uses his mind in his work. Therefore, by looking at the carpenter’s action, the table, one attains the craftsman’s mind because his action was one with his mind during his work.”
We usually say that like-minded people are drawn together. Even if this does not happen physically, they feel their affinity with one another. Baal HaSulam means the following: we cannot comprehend the Creator’s mind or His thought. It is beyond us. However, if we study His actions (we happen to be His action), meaning if we study ourselves and Him from within ourselves, we attain His mind and thoughts. This is called “I will know You by Your deeds.”
Therefore, a person on his spiritual path researches nothing and no one other than himself. When he contemplates the Creator’s actions, he attains His mind, the mind of the One who acts. When one attains and understands the actions with which the Creator created the world and its order, one then merges with the Creator’s mind. This means he merges with the Creator. Hence, it is said that man reveals the Creator’s names – His manifestations in creation, and through them he merges with Him.
The Creator’s names designate His actions with regards to us. There are only ten principal names that work in the Kli that consists of ten parts. Man gradually attains all of these names and unites them in one name: Yud, Hey, Vav, and Hey, which constitutes the Creator’s complete plan.
This is similar to the Malchut of the World of Infinity. From the small point created by the Creator (this is all that He created) we grow to become a full Partzuf, (which happens to be in Zivug Panim be Panim with Zeir Anpin), as Malchut of the world of Atzilut with Zeir Anpin of the world of Atzilut. This is merely because we attain the Creator’s plan since the Partzuf Zeir Anpin is His plan.
In conclusion: study yourselves as egoistical creatures, learn how you can become similar to Him, and from the clothing of one form into another you will understand what the Creator is. We as created beings have no contact with the Creator because we exist beneath His mind and plan. But from our observation, from acts of bestowal similar to His, and while attaining His plan, we really rise above the point of our own creation. Therefore, it is said that we “become equal to Him.” By ascending, man not simply becomes Man, but attains the Creator’s level.