What Happens To Man?

Mental and Emotional Maturity

“The Zohar explains it as follows:
‘When man comes into the world,
it appears in him at that moment the evil spirit
which always arraigns him…
This evil spirit never forsakes man
from the day he is born into the world.
But the spirit comes to the man
from the clay he is made clean.
When does a man become clean?
At the age of thirteen years.
Then he joins himself with both spirits,
one on the right and one on the left,
and these are the two spirit
which are appointed
ever to remain by man.
If he strive after perfection,
the evil spirit is restrained,
so that the right rules the left
and both unite to secure him in all his ways.'”

The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (page 203)