Segula in Kabbalah as a Transformative Principle

Segula is an ability that is not inherent within the vessel or within human consciousness. It is given by Binah. Malchut needs to arrive at a state of understanding that it cannot fulfill its Duty or its Destiny without this higher and particular help. That help has to do with Binah, whose particular nature is the ability to understand the vital necessity of reforming our attitude and connection to the will of the Creator. In understanding the term Segula, we also start to understand that it involves a frequency, the frequency of Segol, which is not just a pronunciation but a goal, a memory that is able to change the will to receive for oneself.

That memory can call for an ecology and a bestowing power that will change the way the will to receive for oneself expresses itself, through love of the other, through the sentiment of bestowal and all that can grow from it. We cannot inherit Segula naturally. We can inherit the memory of it, but we need to choose it, want it, and feel its importance for ourselves and for the world.

The letters Samech and Gimel point to this: there is a legend that each letter came before the Creator suggesting that the world be created with it, and Samech was told not to move, because it supports the whole world. If it moves, everything collapses. Samech is the principle of support, and Gimel has to do with Chesed. Together they define how we support: we reciprocate everything we receive from Creation with grace, and we support the growth and the intention of the Creator.

These are the two levels of Segula. Choosing it means preparing ourselves not to claim our importance but to support the becoming of Consciousness close to the Creator. We need to want it, and to feel its importance, for ourselves and for the world.