Editing Powers and Senses (section)

== Power ==
The soul's powers are generally divided into powers and senses, which are two levels in the soul's revelation. The soul itself is "simple," has no "form," and cannot be divided into parts. Therefore: a) it cannot be revealed in the world, and b) certainly it cannot act in the world. What is revealed and acts in the world is not the soul's essence but only its "foot" aspect, the illumination extending from it - the powers and senses.

The soul's powers are the essence of the soul's illumination itself (unlike the senses, see below). Just as sunlight is not the sun itself, but the sun warms and illuminates only through its light, so do the soul's powers give life to the body: the external powers give life to external limbs (like hands and feet), more internal powers from the soul give life to internal organs (like heart and brain), and the truly internal powers constitute the life force of the person himself (emotion and intellect). Just as in the analogy we often refer to sunlight as if it were the sun itself, sometimes we refer to the powers as if they were the soul itself (for example, in Tanya chapter 3). Generally, the soul's powers are divided into ten, but in detail there are many powers created from the integration of these ten powers, such as the power of imagination, the power of throwing, etc., and particularly they integrate with each other infinitely.

=== Levels in Powers ===
Each of the soul's powers includes three levels, which are stages of its revelation from potential to actual:

==== Primal Power ====
The power as it exists in its root, abstracted from any form. The power at this level exists in every person always and completely. For example, the power of sight: as it exists in its primal root, it is present completely in every person. It's possible that a person may be born blind and this power will never be revealed in him throughout his life, but in its abstract source and origin it is complete. The proof for this - even a blind person can have a child who can see with his eyes without any problem. That is, even though the power of sight was not revealed in him, he passed it on completely to his son - from here we learn that even in the father the power was complete, just not revealed from potential to actual.

==== Existence of the Power ====
The power as it has already taken form in a specific reality and exists in the person actually, but is still not revealed. For example, a person known to us as someone who always helps others - the power of kindness exists in him even when he is not helping and not engaged in acts of kindness at all. For example, with Abraham our father, the power of kindness shined so much that when there was no other person nearby to allow him to actualize this kindness - it caused him great pain, proving that it wasn't the external reality that aroused him to behave with kindness, but it was within him inherently.

==== Power in Action ====
When the power is clothed in action within the body's limbs, for example when a person actually sees or hears, this is called 'power in action.'