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Ha-arah is a reflection and a composite. It doesn't have its own presence. Mehus is a true representative of a G-dly reality.
On the human level the sechel creates, the love and fear. There are 2 types/levels. There is one level where one knows the truth, though it is not fully realized. One says, 'I know this is the truth, though I don't fully relate to it'. And so the fear and love that results is on the basis of sechel, not direct relating.
When one fully/directly perceives on the sechel level, then the love and fear are directly inspired and have a 'self-standing' reality. But even this level is also chitzoni/external. The love and fear are based on realizations of 'features' of Hashem. The pnimius is called the 'truth of truth'. It is not experiential.
Grasp of the Essence is by doing mitzvoth and learning the body of halacha. The king is not just a wise man who gives wise directives. You do the will of the King since He is present in the directives. In malchus we get the essence – the King Himself. In doing the mitzvah you get the mehus. You have a direct connect to Him. Doing a mitzvah says, 'there is a King, not there are rules I have to obey'.
What makes doing the right thing real? Not because it is right. Not because the sechel demands it (sechel is just discovery not essence). I do right because the King is there directly.
To act rationally and eat with a spoon rather than to put one's face into the food, may have logical/practical reasons, but why do we adhere to this? Because one has to do the right thing, not due to sechel, but because the human essence demands one act according to sechel.
Who says a human being has to be a human being? What is compellling about 'common sense'. It is based on the fact that the world is a creation. And there is a Creator.
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