Teil 8 · Kapitel 58

However, in Atik Yomin, who is of the aspect of the attribute of mercy of the crown of the Nekudim, where there was never any nullification at all, therefore the aspects of male and female within him, which are MA and BON, mixed together completely, and the two of them are mixed together, each with the other, on the right by itself, and likewise on his left, and they are not like Arich Anpin. And so it is said in Idra Rabba, 129a: ‘There is no left in this hidden Atika, it is all right.’ And the matter is that in Arich Anpin the male is on the right and the female is on the left, but in Atik Yomin, the right side of him includes both MA and BON, and likewise the left side; hence they are equal, and there is no difference between his right and his left. However, the aspects of the female and the male within him are in a different manner: they are two aspects, front and back, meaning that on both his right side and his left side there is the aspect of MA on the front side and the aspect of BON on the back side, and in this there is a wondrous and very great union.