Parte 16 · Capítulo 186

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And likewise on high — the palaces and firmaments, and even the angels themselves, are all called by the name externality, which is the world itself. And within it there is internality, which is the ten Sefirot in which are the NRN of that world: if it is Assiyah they are called Nefashot, and if in Yetzirah, Ruchin, etc.

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1Palaces and firmaments, and even the angels themselves, are all called by the name externality. Here he says that the firmaments are externality, and likewise in Gate 49, Chapter 1, and these are his words: “And the nearest, agreed, and true is thus, that the externality is the world itself, which are the firmaments and the lands, etc.” But in Etz Chaim, Gate 43, Chapter 2, he says, and these are his words: “And know that these firmaments are all in the secret of the circles of Assiya.” And likewise in Chapter 1 there he says, and these are his words: “This globe of the earth, etc., is vessels of Assiya, etc., from the discernment of the inner light of straightness, and afterward the heavens and the firmaments that are upon this earth surround, which is the discernment of the surrounding light of straightness of Assiya, and other heavens surround them, which are the surrounding light of the circles of Assiya.” Study it there well. Thus it is explained that the firmaments are not external vessels, but are surrounding vessels of circles and of the surrounding lights of straightness.
However, it is not at all difficult, for truly they are external vessels, and nevertheless they are also regarded as surrounding vessels, for the external vessels are always regarded as surrounding vessels, for the reason that it is impossible for the Partzuf to attain the lights of Haya and Yechida before the external vessels return to the Partzuf and come back to be inner vessels. As above (page 1984, the passage beginning “The vessels”). And from this discernment they are reckoned as the surrounding ones of Haya and Yechida. And this is what he says in Gate 43 concerning the firmaments, that they are all circles of Assiya from the discernment of the surrounding light of straightness and the surrounding light of circles. However, their principal light is the discernment of Ruach and Nefesh, which they receive from inner light. As above, page 1984, the passage beginning “The vessels.” See there the whole continuation to its end. However, they are not true surrounding vessels of circles, for there are no surrounding vessels except from the discernment of the vessels of GAR [first three], namely from the discernment of the ZON that separated from the ten Sefirot of the Rosh [head]. But these firmaments and palaces, called external vessels, are from the discernment of the ZON that separated from the ten Sefirot of the Guf [body], and therefore they are not fit to be surrounding vessels in whose interior actual surrounding light would clothe. As the ARI wrote above, page 1989, item 178. Rather, they only receive the illumination of the surrounding lights of circles and of straightness from afar. See there in the Inner Light. And remember this.

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