Partie 13 · Chapitre 199

Thus it is found that the last of them all, which is the Malchut of the Hochma, stands above them all; and the highest and most superior of them all, which is the Keter of the Keter, stands below them all. And the reason is that, since it is a revealed, encompassing light, the lower ones had no power to bear it; therefore the upper lights were revealed only below their own rank.