Partie 16 · Chapitre 249

And now let us explain how the Klipot were before Adam HaRishon sinned, and also the four worlds of holiness, Atzilut, Beriah, Yetzirah, Assiyah, and what Adam HaRishon caused in them afterward through his sin. And behold, it has been explained by us that before the creation of the world there was not yet any correction in Atzilut, and there were only those nine Sefirot of AA, which are neither palaces nor spirits, etc. And then they were without correction, and there was revealed in ZA and the Nukva only six lights in the male, opposite the six extremities, and only one light, the seventh, in the Nukva, in the aspect of their being back-to-back, as is known.