Partie 16 · Chapitre 265

And behold, the Klipot of Atzilut wished to imitate like a monkey in front of a man, and to be corrected entirely, even in AA, like Atzilut, and wished to ascend up to there, to its AA, and to draw from there aspects of hairs, just as they are in holiness. And all this secret is hinted in the verse 'if you raise yourself like the eagle' — to draw those hairs from your AA; 'from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.' For if, Heaven forbid, those corrections ascended into the impure Atzilut, also in its AA and Aba and Ima, the world would have been destroyed. And therefore 'from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.'