Part 10 · Chapter 80

The Ari's Text

Understand and see how the entire upper externality becomes an interior to the internality below it, and that lower internality returns to the secret of externality, and then the first externality that was initially over the lower internality can no longer stand there and descends to become an internality within an even lower internality. And so it is in this manner until the end of all the degrees. In such a way that there can only be two phases there, which are one internality and one externality.

Inner Light

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1The externality of the upper one becomes an interior to the internality below it, and that internality of the lower one returns to the secret of externality, and then the first externality, etc.: The intent is regarding the order of the descent of Mochin from Partzuf to Partzuf. For at the time, for example, that AVI attain the Mochin from AA, which are the discernment of externality of AA, as above — then AVI also give the Mochin to their lower one, which is YESHSUT; thus the externality of AVI descends and becomes internality for YESHSUT, and thus the internality of YESHSUT becomes externality to the Mochin that it attained from AVI. Then the externality of YESHSUT descends and becomes Mochin for ZA, and thus the internality of ZA becomes externality to the Mochin it received from YESHSUT; and then the externality of ZA itself again descends and becomes internality for the Nukva, and so on in this manner. In such a way that it is reckoned that every lower one has internality and externality, namely what belongs to its own degree, and also the discernment of coarseness and screen lower than its degree; and at the time it attains externality from the one above it, which are its Mochin, it too lowers its own externality into Mochin for its own lower one — and this is simple.