Part 10 · Chapter 81

The Ari's Text

You should also understand that the upper one never clothes in the lower one except by its externality. And there, below, it becomes complete internality again. For although with respect to the upper one it is called externality, once it descends below, there it will be at the degree of internality.

Inner Light

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1The upper one never clothes in the lower one except by its externality, etc.; once it descends below, it will be there at the degree of internality: This has already been explained above at length, that the upper one does not couple by itself in order to give the level of Mochin to the lower one, but from its externality, namely from a screen and coarseness lower than it in degree. And when these Mochin descend to the lower one, they become its internality, namely together with their garments, which are called the NHY of the upper one.