Part 12 · Chapter 106

The Ari's Text

However, now it is not so, for each one is in its place, and it follows that the lower Eheyeh, which is in her three last ones, descends there, and the blood is always found in the source and Yesod of the woman, because it is in the secret of the posterior (Achoraim) of the GAT, and blood ascends in this way: Alef, Alef-Hei, Alef-Hei-Yud, Alef-Hei-Yud-Hei, and there, in the posterior, is the blood.

Inner Light

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1Now it is not so, for each one is in its place, etc., and the blood is found in the source and Yesod of the woman: For at the completion of the fetus, in all its NRNHY [Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida], all three Eheyehs returned and spread to their place: the Eheyeh of Yudin in HBD, the Eheyeh of Alfin in HGT, and the Eheyeh of Hehin in NHY. For the ascent of the two lower Eheyehs to the upper Eheyeh of Yudin was only at the time of the coupling; and after the coupling was made, they returned again to their place. And you already know that the lights of NHY are called blood, which is the redness and the judgments within her. And this is what is meant by, “and the blood is found in the source and Yesod of the woman always”: meaning, that after the coupling, the Eheyeh of Hehin, which is the discernment of the NHY of the direct light, descended to their place from the Tabur downward, which is the discernment of the blood in her Yesod. And this is in the discernment of the posterior of the Eheyeh of Hehin, for the lower one takes nothing from the face of the upper one, only from his posterior, as is known. And this is what is meant by, that the posterior of the Eheyeh brings up blood.