Part 12 · Chapter 27

The Ari's Text

*And the matter, in explanation: know that in the months of the Ibur, from the seven kings there were clarified, for ZON, little by little, degree after degree, over the course of the time of the months of the Ibur, both in the aspect of the vessels and in the aspect of the lights and sparks, as explained at length in the preceding part. And the clarification began from the aspect of the Keter of ZA that is in the seven kings. And there remained Hod, Yesod, and Malchut, of which some was clarified, but not all the parts that are in them, which are from the aspect of ZA of the world of Atzilut; for it is necessary that when ZA is born, he comes out complete, in 248 limbs and in ten Sefirot.

Inner Light

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1And the sorting began from the phase of the Keter of ZA that is in the seven kings: There is no difficulty from what is known, that the way of growth is from below upward, that is, from Malchut to Keter, so that the sorting should have begun from Malchut and not from Keter. However, there is here a reversed relation between lights and vessels: for only with lights is it reckoned that the lower one enters first, and afterward the upper ones — that is, first one acquires Nefesh, and afterward Ruach, and so on, until at last one acquires the light of Yechida. But in the correction of the vessels it is the opposite: the upper ones grow first, and afterward the lower ones — that first the vessel of Keter is sorted, and afterward the vessel of Hochma, and so on, until at last the vessel of Malchut is sorted, as elaborated in the previous parts. And see above, page 73, the passage beginning “And such is the order.”