Part 12 · Chapter 36

And then, when she gives birth, her womb is opened and impure blood comes out of her, which is the dross, and the fetus comes out clarified and corrected. And all this dross is from those eight Sefirot that were clarified, as above; and three Sefirot remained that were not clarified at all, and their dross remained within the bowels of Ima, while the three Sefirot themselves went out with ZA, for certainly he did not come out lacking. However, their dross, mixed with the little holiness, could not be clarified for the aforementioned reason, for they are the lowest of them all.