Part 13 · Chapter 200

The Ari's Text

Therefore, the Keter of the Keter, which is the highest rank, was revealed in the lowest rank of them all; and likewise the Malchut of the Hochma, which is the smallest of them all, is revealed above them all, because the lower ones have the power to receive it. And so too with the rest of the Sefirot.

Inner Light

This commentary hasn't been matched to individual seifim yet — items are shown in reading order, and the number beside each one counts the notes themselves, not the seifim of the Ari's text.

Not matched to a seif

1 The two corners of the head are the discernment of the tenth Malchut of the ten Sefirot of Galgalta, and beneath them the corrections of the concealed Hochma begin, which are the thirteen corrections of the beard: It was already explained in the adjacent item, that the surrounding [lights] and the inner [lights] are equal to one another, and just as the membrane of the air sends the Mocha Stimaa [the concealed brain] outside of the Rosh [head] of Galgalta, so the corners of the Rosh, which are the discernment of the Malchut of the hairs of the head, send the hairs of the beard outside of the rank of the hairs of the head, for the hairs of the head are above the screen that is in their Malchut, and the coarseness of the screen does not act upon them, whereas the hairs of the beard, which are already found beneath this screen, and all their light they receive through this screen of the corners of the Rosh, therefore they are regarded as the discernment of a body and VAK, and could not rise together with the hairs of the head from below upward onto Galgalta, but rather went out from the corners of the Rosh downward, onto the lower cheek, which is separate from the very substance of Galgalta.
And accordingly you shall understand, how the hairs of Galgalta are the discernment of the two heads, Galgalta and the air, which are from the membrane and above, while the hairs of the beard are the discernment of the Mocha Stimaa, which is from the membrane and below. And this is what the ARI says, that the thirteen corrections of the beard are the corrections of the Mocha Stimaa.