Part 16 · Chapter 190

The Ari's Text

And the externality of the worlds is bodies and vessels. For the vessels of Assiyah, etc., and from their coupling are made the vessels of the Nefashot, and they are the Ofanim, and are called the vessels of the Nefashot. And from the vessels of Yetzirah, which has in it the five above-mentioned aspects in the aspect of vessels — and they are the vessels of Malchut, the vessels of ZA, and the vessels of Bina, etc. — from their coupling are made the angels of Yetzirah, and all of them are called the vessels of the Ruchin, as it is written, 'He makes His angels spirits.'

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

1And from their coupling are made the vessels of the Nefashot, and they are the Ofanim etc. Not necessarily the Ofanim, but the whole discernment of the externality of Assiya, namely the firmaments, etc., all of them come out from the coupling of the externality of the Sefirot, called vessels, as above. And in this way, in all the worlds, from the couplings of the inner vessels of the Sefirot, called here self, souls come out; and from the couplings of the external vessels of the Sefirot come out the externality of the worlds, called angels, Serafim, Hayot, and Ofanim, and firmaments and palaces and lands, etc.; for this is the rule: every discernment comes out from the discernment opposite it. And therefore the internality of the worlds, which are the souls of human beings alone, comes out from the internality of the Sefirot. And the externality of the worlds, namely everything that is in the worlds except the souls of human beings, which are the firmaments, palaces, etc., comes out from the externality of the Sefirot.