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This series is a continuation and should be read in order. If you are not familiar with previous posts you may have trouble understanding later ones.
And now Chapter 10.07
Similarly, this same type of essential Heyuli inclusion applies to the other essential attributes of the soul. Such as the attribute of Gevurah [severity; judgment; restraint; might]; for example, all of the specifics of the desire to be fair and just, are included in this fashion within the essential Heyuli power of judgment. Likewise with the attribute of Tiferes [beauty; compassion; ostentation]; for example, all of the specifics of one’s appreciation for art and beauty, each according to his taste and similarly all of the specifics of the desire to show-off, are all included within the essential Heyuli of Tiferes. Similarly, the attribute of Netzach [conquering; endurance]; this Heyuli power encompassing all of the specifics of the desire to win and to fight against challenges, persevering until one achieves one’s goal and so on with all of the soul’s other powers. Until the level of Malchus (Kingdom), which is the attribute of leadership, that it too is surely composed of the ten powers, namely: the will and desire for kingship, as well as wisdom, emotions, thought, and so on with speech and action. For, in order to bring the desire for leadership into fruition, this will obviously require a concept of what type of kingdom one wishes to rule over as well as how to rule it and how to become its ruler; all of this requiring quite a bit of intellectual activity if it is to be done properly. Also a ruler will inevitably have to engage the emotions to love the nations people, to fear that it be attacked by another nation, or destroyed from within if a proper justice system is not arranged, etc. (it is important to note that the true desire for kingship is specifically when the people willingly accept the leadership and not that of a tyrant).
However, before this desire for kingship came to the level of a revealed desire for a specific thing, such as to rule over a certain country and so forth, these specifics were completely included and united within the level of the essential Heyuli attribute of Malchus [kingship], just as was the case with the Heyuli desire for kindness, as was mentioned previously. If so, that within all of the soul’s ten powers their respective ten powers are completely united and included within them, then it is automatically understood about the level of the soul’s essential Heyuli attributes of Kesser, Chochmah, Binah, Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferes, Netzach, Hod, Yissod, Malchus (The ten Sfiros of the Soul), that it is not proper to say even a term such as that they are united and included within the essence of the soul (which is called Yechidah), since they are not separate from the essence at all. Such as with the aforementioned Heyuli desire for kindness, which can not be said to be anything separate from the essence of the persons soul, so that we don’t say ‘that person has a great power of kindness,’ but rather that the person himself is a nice person. For, the attribute of kindness and likewise all of the other attributes of the soul are impressed within the person’s nature and essential self, and they are only like properties of its nature. For, even though that this attribute of kindness is only one unique part that comes out from the actual essence of the soul, which is itself higher than being a desire for kindness. For, the actual essence of the soul is infinite and devoid of the limitations of specific attributes such as kindness, this attribute of kindness being only one specific aspect of the completely simple essential self. Therefore it would seem that being that each one of the soul’s powers or attributes are unique and are only one part or aspect of the soul, it would seem that they do have some type of separate existence and only unite within the soul, - as is the case with the components of a computer, for example - but it is not so. Still, it is not possible to say about the attribute of kindness that it "unites" with the Heyuli attribute of Netzach [conquering] that is likewise implanted within the essence of the soul, since they are both one with each other within the essence and are not separate from the essence at all.
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