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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 11.02
In addition, just as it is true that the Essential desire for Kindness
is composed of ten Sefiros even as it is included as a heyuli
within the Infinite Light, so too, the attribute of Malchus is
composed of ten as it is within the concealment of the Essence,
which these particular ten are the desire (Ratzon
),
pleasure (Taanug
),
Wisdom (and Understanding) and Emotions (the 7 lower Sfiros)
that are within the attribute of Kingship.
However, the concept of the words "I will rule" that arose within His simple will and thought (i.e. the original decision to actually rule) represent when the essential heyuli desire of kingship came out from its concealed state within the heyuli to revelation as a desire for a particular thing, in this case the desire for the hishtalshellus. These words being the revealed expression of this will to Himself, as was explained before about the statement of the Zohar that "In the beginning of the rule of The King He engraved an engraving in the upper purity" that this engraving of letters was the expression of the Will to rule in the words "I will rule." This level of the attribute of Kingship being lower than the way that it was included within the essential heyuli. As was discussed earlier about the analogy of the attribute of Kindness within a person as the person is "below" meaning enclothed within a physical body in the lowly physical world or as was similarly discussed earlier about the analogy of the ten powers that are included within the soul level of Yechidah of a person in the way of an essential heyuli etc. That as these ten soul powers are included within the heyuli of the Yechidah they are not separate from the essence at all; or, similarly with the power of movement as it was included within the essence of the soul’s life force; or like the extension of the heyuli life force that was included within the actual essence of the soul, as all of these analogies were discussed previously in Chapter 10. So that from all of these analogies we see how the ten Sfiros are included within the Essence of the Infinite Light in a way that they are completely one within Its essence and how, though it encompasses all of the particulars of the ten sfiros, it is nonetheless beyond being limited or defined at all by these divisions, but rather is completely infinite and simple. It is also understood that this level where the ten sfiros are one with the essence of the Infinite Light is a higher level of unity exists then that of the revealed will of for example "I will rule," just as the revealed desire for kindness is a lower level then the soul’s essential heyuli for kindness or the soul’s heyuli power of movement or any other of the heyuli powers.
What was explained until now was how the ten sfiros are included within the essence of the Infinite Light on the level of Yachid [Single],which corresponds to the first of the three levels in the process of revelation from the essence of the soul that were discussed in Chapter 10.
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