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52) The seventh section is the highest. Only the souls of the righteous are there. This is where the souls are refined in the upper splendor; they delight there in delicacies and in sublime pleasures. The upper splendor means GAR; delicacies and pleasures mean lights of Hassadim.
Only those righteous are there. There are no angels there, only the souls of the righteous. There are the treasures of peace, and blessing, and almsgiving there, and everything there is as the high Behina, Bina, since the seventh section is Bina. This is why it receives from its corresponding Behina, Bina of above.
53) So it is in the seven sections of the earth below. They are all as the seven sections of above, where the seven sections in the lower earth, Assiya, are equal in every way to the seven sections in the upper earth, which is the externality of Malchut de Atzilut.
In all seven sections of the lower earth there are types of angels that look like people, who can dress in clothing of this world like people. In that there is a difference between the seven sections of the lower earth and the seven sections of the upper earth, since in the upper earth, only in the second section, from Chazeh and below of the sections, there are angels with proximity to people. And from the fourth section and above they no longer have proximity to people, unless by close observation.
But in the seven sections in the lower earth there are angels that look like people in all of them, even in the sections from Chazeh and above. It is so because the lower earth is entirely from the Chazeh and below of the upper one; even the four upper sections are considered from the Chazeh and below.
Everyone thanks and praises the Creator. But in all the sections there is no one to attain His glory such as those on the upper section. They see His glory properly, to serve and to praise Him and to know His glory.
54) That upper world, called Tevel [universe], remains intact only for the righteous—who are holy bodies that exist in this world—for whom it was created and for whom it exists. As above, in the sections of the upper earth, the seventh section stands only for the souls of the righteous, in the sections of the lower earth. That section, Tevel, stands only for the bodies of the righteous.
In other words, this world exists for them and was created for them, as they are equal, all as one, one opposite the other. That is, the seven sections of the lower earth emerge from the seven sections of the upper earth, each Behina from its corresponding Behina in the upper one.
Hence, the relation of each section in the lower earth should be equal to that section of the upper earth. And since in the seventh section of the upper earth there are only souls of people, the seventh section of the lower earth is only for the bodies of the righteous people.
And although there are other kinds of people, as well as bodies of wicked, the world was not created for them and they are poised to serve only the bodies of the righteous, as we learn, “And they were created only to serve me, and I to serve My master.” Therefore, the rest of creations have no merit in themselves, and they are regarded as though they are not here.
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