“Enclothing” means that they serve one another and develop each other, much as we explained regarding the inanimate, plant, animal, and human levels in the physical world (above, chapters 35–38). We explained there that those three aspects – inanimate, plant, and animal – did not emerge for their own sake. They emerged so that the fourth level – human – can develop and ascend through them. That is, the purpose of the first three elements is to serve man and help him ascend.

The same is true of the spiritual worlds. The spiritual aspect of inanimate, plant, and animal emerged there [in the spiritual world] in order to serve and benefit the human aspect that is there, the soul of man. In that sense, we understand that all enclothe the soul of man, which means that they exist for its [human] benefit.