(Apparently there is a contradiction in the statements of the authors of the Zohar: They initially said that actualized forms extend to the recipients only from the sefira of Malkhut, according to the statement: “but only when Malkhut descends upon people...,” which is the mystical meaning of “by the ministry of the prophets have I used symbols.” And yet here the Zohar states that the forms extend to the recipients from Beria downward, i.e., from Bina downward.47The question the Sulam is raising here is regarding capacity for the created beings ascribing an image or form to the levels of reality beyond us.
On the one hand, the textual sources indicated that the image only applies to the level of the sefira of Malkhut. On the other hand, the previous section explained that this concept of subjective imagery extends up to the level of Bina. The author now resolves this contradiction.