The meaning of this is as follows: From Beria and downward, i.e., from Bina, after it had been combined with the attribute of judgment, which is Malkhut, the images and the forms were drawn forth to the recipients, which are the souls, not in Bina’s own place, God forbid, but only in the place of the recipients, as stated.52This means to say that these forms and permutations are only from the perspectives of the recipients, the souls, and not manifest in the layers of being from which they originate, the spiritual realms described here.
This point is made repeatedly throughout this section. We, as the recipients, experience the diversity of being from our perspective, the “colors.” In contrast, from the perspective of the origin, “their place,” there is only the unity of the color white. See the previous sections, 27-29.
The Zohar then states that He then made the form of the chariot of the “supernal man,” and descended and enclothed in the form of this man. In other words, the whole form of man in his 613 vessels are drawn from the vessels of the soul. For the soul has 613 vessels, which are called the 248 limbs and 365 spiritual sinews. These are divided into five parts, according to the four letters of Havaya and the upper point of the yod: Its head is considered Keter; the part from the mouth to the chest is Ḥokhma; from the chest to the navel is Bina; and from the navel to the end of the legs is the two sefirot, Tiferet and Malkhut.