The nine lights that are ablaze with the restorations of the ancient one. The most ancient, called the unknowable head, the most concealed was established yet not established. It was established to uphold everything, since it is the first Partzuf of Atzilut, and everything is upheld by its establishments. Yet it itself was not established, its establishments reveal nothing of itself, and it is not present, that is, it is incomprehensible.
As it became established, it produced nine lights that shone from it, from what it established. They are the nine Sefirot – Keter, Chochmah, Binah, Chesed, Gvurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod and Yesod of Arich Anpin; as its garments are Aba and Ima, the male and the female. They are alight with its fire of the unknowable head, with its restorations. These nine lights are set alight by it with Chassadim and are ablaze from it with Gvurot and keep emanating in every direction, both to Chochmah and Chassadim like a candle from which lights emanate in every direction, yet when one approaches to understand the spreading lights, only the candle alone is there. That is, the candle and the lights spreading from it are not two different things, since the light spreading from the candle does not have its own existence or power; rather, its entire existence lies in the candle. If you take the candle somewhere else, the lights will spread there instead of remaining in the previous location. Such is Atika Kadisha. It is the most concealed superior candle, which is incomprehensible save through the lights spreading from it. Some are revealed and some are concealed. They are called the holy name. But the lights emanating from Atika Kadisha have no separate existence, Heaven forbid. Rather, they exist entirely within Atika Kadisha. Even though they are comprehensible whereas Atika Kadisha is incomprehensible, like lights emanating from a candle. Hence, it is all one.