As we explained, Aba and Ima are attached to Atika among its implementations, that is, the perfected beard. It is so because they derive from the most concealed brain and are attached to it. When they examine my words, they will see that everything is Atika alone. It was, is and will be; and all these implements are in it.
Aba and Ima emerge from the concealed brain and become incorporated in Mazala; they derive from it and are attached to it. Zeir Anpin derives from and is attached to Atika Kadisha. We have already elucidated that in the Greater Gathering. Happy is the portion of he who enters Chochmah and leaves it whole, who knows the paths, not deviating right or left but is in the central column.
Whoever does not enter and leaves whole, it is better had he not been born. Moreover, it is written, “for the ways of Hashem are right” (Hoshea 14:10).