However, not all levels of the opacity were included in the fusion through collision, but only the partition's uppermost level, which is the opacity of the forehead that was attached to the fourth level275As explained in the previous section, the fourth level of the sefirot, Malkhut, is now present in this context as a result of the second constriction. This presence gives rise to the capacity for fusion through collision against this partition. and by means of the three phases, gestation, infancy and brains, the partzuf’s ten sefirot were completed at the height of Keter.276As usual, given that the opacity in the partition is that of the fourth level (the “most dense” level of opacity), the partition generates returning light of the height of Keter, and a partzuf of that height.
The other remnants, from the rest of the partzufim of Nekudim that were in the partition, did not receive anything from this fusion through collision in the head of Sag, since they were below the level of Keter, and are thus considered immaterial in relation to its worth.277The lower levels of opacity are inconsequential in comparison to the fourth level and are not manifest in the fusion through collision as a result.
Consequently, when Atik emerged from the head of Sag, all the remnants from the rest of the partzufim, which were not incorporated in its fusion through collision, descended with it. After Atik was completed through the gestation, infancy and brains of the face, the supernal light illuminated upon the upper level of the remnants that remained in the partition, which is the opacity of the third level.278Now that the fourth level of opacity has been activated and manifest as the partzuf of Atik, the third level of opacity is the “most dense” level present.
Through the three phases of gestation, infancy and brains, ten sefirot of the height of Ḥokhma emerged, and this is the partzuf of Arikh Anpin.279As discussed, this is the second partzuf of the world of Atzilut, corresponding to the level of Ḥokhma in the sefirot. This height emerges from a partition in which the opacity of the third level interacts with supernal light in a fusion through collision.