...in the sense that one power may be acting in a hidden manner while outwardly it appears as if a different power is acting, yet the truth is that the manifest power acts only in accordance with the power concealed within it. The meaning of this should be clear in the light of what we have said above.
Part 2: Therefore the Sefirot are seen taking all these forms and likenesses... In other words, the forms and likenesses in which the prophet sees the Sefirot – interdependent, clothed one in another, and so on – appear on the spiritual plane in a way similar to the way the corresponding phenomena appear in the physical realm. This is because these very phenomena in the upper realms are the root of the corresponding phenomena in the lower worlds and are therefore automatically related to them, as will be discussed later.