Part 2: In the Skull they function generally… This is the mystery of the White Skull – for these seven repairs divide up into one in the Skull and six in the Face. The underlying principle behind this is that it is not in the nature of Keter to divide up its lights in detail in the same way as Chochmah. For the mystery of Keter is that of closure, as signified by its associated vowel, kametz (קָמֶץ), which has the connotation of being closed up – like the skull, which is a closed circle.
Chochmah, on the other hand, signified by the vowel patach (פַתַח) having the connotation of openness, produces all the lights of the Face in their individual details. Accordingly, the repairs generated by Atik in Arich Anpin follow the respective natures of (1) the Skull (Keter), where the repair is one overall whole (for the skull clothes Chessed of Atik, which includes all the Sefirot below it) and (2) the Face, where the repairs are seen in all their specific details. Thus the proposition goes on to state: