Here in truth is the underlying secret of the soul and the body. All the different aspects of evil are rooted in the body, while the soul is placed in the body with the intention that it should gain control over each one of these different aspects and bring them back to good. This is accomplished through the unique power of the commandments (mitzvot), which the Supreme Will prepared for this purpose.
With careful consideration you will find that according to this, everything in creation exists only to come to the soul and the body, for it is precisely here that evil is turned back to good in actuality. Physical man is at the end of all existence – the end point and goal for which everything was brought into being in order to turn evil back to good – while Adam Kadmon is the head and start of all existence and thus the beginning of this goal.
All the different measures and aspects required to serve as the root of this goal were instituted in Adam Kadmon so that in the end they should function in actuality. All the lights emerging from Adam Kadmon always proceed in stages, one after the other, in accordance with the underlying secret of the soul and the body (i.e. as their roots) until the actual body and soul of man emerge below in their place, as will be discussed further in Part 2.