Having discussed Atzilut, Beriyah, Yetzirah and Asiyah as an overall whole in order to explain what relates to the world of Nekudim, we now come to discuss the world of Nekudim in this light.
The proposition has two parts. Part 1: The world of Nekudim was... This presents the first principle regarding the world of Nekudim, which is the entirety of all that exists afterwards. Part 2: This is because... This explains how this is so.
Part 1: The world of Nekudim was like one material... The world of Nekudim is therefore not called a level on a scale, since it is only the totality of all that exists, level by level, after the world of Akudim (the latter being the light emerging from the mouth of Adam Kadmon. This light extends to the navel, while Nekudim extends from the navel to the feet of Adam Kadmon). However, everything was still like material that had not received any form. (It was like a formless general substance out of which Atzilut, Beriyah, Yetzirah and Asiyah were later formed. Accordingly, Nekudim is not in itself a level in the order of the worlds.) Nekudim is a single general law which simply institutes the existence of all that is destined to exist. For as you have already heard, this world of Nekudim is nothing but the particular power in the Likeness of Man that stands to produce evil. However, the end goal is not to produce evil but that it should revert to good. Except that it would be impossible for evil to revert to good in actuality unless evil first exists in actuality.