So too here, when Beriyah, Yetzirah and Asiyah are with Atzilut after having been built, each one receives from Atzilut so as to channel its influence outwards. However, during the process of their actual construction, Atzilut is of no relevance. On the contrary, Atzilut is concealed, leaving them as unfinished vessels that are built successively, little by little, until everything depending on their structure is complete, so that they may afterwards serve as channels for Atzilut.
Accordingly, now that it was necessary to produce the things that depended on their existence – i.e. to bring forth evil so as afterwards to restore what was damaged to a state of repair, as discussed above – Atzilut was concealed from this process, since it had no connection with it. These worlds thus remained alone on their own as part of the process of becoming steadily more defined on the way to their rectification. For Atzilut has no part or share whatever in the production of evil, and its light can only be drawn down by way of Beriyah, Yetzirah and Asiyah when they are rectified to serve as its channels.