There are two parts to this proposition: Part 1: Since the government... This is a prefatory statement about the offspring or effects of the functioning of the Sefirot. Part 2: Therefore any given light... The developmental chain through which the lights emerge is founded on the mystery of Male and Female.
Part 1: Since the government operates in this way on the foundation of Kindness and Justice... – namely for the sake of reward and punishment –...a root of good and a root of evil... All these things are aspects of one process – Kindness and Justice for the sake of reward and punishment. And so too man’s service involves the possibility of both damage and repair.