This resolves a difficulty arising out of our earlier discussion in Opening 63 implying that the aspect of Male and Female was a new innovation after the repair.
This proposition has two parts. Part 1: The aspect of Male and Female... This initial premise explains that the aspect of Male and Female does indeed exist higher up, prior to the Nekudim. Part 2: The difference... This explains a particular aspect of the Nekudim whereby the above-mentioned difficulty is resolved.
Part 1: The aspect of Male and Female is also found above this... (i.e. in the worlds of Adam Kadmon above the Nekudim.) This is obvious, because it is evident in the teachings of the ARI (Etz Chayim, Shaar Derushey HaNekudot ch. 2 p. 36b) that the coupling of AV and SaG (which are in the category of male and female) took place before the emergence of the Nekudim.