Part 1: The Partzuf of Atik... As stated in the previous opening, in order for Malchut of Adam Kadmon to become a Partzuf, it had to extend and unfold so as to manifest certain specific repairs. These particular repairs consist of the aspects of MaH and BaN that are joined together therein.
...is built of MaH and BaN, and they are its male and female aspects... You see already that the male aspects always derive from MaH while the female aspects derive from BaN. However, where the male and female aspects are separate from one another (as in the case of the lower Partzufim, which are either male or female), each receives the opposite aspect from the other and this is why we discern MaH and BaN in both of them. (Even though BaN is found also in the male Partzuf and MaH in the female, this is because the male received the BaN from the female and vice versa.) Here, however, on the level of Atik, where both male and female stand together, there is no need for this. On the contrary, they divide up in the Partzuf itself – MaH as the male and BaN as the female.