Similarly in the case of the prophetic vision, it is possible to see contradictory images. The person may see one thing, but when he looks at it again in order to understand it, it changes into something else. Thus in Ezekiel’s vision, “the living creatures were running and returning” (Ezekiel 1:14).
When one looks at the totality of all the worlds with the line (Kav) within them, the circles appear one inside the other and the line goes down through the middle, continuing all the way to the end (i.e. down to the lower half of the circles of Atik). In this view Asiyah appears to be in the middle. However, when one goes on to examine the line, Asiyah appears to be at the end of the line (as if the line does not continue past the center, down to the lower half of the circle of Atik). If one attempts to view Asiyah in the circular and linear view simultaneously, it appears to be above and below at one and the same time – “above”, in the sense of being in the center of the circles, “below” in the sense of being at the end of the line.