...while the Holy One, blessed be He, carries out His plan. In other words, ultimately the truth is that what God with His foreknowledge knew is going to happen is what happens. For the concealment itself is what brings about the repair. Through the cycle whereby evil reverts to good, it is revealed that the purpose of the concealment was for the sake of the repair – in order to bring about the possibility of free will.
Part 2: Accordingly, there is on the one hand the order whose function the Holy One, blessed be He, displays... For out of this first hidden root of the governmental order come the Partzufim, which make up a single visible order. However, we always know that every aspect that we see in this revealed order has a root and a cause that lies in the concealed root, which exists to bring about the possibility of man’s service, and this root we cannot know. Thus on the one hand there is the revealed order:...this is the order of Atzilut with its various Partzufim. On the other hand, there is the concealed root which lies in the way MaH is joined with BaN, and this is not known.