Human beings do not have the power to apprehend the supernal lights except in the way in which those lights relate to themselves in the lower realms, inasmuch as the supernal lights are the roots of the forms found in the lower realms and thereby relate to them. Thus we humans can perceive the Sefirot only through the lens of Malchut, which shows the supernal lights and their mode of government through imagery. Accordingly, “…let him that glories glory in this (Hebrew, זאת, zot), that he understands and knows Me” (Jeremiah 9:23). Here the word “this” alludes to the attribute of Malchut, for only in this way is it possible to attain any perception at all, as will be discussed further below.