One could ask how it can possibly be that the order is Atik over Atzilut and the Ears, Nose and Mouth over Atik if Atik is Malchut of Adam Kadmon – surely Adam Kadmon must be set over Atik! (For as Malchut of Adam Kadmon, Atik is a part of Adam Kadmon and not in the same category as the lights of the Ears, Nose and Mouth, which are only radiations emanating from Adam Kadmon.)
And if Adam Kadmon is not in the same category as the emanating lights of the Ears, Nose and Mouth, then Atik too, which is Malchut of Adam Kadmon, is also not in the same category as those lights. (Atik is not in the same category as the branches – the lights of the Ears, Nose and Mouth – but a part of Adam Kadmon. If so, how can Atik be under the Ears, Nose and Mouth? Atik should be under Adam Kadmon as Adam Kadmon’s lowest part.)