One level is therefore necessary in order to take these repairs – which were originally acts of service rectifying Atzilut and its branches – and transfer them to a plane on which there are no more repairs since no more are needed, but where the repairs already carried out elicit the radiation of the eternal reward that will be given when the branches of AV and SaG rule. The level that accomplishes this transfer is Atik, which is outside the world but stands as head to the world. (The first three Sefirot of Atik are not clothed in Atzilut and thus Atik in its intrinsic essence is beyond Atzilut but stands as head over it.)
At the same time Atik, as Malchut of Adam Kadmon, is also connected with what is above it. (As head of Atzilut, Atik relates to the world of service, while as Malchut of Adam Kadmon, Atik has the power to transfer the service to the World of Reward – in the sense of fixing the measure of the reward for each repair.) This is how Atik accomplishes this transfer.