35) And from this, my dear friend, the true essence of our pure and firmly established faith becomes clear, based on the teachings of our Sages, may their memory be blessed, who received the tradition from Moses, our teacher, peace be upon him. The Holy One, blessed be He, who is the ultimate cause, created everything on His own, without any assistance from any created being. This is contrary to the interpretation of the philosopher mentioned earlier in the Zohar that I brought above in Sections 20, 21, and 24, where he suggested that the many ascending levels that the Creator established assist one another, and each one derives authority from the higher level above it.
There is room for the judge to say that the Ancient One stretches out in the south, and the Long Face in the north, and the Father in the east, and the Mother in the west, and the Small One and His Consort in the corners, while the Primordial Adam, the greatest among them, measures in the middle. This contradicts what our Sages said about the governance of the world, that when an earthly king is honored, the nobles of the kingdom are honored with him because they bear his burden, and so on.
Similarly, the false prophet philosopher, the author of the Zohar, and other Kabbalists, in their misguided reverence for our Father, our King, have done the same. All the entities they have invented in their imaginations are honored alongside the Creator. The Primordial Adam, the greatest among them, is honored with the statement, "Behold now, for I, I am He, I am the true one, and I give life," and so on, without any other superior authority above him from which he derives permission.
The Father is honored with the statement, "Let there be light, and the waters shall gather," as mentioned above. The Mother is honored with the statement, "Let us make man." The Ancient One is honored with the statement, "The Lord, your work in the midst of the years, revive it." As for the Small One, he is honored with the statement, "I am the Lord your God who brought you out," and so on.
As stated in the book of Genesis (to be referenced in section 16) and by Rabbi Nachalat Yosef (page 61a-61b), the concept is mentioned that the kingdom is associated with the statement "These are the gods who struck Egypt," as the kingdom was inflicting punishment on them with the assistance of understanding, as Rabbi Nachalat Yosef explains.