Kralın Vadisi: İlahî Işığın Katlanışı

The matter is described thus in the book Emek Ha-Melekh, or the Royal Valley. It says that the Master of the Will (that most free Agent, namely God) measured out within His own substance the magnitude of a certain circle to be emptied, where the station of the Worlds would be. And that He compressed and folded that Light which was within this Circle—a certain part of it—just as when someone gathers and folds up their garment to strip themselves, and He raised that Light on high, and thus a place was left empty of the primary Light. Which Light, however, is the Infinite Light. And furthermore, this compression and folding "as if of a garment" sufficiently implies that at least a substance is understood here, if not a corporeal one. And certainly your analogy, by which you wish to excuse the matter, savors no less of corporeality, while you contend that the most glorious abundance of the Infinite Light is only diminished, not entirely removed—just as when a glass of fragrant oil is emptied, the fullness is not completely taken away, but only the fragrance is diminished.