The first or zero phase of the development of desire is called Keter; it represents the source of light, the influence of the Creator.

The second phase is called Hochma. It is the first phase filled with the light of the Creator.

The third phase is Bina, which does not want to receive the light coming from the Creator and wants to give like the Creator, but it cannot. It has nothing to give, it remains empty, but at the same time it still feels a certain sense of satisfaction because it is not opposite to the Creator but similar to Him in aspiration, in purpose.

After the phase of Bina comes Zeir Anpin, which still reveals a little of the Creator’s light in the parts that it emptied in itself because it is impossible to exist without light at all. When it finishes spreading a small part of the light inside itself, it comes to the conclusion that its desire will be to completely fill itself with the light of the Creator. That is when it begins to receive all the light of the Creator into itself, which forms the fourth phase called Malchut.

This phase is the last phase; there can be no more. After all, if the Creator’s will was to create a desire that He would fill with light, then the fourth stage practically satisfies this requirement of His.

Therefore, Malchut is the last phase of the development of the desire, which the Creator created from nothing.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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