Atzilut, the "World of Emanation" or "Nearness (to the Godhead)", also called the Image and the Heavenly man (Adam Kadmon), is the Divine Reality; the Sefirot or attributes of the Godhead.  They are the direct emanation from the En Sof, and hence most intimately connected to the absolute Deity, perfect and immutable.  It is here that there is the conjunction of the King and Queen (Tifaret and Malkut, representing the male and female polarities of the Godhead), from which is produced the successive worlds [C.D.Ginsburg, S.A.Cook, "Kabbalah", Encyclopeadia Britannica, 11th ed. 1911, vol xv, pp.620-1]. 

The Sefirot are arranged in three pillars, the Pillar of Mercy (Hesed) on the left, the Pillar of Judgment or Severity (Gevurah) on the right, and the Pillar of Balance or Compassion or Beauty (Tifaret) in the middle; which together constitute the Divine supervision of the lower worlds.

Kabbalistic Paradigm		standardised Universes  all the following planes
Atzilut as the Divine reality	Atzilut as the intermediate Divine reality
e.g. Zohar  Hermetic occultsim etc	Lurianic Kabbalah in part (Tzimtzum cosmology)
Atzilut		Higher Noetic
	Atzilut	Lower Noetic

Atzilut in Lurianic Kabbalah

Atzilut - at Aleph.org -  a very short description - interprets Atzilut  as Divine Intuition and Unity with the Godhead
 
 
 
 

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