the concentric emanation of worlds, according to Lurianic Kabbalah
{from R. I. Krakovsky - Kabbalah, the Light of Redemption)
In Lurianic cosmology therefore we have the following strata of reality:
It is interesting to consider that whereas for other Kabbalists it was
the En Sof which was identical to the Deity, for Luria it was the world
of Atzilut, or at least its higher aspects.
These aspects of divinity Luria refers to as Partzufim, more on which shortly.
Thus he distinguishes between Atzilut and the three lower worlds [Sholem,
pp. 2723].
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