Da'as Tevunos - Section 84

Said the Intellect - And so did the sages say (Sifrei HaAzinu 32:2), "Always have the words of the Torah in your hand, the generalizations and not the details". Returning to our matter...here you have already seen the existence of two qualities to Him may He be blessed - the hiding of his countenance and the illumination of his countenance, they are the root and reason for the body and soul. And it is for us to understand these two qualities each one on its own, in all of their many details which are summarized under generalizations, in order to understand the matters of the soul and the body, each one on its own in all their details like this. And after we found this and know it, we need to know more for these two qualities come as one to direct the entire world and its inhabitants, and there is nothing which does not have a place for these two characteristics - the concealment in its revelation and the illumination in its covering, as we explained earlier. Afterwards we will go to understand and to study the consequences that emerge from the joining of these two characteristics, when one of them or the other is strengthened. Here we have three items of knowledge, knowledge of these two characteristics this one by itself, and this one by itself, knowledge of their joining to also act always together, and knowledge of the consequences born from this joining of these types, according to the the strengthening of the concealment or the illumination: