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Thus each has an element of its opposite, only that it is deeply concealed and is totally unrecognizable.
When koach or yesod is broken down into components, then are identified the opposite that is contained in it. This enables combinations between the kochot. Underneath the experience of the kochot there is a great similarity between them. This is true of the higher kochot of sechel and midot too.
Each koach (such as sight and hearing) comes with such simplicity that no unexpected element is noted in it. It has all the elements that allows it to be, and it self-justifies, it is what it is.
In this level of simplicity no opposite is sensed. It is defined yet simple and real. And no opposite is seen. Like water and fire – in their expressed state they are opposites and simple, although each contains the other.
Can we see water within fire? No, we cannot see it, but we can see the effect of water in fire. You light a candle, and if it is just a wick it will burn out, but if the wick is in the fuel it will burn for hours, so then there is something that is containing the fire and preventing it from instantly consuming everything, and at the same time it doesn't get extinguished. It is a slow burn – it is fire and its opposite.
The fact that fire can exist in a controlled state, says that fire can relate to that which is not fire.
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