Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 10
The Three Names Elokim
274. Elokim is three names: 1) Living God [Elokim], Bina, the king of the world, 2) Elokim of the fear of Isaac, Gevura of ZA, 3) the final Elokim, Malchut, in whom Elokim of the fear of Isaac, Gevura of ZA, spread.
275. The Providence over the name Elokim, half of it is to the primordial sea, Bina, and half to the last sea, Malchut.
276. Because the name Elokim, Gevura of ZA, emerges from above, from the name Elokim in Bina, it has permission to incorporate the right with the left. When the right is incorporated with the left, ZA is in joy and holds the bottom sea, Malchut, under the head, meaning bestows upon her GAR, which is called Rosh [head], as it is written, “His left under my head.” At that time, ZA is called Elokim, since he goes to the last sea. This is the third chamber, which is extended from the upper king, Bina.
ZA is always in Hassadim that are covered from Hochma, under the control of the right, since the left cannot be revealed in it due to the control of the right, except when it makes a coupling with Malchut. At that time, he awakens to draw the Hochma on the left for the sake of Malchut. Then ZA is called Elokim, illumination of Hochma in the left, since he goes to bestow upon the last sea, Malchut. Without this, the name Elokim does not awaken in him.
