Asiya (Kabbalah)

The lowest of the four worlds (planes, or levels of reality), the world of Asiya parallels the sefira of Malkhut. Accordingly, it is also correlated with the “fourth level” of a given structure of reality, like Malkhut, which is the fourth level of the five main sefirot (Keter is the root level, followed by the next four, hence, the final sefira of Malkhut is considered “fourth,” as is the plane of Asiya). It is called Asiya, or “Actualization,” because it is where all the wills and forces that descend from the worlds above it are actualized (na’asim), or materialized, within it. The lowest level of the world of Asiya is our material world that we refer to as “this world.” The spiritual entities that exist in the world of Asiya are called ofanim, which are the spiritual roots of all that exists in the physical reality of this world.