Petach 68 offers an overview of the process and its goal in a straightforward way.
It says that all the parts that ascend, their degrees of ascent, and their ways of interconnecting [1] are exactly what’s needed to make this world the way it needs to be made in the course of the Tikkun process — with just the right number of reparations, of deficiencies, and of processes needed to complete the cycle of Divine governance and to lead to the revelation of God’s Yichud.
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[1] See Ramchal’s own comments here as well as Eitz Chaim Sha’ar Zeir Anpin 3 and Sha’ar Attik 2 for details.
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