It is somewhat a matter of the pillar of severity, in that the two pillars are the competing forces of limitation and expansion. However, limiting is often more a function of discretion, identification, and naming. For example, law. Binah is in many ways the primal force of "no", which gives birth to manifestation by creating limits for what otherwise would be the endless expansion of energy in Chochma, as well as being the sea into which this energy flows.
At the top of each pillar, Chochma and Binah represent the ideals of limiting and expansion, much as the opposition of yin and yang, which are probably better symbols to compare them with. The concept is continued below in the tree, but with more a focus on manifestation as you approach Malchuth. So, you have Gebura as Law and Control, and then Hod as science and knowlege (information). On the right, expansion yields to Chesed in Mercy and Kindness to balance The severity of Gebura, and then Netzach as sensitivity and the experiential opposing the theoretical of Hod.
So "limiting" is really more a part of the primal duality with expansion, which is expanded upon in the spheres below. |
