  Both Wisdom and Intelligence emerge or emanate from the Crown. Wisdom is the “ideal thought” of everything that will emerge in creation. The idea exists at this stage in a confused and undifferentiated form, however. Wisdom is sometimes pictured as a fountain which springs out of Nothingness (the Crown) and from which the other sefirot will flow, sometimes as a seed or germ from which everything develops, and sometimes as a point. (The idea behind the last image is that just as the movement of a point generates a line, and the movement of a line generates a surface, so the “movement” of Wisdom [together with the “movement” of Intelligence] generates the other sefirot.) Intelligence is the principle of “individuation and differentiation,” and “unfolds” what is “folded up” in wisdom. (If wisdom was the “confused” or undifferentiated thought of creation, Intelligence is that thought become clear and distinct. [Scholem 1946, 207–09, 213–20; Epstein, 236].)