The rule of Judgment is the cause of immaturity; its removal brings maturity.
The rule of Judgment causes immaturity; its removal brings maturity. The gradual order is preserved throughout everything.
Op. 123 closes the Building of Zeir Anpin (Z"A) unit with the causal mechanism of the three-stage construction. Z"A's immaturity at pregnancy/suckling stages is caused by the rule of Judgment dominating; the gradual removal of Judgment's dominance is what brings Z"A to maturity.
During pregnancy and early suckling, Z"A's intrinsic stern judgment (Op. 52) is operationally dominant. The cosmic government's operational matrix at these stages is structurally constrained by Judgment's grip. Z"A is immature not because it lacks structural completeness but because Judgment is operationally dominant.
As the construction stages progress, Imma's sweetening (also operating throughout) gradually removes Judgment's dominance. By full maturity (13 years and a day), Judgment has been transformed into the operational form CHaDaR uses — sweetened, integrated, working in coordination with Chesed and Rachamim.
The striking generalisation: the gradual order is preserved throughout everything. This is one of Klach's most general structural principles. Every staged process — Z"A's maturation, Nukva's repair, the cycle's macro-rhythm and micro-rhythm — preserves the gradual logic Op. 123 names. Nothing in the cosmic government is instantaneous; everything proceeds through stages with structural integrity at each.
Op. 131 (different times of ascent and descent — the operational backdrop of staged dynamics). Op. 137's six thousand years with all required Couplings accumulating operationalises the gradual-order doctrine at the macro-temporal scale.