Kabbalah Imamat 15:31: Reshit Chokhmah & Sha'arei Orah

The punishment of one who defiles himself is stated in the Zohar in Metzora: 47. Rabbi Elazar cited that verse: “Thus shall you separate the children of Yisrael from their uncleanness...when they defile My tabernacle that is among them” (Vayikra 15:31). “Thus shall you separate” MEANS like a stranger who is a stranger to everyone and is not bonded with that which is not his. 48. HE EXPLAINS HIS WORDS: Come and behold: When men are defiled below, they are defiled in every respect, as we have already learned. When the Unclean Spirit is roused below, BY DRAWING THE ILLUMINATION OF THE LEFT SIDE FROM ABOVE DOWNWARDS, a strange spirit arises, FOR the Unclean Spirit below rouses another unclean spirit. It obtains permission to go down to the world. HE ASKS: What kind of permission DOES IT OBTAIN? HE ANSWERS: The same permission of Holiness that formerly ALWAYS came down and prevented THAT STRANGE SPIRIT FROM RULING. This spirit is no longer there BECAUSE OF THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT. For when it leaves, the Judgment, WHICH IS THE STRANGE SPIRIT, is revealed and confronts the sinners and augments Judgment. THEN THERE ARE two harmful spirits in the world, one is the spirit of Judgment NAMELY THE STRANGE SPIRIT and the Spirit of Defilement.

Rabbi Meir says:¹²⁸See Midrash Lekach Tov, Numbers 35:34 (our versions cite Rabbi Nathan). This is analogous to a king who tells his servant, if you seek me, you will find me with my son, as it states,¹²⁹Leviticus 16:16 “That dwells with them (HaShochen Itam-השוכן אתם) amid their impurities.” That is, even “if they contaminate My Dwelling (Mishkanee-משכני) that is within them.” Similarly, it states,¹³⁰Numbers 5:3 “They shall not contaminate their camps, within which I dwell (Shochen-שכן).”