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Adam Qadmon

In the Cabalistic doctrine, the name given to the first emanation from the Eternal Fountain. It signifies the First Man, or the first production of divine energy, or the Son of God; and to it the other and inferior emanations are subordinated.

An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction; including also familiar pseudonyms, surnames bestowed on eminent men, and analogous popular appellations often referred to in literature and conversation.

William A. Wheeler.

Boston

Nineteenth Edition.

Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1884

Rutgers University Libraries

PN43.W562E19

WORK OF CREATION

Ma'aseh Bereshit, the Work of Creation is mentioned in the Talmud and in hushed tones throughout the subsequent history of Jewish mysticism. The original details of this mystical technique have been lost over the centuries, but myths and legends abound. However, one thing we do know from the long history of Kabbalah is that many methods and practices change over the years. Techniques that were appropriate for one generation may not be so apropos for another, and in today's world, anything that is so powerful that it can magically create a living animal each week, as some Talmudic rabbis were alleged to have done, is likely to be abused more than used. Thus, let me talk about the Work of Creation from my own understanding in terms that are both safe and practical for the world of today.

All creation must go through the same five stages before manifesting in physical reality. We must first have the will to do something creative. This sets the stage for the creative moment, the "aha" moment to occur. Next, we have to express that "aha" as a thought. We then begin the more tedious process of refining and developing that thought. Finally, when the blueprint is complete, the physical manifestation can occur. Six days of the week, we are allowed to engage in creative activity. To reiterate, the actual process of creation is a flow from the world of Adam Qadmon, will, to Asiyah, the world of doing. Our work begins at the very highest level in the world of Adam Qadmon with the will to do something creative. Following the will to do is the moment of "aha" when we suddenly realize what we will do. This takes place in the world of Atzilut, the world of nearness. The initial "aha" experience is without words, but when we clothe that inspiration in words, we bring the creative experience down to the level of Beriyah, the world of creation. After the creation has been given some initial form, it is brought down further to the world of Yetzirah, the world of formation, where the form is played around with and refined until the final version is ready. Finally, from Yetzirah, the world of formation, the blueprint is made concrete in physical reality and it becomes a "real" thing in the world of Asiyah, the world of doing.

Creation is a process of something from nothing, but we never get something for nothing. In other words, if you want to grow or be more prosperous, then you have to put forth the effort. Don't expect to get rich by just visualizing money coming to you without any effort on your part. The universe is not a free ride, and we all have to pay our bills sooner or later.

The Grand Man Of The Zohar

Eliphas Levi thus describes the Great Prototypical Man: "That synthesis of the word, formulated by the human figure, ascended slowly and emerged from the water, like the sun in its rising. When the eyes appeared, light was made; when the mouth manifested, there was the creation of spirits and the word passed into expression. The entire head was revealed, and this completed the first day of Creation. The shoulders, the arms, the breast arose, and thereupon work began. With one hand the Divine Image put back the sea, while with the other it raised up continents and mountains. The Image grew and grew; the generative organs appeared, and all beings began to increase and multiple. The form stood at length erect, having one foot upon the earth and one upon the waters. Beholding itself at full length in the ocean of Creation, it breathed on its own reflection and called its likeness into life. It said: Let us make man--and thus man was made. There is nothing so beautiful in the masterpiece of any poet as this vision of creation accomplished by the prototype of humanity. Hereby is man but the shadow of a shadow, and yet he is the image of divine power. He also can stretch forth his hands from East to West; to him is the earth give as a dominion. Such is Adam Qadmon, the Primordial Adam of the Cabbalists. Such is the sense in which he is depicted as a giant; and this is why Swedenborg, haunted in his dreams by reminiscences of the Kabbalah, says that entire creation is only a titanic man and that we are made in the image of the universe." (From - The History of Magic). MPH

(Heb.) Archetypal Man, Humanity.

The "Heavenly man" not fallen into sin. Cabalists refer to the Ten Sephiroth on the plane of human perception. In the Cabala Adam Qadmon is the manifested Logos corresponding to our third Logos, the unmanifested being the first paradigmic ideal man, and symbolizing the universe in abscondito, or in its "privation" in the Aristotelian sense. The first Logos is "the light of the World," the second, and the third, its gradually deepening shadows. Adept (Lat. adeptus) in Occultism, one who has reached the stage of initiation and become a master in the Science of Esoteric Philosophy.

H.P. Blavatsky

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