Adam Kadmon

Adam Kadmon, the cosmic primordial man, is sometimes depicted in androgynous form with both male and female sexual characteristics

Adam Kadmon (also Adam Qadmon, Aramaic: אדם קדמון "original man, cosmic man"; Greek: οὐράνιος ἄνθρωπος uranios anthropos "heavenly man") is understood as the archetype of man according to the statements in the Kabbalah and Haggadah. Its image is the earthly man. The earthly man, however, lost the three wisdoms that place Adam Kadmon at the side of God, namely wisdom, glory and immortality. According to the teachings of the Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon was created even before the actual creation from the pure divine light that emerged directly from the Ain Soph. Adam Kadmon is comparable to the giant Ymir of Norse mythology, the Pangu of Chinese mythology, the Gayomart of Persian mythology or the Purusha of the Indian Vedas.

Literature

• Gershom Scholem: Zur Kabbala und ihrer Symbolik. 3. Auflage. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-518-07613-2, (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 13).
• Rudolf Steiner: Geistige Hierarchien und ihre Widerspiegelung in der physischen Welt, GA 110 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1100-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Erkenntnis des Menschenwesens nach Leib, Seele und Geist. Über frühe Erdzustände, GA 347 (1995), ISBN 3-7274-3470-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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