Adam Kadmon
In the religious writings of
Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon is a phrase meaning "Primordial Man," or "Primal Man," comparable to the Anthropos of
Gnosticism and
Manichaeism. However, in
Lurianic Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon acquired much more exalted status, equivalent to
Purusha in the
Upanishads, denoting the Manifest Absolute itself, while 'Adam Soul', the primeval Soul that contained all human souls, is described in different terms in this variant of mythopoetic
cosmogenesis and
anthropogenesis. It is said that Adam Kadmon had rays of light projecting from his eyes. There is also a similar concept in
Alevi and
Sufic philosophy called Insan-i Kamil, the Perfect or Complete Man.
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Adam Kadmon
[Judaic] Hebrew: "The primordial man". The first man of the Jewish Kabbala, who first appeared in 13th century texts. He was the perfect prototype man created by God. The Kabbalists took up the concept using it to describe the divine symbolism of the human body. Later Adam Kadmon came to be identified with the messiah and was contrasted with the devil Adam Beliyya'al'. He is symbolized by the Sephiroth or ten circles of creation. There are some similarities with the Persian Adam Kasia.
'Adam Qadmon
'Adam Qadmon (Hebrew) [from 'adam mankind + qadam to be before, precede] Primordial man,
Adam Primus; in the Qabbalah macrocosmic man in contrast to the earthly Adam, the microcosm. Often called the Heavenly Man because symbolically he is the Sephirothal Tree of Life, each of the Sephiroth having its correspondence with a part of the body, the head being Kether (Crown), and the feet standing for Malchuth (Kingdom). 'Adam Qadmon corresponds mystically to the Hindu Purusha: both are generalizing terms used to represent the cosmic Logos or hierarch of their respective hierarchies.
Blavatsky compares 'Adam Qadmon to the first manu, Svayambhuva, "the synthesis of the fourteen Manus" (TG 206); also to the Greek Prometheus and the divine Pymander of the Hermetica -- the power of the thought divine "in its most spiritual aspect" (IU 1:298).