(Heb) In the Kabbalah, archetypal or primordial humanity, macrocosmic or Heavenly Man in contradistinction to the earthly Adam; the Sephirothal Tree of Life.
The archetypal man, according to the Kabbalah. In the Christian tradition, "heavenly man" or the "mystical body of Christ wherein we are all one."
Primordial human being; the first universe, which is inseparable from Ain Sof.
The Kabbalah is a Jewish tradition of mysticism and numerology. The numerology was based on the fact that each Hebrew letter had a numeric value; the first nine letters stood for 1 through 9, the next 9 for 10 through 90, and so on through 900. Thus it was possible to compute the number of any word, and two words might be shown to be numerically equivalent. All sorts of meanings were derived from such hidden equivalences, particular when the Bible was regarded as a perfect work in which no construable meaning was accidental. The other focus of the Kabbalah was on an ideal human figure, called "Adam Kadmon", which was a much more sophisticated analog of the diagrams that match astrological signs to body parts. Twenty two spots or "sephiroths", were marked on the figure of Adam Kadmon, each associated with a separate Hebrew letter. Certain spots were grouped, certain spots were connected. Adam Kadmon is understood to represent Adam before the fall, that is, the ideal human being from which we have fallen.
The Heavenly or archetypal man from whom Adam descends to the physical plane.
((à ãà ÷ãîåï – Primordial Man in Hebrew. According to the Cabala, the infrastructure of all Creation. SHET.
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.