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In Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon (אָדָם קַדְמוֹן, ʾāḏām qaḏmōn, "Primordial Man") also called Adam Elyon (אָדָם עֶלִיוֹן, ʾāḏām ʿelyōn, "Most High Man"), or Adam Ila'ah (אָדָם עִילָּאָה, ʾāḏām ʿīllāʾā "Supreme Man"), sometimes abbreviated as A"K (א"ק, ʾA.Q.), is the first of Four Worlds that came into being after the contraction of ...
Adam Kadmon (אָדָם קַדְמוֹן) or the Cosmic Man. The anthropomorphic metaphor of Adam Qadmon denotes the Yosher "Upright" arrangement of the sefirot as the tree of life , which is then personified in the form of man , though not yet manifest.
Adam Kadmon is the divine will of Keter and the "plan" of the latent Chokmah within Keter for all subsequent detailed creation in potential. Its anthropomorphic name figuratively denotes that man is both the purpose of creation below and the embodiment on high of the sephirot Divine attributes, not yet manifest.
Adam Kadmon ("Primordial Man" or "Anthropos"), an anthropomorphic term, is the revelation of the divine will for creation after the tzimtzum. Its paradoxical nature is expressed as both Adam (creation) and Kadmon ("primary" divinity). As the will of Keter, it is pure light, with no vessels, bounded by its future potential to create vessels.
In the Zohar, the sin of Adam and Eve (who embodied Adam Kadmon below) took place in the spiritual realms. Their sin was that they separated the Tree of knowledge (10 sefirot within Malkuth, representing Divine immanence), from the Tree of life within it (10 sefirot within Tiferet, representing Divine transcendence).
In some Jewish legends, Adam was created from dust from the four corners of the Earth, and, when bent down, his head was the East and his feet the West. In another legend, he contained the soul of everybody who would ever be born. [3] In the teachings of Kabbalah, such a primordial man is referred to as Adam Kadmon.
A majority of young adults say they have little or no sense of purpose or meaning in life. Valerie Plesch/Getty U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy on Oct. 26, 2022.
(In truth God created them from the body of Adam Kadmon) And by the end of the story the only physical thing left of him is his Head. (Body made into Alexiel and Rosiel, his "evil" Left Eye was planted and the Tree of Life grew from it.) On earth, he appears as an "After Image", asking Setsuna to free him before God realizes his transgression.