Adam Kadmon and the Light of Redemption
Lurianic Cosmology
diagram from Rabbi Levi I. Krakovsky, Kabbalah, the Light of Redemption, p.98] ...
Adam Kadmon
In Judaism, Adam Kadmon means "first man," or archetypal man, who became in the ancient mystical writings of the Israelites the paradigm of the divine power emanating from God, that is, the En Sof, which made unformed substance into man.
Adam Kadmon (Heb.) "Archetypal man, Humanity. The "Heavenly man" not fallen into sin. Kabalists refer it to the Ten Sephiroth on the plane of human perception.
ADAM KADMON is HUMANITY, or humankind--Homo Sapiens--the SPHYNX, i.e., "the being with the body of an animal and the face of a superman." ...
Adam Kadmon: Secret Fire and YHVH
“For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29 ...
END QUOTE Pico appears to be referring to the Adam Kadmon, dividing the parts of the body into three, that is, the upper three sefirot, the middle three, and the lower three, with the bottom, Malkhut, comprising all of the above.
Because we now know that Etteilla was a Mason and studied the Hebrew and Greek creation myths, I am inclined to rename his Emperor "Adam Kadmon" (see "Gnostic Tarot").
The Sephirothic Tree is sometimes depicted as a human body, thus more definitely establishing the true identity of the first, or Heavenly, Man--Adam Kadmon--the Idea of the Universe.
The macrocosm is often represented as the Adam Kadmon, through which the limitless light manifests. This Adam Kadmon is the image of a man which contains the ten spheres of the Hebrew tree of life.
The Hebrews in their philosophic books assert that God made the universe of Ideas before the universe of forms; the celestial man, Adam Kadmon, is the original, whereof the terrestrial man is the copy, and Philo says that God, ...
mentors how to merge his intense visualization of the genital organs (based on precisely detailed anatomical engravings) with his visualization of the sexual dynamics within the androgynous, microcosmic "Divine Human" (the Kabbalists' Adam Kadmon).
The Kabbalists say that the Supreme, after he had established the ten Sephiroth -- which, in their totality, are Adam Kadmon, the Archetypal Man, used them as a chariot or throne of glory in which to descend upon the souls of men." ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Light, Spiritual, Ritual
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