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PURUSHA SUKTHAM
parts, the creation is diverse. But there are dimensions beyond this material body of cosmos. The totality is the Purusha - body, mind and spirit and beyond - beyond into the unknown.
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תפארת
The Cosmic Man of Kaballa
Kaballa worlds and Sephiroths
The Angel of the Lord The Hebrew letters for YHVH is shown to form a Person. God made Flesh and Form
Purusha portrays a Lord of the Universe which is earlier depicted only in the Hebrew theology as Adam Kadamon - the Primordial Man. In the Genesis creation of Man, God said, "Let us make man in our own image". The first earthly man was created on the model of a cosmic Purusha. In the Nag Hammadi text, the Apocryphon of
John, we learn that this anthropos is the first creation of "knowledge and Perfect Intellect" and the first luminary of the heavens.
Kabbalah. is a presentation of Jewish mysticism based on the fragmentary midrashim - rabbinic writings - of the Talmudic period. It is considered as a codification of the Oral Traditions starting from Moses. It is reflected in the prophetic books of the Old Testament. Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-72) was one of the early mystic who put them in writing. Kaballa was the basis of Gnosticm and it is not surprising that it features heavily in the Hinduism - which is the heretic outgrowth of Christianity under the influence of Manichaen infiltration into the Indian Churches. Adam Kadmon, is the first being to emerge from the infinite unknowable Godhead, Ein-sof (which corresponds to the Nirguna Brahman of Hinduism) to become the knowable God - the Saguna Brahman. The body of this knowable God (Saguna Brahman) is said to both emanate and constitute the cosmos. Man, having been created in God's image, is said by the Kabbalists to be comprised of the very same cosmic
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