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The Soul ofthe Kabbalah
Every form in which the male and female principle is not
to be found is not a superior or complete form. The Holy
One, blessed be He, does not establish His abode where
these two principles are not perfectly united; the blessing
comes down only where this union exists, as we learn
from the following words: "He blessed them and called
their name (Adam) on the day they were created (Genesis
5:2) for the name of Man can be given only to a man
and a woman who are united into one being."
We are told in the Zohar 86 that the world of Earth is a reflection of
the upper World of spirit, echoing the words of Hermes Trismegistos who
says in the Emerald Tablet:
In truth certainly and without doubt, whatever is below
is like that which is above, and whatever is above is like
that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one
thing. Thus this little world is created according to the
prototype of the great world.
The Zohar further states that when Adam was created he gathered
the earthy materials from all over the world and made him from it, on
earth. The soul is a compound of three grades or degrees. The lowest is
the Nephesch, while the next is the Ruach, and the highest is the
Neschamah. Each of the two lowest functions, or levels of the Soul, relies
on the energies of the one above it, so that the body of man can exist
with the spirit therein. It is the function of the lowest to try and unite
with the highest while man is still in material form.
DIVISIONS OF THE SOUL
Guph
Although the Nephesch is the lowest form of the Soul, in one sense
there is another form even lower, Guph, rhe physical body. This is the
clothing vehicle for the next level, the Nephesch. The ZOhaT saysof this: 87
"6 Vol. 2, folio 20Sb.
'7 Vol. 3, folio 76a, from Job 10:11 "Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me
with bones and sinews."
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