Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene, Empt,. Solitary,
Unchanging, Infinite, Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name,I call
it the Tao --Tao Te Ching
As Samuel Liddell Mathers (1854-1918) wrote in The Kabbalah Unveiled (a translation of Knorr Von
Rosenroth's Kabbala Denudata):
"To define negative existence clearly is impossible, for when it is distinctly defined it ceases to be
negative existence; it is then negative existence passing into static condition. Therefore wisely have the
Qabalists shut out from mortal comprehension the primal Ain, the negatively existent One, and the Ain
Soph, the limitless Expansion; while of even the Ain Soph Aur, the illimitable Light, only a dim
conception can be formed."
The Veils contain and conceal the unmanifest aspects of the sefirot, i.e. precisely those aspects which
we cannot comprehend. They are considered as lying back from Kether without being separate from it,
which is why terms like "The Concealed of the Concealed" are often applied to both the first sefira and
the Veils. Kether is brought into being by the concentration of the en sof or:
"Kether is the Malkuth of the Unmanifest."
Kether is the uncreated and all-encompassing "point" of actionless unity which is both transcendent
and immanent in its evanescent reflection: the Creation. The immanence of Kether is experienced in
progressively more diluted forms in the remainder of the sefirot; its transcendence is found in the three
Veils of Negative Existence.
Adam Kadmon (Primordiall Adam) is the first partzuf (person) to become manifest in the chalal
(vacuum) which results from the tzimtzum (contraction) of the God's Infinite Light (Ein Sof Or). It is
emanated by the kav (ray of Divine light) which initially permeates the chalal. Its emanation takes
place in two stages, first in the form of ten "concentric circles" (egulim) which radiate from the kav,
and then in the form of a "man-like" being (yosher) which "enclothes" the kav. Adam Kadmon is in a
way a created being --Adam—and also a manifestation of primordial Divinity--Kadmon - the
Cosmic Christ who can be known by the creation. Therefore Adam Kadmon represents the
archetypal soul of Messiah, the ultimate "crown" of all of God's Creation. Adam Kadamon exists in
the Divine World which is in contact with the creation. He is not a creation but an emanation or Ein
Sof which took form. It has many other titles, like the Concealer of the Concealed, the White Head
and the Crown of all Crowns. Most Kabbalists knew it by the God-Name Ehyeh or I Am, where the
Absolute allowed Existence to be.
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