primordial man

Also known as: first man, primal man

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Lurianic Kabbala

  • In Isaac ben Solomon Luria

    …and Adam Qadmon, the symbolic “primordial man,” who is the highest configuration of the divine light, is rebuilt. Man plays an important role in this process through various kawwanot used during prayer and through mystical intentions involving secret combinations of words, all of which is directed toward the restoration of…

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Zoroastrianism

  • Zoroastrian Fire Temple of Yazd, Iran
    In Zoroastrianism: Cosmogony

    ” Gayōmart, the Primal Man, was also conceived as spherical, in the image of the sky. Mānushchihr writes that “Ormazd, the lord of all things, produced from Infinite Light a form of fire whose name was that of Ormazd and whose light was that of fire.” This phrase…

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