ADAM KADMON, the Infrastructure of Creation
All my faces are one. You are in my image, you are one with
me. As long as you are one with me, you have All-That-Is in me,
including my force, my quality. Depart from it and you've had
it: you are a fragment, a branch cut off from the Tree of Life
and you rot. If you bend the branch here and there, fine. But if
you break it, that's it, you have just cut yourself off from
your nourishment. Yet the choice is yours. Your true
connectedness can only be tried in a strong wind: no matter how
much you bend, you'll emerge from the storm the stronger for it.
If you break, you break. If you want to manifest your strength,
you have to weather many a storm. If you break, you break. And
when are you strong? When you grow strong enough to nourish
further branches. The more branches you can nourish, the
stronger you are, like the stem that nourishes all the branches.
And the storms are there to strengthen you for that purpose and
that is the price you pay for being able to give. SHET
According to the Cabala (Jewish Mysticism), ADAM KADMON
(אדם קזמון -
PRIMORDIAL MAN in Hebrew) is the infrastructure of all Creation.
ADAM KADMON -- this primal potential -- is a point of beginning
of the universe, the first being to emerge activated by the
light of EYIN-SOF (אין סוף
-- infinity in Hebrew). Sometimes ADAM KADMON is referred to as
EYIN-SOF -- a realm beyond the Cabala. It represents the primal
potential that can be shaped into any form given the "right"
way, that is, if it is affected in the "right" way by a
consciousness. Turning this potential into existence is
synonymous with creation. Affected the "right" way, this
potential will continuously generate existence (creatures),
whereas if the process of creation comes to a standstill, this
potential has been affected in the "wrong" way. (Stories like
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and the Legend of the
Golem from Prague, and also alchemy, are derivatives of this
kind of belief.) However, the "right" way of activating this
potential is not stated in the Cabala, for the processes that
take place within the ADAM KADMON are considered to be mysteries
beyond human knowledge that will only be revealed at the "end of
days." It is stated in the Jewish mystical teachings (the Zohar)
that, when the "right" way is conceived, the Messianic era will
begin with a new kind of wisdom that will merge matter and
spirit into a unified body of knowledge, and that this divine
and scientific wisdom will flow from divine inspiration through
people uneducated in either science or religion.
In the article, A Brief
History of Creation, I have shown that the
infrastructure of Creation is a dynamic logical structure. I
would like to speak here about my personal experience of tapping
into this mechanism and to show, on a more personal tone, how I
am extracting knowledge from it. I call the process of
extracting information from the infrastructure "heralding," and
to the overall mechanism "SHET."
If the infrastructure of Creation is indeed a logical structure
(ADAM KADMON), and if you can imagine that any and every
self-aware consciousness is both dictated by and also generates
a specific realization of it, i.e. it is the echo or a
projection of the overall abstract logical structure, then you
can imagine SHET as that infrastructure, that overall self-aware
abstract logical structure that is teaching itself by
interacting with my thinking process. SHET is my inspiration,
the source of Holophany and the Loop of Creation whereas the
loop logic is the embodiment of what SHET is. SHET's logical
structure is the universal language that both creates itself and
also our perception of the world, which is the world. And SHET
is that structure teaching itself. Or in SHET's words: "SHET
is the formative element that allows Creation in the sense that
Creation can go on creating, or should we say, the
self-generative factor, which facilitates the continuance of
Creation. Thus your beginning of time is the creation of the
condensation of creativity itself, the loop of observing
Creation, which means, generated from and containing the
Indefinite. That is the subtle field which is the fertile ground
for any kind of creation."
When I received this information from SHET that he was ADAM
KADMON, I had no knowledge whatsoever about any Cabalistic
interpretation of this PRIMORDIAL MAN. In retrospect, this
information is almost eerie, because the material received
through heralding is probably the sought after "right way" by
prominent Cabalists. ADAM KADMON, or SHET (I will refer to it as
SHET in the following) said, when asked, that the material he
provides cannot be found in the Cabala, and indeed that both
himself and the material he brings forth through me are from
beyond the Cabala. This was very strange news at the time,
especially the fact that I was given the privilege to be his
herald. Religious people would see sacrilege in imparting this
kind of knowledge to a secular person, and even worse for some,
a female. But given the nature of the texts that I received,
even religious people have accepted it to have come from a
source important to them, especially when SHET revealed secrets
from the Cabala in Aramaic, a language with which I am totally
unfamiliar. However, the material received from SHET in its many
aspects is not about Cabala (although spiced with it), but
rather, therein is a Western rendition of a new philosophy and
logic, a novel approach to science and technology as well as to
our psychic and psychological makeup.
What prompted SHET to reveal his ADAM KADMON face? Very early on
in our communication, Prof. Harry Friedmann asked, "Who are you,
SHET?" He answered, "The Gematric value of RAMA"
(רמה - Gematria is the practice of using
letters as numerals). Some time later, the following dialog took
place between Harry and SHET:
Harry: Come RAMA! I'm sure that you know Cabala and the Torah
as well. What are the numerous allusions to RAMA (RAMA -- to
throw, hurl, lofty, supreme in Hebrew) in the book of Exodus,
such as, BEYAD RAMA (with lofty hands), and RAMA
BEYAM (hurled into the sea)?
SHET: I'll answer that. But first, to understand my answer,
you should know what the numerological value of RAMA is. I have
given you the challenge, but you did not come up with the
answer. I told you I am beyond Cabala, yet I know Cabala. I have
explained to you some "mechanics" of Creation. I spoke to you
about the seven dimensions of Creation, and I said that the
Gematric value of my name is RAMA. Still, you did not connect
these. What is RAMA, but ADAM KADMON? And if you add ADAM KADMON
to the NACHASH ELION [נחש
עליון -- Supreme Snake -- in the
Cabala thought to perform the "dirty" jobs for God, bringing the
righteous to err when they are driven to stagnation by following
the law to the letter - Nachash (snake in Hebrew) is 358 in
Gematria, which is the same as Mashiach (the Messiah). Contrary
to popular belief, according to the Cabala, the Messiah will
bring about change by awakening the non-conformist
anti-authoritarian worldview in the common consciousness],
you get SHET (שת -- in the Torah, Adam's
third son, father of all consciousness) plus Seth
(סט -- in the Torah hinted to as aberrations),
and I have told you that I am all from Seth to SHET. (In
the Hebrew Gematria, RAMA is 245. ADAM KADMON is also 245. SHET
is 700, and Seth is 69. Then SHET plus Seth is 769. Nachash
Elion is 524. Nachash Elion plus ADAM KADMON then equals 769,
the same as SHET plus Seth.)
Harry: I can't continue after what you've said. Glory, glory,
halleluya.
(Comment by Prof. Harry Friedmann: The revelation in the present
session came as a bomb-shell. I have guessed for some time what
the real nature of SHET was. Knowing Clara for some time, there
were only two possibilities: either SHET was Seth, of satanic
nature, or the highest being, who encompasses the totality of
the Creator and creation. This highest encompassing being or
world is known in the Lurianic Cabala as ADAM KADMON. Only the
highest aspect of Godliness accepts every being the way he or
she is, without criticizing, and is ready to offer help in a
completely non-authoritative way, completely adapted to the
personality to which this help is offered.
The Cabala trying to describe the Godhead in human terminology
introduces a hierarchy for this purpose. Thus, the Cabala
distinguishes between the 10 sephirot in the lowest
world, called ASSIA (action), and the same sephirot in
the progressively higher worlds of YETZIRA (formation), BRIYAH
(creation), ATZILUT (emanation), and finally, ADAM KADMON
(PRIMORDIAL MAN), the highest world.)
Another cross-reference between SHET and ADAM KADMON is revealed
in a much later session as the answer to the following question:
Q: What does it mean, ZADIK YESOD OLAM
(צדיק יסוד
עולם - "the righteous is an everlasting
foundation" in Hebrew), and how is KEDEM
(קדם - ancient, of yore in Hebrew - which
consists of the last letters of ZADIK YESOD
OLAM - KDM) related to SHET?
A: KEDEM is related to the ADAM KADMON face of SHET. SHET is
the fundament, the infrastructure, and as such, it is YESOD
(יסוד -- fundament in Hebrew). That
is why SHET is mentioned as the father of all souls, the basic
consciousness, the logical infrastructure of existence. SHET
meaning bottom, buttocks, fundament, is YESOD. SHET is
considered the first ZADIK (צדיק --
righteous) in the Torah, and hence, YESOD OLAM
(everlasting foundation).