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5 Planes of Existence
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Five Planes of Manifestation
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ADAM (LOWER ASPECT)
A symbol of the lower mind energized from
the desire plane, but receptive of impressions from the higher
nature. This is the "fallen" mind (Adam).
"We must consider that the man who was formed of earth , means the
mind which is to be infused into the body." - Vol. I. p. 60.
“God , when first of all he made the intellect called it Adam ." -
PHILO , Yonge's Trans . , Vol. IV. p. 312.
The " Adam of dust " is described by Zosimus as " the Adam of fate ,
him of the four elements." That is, the lower mind subject to Karma
, and related with the lower quaternary.
" In reading the first and second chapters of Genesis , a
distinction was made by the learned of the Israelites, between the
higher Adam , i.e. the Adam Qadmon , or First Paradigmic Ideal Man,
and the inferior (the terrestrial ) Adam.' - I. MYER , Qabbalah , p.
114.
The Kabbala describes four Adams, the two highest of which are
celestial and spiritual.
" The Third Adam is the terrestrial Adam , made of ' dust,' and
placed in the Garden of Eden. This Adam was also an androgen . It
had, when first created, a glorious simulacrum or light body , and
answers to the Yetzeeratic World." - Ibid. , p. 418.
This indicates an early form of man in an astral body on the astral
plane, directed at first from the buddhic plane (Eden).
“The Fourth Adam was the Third Adam as he was after the Fall , when
he was clothed with skin , flesh, nerves , etc. This answers to the
lower Nephesh and Guff, i.e. body , united . He has the animal power
of reproduction and continuance of species , and also answers to the
Aseeyatic World , but in him is some of the Light of all the
preceding (Adams)." - Ibid. , p. 418.
This signifies man as he is now encased in astral (nephesh) and
physical (guff) bodies united; and living in the physical world of
action (aseeyatic), but enlightened from his inner nature of mind
and spirit. These four Adamic humanities stand for four root -races,
the last of which reached the physical plane; this is known as the
Atlantean race, the race which preceded the Aryan.
" Together they form the Great Universal Man .. The Qabalah names
man as the purpose of creation, and the first step is the Upper Adam
or Celestial Man " (Zohar , III . 48A ).— Ibid. , p. 418.
(This account of the four Adams may be compared with the Chinese “
dynasties.")
" And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul." - GENESIS. ii . 7.
And the Will -Wisdom established the lower mind, which is the direct
offshoot of the higher element (dust) of the lower nature; and into
this mentality the spiritual essence, spark, was projected, to
connect the lower nature with the higher and thence the man ,-manasic
being ,- became a creature capable of independent existence.
"And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden,
" etc.- GENESIS . ii . 15.
And the Wisdom -Love introduces the mind into the heavenly plane,
-or starts the evolution through buddhic action.
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