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ADAMAS (HIGHER ASPECT)

 A symbol of the Archetypal Man.

" But Cyllenian Hermes summoned forth the souls of men mindful ' (Od. 24, 1 ff.). . . . That is, from the Blessed Man Above, or Original Man, or Adamas, as they think they have been thus brought down into the plasm of clay, in order that they may be enslaved to the Demiurge of this creation, Esaldaios a fiery God, fourth in number, for thus they call the Demiurge." (Gnostic.) - HIPPOLYTUS, Philosophumena , Bk. V. Ch. 2.

The Divine Mind (Hermes) centralises the spiritual egos on the mental plane, endowing them with mind. That is, the egos take forms provided by the Archetypal Man, and are thus brought down to the lower vehicles, in order that they may be enslaved to the lower desire principle (Esaldaios), ruler of the lower quaternary.

"The rock ' means Adamas : this is the corner stone .' " - Ibid.

" The rock was Christ." Adamas ' signifies the Archetypal Man which is Christ incarnate, -the inner God.


 

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ARCHETYPAL MAN
DEMIURGE
HERMES
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