coherence and unity, such as a philosophical school, a church, a sect, a
masonic order, a society, a party, etc.,
is undoubtedly a living being,
possessing a certain intelligence. A people, a nation is a living being;
mankind is also a living being. It is the
Great Man,
the
ADAM KADMON
of the
Kabalists.
ADAM KADMON
is a being living in men, including in himself the
minds of all men. H. P. Blavatsky speaks about this in her voluminous work,
The Secret Doctrine:
'it is not the Adam of dust (of Genesis, Chapter II), who
is thus made in the divine image, but the Divine Androgyne (of Chapter I), or
Adam Kadmon.'*
ADAM KADMON
is
HUMANITY
or the
human race -
Homo
sapiens -
'a being with the body of an animal and the face of a superman'.
Entering as a component pan into various great and complex minds, man
himself consists of innumerable big and small minds, many of which, while
existing in him, do not even know one another, just as people living in the
same house may not know one another. On the whole, if we pass to
analogies, 'man' has
much in common with
a house
filled with the most
varied inhabitants, or even more so with a large ocean liner carrying a great
many chance passengers, each going to his own destination for his own
purpose, and including the most diverse elements. Each separate unit of the
population of this liner orientates from himself, involuntarily and
unconsciously taking himself for the centre of the liner. This is an
approximately true picture of a human being.
Perhaps it would be even more appropriate to compare man with some
separate corner of the earth, living a life of its own: with a forest lake full of
the most varied life, reflecting the sun and the stars and concealing in its
depths some phantasm incomprehensible to itself, perhaps an undine, perhaps
a water-sprite.
If we abandon analogies and pass on to real facts as far as they are
accessible to our
observation, it is necessary to begin with several somewhat
artificial divisions of the human being. The old division into body, soul and
spirit has some good points but often leads into error, for attempts at such a
division immediately bring about disagreements as
to where the body ends
and the soul begins, where the soul ends and the spirit begins, etc. There are
no strict dividing lines in this, nor can there be. Besides, one is led astray by
the fact that body, soul and spirit are
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