Adam and the Tree of Life are conceived in the same design. This idea originates in the statement in the first chapter of Genesis: God created man in His own image. According to Kabbalistic tradition God generates, out of the Void of Non Existence beyond which God is All and Nothing, the first state of Unmanifest Existence. From this World without End crystallises a realm of Limitless Light, in the midst of which there emerges a point of no dimensions called the First Crown. These three states of Unmanifest Existence become the negative background to the positive Universe that streams through the primal point of the First Crown to evolve into the archetypal World of Emanation. This manifestation on
its completion is known as Adam Kadmon, that is the Primeval and Universal Man. Although composed of the ten aspects of the Creator, Adam is the symbol of a unified working whole, the first man being a living image of the Universe and mirror of its Maker.
- Professor: Dr. Conny Williams