The cabala, its influence on Judaism and Christianity . ah andthe root by the last. The Divine —As to the Adam Kadmonwhich is shown in the following figure, the Crownrepresents the head; Wisdom, the brains; Intel-ligence which unites the two and produces thefirst triad, the heart or the understanding. Thefourth and fifth Sephiroth, i. e., Love and Jus-tice are the two arms, the former the right armand the latter the left; one distributing life andthe other death. The sixth Sephirah, Beauty,uniting these two opposites and producing thesecond triad, is the chest. Firmness and Splen-dor of t
The cabala, its influence on Judaism and Christianity . ah andthe root by the last. The Divine —As to the Adam Kadmonwhich is shown in the following figure, the Crownrepresents the head; Wisdom, the brains; Intel-ligence which unites the two and produces thefirst triad, the heart or the understanding. Thefourth and fifth Sephiroth, i. e., Love and Jus-tice are the two arms, the former the right armand the latter the left; one distributing life andthe other death. The sixth Sephirah, Beauty,uniting these two opposites and producing thesecond triad, is the chest. Firmness and Splen-dor of the third triad represent the two legs,whereas Foundation, the ninth Sephirah, repre-sents the genital organs, since it denotes the basisand source of all things. Finally Kingdom, thetenth Sephirah, represents the harmony of thewhole Archetypal Man. Now in looking at the Sephiroth which con-stitute the first triad, it will be seen that they 69 THE CABALA represent the intellect; hence this triad is calledby Azariel the intellectual world (olam muskal. Fig. 1. ADAM KADMON, THE ARCHETYPAL MAN. or olam ha-sechel). The second triad which rep-70 ITS DOCTRINES resents moral qualities, is called the moral orsensuous world (olam murgash, also olam ha- , Crown 1 2 Intelligence 5 Justice
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