Adam Kadmon
Strides across the universe.
One massive leg rising
From the floor of Earth,
The next onto the farthest star,
Myriad glittering galaxies in between.
Immense body of light,
Flesh of stars, flesh of space
Cognate and coextensive with the cosmos.
This macrocosmic body
Containing all worlds,
This macrocosmic soul
The archetype of all souls.
Primordial Cosmic Man,
Divine androgyne
Resounding in the microcosm-
Light year upon light year
Stretching upward and downward
From this vast archetype
In golden ascensions,
One solid, endlessly reverberant tone
Stretching inward and outward
From this vast archetype
In golden ascensions,
One solid, endlessly reverberant tone.
A vast interiority of sound
Swelling in complex harmonics,
Extending in vast overtones
Vibrating in the towering firmament
Of Adam Kadmon's frame
That encompasses boundless space.
The dazzling figure
Of the human archetype
With a gaze so deep
That all distance dissolves
Before it.
Wearing a crown of starry nebulas,
The Cosmic Androgyne's voice
A super-nova
Of the uttered architecture
Of Creation
Rising in cosmic stadia.
Then a final stillness within the aethers
Where begins the great Ain Soph Aur
Preceded by the great Ain Soph
And preceded again by simply the great Ain,
That vacuum of pure spirit
Resounding with the mathematics
Of original sound,
A music of infinite quietude
Performed like an act of love
In the open palm of eternity
That holds the stature of microcosmic man
Together with that of
Adam Kadmon
Within dimensions upon dimensions
Of inconceivable design.
To this human archetype
Speechless before itself
In the mirror of silver seas
Of void and space,
I ask as courageously as I can
That this spirit
Of Supreme Primordial Man
Love itself eternally in me
And that our existence never end.
