“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” - Genesis 2:7
You are not merely a descendant of Adam. You are Adam himself Son of Man, can you not remember?
You were there with God in the beginning of all things… You named all the animals You beheld Eve on the first day, and you knew her. And your missing rib called forth your heart.
Together you lay on the grass And the seed was planted and was already growing within our Mother
And quickly after an eternity, you desired the forbidden fruit You wanted to be your own Creator And so did what could not be done. You cast yourself out of Paradise and set a cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the gates. You rebelled against your Creator - and projected the evil onto your Father.
Thus began your mad war on God. Thus began your exile to wander in the world.
You are the Child of the seed of Adam You have reaped the rewards of The Separation and in you is the spark of Light that is the Christ For simultaneous with Sophia’s Fall was Christ’s Birth
Adam was created at the Beginning, but the creation is not complete Center and circumference, hub and axle, Always Being, always becoming - this is the paradoxical spinning wheel Only in the resurrection of the Christ is Adamah restored to glory
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.'"
- Genesis 1:26-27,
created by God on the sixth day of creation. He was the first sentient creature and was endowed with language.
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?" - John Milton, Paradise Lost
Adam Created from Dust of All Nations
From Legends of the Jews, God gathers dust from the four corners of the earth—including sites of future altars and graves—to form Adam, ensuring every nation has a claim on him and explaining humanity's universal potential for both sin and sanctity tied to the land's sacred geography.
"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it." —Genesis 2:15
- "When God created Adam, first father of mankind, and his mate, He compensated for all their deficiencies by providing them with all they needed to survive... He caused to grow, from the head of each, long hair which fell down along their bodies... This hair, a garment to them both, covering their nakedness, served as their coat, carpet, cloak, and defense against cold and heat." — Legends of the Jews, Vol. 1, Chapter II, by Louis Ginzberg (Describing Adam's initial glory and natural covering before the Fall)
"Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity." — Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms
Gnostics see the body as a form of prison of Adam's soul.
Etymology of “Adam”
- אָדָם (Adam) in Hebrew means “man” or “human being.”
- In Aramaic: ܐܕܡ (Adam) retains the same meaning, and in many mystical texts, the play between “Adam” and “Adamah” is deliberate and profound.
from אֲדָמָה (Adamah), meaning “earth,” “soil,” or “ground.”
the being formed from the substance of the earth
“Then YHWH formed Adam from the dust of the Adamah, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life…” —Genesis 2:7
In Arabic, Adam (آدم) means "made from earth's mud".
There is a possibility that it may be connected to אדום = red, referring either to the red color of the soil or to the color of human skin.
The name could possibly be derived from Akkadian "adamu", meaning to make.
In bible translations the name was translitterated into the various languages as Aramaic: ܐܕܡ; Arabic: آدَم ʾĀdam; Greek: Ἀδάμ Adám and finally into Latin, Adam, which lead to its form in Romance and Germanic modern languages.
ADAMAH
- Aleph (א) – the Breath, the Ox, the Spirit
- Dalet (ד) – the door, the passage between worlds
- Mem (ם) – water, chaos, subconscious
The breath of spirit is exhaled through the door and is transformed and manifested into the watery depths of chaos…
Myths and Legends
Louis Ginzberg retells a midrash that God himself took dust from all four corners of the earth, and with each color (red for the blood, black for the bowels, white for the bones and veins, and green for the pale skin), created Adam.[18] The soul of Adam is the image of God, and as God fills the world, so the soul fills the human body: "as God sees all things, and is seen by none, so the soul sees, but cannot be seen; as God guides the world, so the soul guides the body; as God in His holiness is pure, so is the soul; and as God dwells in secret, so doth the soul."
Adama is hermaphraditic
Androgynous
"When the Holy One, blessed be He, created Adam, He created him an hermaphrodite for it is said, 'Male & female created He them and called their name Adam.'"
- Rabbi Yirmiyahu ben Leazer, Midrash Rabbah Berashit 8:1
Adam & The Earth
A recurring motif is the bond between Adam and the earth (adamah): God creates Adam by molding him out of clay in the final stages of the creation narrative. A
fter the loss of innocence, God curses Adam and the earth as punishment for his disobedience. Adam and humanity are cursed to die and return to the earth (or ground) from which he was formed.
Adam's curse of estrangement from the earth seems to describe humankind's divided nature of being earthly yet separated from nature. We are of the Earth, yet we are separated from it and estranged from the very substance of our body.
The First Man, Created God/the Gods
In Sumerian and Akkadian tablets, where the gods create a being named Adamu to work the land and serve the gods.
According to Sumerian-Akkadian texts such as the Atrahasis Epic, the gods (specifically the Anunnaki) grew weary of toil and rebellion among themselves, and so Enki and the womb-goddess Ninhursag created a new being: Adamu.
This being was made from:
- Clay (the Earth)
- The blood of a god (a slain deity, often a rebellious one)
“Mix the heart of clay with the blood of a god… thus they shall create man.”
In the Sumerian myth, Adamu is a servant of the gods, created to work the land and take on divine labor.
The Adamic Paradox:
- Created to till, but destined to reign.
- A servant with the seed of sovereignty.
- Dust—yet divine.
- The proverbial prodigal son who is born into wealth, exiled into poverty, but eventually returns home to be raised up.
- The proverbial hero, born as a peasant with a hidden heritage, destined to become the powerful chosen one who saves the realm and becomes King.
Egypt: Atum and the Self-Created One
The Egyptians spoke of Atum, the primordial man-god who self-created from the void.
Atum is the beginning of creation, a fusion of masculine and feminine energies, the generator of the gods.
The biblical Adam created to “till the soil” - to toil on this Earth and create a harvest. To make something out of the raw material of the soil.
The descent of the Watchers in The Book of Enoch
The Annunaki crafting through hybridization of a naturally evolved primate with their own DNA
A recurring mythos: The gods or high beings shape man from clay and spirit, forming a hybrid being, both earth-born and star-born.
Adam Given the Keys to the Mysteries by the Angels
In Jewish mysticism, Raziel delivers the "Sefer Raziel" to Adam, containing esoteric secrets about the universe and divine mysteries, while in Mandaism, the same figure instructs Adam about the mysteries of life and creation.
Benii Elohim
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
(The plural “Elohim”)
Humanity is the offspring of the Elohim—and thus bears the seed of divinity.
archangels are called Beni Elohim - Sons of the Elohim
“All Essenes shared a great reverence for angels, and especially for the Elohim, very high angelic beings who stand above the level of archangel. The Elohim we saw as filling their places by reason of merit and not through being created great. We saw them as rising upwards from lesser angels or from the equivalent of human beings, through great ages of cosmic development until they reached that high level.”
- Daniel, in the Essene book (which?)
the Adamic Lineage
- Adam/Eve → Seth → … → Enoch (who walks with God) → Noah → Abraham → David → Solomon → Yeshua → You
This is a mythic DNA, a soul lineage, a spiritual royal bloodline.
Adam is:
- The Mirror and microcosm of God – formed in divine image
- The Exile – cast from Eden to experience time, death, and return
- The Alchemical Vessel – containing the seed of transformation. And Christ is the Philosopher’s Stone born from that vessel after the Great Work.
- The Son of Earth and Heaven – of dust and of breath
- The Child of the Earth
Adam Kadmon & the Breaking of the Vessels
Adam Kadmon—the Primordial Heavenly Man, whose form is the Tree of Life itself.
Adam means ‘in the likeness of’ or ‘in the image of’… Adam Kadmon is the primordial world which is ‘in the likeness of’ the Infinite Light…
the breaking of the vessels (Shevirat ha-Kelim) is connected to Adam’s fall: divine light shattered in the lower worlds, and the mission of man became to gather the sparks.
Fulfillment in Christ
Yeshua/Christ is:
- The Second Adam - the one who “atones for the sins of the father”
- The one who restores what was lost, remembers what was forgotten, redeems that which was fallen….
- The completion & fulfilment of the Adam Kadmon divine primordial pattern
“For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.” - 1 Corinthians 15:22
The Path of Adam
- Formation – Created from earth, divine breath within
- Perfection - Timeless existence in The Garden as the Son at play
- Fall – The Separation and descent Into the world, into duality, into forgetting, into suffering
- Crucifixion - The peak and culmination of one’s mad dream. Giving up the ghost, nailed to the cross of matter, dying with open arms for truth/love
- Resurrection & Atonement – Redemption through forgiveness, surrender, wisdom, love, gnosis, and grace
- Christhood - Embodying Truth as the only begotten child of God.
- Return & Ascension – Return to Eden, to the Kingdom of Heaven, to the Tree of Life. The final step where you are lifted back Home, to divine unity, to the right hand of the Father.
Adam in Gnosticism
In the ancient Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, Adam originally appears as a primordial being born from light poured out by the aeon known as forethought. Accordingly, his primordial form is called Adam of Light. But when he desired to reach the eighth heaven, he was unable to because of the corruption mixed with his light. Thus he creates his own realm, containing six universes and their worlds which are seven times better than the heavens of Chaos. All these realms exist within the region between the eighth heaven and the Chaos beneath it. But when the archons saw him, they realize the chief creator of the material world (Yaldabaoth) had lied to them by claiming he was the only god. However, they decide to create a physical version of Adam in the image of the spiritual Adam. But Sophia later sends her daughter Zoe (the spiritual Eve) to give the physical Adam life before leaving the physical Eve with Adam and entering the Tree of Knowledge. However, according to the Hypostasis of the Archons, a spirit descends on the physical Adam and gives him a living soul.
Children of Adam and Eve
Adam withdrew from Eve for 130 years after their expulsion from Eden, and in this time both he and Eve had sex with demons, until at length they reunited and Eve gave birth to Seth.[22] A 2nd-century BCE Jewish religious work, the Book of Jubilees, tells how Adam had a daughter, Awân, born after Cain and Abel,[26] and another daughter, Azura, born after Seth,[27] and they had nine other sons;[28] Cain married Awân and Seth married Azûrâ, thus accounting for their descendants.
Adam's death and burial
The Archangel Michael attended Adam's death, together with Eve and his son Seth, still living at that time, and he was buried together with his murdered son Abel.[29] Because they repented, God gave Adam and Eve garments of light, and similar garments will clothe the Messiah when he comes.[30]
According to the Apocalypse of Moses, which probably originates in first-century CE Jewish literature, the altar of the Temple of Solomon was the centre of the world and the gateway to God's Garden of Eden, and it was here that Adam was both created and buried.
The Repentance of Adam
The Life of Adam and Eve and its Greek version the Apocalypse of Moses recount how Adam repented his sin in exile and was rewarded by being transported to the heavenly paradise, foreshadowing the destiny of all the righteous at the end of time.
Living the Adamic Myth
The myth of Adam is not about the past—it is about you now. A true Myth does not tell about the past, it tells about You, Here, Now.
To reclaim Adam is to:
- Accept your divine inheritance and your earthly limitation
- Admit your exile and your longing for return
- Embark on the path of inner reunification (the Tree of Life as your internal map)
You are both The First Man—naive, broken, innocent, ignorant And The Last Man—wise, whole, crowned in glory
The exile of Adam becomes the Holy Jihad, the Hero’s Quest, and the devoted pilgrimage of the initiate.
the fruit of Eden becomes transmuted into the Stone of the Alchemists That which you obtained and consumed that exiled you is transformed into the perfect Stone that restores you
The Angels' Protest Against Human Creation
In Legends of the Jews drawing from Genesis Rabbah, angels object to Adam's creation, fearing human free will would lead to idolatry and sin, but God silences them by showing future prophets and martyrs, foreshadowing the fall as a test of divine trust in humanity.
The Names Given to Adam
Midrash in Genesis Rabbah states God taught Adam the names of all creatures before the fall, but after expulsion, Adam renames them in sorrow.
Adam's Lament and the First Sabbath
From Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and Legends of the Jews, after expulsion, Adam observes the first sunset fearing eternal darkness as punishment, but upon dawn's return, he establishes the Sabbath with offerings, teaching Eve and future generations about cyclical renewal and divine mercy.