upward indicates the male the terrestrial horizontal principle, downward the base line.[569] But the idea female; the two typifying, is the same: Adam Kadmon is at the same time, spirit and the type of humanity as a matter. This world within collective totality within the infinite universe is the the unity of the creative microcosm within the God and the universal macrocosm, as in the Jewish spirit. _Kabala_. It is the symbol of the womb of the universe, “Of him who is formless, the the terrestrial egg, whose non-existent (also the archetype is the golden eternal, but _not_ First mundane egg. It is from Cause), is born the heavenly within this spiritual bosom man.” But after he created of mother nature that the form of the heavenly proceed all the great man אדמעלאה, he “used it as saviours of the a vehicle wherein to universe--the avatars of the descend,” says the _Kabala_. invisible Deity. Thus Adam Kadmon is the avatar of the concealed “Of him who is and yet is power. After that the not, from the not-being, heavenly Adam creates or Eternal Cause, is born the engenders by the combined being Pouroucha,” says Manu, power of the Sephiroth, the the legislator. Pouroucha is earthly Adam. The work of the “divine male,” the creation is also begun by _second_ god, and the Sephira in the creation of avatar, or the Logos of the ten Sephiroth (who are Para-Brahma and his divine the Pradjapatis of the son, who in his turn _Kabala_, for they are produced Viradj, the son, or likewise the Lords of all the ideal type of the beings). universe. “Viradj begins the work of creation by The _Sohar_ asserts the producing the ten same. According to the Pradjapati, ‘the lords of kabalistic doctrine there all beings.’” were old worlds (see Idra Suta: _Sohar_, iii., p. 292 According to the doctrine of b). Everything will return Manu, the universe is some day to that from which subjected to a periodical it first proceeded. “All and never-ending succession things of which this world of creations and consists, spirit as well as dissolutions, which periods body, will return to their of creation are named principal, and the roots Manvântara. from which they proceeded” (_Sohar_, ii., 218 b). The