In the religious writings of Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon phrase means "Primordial Man," or "Primal Man." Comparable to the Anthropos of Gnosticism and Manichaeism. However, in Lurianic Kabbalah, Adam Kadmon had acquired much more exalted status, equivalent to Purusha in Upanishads, denoting the Manifest Absolute itself, while Adam Soul, primeval Soul that contained all human souls is described in different terms in this variant of mythopoetic cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis.
