TRANSCENDENT UNITY (ONENESS)
 
 

There is a Holy, Transcendent Unity at the heart of all things, which is reflected to one degree or another in all things created by Nature, and in some things created by human beings. (It is the particular glory and burden of humanity that we can choose to consciously reflect this Holy Unity in our actions and creations -- or we can choose not to do so.) This Holy Unity is not a person; It has no gender; It cannot be fully known or defined, although It can be experienced and known in high mystical states of awareness. Its myriad reflections, however, can have any form, any gender, any nature; they can be personal or impersonal; they can be physical, non-physical or both at once. These reflections are not the Holy Unity, but they are Its expressions in the world of our experience, and reverent and meditative attention to them can lead us toward a deepened awareness of the Holy Unity Itself and our role in the universe as humans.
 

What is the Kadmon?
 

The reflection of the Holy Unity that is most central to us as human beings is the human form itself, in all its complexity and on all its many levels -- spiritual, mental, emotional, energetic, and physical. This form is the ultimate ground of all our experience and the means by which we experience the world. The human form (physical, mental, and otherwise) is the defining factor in how we relate to the world, to each other and to ourselves. Whatever we know is known through human bodies, minds, senses and structures of awareness. Because of this, the universe of our experience is a human universe, created in our image through the
very act by which we perceive it. Ideas of what is "objectively real" miss the point: the only reality we can know directly is the reality of our own experience, and that reality is necessarily a human reality. Beyond this reality, we cannot even speculate.
 

In many ancient traditions, this insight was expressed by the symbolic idea that the entire universe has a human form -- that the universe is a vast Human Being, just as each human being is a small universe. This vast Being has had many names and, among us, It is named the [Adam] Kadmon.
 

As a reflection of the Holy Unity, the Kadmon is not the Holy Unity Itself, but It is our closest approximation to the Holy Unity, and the one grounded most firmly on the essential nature of our being in the world. As the human form has both male and female aspects, the Kadmon is both Male and Female; for similar reasons, It partakes of every stage of the cycle of human life and death. It is the sum total of human possibility: a sum which is infinite, but which falls infinitely short of the unknowable potentials of the Holy Unity Itself.