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Reading the Head of Adam Kadmon
~ J. H. Chajes
An animated reading of Christian Knorr von Rosenroth’s representation of the head of Adam Kadmon (Primordial Human). With selected English translations of Knorr’s numbered commentary, the film accompanies the discussion of Adam Kadmon and the lights emerging from it in The Poppers Ilan: A Visual History. Pause the animation to examine individual details.
The diagram. Engraving by Johann Christoph Sartorius, Kabbala Denudata (Sulzbach, 1677), Apparatus IV, fig. 1.
Copy shown: Chajes Collection (formerly Tel Aviv, GFCT, NHB.136).