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90 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
This is expounded upon in the system of Isaac Luria and Chaim Vital. 8l
The Zohar states: 82
If all dead bodies are risen from the dust, what will
become to the bodies that have shared the same soul?
Rabbi Jose tells us that these do not count and it is the last body
that one has shared that will rise again at resurrection. The entire concept
relates to the Biblical book of Genesis, where it is said that something
is created in physical form then returned to God on the final day.
Of the actual creation itself, the Zohar says:83
As the body is made in this world from the combination of
the four elements, the spirit (soul) is made in the Garden
84 from a combination of the four winds that are there
and the spirit in them shaped in the shape of the body.
This tells us that when the soul is first fashioned it is in empathy
with the body. The effect of its shaping in the Garden through the four
winds is analogous to the four elements on earth. In fact, one could
assume that the soul is reshaped in the Garden before any re-entry into
man or woman. The Zahar says:85
Blessed are the just, whose NShMThHVN, souls are
drawn from that Holy Body which is called Adam, which
includeth all things; the place, as it were, wherein all the
Crowns and Holy Diadems are associated together,
arrayed in equilibrium and balance.
This concept shows that all souls were created together, even
though the vast majority took their time before entry into mankind.
On the question of polarity of the Soul, with the continual reference
to the male Adam, the Zahar says:
81 See Sepher Ha-Gilgalim or Book of Transformation.
82 Vol. 2. folio 131a.
83 Vol. 3. folio 13b.
84 This is possibly the Lower Garden of Eden and not the Upper.
85 Lesser Holy Assembly.