The Fountain: The Treasury of Souls (A 🧵)
According to Jewish Lore, in the Garden of Eden there is a 'Tree of Souls' that blossoms & produces new souls, which fall into the "Treasury of Souls". The Tree of Souls produces all the souls that have ever existed, or will ever exist.
According to Jewish Lore, in the Garden of Eden there is a 'Tree of Souls' that blossoms & produces new souls, which fall into the "Treasury of Souls". The Tree of Souls produces all the souls that have ever existed, or will ever exist.
The Chamber of Guf, also called the Otzar or the Treasury of Souls, is said to be located in the Seventh Heaven. Gabriel reaches into the treasury & takes out the first soul that comes into his hand. Then Lailah, the Angel of Conception, watches over the embryo until it is born.
According to Tradition, there is a Finite Number of Souls on this Plane at All Times. When the last soul descends, the world will come to an end. According to the Talmud, Yevamot 62a, the Messiah will not come until the Guf is emptied of all its souls. Death is seen as an Honor.
Guf is Hebrew for BODY. The peculiar idiom of describing the treasury of souls as a "body" is connected to Adam Kadmon, the Primordial Man. Adam Kadmon, God's "original intention" for humanity, was a supernal being, androgynous & macro-cosmic (co-equal in size with the universe).
When this Adam sinned, humanity was demoted to the flesh & blood, bifurcated & mortal creatures we are now. According to the Qabalah, every human soul is just a fragment (or fragments) cycling out of the great "World Soul" of Adam Kadmon.
Hence, every human soul comes from the BODY or Guf (of Adam Kadmon, the Archetypal Divine Androgyne).
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