Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

WISDOM (MASCULINE)

A symbol of the Higher Self — atma‑buddhi, the manifesting Spirit on the higher planes.

“Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” — 1 Cor. i.24.

“The Zohar calls Wisdom the Divine Word which announced and finished creation, and says that it is the foundation of all spiritual and physical life. It calls Wisdom the Upper Paradise or Eden illa‑ah. This superior Eden, the Wisdom or the Ancient, is in the Zohar ‘a Form comprising all forms.’” — I. Myer, *Qabbalah*, p. 205.

“Ibn Geberol says in his *Kether Malkhuth*, ‘Wisdom is the fountain of life.’ The Zohar says: ‘The seventh palace, the fountain of life, is the first in order from above,’ etc.” — Ibid., p. 199.

The higher “Eden” is the plane of atma‑buddhi; the lower Eden is a lower sub‑plane of the buddhic plane.
The Monad (atma‑buddhi) contains all forms and qualities, and is the source of the prototypes or patterns of all things on the buddhic plane.

“Then I (Wisdom) was by him, as a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.” — Prov. viii.30–31.

Then the Higher Self was present on the upper planes, guiding and supervising. Wisdom or Intelligence was the sole inscrutable wonder of manifestation in which the Self realizes itself. Through evolution the Self accomplishes its task upon the lower planes and there perfects its nature. Through the spiritual egos — the spiritual product of mind (men) — the Wisdom‑principle is realised.

“This delight of the Wisdom of God in men existed before there were any men, or any earth for them to dwell in. What can this mean but that from everlasting that intelligent consciousness, that principle of life and mind, which now shows itself in us and constitutes us human, is present in its fullness in the eternal Son of God, whence we all derive? It is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, and therefore, in a sense, it is perfectly true that God rejoiced over us before the world was. To him time is not the succession of experiences that it is to us. It is the eternal Now — a state utterly inconceivable to our present limited faculties. We cannot even speak of it without an intellectual contradiction. To say that all that is was present to God in Christ before time began is to assume the reality of time in the very act of denying it.” — R. J. Campbell, *The Timeless Affinity*.

See Also

CIRCLE
EDEN
GARDEN OF EDEN
HOKHMAH
HOLY GHOST
MONAD
PARADISE
PROTOTYPES
RONGO
SEPHIROTH
SERPENT ÆSCULAPIUS
SERPENT (solar)
TIME
Word