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From the spiritual substance said to have formed Adam, the first man, in the kabbalistic tradition; symbolically, the clay of Genesis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The primordial substance of corporeal matter, said to be closely related to the philosopher’s stone and symbolically identified as “red earth” or sometimes other substances. Full definition →
From the spiritual substance said to have formed Adam, the first man, in the kabbalistic tradition; symbolically, the clay of Genesis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.