Zohar 2:70a

Jewish Mysticism
“R. Simeon said- I have raised my hands in prayer to the One who created the world, for even though the ancients revealed in this verse [Gen. 5- 1] supernal secrets, one must contemplate and look at the secrets of the book of primordial Adam, for from there is derived the hidden book of King Solomon.”

Translated by Elliot Wolfson in “Forms of Visionary Ascent and Ecstatic Experience,” in Gershom Scholem’s Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism 50 Years After 209-235. Edited by J. Dan and P. Schafer, Tubingen- J. C. B. Mohr, 1993.