Keter
Crown — Will
Keter, the Crown — the first emanation, the un-knowable will of Ein Sof entering manifestation. In Lurianic Kabbalah Keter is identified with the Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days) and the Arikh Anpin (Long Face), the source of all subsequent sefirot. On Adam Kadmon it sits above the head, often pictured as a halo rather than a body-point: it is the threshold between unmanifest and manifest, not yet form. The contemplative correlate is bittul — annihilation of self-will into divine will. Where Chokhmah is insight and Binah understanding, Keter is the silent assent that precedes thought.
Point 1 of 10 in Kabbalah — Tree of Life (Adam Kadmon)
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Zohar I.15a (Sitrei Torah) (primary_canonical)
“In the beginning of the King's authority, the Lamp of Darkness engraved a hollow in the supernal luminescence.”
Sefer Yetzirah I.4 (primary_canonical)
Sefer Yetzirah I.4 (the Kaplan short-recension enumeration) establishes the ten sefirot belimah and distinguishes ten from nine or eleven. It is the source's foundational tenfold framework for the Tree of Life, not a claim about a physical body.