The Allegory of Creation
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
“And YHVH
Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed.”
As we have come to learn, the Torah
is nothing more than a metaphysical handbook, the individual biography of every
being born on the planet. It’s a guide that details the many mental and
spiritual states we find ourselves occupying during every waking moment of our
lives.
I don’t know what your
understanding of Eden is, but chances are that you’ve come to know it as God’s
magical garden where he placed Adam and Eve, both of whom then went on to eat
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – a big no-no in the eyes of HaShem.
Scientifically (and
metaphysically) speaking, we can look at the Creator as simply a nonlocal,
multidimensional ‘event’ that developed conscious awareness and ‘asked’ itself
why it was. In order to explore this question, the nonlocal multidimensional
event individualized itself and generated our local, ‘physical’
three-dimensional reality (governed by space and time).
This being the case, where
exactly does ‘Eden’ fit in? Furthermore, who on earth are Adam and Eve?
In order to answer these
questions, we must remember again to look at the Torah as a metaphysical guide
concerning the various states of consciousness.
Firstly, ‘Eden’ is not a garden.
It’s not actually a place at all. Eden represents a ‘pleasant, harmonious state
of consciousness’ leading to growth (that’s where the garden bit comes in).
Further, in scriptural symbolism, east always represents the within, so what we
have is a pleasant, harmonious state of consciousness (Eden) within us (located
in the east).
“And out of the ground made YHVH
Elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good
and evil.”
Trees represent thoughts of
unity. One small thought or idea grows and spreads out, becoming a symbol of
strength in which high, spiritual ideals can ‘roost’. Trees are also widely
interpreted metaphysically as being the nerves of the body of man, the
connecting links between earth and heaven, body and mind.
Within the state of ‘Eden’ can be
found “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. Now, this ‘tree’ represents
our ability to measure purpose, our ability to assign values to purpose. All
things ‘good’ are an expression of purpose, while all things ‘evil’ are things
that contribute to the measurement of a lack of purpose.
The other main ‘tree’ that sits
in ‘Eden’ is the tree of life. The tree of life represents pure being,
existence free of the measurement of purpose. In fact, in a way, the tree of
life exists as a result of our individual measurements of purpose.
This ‘tree of life’ is the
default basic state of conscious awareness, the state we share with the
nonlocal multidimensional event (NME). Even though we are individualized from
the NME, we are still connected to our place of origin, which is represented by
this tree of life.
“And YHVH Elohim
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: But
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in
the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.”
When we become individualized in
order to measure purpose, we ‘eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil’ and are cast out of the default pleasant, harmonious state of
consciousness that we are born into (spiritually).
When we eat from the tree, we
‘die’ – become separated from the NME – we achieve free will in order to
measure purpose, we are ‘born’ into an ego.
Man can only regain entry into
‘Eden’ by being ‘born anew’ in spirit – a spirit that is closely associated
with the pleasant, harmonious state of consciousness – a state which can come
about voluntarily while we are ‘alive’, but is more generally experienced via
the ‘death’ of the physical body.
We eat the fruit of the tree of
life when we appropriate ideas of divine existence, ceasing to see life as
something that comes and goes, something that consists of a ‘birth’ and a
‘death’.
The spirit never dies.
Which brings us to ‘Adam’ and
‘Eve…’
Adam represents the ego or will,
the Spiritual existing in the physical – the soul, the intellect. On the other
hand, Eve represents feeling, and is most associated with love.
Both Adam and Eve together represent
the individualized ‘I AM’ consciousness – the conscious awareness of every man
and woman. We all have a rational, thinking side, and an emotional side that
counteracts it. This is where the old idea of letting your heart rule your head
comes from – Eve, tempted by the serpent (which represents desire, by the way),
eats the fruit and tells Adam to do the same.
This entire metaphysical
interpretation is fascinating in that it explains why we are here, what caused
us to become individualized, and how our feelings (Eve) can over-rule our head
(Adam) and are in turn influenced and driven by our desires (the serpent).
Again, the serpent represents the
fact that all desires are the lowest forms of thought, above which are higher
concepts and ideas to do with self and spirituality (lowest forms of thought
because they are focused on the material world, a world outside of us).
“And I will put
enmity between you and the woman.”
Ever wondered why you get so
frustrated and have an almost love/hate relationship with your desires? It’s
because there exists animosity, a state of hatred, hostility, antagonism
between the ‘serpent’ and ‘Eve’.
In the Torah, this was portrayed as the result
of punishing the serpent for leading Eve astray. Metaphysically speaking, when
we allow our emotions to dictate our focus and attention on desires, there will
always be an element of love in the first instance, followed by the
antagonistic follow-up when our desires don’t show up.
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