Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Subtle means clever. The serpent represents our physical aspect, the sigmoid shape of the human spine.
Eve is represents the mind which comes out of the physical aspect Adam. Eve (mind) gets tempted by the physical part, the flesh or serpent.
There do seem to be some weird inconsistencies, even just in the little bit I posted here. It says the snake represents the physical part, but it just said the same about Adam? Maybe whoever wrote the blog isn't getting it quite right? Or are the inconsistencies in the original source material? I need to look into it. Plus, if the snake represents the spine, wouldn't it include the chakras? And thus be the divine part, or the spiritual part? Curioser and curioser...
So we are talked to by the serpent, we get tempted all the time by our thoughts.
Wait, now it's our thoughts??!! Oh ok, that would work in a way, because the Flesh and the Earth both mean the left brain mind, the Ego. I think maybe I'm trying to take it a little too literally. But it does seem to be written a little too loosely at times - I'd call it sloppy. I suppose that doesn't mean it isn't accurate as to what the original esoteric meanings are, but it does make me suspicious and want to look into it better. I want to try to find the source this came from.
The serpent tempts us to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Good and evil get mixed up and integrated with one another and then we have confusion.We loose our sense of self and life’s purpose.
Ok now this is different from what I've been hearing from I think several different sources, which say that eating of the tree of good and evil represents the separation of things into opposites - the division of the original pure uncorrupted mind into the conscious mind with its nasty little Ego. In fact to me that would seem to work much better here that what was said. Weird.
Ok actually, in a weird way, I suppose "Good and evil get mixed up and integrated with one another and then we have confusion." is a way to say we divide things into opposites. Just a kind of sloppy way :chuckle:
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
This is when we are in meditation we have to turn our attention inward and shut down the left brain or our thoughts. ‘Die’ does not mean a physical death but giving ourselves to the vastness of spirit which can be meditated upon.
Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
God is saying I didn’t say that there was anything wrong with you. Who said you were guilty and not doing what is right? This was the lower self, religions, institutions, churches, society which was putting you down.
The original sin = living in our lower nature.
It has nothing to do with drink and gambling etc. The church is obsessed with the notion of sin and yet it was meant to mean only that we have forgotten our spiritual side and had nothing to do with morality.
Sin is the name of the
moon God Ur of the
Chaldees. That is why
Abraham lived here.
Sin was the
God of
Ur. He was told to move out of the city i.e. not dwell in the emotions anymore. As when you do this you are dwelling in sin.