Symbolically, Adam, Eve & the Devil
As I study “The Short Treatise” by Spinoza and in the Bible, John 15: 1-20, a new idea came to me and it helped me understand the story of Adam & Eve: of being tempted by the devil to eat of the fruit of knowledge, and by doing so, was eventually banished from the Garden of Eden.
The apple, which is a fruit, represents the first level of knowledge for man. This knowledge is comprised of hearsay, mere-experience, feelings, images, and words. This is where most of us live and breathe. This knowledge deals with life in general: we follow the trends of desire, such as: material gain, we procreate, we raise families, and we focus on beating the competition with our accumulations of things. Our time is mostly spent seeking wealth and material gains. We also seek immediate pleasure, and in doing so, we actually are running away from our painful experiences.
God made Adam and Eve and was human and being human has desires: living in Eden, and in God’s love, it was not enough for the curious impulses of desire. Choices we do have, free-will we don’t have. Freedom of the will is a false premise and belief. We are driven by our desires and we are unconscious of the causes of them and ultimately pay the consequences of giving into our desires.
The DEVIL is in the “DESIRE” the immediate desire which only wants to pleasure ourselves with excess’s which gratifies our current wants and feelings; we are blinded and forget the consequences of our decision, and after our desire is fulfilled we are filled with regret, remorse and repentance.
The second and the third level of knowledge is where our true freedom resides. Reason is the second level of knowledge and intuition is the third. To live in reason and intuition brings forth clarity and truth; we live life in its fullness. We are blessed because we know we participate in Gods consciousness, wholeness and activity: and we can immediately commune with Him.
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