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Tablet Fourteen
"And they heard the voice of the Lord
God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day: and
Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord
God amongst the trees of the garden." (Genesis 3:8)
<1>Now humans had created bad
karma (violated the Laws of the universe). Therefore, they tried to hide from the presence of the Lord (which
is innocence and only the innocent can see Him). In fact, the moment
a bad
karma
is created, a veil of separation is created between a
unit
consciousness and
God.
<2>"In the cool of the day": The sunrise and
sunset are two times which are "the cool of the day," and are the
best times for
meditation and
prayer.
"And the Lord
God
called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where art thou?" (Genesis 3:9)
<3>Still
God
wanted communion with humans. So He called upon
Adam.
"And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden,
and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." (Genesis
3:10)
<4>With the feeling of guilt from doing
wrong, fear automatically came in. That is why for the first time
humans became fearful. This led humans to look down upon themselves
and to feel unworthy to be in the presence of a higher being like
God, or even reject the existence of
God because of it.
"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?" (Genesis 3:11)
<5>And
God
said, "Who told you that you should be afraid and feel unworthy of
being in my presence?" And
God knew that this could only happen to man when he has created
feelings of guilt through doing things that are not according to the
Daharma or the Laws of the universe. <6>Only a guilty
consciousness has fears.
"And the man said, The
woman
whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did
eat." (Genesis 3:12)
<7>Now man was trying to direct his guilt and
the result of his actions toward someone else. Man was trying to
reason with
God that it is His fault
because He gave
woman to be with man
and it was
woman
who made man eat from the tree. In other words, he was saying that
he was tempted by his lower nature and was powerless in opposing it.
<8>With this reasoning, man thinks he can
escape from the result of his actions. But as we can see later, he
will receive punishment for the action that he has done, even if it
is imposed on him through temptation. <9>Therefore, each
individual is responsible for the result of his actions and cannot
escape from them by reasoning that, "I was misled" or "I was
ignorant." <10>That is why each person is responsible to
search, pray, seek His
Grace, find the truth,
and understand the Laws of the universe if he wants to become pure
enough to reach the presence of
God and escape
sufferings.
"And the Lord
God said unto the
woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the
woman said, The
serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat." (Genesis 3:13)
<11>Now the
woman
(lower nature, or the one who misguided others to do the forbidden
action) was questioned. However, she was also trying to escape from
the result of her actions and said that it was the power of the
temptation that misguided her.
<12>She did not bring out the previous
reasoning that the fruit was good and would make men wise, so they
should eat it. She accepted the wrongdoing because when you are in
the presence of
God, you cannot lie. He
knows everything, and you intuitively know that what you have done
was wrong. <13>That is why in
meditation
man comes face-to-face with truth and has no choice but to accept
his wrongdoings. That is also why sometimes a great sadness is
created in the person because he intuitively desires to correct his
wrongdoings and is sad for what he has done or is. That sadness is
the process of
purification.
<14>Of course many try to not see the wrong in themselves, as
the
woman in this case
also who tried to escape the blame.
"And the Lord
God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all
cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt
thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:" (Genesis
3:14)
<15>That is why there is such controversy
about the second
chakra. All through
history the power of sex and sexual relationships have been the most
cursed and are the cause of much confusion in the world.
<16>This is because temptation
(attraction to
Maya) will result in
doing
forbidden actions. This results in guilty feelings
which bring man down more to the lower nature. That creates more
attachment, the attachment accelerates desires, and the
desires create more temptation. This cycle goes on and on and
makes man fall more. That is why temptation is so cursed.
<17>A person who is a slave of his second
chakra will crawl on
his belly (like a
serpent) all his
life.
"And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel." (Genesis 3:15)
<18>That is why the human should fight
ceaselessly with this temptation, and temptation should fight back
to try to tempt the man.
"Unto the
woman he said, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he
shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:16)
<19>Here the relationship of the
serpent force with
sexual
energy becomes very
clear. It is this part which will bring sorrow to humans and is
symbolized by the sorrow of women delivering children. <20>The
concept of
woman
has been used in these verses as the lower nature of the human, and
the concept of husband as the higher nature. <21>Therefore,
whoever is a slave of his desires and is drawn to the temptations of
the second
chakra
will be lost in the battle of life and ruled by whomever overcomes
his lower nature (temptation).
<22>Also one of the Laws (forbidden fruits)
is not to be promiscuous which results in impurity, destruction of
the family, and eventually the fall of the society. This is also
related to the second
chakra and temptation
of doing this forbidden action. If done, then the person, family,
and society will be thrown out of
Eden (being in the
presence of
God, from His
Grace) to sorrow and
suffering.
"And unto
Adam he said, Because
thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it
all the days of thy life;" (Genesis 3:17)
<23>Therefore,
Adam
(the higher nature of the human or
higher self) has
been punished, although he was misled by his wife (lower nature or
lower self) to do the forbidden action. He should have been so
strong in
God that the lower
nature (woman) could
not have been able to mislead him. That is why each person should
overcome the lower nature, by
submission to
God (His Laws), to
overcome suffering.
"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;" (Genesis 3:18)
<24>By listening to the
woman (Maya),
The Divine Logic becomes worldly logic (human). So man becomes
earth-bound.
"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return into the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for
dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Genesis 3:19)
<25>That Soul or
higher self
which listens to the lower self (lower
chakras) is bound to the demand of the basic things of life. The
second
chakra
controls thirst and hunger, and a man who is bound by this
chakra will
ceaselessly pursue satisfaction of this part of his existence. Therefore, this low-natured human will die and will return to dust
until he comes back again and works on his evolutionary process to
reach higher consciousness.
"And
Adam called his wife's
name Eve; because she
was the mother of all living." (Genesis 3:20)
<26>Wife,
woman, and
Eve all symbolize the
lower nature
of man which is present in all humans. The
higher self
can be reached by going through this lower self first. <27>That
is why
Eve is called the
"mother of all living," because humans must go through this lower
self to be
born
again as a higher Soul ("living"). That is why it is said that
all men have
sinned -- have gone
through their lower natures (Eve),
except
the
First Begotten Son who reached
Pure Consciousness
before flesh (creation).
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