Insights into Genesis 3 and John 10: A Thought-Provoking Analysis
Delve into the deep meanings behind Genesis 3 and John 10, exploring themes of identity, divinity, and purpose. Uncover thought-provoking insights on humanity's relationship with God, presented by Tom Thorpe, accompanied by relevant biblical passages and images.
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Genesis 3 The "Problem" and the "Possibility" Prepared by Tom Thorpe
John 10: [31] The Jews took up stones again to stone him. [32] Jesus replied, I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me? [33] The Jews answered, It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.
[34] Jesus answered, Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods ? [35] If those to whom the word of God came were called gods and the scripture cannot be annulled [36] can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, I am God's Son ?
Psalm 82 1; 6-7 [1] God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: [6] I say, You are gods, children of the Most High, all of you; [7] nevertheless, you shall die like mortals, and fall like any prince. *
Genesis 3 The "Problem" and the Possibility Prepared by Tom Thorpe
Conversation between the woman and the serpent (verses 1-5)
If I eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil I will die
If I eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil I will be like God.
The woman eats of the fruit, and THEN gives some to her husband, who also eats (verse 6)
The man and the woman recognize their nakedness and sew fig leaves to cover themselves (verse 7)
The man and the woman hear the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and attempt to hide themselves from God's presence among the trees of the garden. (verse 8)
The Lord God asks "where are you?" The man admits to having hid because of his nakedness. The Lord God asks who told the man he was naked. and also asks if the man has eaten of the tree from which he had been forbidden to eat. (verses 9-11)
The man admits to having eaten but blames the woman for having given him the fruit (verse 13)
The Lord God asks the woman what she's done. The woman responds that the serpent tircked her and she ate.(verse 13)
The Lord God curses the serpent (verse 14)
The Lord God declares consequences for the man and the woman
The Lord God increases the woman's pains in childbirth, and declares that she will desire her husband and he will rule over her (verses 15-16) How many women have been trapped in abusive relationships because of the way these two verses have been interpreted?
The Lord God declares that the ground is cursed because the man has listened to his wife and eaten of the fruit, declares that the man will eat bread by the sweat of his face until he returns to the ground (verses 17-19)
The man names his wife Eve, because she is the mother of all living. (verse 20)
The Lord God makes coats of skins for the man and the woman (verse 21)
Sending forth, with the commission to "till the ground
Declaring that the man has "become like one of us, knowing good and evil," the Lord God sends him forth from the Garden to keep the man from eating of the tree of life and living forever. (verses 22-23)
The Lord God places cherubim and a sword flaming and turning at the east of the garden, to guard the way to the tree of live (verse 24
Metaphysical Interpretation of the Seven Events from Fillmore's MYSTERIES OF GENESIS
." Metaphysically, the serpent represents the life center or generative function, which is not evil when kept in obedience to law. MG 44 3.5
MG 45/3.7 The serpent ("Satan") is sensation suggesting to the soul an indulgence in its pleasure beyond the limit of the law fixed by creative Mind. When the soul lets sensation rule its action, the reserve energy is drawn upon, and the connection between the spiritual consciousness and the physical is broken. This causes man to lose his spiritual connection and in that sense he is "lost". It causes him to fall or descend into the lower consciousness of sense, and this is his "fall."
The "garden" is the earthly consciousness
the "tree" is the connection between the earthly and the heavenly consciousness. In the body of man this connecting link is the nervous system and the "fruit" of this tree is the reserve energy, having within it the life giving, fructifying spirit of Being itself.
Meta -- The Shaming and Hiding
MG 50/3.22 In the Scriptures figs are representative of the "seed" of man. This seed is in its original essence mind energy, and when ideas are related purely to Divine Mind, the seed of man is the life stream in its original purity. Man's sin is the misappropriation of ideas, which leads to sensation. When man and woman are joined--that is, one in sin--they are unclothed of the garment of Truth or "naked."
MG 50/3.20 The woman, the intuitive or feeling side of man's nature, discerns that activity in ideas begets knowledge, but the knowledge gained is not necessarily of a divine nature. Love or feeling (woman) acting independently of wisdom (man) is not reliable. MG 50/3.21 The "eyes" are the perceptive faculty of mind, and unless the perception is established in Truth one sees or perceives duality. When one delights in knowledge that is less than Truth, the capacity to receive inspiration direct from Divine Mind is lessened or lost. Both love (woman) and wisdom (man) become involved in a counterfeit knowledge through eating (appropriating) ideas inferior to those pertaining to the divine nature.
MG 52/3.26 The soul or feminine is the "woman" of man. It is through the affections (love) that man becomes involved in sensation. When a desire of the soul (woman) presses for attention, man often gives way to his feelings instead of raising them, through wisdom, to conform to higher principles. MG 52/3.27 In Truth feeling must be disciplined and refined and desire for sense pleasures eliminated. When consciousness is purified through the knowledge of Truth and thought force is established in harmonious relation to divine ideas, the woman (feeling) will be joined with man (wisdom) and the holy marriage (generation of divine ideas) will again be brought to light. Celibacy and asceticism have no place in God's plan for man. "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh," is written in Genesis and verified by Jesus Christ in Matt. 19:5. Indescribable joy is the heritage of those who submit their sex relations to God in prayer.
MG 53/3.28 Man, ever seeking excuse for sin, puts the blame upon God for endowing him with sensation. Sensation is itself a divine creation, and all God's creation was pronounced "good." This brings us to the root cause of the appetite that craves stimulants and goes to excess in seeking satisfaction. Through listening to the serpent of sense man goes beyond the limit set by law natural or divine and becomes a glutton and drunkard of sensation. The remedy is to take up the problem from a spiritual standpoint in the knowledge that sensation is a mental quality and can be satisfied only by cultivating the spiritual side of man's nature.
Meta -- The Lord God curses the Serpent
MG 53/3.29 When the desire for sensation leads man to dissipate the precious fruit of the tree of life in his earthly garden, the whole nervous system is depleted and loses its capacity to contact the high life current and super-mind wisdom. Then man feels a lack of something; he is "naked." Sensation is no longer a heavenly ecstasy but a fleshly vibration, and crawls upon its "belly," eating "dust" all the days of its life.
Meta -- The Lord god declares consequences for the man and the woman
MG 54/3.30 Instead of bringing forth ideas in the realm of supersubstance, the feminine is compelled to clothe her ideas with flesh and bring them forth in the earthly consciousness. MG 54/3.31 Having lost consciousness of God as its guiding light the soul turns to its highest concept of wisdom, the husband or personal intellect.
MG 54/3.33 "Eve" represents love or feeling in individual consciousness. The I AM (wisdom) puts feeling into what he thinks and thus Eve (feeling) becomes the "mother of all living." Feeling is the spirit that quickeneth. Woman represents the soul region of Adamic man and the mother principle of God in expression. Back of the woman (feeling) is the pure life essence of God. "Adam" and "Eve" represent the I AM identified in one primal being. They are the primal elemental forces of Being itself.
MG 55/3.34 Man was originally connected with the spiritual-body idea, but when he took on personal consciousness, he was given a "coat of skins" under the law corresponding to the quality of his thought world. The "coat of skins" is the body of flesh. When spiritual thought becomes supreme in consciousness, the "coat of skins" will give way to the manifestation of the spiritual body spoken of by Paul. Corruptible flesh is the manifestation of corrupt ideas in mind. "Be ye transformed {changed in form} by the renewing of your mind."
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