In the beginning there was Ayn Sof. Ayn Sof is a word which represents the true essence of the Divine. Ayn Sof literally means "No End", hence the Infinite. Ayn Sof is the mystery before which no human word or thought can comprehend. Ayn Sof is without definition, and is before definition.
Ayn Sof decided to create. And so Ayn Sof first made itself manifest. It formed Keter, which was the primal cell. Out of this mystery was born Hochmah, Wisdom and Binah, Understanding. Out of the sexual union of Wisdom and Understanding the rest of existence was born. Malkuth was the final resting place of the Divine forces. And out of Malkuth it created the Heavens and the Earth. On the Earth was created a Garden in the land of Eden. Out of Malkuth It also created all the trees and other plants in the Garden. Then out of Malkuth It created all the animals. In the center of this vast Garden was created one a very special tree, The One Tree and its name was Sefirot . The word Sefirot is without translation but it is a plural feminine noun made from the root letter SFR. From these root letters derive the words for numbers and for writing.
After the entire Garden had been filled with plants and animals all was ready for the home for the crowing glory of creation: Humanity.
The first child of humankind was an absolute perfect being, an Androgynous being of unity made from the Earth itself. Then Malkuth divide up the Androgynous being into two equal halves, into a male and a female. The male was named Adam and the female was named Lilith.
Now Ayn Sof was to hard a concept for Adam to deal with and so Adam invented a name for the Creator, Adam named the Creator: God. Now God explained to Adam and Lilith God's plan. God wanted grand-children, lots of them. Perhaps a few hundreds, maybe a few thousand, hey if need be the Garden could be expanded to house happily perhaps a few million. God explained sex and child birth. (Now back then time moved differently. So, it wouldn't take 9 months to give birth. Perhaps a mere 9 days or 9 hours, who knows, none of us were there back then to tell us. Adam and his wife were perhaps too busy having sex and making babies to keep track of time.)
Anyway, Adam and Lilith liked the sex part but Lilith wasn't to keen on the giving birth part of the deal. She realized she would be doing most of the work. So, she slipped away from Adam and wandered off to check out center of the Garden where God planted this special thing. Know, God didn't tell Adam and Lilith exactly what was in the center of the Garden. Only that it was a special place. When Lilith got there she saw The One Tree. She realized it was not just any tree but the Tree of Life! [This is how come we now call Sefirot by the name "The Tree of Life."] And she realized that the Tree of Life is a map! It was a representation of the Divine itself. Then she realized that as below so above and as below so above; that the Tree of Life was a map of the macrocosmic Divine and the map of the microcosmic soul within us all. With this realization came power. With this power she became the Queen of the Night, and left the Garden.
Now Adam saw Lilith leave. He called out to God and complained. God took pity on Adam, and was a little ticked off at Lilith for not wanting to play the game of life by the Divine Rules God laid out, so God put Adam to sleep, took out of him a rib and from this created a new partner for Adam. And God named her Eve. Now God was certain that Eve and Adam would stick to together.
Eve was told by Adam all that had occurred in the Garden so far and about God's plan for them, perhaps placing more emphasis on the sex part than the child birthing part; anyway Eve seemed okay with the overall situation.
[Now, there was this whole 'serpent thing', but who he was and what he had to do with the whole situation is not that important right now, so we'll just ignore him and what part he played in the grand scheme. I will mention that the serpent was created for the sole purpose of stirring up trouble and moving the plot along. The Serpent was trapped in a rigged game from the get go, he was set up to take the fall by Ayn Sof.]
Now Adam and Eve took a walk to the center of the Garden to check out what was so special there. When Eve beheld the Tree, she saw the true nature of the One Tree, she "saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes [Note: It had High Quality!], and the tree was to be desired to make one wise ". So she ate from the tree and gained wisdom.
Now, as we all know, the reason we got kicked out of the Garden was all Adam's fault. Later on some Jewish guy named Saul even made up a rhyme about it: In Adam's fall we all fell, or something like that. Some people make a big deal out of Adam's mistake. But they are mistranslating the Hebrew word. What is translated as "sin" means only mistake, a falling short of the mark. Be that as it may, Adam is the culprit.
When Adam looked upon the One Tree he saw two. Adam had this mental block and he tended to divide things up, he took things too literally. So, he mistook the fact that there were two names, the tree of Life and the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, as meaning that there must be two trees. And so Adam saw two trees. Adam divided up what was originally one. He not only did that but he looked upon the tree and rather than seeing it as a continuous dynamic unity he saw a static hierarchy of separate parts. Adam also saw those two trees as being something separate from him and thereby invented Subject - Object Metaphysics.
This really pissed God off. Adam had made a real mess of God's elegant map. God then shoved the whole lot of them out of the Garden and told them that henceforth there would be toiling in the fields, death and worst of all, taxes.
Before Adam the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Tree of Ethics was united with the Tree of Life, which was the representation of the governing principle in all things, i.e. Quality or the Tao. So Adam split off Ethics from the knowledge of governing principles. Adam tried to correct this by making a big deal out of studying the tree of life and thereby further splitting the study of life, which he called science, from ethics. It just went down hill from there. Adam enjoys categorizing things, making up more names and separating the whole lot from each other. We've been waiting around ever since for someone to come along and put it all back together.
Now, all this could have been remedied years ago if Adam had listen to Eve. But, he didn't. The Rabbis unfortunately inherited the same prejudice about Eve that Adam had. They got it from this later descendant of Adam named Abraham who unfortunately, truth to tell, invented male chauvinism, i.e. 'patriarchy'. Eve had been teaching her girl children all that she knew. This was the secret wisdom of women, but that knowledge got lost and messed up when Abraham shut down Eve's separate school for women. Which he said he was doing all in the name of equality, something called 'Title IX', it's hard for me to keep the name for those laws that Adam made up. I think this law goes something like "there shall be no separation amongst the sexes if you want tax money."
So, that's the true tale of the Garden, the One Tree and how the whole things got so messed up.
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Comments: 4
Great. Spreading LIGHT via a method of LIGHT-HEADEDNESS backed up clearly by a penetrasting and informed mind, is a powerful way to get atterntion on major points and lay the groundwork for mind-changing too.
How do we get 'things' UN-messed up?
Dick
I'VE TRIED TO GET A PERSONAL NOTE SENT TO YOU VIA GATHER BUT SEEM NOT ABLE TO DO SO. ITS ALL ABOUT 'THANKS'. SO? THANKS!
DICK