IN THE WORDS OF JESUS–Part 528

Love is the Fulfilling of the Law

ON LOVE; PART CXVII

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“And God said , Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;  And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying , Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (Genesis 1:26-2:25).

While we have discussed this idea of the ‘creation’ of the female human form from our perspective for a few essays now, we are not yet finished with our point below as we have not addressed what we have called an obscure saying from several chapters forward in the Book of Genesis. ALL that we have said about the ‘creation’ of the forms of the animal Kingdom and the manifestation of the True man as the Soul from the Sixth Day of Creation is without any type of time reference and all that we can premise here is that the ‘creation’ of the animal form and the manifestation of the Soul coincide, being on the same day which we should remember is more accurately an epoch or an undefined period of time. There is then the Seventh Day, another epoch, of ‘rest‘ or, as we have seen the words, the cessation of the creative work. It is after this Seventh Epoch that we find the continuation of the creative process in which there is not so much ‘creation’ but rather the introduction of the Soul, made manifest on the Sixth Day, into the Life of the human animal form which is created in the Earth in that same epoch.

We have premised that the purpose of the commandment to the Souls that they should “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” is not intended for the Soul as the Soul has no need for these things but rather that the Souls are made responsible for the success of the fledgling animal kingdom on the Earth and have a position of dominion. In this word we do not have the defining terms offered by the lexicon and common understanding which comes forth as: to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down; (Qal) to have dominion, rule, subjugate; (Hiphil) to cause to dominate; to scrape out; (Qal) to scrape, scrape out but rather the more temperate understanding of guardianship as we take from Webster’s 1828 dictionary which tells us that dominion is Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling. Webster’s give example of this from the Old Testament saying “I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation” (Daniel 4:34). Should not our understanding of dominion be in concert with that of the prophets regarding God rather that the dominion that says that we can do with the animal kingdom as we please? Of course, we should not forget here in this discussion of our understanding that this Sixth Day creation of man is the manifestation of the Soul, is incomplete without reminding us that the Soul, which is but the manifestation of the Spirit, is the ONLY way that we can fit man into the reality that he is made “in the image of God“. In looking at this from the common perspective that this is the creation of man in totality on the Earth, we must see God as a man and this we KNOW He IS NOT.

It is in this time after the ‘rest‘ of the Seventh Day, after the evolving human animal forms become suitable vehicles for use by the True Man, that they come together in the type of existence that we have today. Our premise regarding the first man, Adam and the first woman, Eve centers around the Soul, the True man, taking to himself the body of the human animal and while this may seem a harsh reality, we must KNOW that we are physically, sans the self consciousness that we enjoy, a part of the animal kingdom therefore the same as the animal and, as science has shown, we are closest to the other primates of the Earth. Our premise continues to say that it was first the male of the human animal species that became able to serve as the vehicle of the Souls that are the True men and we do not KNOW how long this male only world lasted. We can today likely imagine the Life of these early men whose Purity as Souls is slowly but steadily diminished by their contact with with animal form and its instincts and appetites and especially so in relation to the animal female and we base this idea solely upon the history of the race. Eventually there comes the ability of the female human animal form to also serve as the vehicle of expression of the True man and we must remember here that there are no sexes, no male and female Souls, in the Kingdom of God; there are just Souls which, according to the creation story of the Sixth Day are both “male and female“. Again we use our understanding of made “in the image of God” to discern this reality as there is not a male and a female God; there is ONE God that encompasses ALL.

It is at this point where the male and the female forms both serve as vehicles of expression for the True man, the Soul, that we come into the yet greater reality of vanity, of illusion and of glamour as these are greatly amplified by the introduction of equal but different Life in form for each. And, while this interaction between the male and the female human animal had been occurring for eons, this is the first time that it involves the thinking and feeling self conscious Soul living through the forms. Before this there is no vanity nor illusion nor glamour as these are things of the mind and of the emotions and, KNOWING how these effect us today we can only imagine how they affected Adam and Eve, and this whether they are sole individuals or symbols for the first of Soul infused humanity.

Our next part is the beginnings of the sense of duality as the spiritual man in the form of the man and the woman begin to interact as they are slowly drawn closer and closer to the immediate pleasures of the world and, not physical pleasures alone but those also of the emotions and the mind. Before we go there however we will skip ahead to the aforementioned Sixth Chapter and the saying that we find among our points below.

• Next we have the creation of the woman who was, according to the text, already created with the man during the creation in the image of God. Again this is either repetition and explanation or it yet another step in the bringing forth of the spiritual man into the Earth. There is another rather obscure saying in Genesis which may go well here: “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose” (Genesis 6:1-2).
• Amended statement: First, we should rephrase this as it is technically not right and this is the first that we have actually reread this point with earnest. The woman is created in the same time as the man from the perspective of the way it is written for us when God says: “Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind” (Genesis 1:24). This is the creation of ALL animal bodies and the human man and the human woman are among these. In the next verses we come to the Creation of man “in the image of God” and this we recognize as the manifestation of Spirit as Souls in the Kingdom of God where there are no sexes and this we will try to make clearer as we proceed. Our text for today is concerned with these verses which we place here again for clarity and we will say much here that is alien to the common understanding….even more so that what we have been writing.

“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (Genesis 2:23-25).

We leave above the point we are discussing, the amendment of  it and the phrase from the Book of Genesis as these are all tied to the this part of our dissertation. As we have said above there is no way to understand the time frame regarding any of these things and the verse from the Sixth Chapter is to us misplaced where it is found. This is a saying that is not really understood by any and it is a subject to which we have alluded above as regards the ways of the Soul infused man in that time before a suitable female human body is available to the Souls destined for incarnation. It is our premise that from the time that the Soul took to itself the body of the human animal, the instincts and the appetites of that form Life were able to effect the consciousness that is the Soul and that these slowly and steadily become the instincts and the appetites of the total ‘creature’, that is the Soul infused man in form. This is of course further complicated by the presence of emotion and of mind, and, while these are not directly discussed in the text, we can assume that they come to bear from the interaction of the Soul and the form and this is attested to by the doings of Adam and Eve in the succeeding chapter. Our saying from the Sixth Chapter is:

“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose” (Genesis 6:1-2).

We should note that there is no time frame and no further elucidation of these words elsewhere in scripture and the commentaries on this are vague and usually as obscure as the verses themselves. Perhaps this is why they appear here; the attention of most all is drawn to the ideas of the ‘wickedness’ that is the cause of the great flood and the story of Noah. Again, with no time stamp is is but assumption that puts all of these ideas together and we have noted that these matters of time are illusive in most all of the beginning parts of the Book of Genesis. Perhaps this is True simply because there are billions of years stuffed into a few short chapters:

• We note the Days of Creation which we see as Epochs or undefined periods of time.
• We see the also undefined period of the Seventh Day where the creative process stops or ‘rests‘ and the ‘creation’ is left to evolve and grow.
• We see the text on the ‘creation’ of man in the Second Chapter, again without any reference to time, as having occurred in the Sixth Day of Creation but not as the common understanding but rather as a part of the bringing forth of “the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so” (Genesis 1:24) which “living creature” is inclusive of the human animal bodies.
• We see the making of the True man, the Soul, in the words “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” occurring in the same epoch that we see above, the Sixth Day, and we purpose this with the understanding as we discuss above; that man has dominion over ALL that is in the Earth as the God kind of dominion we show above, a dominion of guardianship and care and this before the True man, the Soul, becomes an active part of the Life on the Earth, before there are bodies that will meet his needs.
• We see that the evolution that proceeds through this Seventh Day, this Seventh Epoch, is an evolution which produces enough change in the form nature of the human animal body that it becomes a suitable vessel for use by the incarnating Sons of God. The Apostle Paul speaks of this from the perspective of the man in form, the Soul in his vessel, saying “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).
• We see no time frame again in the realty of the Souls, the Sons of God, that take possession of the human animal forms of the male in the story of the coming into the world of Adam. We do not KNOW if Adam is a single Soul in form or if he is symbolic of many and this does not matter to our understanding that it is here that the form of the human animal is taken by a Son of God, a Soul and that this is the beginning of Life in form as we KNOW it.
• As in the last point, we do not KNOW the time lag between the use of the male human form and the female human form by the Sons of God, the Souls that will use these forms as their vehicles of expression in the Earth. We premise here that because of the differences in the structure of the body itself and the differences in the hormonal and emotional balance, that the female human animal body was not yet suitable for the incoming Souls at the same time as the male version and we lay this idea on the text that separates them as two different times.
• We see the reality as well of this story of Adam and Eve as a recapitulation and an open ended text that speaks of the forming of the body of the male human animal “of the dust of the ground” and the breathing “into his nostrils the breath of life” as two distinctly different occurrences. The first as we say above in the Sixth Epoch and the second at that time when the male human animal body is suitable for use by the Soul, the Son of God. We should note here that there is no evidence of the togetherness of these Truths and that we have likely only put them together because they are together in the text. However, this same convention does not stop doctrine from creating its own timeline by placing the Chapter One creation of man and the Chapter Two creation of man into a single occurrence with the assumption that the latter is just an expansion of the former.
• We see our hint of the rather intentional confusion of time in the words in Chapter Two regarding the herb and the plant that we discussed a few essays back. Here we read that “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew“. We have heretofore explained this as the energy pattern or the divine essence of thing as they are ‘created’ and exist before the physical and in this we can say from our understanding of the confusion of time in the text and in affirmation to our theme on time that these plants and herbs are created before the Sun is in the sky to make them grow.

In the above is our foundation for the discounting of and for the allowances that we must give to the time factor as it appears in the Genesis of this Creation. In the literal understanding of these things we make the assumption that these mysteries and secrets are exposed for ALL to see and understand even though the Master tells us clearly of the parable and that parts of His telling us is based upon the writings of the prophets who also tell us that these mysteries are hidden We must also remind ourselves that the primary use of these words of the Book of Genesis, indeed ALL of the Books of Moses, is for instruction to and understanding by the people who lived in those days thousands of years ago; a people who are superstitious and emotionally driven and who, we should remember also, are a people who are being taught obedience and devotion.

We did not get far on our next point as we have above but continued to build a foundation for our understanding of the obscurity contained in this saying and the timeline in which it is offered. We will continue with our thoughts in the next post and continue on to our last point.

• Last we have the trees; “the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil“.

Note on the Quote of the Day

This daily blog also has a Quote of the Day which may not be in any way related to the essay. Many of these will be from the Bible and some just prayers or meditations that may have an influence on you and are in line with the subject matter of this blog. As the quote will change daily and will not store with the post, it is repeated in this section with the book reference and comment:

We repeat here again a saying that is from the Bhagavad Gita and which goes well with our topic over the last several days. Today we see the God Within us as the Christ Within and this is good in the Christian world and this is True based upon our understanding of the Christ as the manifestation of God. We should see that it matters not what we call this Inner Man as it is the same in ALL, it is the Soul.

Thou carriest within thee a sublime Friend whom thou knowest not. For God dwells in the inner part of every man, but few know how to find Him. The man who sacrifices his desires and his works to the Beings from whom the principles of everything stem, and by whom the Universe was formed, through this sacrifice attains perfection. For one who finds his happiness and joy within himself, and also his wisdom within himself is one with God. And, mark well, the soul which has found God is freed from rebirth and death, from old age and pain, and drinks the water of Immortality.—Bhagavad-Gita

It is difficult to tell just what verses of the Bhagavad Gita the above is from; whether it is a paraphrase or a combination. It is from the book “The Great Initiates” by Édouard Schuré which was originally published in French in 1889 and perhaps it is in the translation of the verses that they become hard to recognize. However, the sheer beauty of the presentation caught my attention and so I share it with you. The Path to the Kingdom is the same no matter what religion one professes.