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Love is the Fulfilling of the Law

ON LOVE; PART CXII

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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).

• 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).

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 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” (Genesis 2:18-22).

We begin here with the introduction of the use of the female version of the human forms on Earth by the Souls that are sent to take to himself a form. Our first look at this was in regard to Adam and again we do not KNOW if this is reference to a single Soul in the Earth of if Adam is representative of the group of True men that have taken to themselves human forms and, as we said in the last post, this does not matter. We also do not KNOW how long the after the Soul(s) that becomes Adam by the taking on of a human form that this episode of the appearance of the woman occurred. There are a number of things happening in these words:

• The meaning of the idea given here of help is unclear; the lexicon tells us that this Hebrew word ‘ezer which is only translated as help and help meet in the King James Version and means help, succour, one who helps ² according to the lexicon. We must remember here that these words are written to the man of long ago and the language and understanding may be peculiar to him; to make a help then is for us unclear.

• The text tells us that it is here that the Lord “formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air” but at the same time we see that these were ‘brought forth‘ by the Earth back in the Sixth Day of Creation. Here again we have a difficult idea in the Hebrew word yatsar of which the lexicon gives us a variety of understandings all from the idea of formed or fashioned ². and these two are not Truly related in our view of this as a creation. The tenor of ideas on this word in the lexicon and in Strong’s seem doctrinal; Strong’s tells us that yatsar means to form, fashion, shape, create; (of God) the Maker, the Creator; …. usually from existing material; God as Creator or Maker, has its focus his planning and forming the creation as a skilled craftsman ³. When we discussed this word in regard to the creation of man in the last post we premised that the idea need not be seen in a current state but in the Truth that God had “formed man of the dust of the ground” as a fact; this is the origin of the myriad of component parts of the every body. This same thought can be taken here, that there is not a time reference and the allusion to one is that is added by the conjunction and which is added in the translation so as to make a complete and sensible sentence.

• The purpose of the next verses regarding the naming of the animals is unclear and the idea of the word name can be seen in a number of ways, from the simplicity of a name to the calling out of the reputation of the animal. The long and short here is that this does not matter and is perhaps but a convention in that time for affixing common understanding of a thing among men.

• This whole understanding of the idea of the animals as the first attempt at making “help meet for him” makes little or no sense from the perspective of the next creative act regarding this same idea of providing “help meet for him” through the creation of the woman or, as we will frame this, the taking on of the form of the woman by another Soul. We should try to understand that the reality of male and female exist only here on this physical plane of the Earth; it is here that the animal bodies are formed “of the dust of the ground“; it is only here that sex and the act of propagation are in effect. ALL physical beings, from the plant to the man, are born and die; and this is True only of physical beings. We have spoken before of the reality of other realms of existence, of etheric realms and of emotional and mental existence and we should note here that these, being beyond the physical, do not die in the same manner as the physical body does and we should understand that this idea of realms is likely different for each different grade of being, that is that the more subtle existence of the man is vastly different than that of the tree and that the grades of being between these two poles would feature some variation on a scale from the more simple to the more complex. Each is however a physical body that is born, ages and grows old and dies or finds its demise at the hands of another of the species of through an act of nature. From the perspective of True man, the Soul, we should understand this as an effect on the physical body that grows too old, to weak or too feeble to support the Life of the Soul who will then depart or, as with any physical Life form, through accident or violence or an act of nature; regardless of which the Soul departs to what we have heretofore called the afterlife. It is here in this afterlife, which is for us an indescribable existence, that the Soul will begin his acclimation to the more subtle realms of existence and perhaps spending some time on each of the many degrees of subtleness if we can use that word. As we previously discussed the Soul, being the consciousness of the Life in form, is still the consciousness of the disembodied form and the same thoughts and feelings are present with him and, we can premise here that the level of degree of subtleness to which a disembodied Soul will first find himself is likely predicated on the nature of the conscious thoughts and feelings of the man in Life on the Earth. There are many reports of Life after death and of Souls coming back into their bodies after a death or death like experience and there are reports also of men in trance or dream like states visiting what they believe is heaven; most all are sincere but few contain the same details and it is the conscious state of the man in form that likely dictates this experience. When we consider the Master’s teachings on the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, we should KNOW that these reported experiences ARE NOT heaven as we KNOW that the reality of the Kingdom is within a man as the Soul and the Christ Within and it takes this KNOWING kind of consciousness to be there; to this we should add the Master’s teaching on who is accounted worthy to see this state of being.

All of this regarding the reality of Life in form and its transformation to the realms of experience in death are intended to show the physical nature of the body whether it be male or female and regardless of what grade of existence it is in physical nature. There is no sex as we understand it in the etheric realms except from the perspective that the etheric realm is source of the physical, being that the etheric is the energy pattern, the spiritual essence, for the concrete form. This then is an attribute of the physical body. As we move upward then to the emotional and the mental states of existence we would find no physical pattern but rather would see the continuation of the consciousness that IS the Soul and that was functioning in the physical form for whatever was the Life time of the Soul in Earth and, our perspective on this is that the consciousness is to the personality as the Life is the the physical form; and we should note again that the emotional and the mental states of existence ARE the expression of the personality. It is in these states that man exists in the afterlife sans any means to gratify any leftover desires and lusts; this is necessarily a complex matter which we will return to in future posts as we have likely satisfied our need to relate the idea of sex to the physical form, the animal form of the man ONLY. This being said we can better understand our view of this first woman; like the first man this is the act of a Soul or of many Souls who take to themselves the bodies of the human animal form of a woman. The Soul is the same and is neither male nor female or, as our earlier text tells us, both male and female; seeing that there are differences in the physical nature of each in ALL kingdoms of Nature, we KNOW that there are differences as well in the relationship between the Soul and the form that accommodates these differences. We can count among these difference the body type, the production and use of hormones and the emotional and mental changes that these hormonal differences incur. We have two Souls then; equal in every way as ALL Souls are in their own realm, equal in every way except perhaps their ability to use the human form and personality nature to their own benefit as Souls. In this day however, in this beginning of Life in form, they are likely very equal in every respect and one takes to himself the body of the man, ADAM, and the other takes to himself the body of the woman, EVE.

• We did not pursue our first thought of the animals that are formed and brought to Adam as his help because we do not understand the overall relevance except in the understanding that the idea of help is to assist in the work in the garden as a lesson to those men in that day. The quick progression to the forming of the woman takes us then to the next step of in the form Life of the Soul and this is that they must develop the ability to not only work out the reality of their objective in Life, the redemption of matter as the Apostle Paul hints to us, but they must live the everyday Life of the form itself and here we come back to the realty of Paul’s saying that “the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly”. It is here that the struggle begins as the individual Soul in form as Adam and it is here that the struggle intensifies with the introduction of his counterpart who is the same but different, Eve. We have said in previous posts that the Soul comes into form in his pure nature, unblemished and unaffected by the world but we have no frame of reference for how long this lasts nor how much of an interval there is between the use of the body of the human male and the addition in the world of a Soul’s use of the body of the human female. We only KNOW that these are the realities that are faced by both Souls as they take upon themselves the added role of participating in the Life of the human form.

• It is in this act of taking on this added role that the Soul begins to identify himself more and more with the form in which he is expressing himself and, again, we can not KNOW how this progresses over time except in the hint that is given to us in the story of Eve and the serpent. It is here that the human form nature begins to dictate what the conscious man or woman will do and how he will react.

It is here we will begin in the next post. We have set the stage of the True man taking to himself a human form through which he will express his Soul nature; we have added another True man, another Soul, who takes to himself the human form of a woman through which he will express his Soul nature. We have briefly exposed the idea of vanity and of illusion into the life of both as they seek to take also the responsibility and the duty of playing the role of the human form, a human form that is now self conscious through this activity of the Soul, and, we have touched upon the differences in the sexes and the required interaction between them in the lives of Adam and Eve. It is the difficulty of the interaction of the Soul and the form and the added conflicts of the interaction of the sexes that begins man’s path into and his absorbence in the ways of the world.

We will continue with our thoughts in the next post.

• 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.

• ² New Testament Hebrew Lexicon on BibleStudyTools.com
• ^2a New Testament Greek Lexicon on BibleStudyTools.com
• ³ Strongest Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible – 2001
• ⁴ Word Studies in the New Testament; Marvin R Vincent D.D. 2nd edition, 1888