2022/02/21

27. The First Illusion

Last time we concluded God is the father and mother to man. So, replacing the word "father and mother" in the text of Genesis 2:24, which was our topic last time, with "God," we find the text foretold that man's first act of reproduction would begin apart from God: "That is why a man leaves his God and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body." We will examine this issue to find out why the Bible gives such notice. Genesis reads, "The LORD God then built the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman. When he brought her to the man, the man said: 'This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called "woman," for out of man this one has been taken'" (Genesis 2:22-23). The words of the "man" do not match the narrative here. So, this statement indicates that the accidental information¹ occurred when humankind became plural and that an illusion developed in the "man." The woman is not the "flesh of flesh" of the "man", even though the "bone of his bones." Moreover, even though the text already said that God made "a woman," the "man" decided to name her "woman" himself. And he called himself a man and said the woman was taken out of man. When an illusion develops in a person, a contradiction arises, then it becomes a burden in the realm of his consciousness. To cover it up, he creates fiction, and when people share it, "the work of man" happens. The man must have found his words contradictory as he interacted with the woman. He invented the fiction that "she was the mother of all the living" (Genesis 3:20) and justified his position by newly giving a name to the woman. But this act, as if he became God, was the direct cause of his expulsion from the Garden of Eden. According to Genesis, it was not until they were expelled from the Garden after this happening that the man had intercourse with his wife. Literally in this way, "the man left God" and clung to his wife. Together with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the fact that human reproductive activity, which had been given for the same purpose as that of other animals, took place apart from God gives rise to a profound sense of loneliness on a visceral level in us. The relationship between man and woman had difficulties from the beginning.

Reference: 1. this blog #4

Maria K. M.