2024/01/15

126. Interface Part 1

Last time, we discussed the Garden of Eden as a human consciousness. We will again proceed to consider it from this perspective. The reason for approaching again the events that occurred to the first two in Genesis is to try to deal with the remaining themes of Revelation, the fifth 'blessedness' concerning the 'first resurrection' and the 'second death' and the seventh prophecy 'the prophecy of the spirituality of the Holy Spirit' (see figure of blog № 120), from their starting point (cf. blog № 121). 

The first idea of God when he created humanity was: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth" (Genesis 1:26). The word "we" hear is referring to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. But, as Jesus said, "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" (Luke 11:13), the Holy Spirit is a unique being, therefore, the "our image" that humans could accept without much difficulty was the Father and the Son. 

So, the Bible goes on to describe as follows when God made this idea a reality: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27). He created man male and female so that they would acquire the "image of God" by having children and becoming parents. 

Then, people learn that many animals also have children through reproduction, just like people do. Just as people were endowed with the spontaneity that comes from the word 'Let there be ...,' by which God created every reality, and with the proportionate knowledge and memory, other creatures also have the spontaneity together with the knowledge and memory proportional to their species. 

Thus, God blessed the man and the woman and commanded them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth" (Genesis 1:28). Here, for the command, "subdue it," it was sufficient for people to acquire the "image of God" but to respond to the one, "have dominion," "our likeness" was essential. 

Therefore, God breathed into man the 'breath of life,' and between it and his proportionate knowledge and memory, he placed the 'tree of life' and the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil.' The 'breath of life' and the 'tree of life' manifest "our likeness," which comes from God's spontaneity and knowledge. The 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' functions as an interface through which the "our likeness" is connected to the proportionate knowledge and memory. 

Thus, a human is sustained by two divine spontaneities: the spontaneity of the 'breath of life' and the spontaneity that comes from the command, 'Let there be ...'. It is for this reason that man searches for what he is.

To be continued

Maria K. M.