Few of us seem to realize, let alone accept, that we, as symbolically portrayed descendants of Adam and Eve, were the only animals kicked out of Eden. Out of Paradise. We have chosen to go on our own. We have reached the evolutionary level wherein we must have thought that the energy of knowledge is more powerful than the energy of life. The rest of fauna and flora remained in Paradise to this day. Just look at the ongoing miracle of nature. It never ceases to amaze me!
How do they differ?
The Energy of Life sustains our immortality. Not our bodies but our I AM. The energy of Consciousness tolerates changes without sustaining injury. It cannot be destroyed, nor eliminated from the equation of the Phenomenal Reality. Knowledge, on the other hand, is in a state of continuous change. Whatever we conclude as fact, as the very latest discoveries, all of them are replaced by new observations, new calculations, that lead to new theories which continuously replace the old ones.
Today, our inability to remain humble and to submit to the Energy that created us, is long forgotten. The Energy that evolved us and endeavors to lead the evolution of our artificial intelligence is ignored. We choose to evolve without, not within. We became a species of gadgeteers, who concentrate on creating devises that continue to reduce the need of use of our inherent powers. All in an illusory world of Phenomenal Reality.
And yet our weaknesses were, and are, necessary.
Why?
Because, at least according to our ancient prophets, "God cannot behold evil". Evil, in this sense, implies "imperfection", and in the Phenomenal Universe, perfection refers to the direction of travel, not to an accomplished fact. The Energy we recognize as God has this one limitation. And yet, the evolution of the Phenomenal Reality can only proceed by trying out new ideas, new "things", new rates of vibration of the Omnipresent Creative Energy of Consciousness.
Even though our ancient solons better understood what Albert Einstein called the "Thoughts of God", i.e.: "how the Phenomenal Universe works", we have to go even further back, to the Buddhists, to learn more.
Essentially, for as long as we define God in our image and likeness, we shall continue to regress. The Buddhists came closer to understanding the nature of the Phenomenal Reality. H.P. Blavatsky did her best to explain its intricacies in her book: Esoteric Buddhism (1). Without delving into the intricacies of the powers assigned to various personifications of God, the Buddhists were aware of the Creative, Sustaining, and Destructive powers personified in their pantheon.
And this is where the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden takes on a new meaning. Both our symbolic progenitors appear to have lost the power to sustain and even destroy the world which they regarded as real. They gained, however, and developed their Creative abilities, though only as regarding the Phenomenal Reality. Creation implies change as new concepts come into being. The concepts may be good or bad, yet necessary for only a brief period of infinity to sustain the Phenomenal Reality. Nevertheless, such imperfect ideas/objects/energies cannot come directly from the Source which, while being perfect in the Potential sense, might not sustain this perfection in the Phenomenal hence illusory environment.
The Buddhist trio has been substituted by Adam - the Creator, Eve - the Sustainer, and Nature - as Kali, the destroyer. All these are symbolic personifications of a Single Energy, of course. While Adam and Eve are endowed with equal powers, they appear to exhibit an inherent predisposition to manifest, what appear to be, their prime directives.
Thus, without Adam - the progress would be slower, without Eve - the Human Species would not regenerate itself, and without Nature - the world would be so overpopulated that we'd all die of rampant starvation.
Hence, even the mistakes we, humans, make may well be the necessary stepping stones in the conversion of the Perfect Potential into the transient Phenomenal Reality; into the Universe in which we, the henchmen (and "hench-women" of course) of Creative Power, are sine qua non for the experimental aspects of Creation.
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That is our function. Tomorrow I shall discuss the countless aspects of our contribution. In the meantime, you might enjoy reading how the Creative Energy continues to endow us with our ability to assist It in adding diversity of the Phenomenal Universe. The AVATAR dwells within everyone of us. Deep within, biding It's time to emerge.
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(1) "Esoteric Buddhism" and "Isis Unveiled" are the two main books by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky dealing with this subject.
All three books are available as individual volumes.
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