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Not that anyone ever seems to read
my esoteric tracts. But the Fall myth is about the symmetry braking of awareness
into three.
Consider Eve the Known, and Adam
the knower and the snake the process of knowing. Before the snake rises all
things are assumed known, then the snake rises and symmetry breaks, and then Eve
really becomes known by Adam.
The rishi reaches out to the
Chandas and becomes devata. Agnim. Etc, you extrapolate. It's boring.
O.<O
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From: TurquoiseB
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 2:53 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: MMY - Celibacy - the Truth! >>> knowledge and were banished from the Garden. Most myths go pretty >>> far back and have at their core a clear and unadulterated >>> meaning. What is this one realy about? >> --Depends who you ask. My favorite esoteric interpolation is from >> the Golden Dawn, which uses the Fall, and the Revelation as >> counterpoints. > > I think it's about the split of Unity into Duality - which started > consciousness, so that we can become conscious of ourselves and > self-referral(knower, known and object and knowing). In terms of > our consciousness, the original spark split into 2 so that the 2 > parts, masculine and feminine, can become whole in themselves > through their journey through their lives, until they can join > together in consciousness (T.S. Eliot "and the end of all our > exploring is to arrive where we started, and know the place for > the first time") If they are not whole in themselves they would > be too absorbed in each other and not develop. > Good book on this - M A Jacoby "The Longing for Paradise" One of the reasons this seeming dichotomy is seen as problematic is because of linear thinking -- the belief that it all started at some point in time, that there was a Creation. That's one reason I like Buddhism, because they believe that there was never a first Creation. The universe always was, is now, and will always be. There was never a "start" to all of this, and there will never be an "end" to it. It is eternal. With that perspective, one doesn't tend to dwell on "cause" the "fall" or seeming difference between the relative and the absolute. There has always been the relative; there has always been the absolute; they have always danced this dance and always will. There is nothing *wrong* with the seeming difference between relative and absolute; that's all it is, a "seeming." From this point of view, *nothing happens* when one realizes enlightenment except that the "seeming" falls away, and one sees that there has never been any difference between relative and absolute at all. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links
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