I always wonder, Why? To seek knowledge of the unknown is “esoterism.” It is not secret knowledge, for that would be Gnosticism, but the Good Knowledge of God, what Paul called “The Mystery of God” and “The Mystery of Christ.” They are the same. What was God’s Plan for mankind and what caused it to go awry? That is esoterism.
The Greek language has different words that express
different types of love. English has one word and Hebrew one — ‘ahab. That
one word is how God loves mankind and how mankind should love God. It also
includes romantic love of a man for a woman and a woman for a man. Regardless
of whom, ‘ahab expresses affection between beings. The Greek word
for brotherly love is philio, and for divine love it is agapao. There
are other words to express familial and erotic love in the Greek, storge and
eros, respectively.
People seem to struggle when they define agape love. That
is because only God can understand the depth and intensity of that love. Rather
than agapao defined as how God loves mankind and how mankind should love
Him back, it is a composite of philio, storge, and eros-type
love. Of course, God is not a sexual Being, but the Church is His Bride, and it
is created continually by corporate love.
My hypothesis is that mankind was to multiply, but not
erotically. It was a “sacrament” to God, meaning that coitus was not mechanical
but an act of divine grace. As such, the original intent, I surmise, was for
children, not to be born, but created just as Jesus, and that would be without
sexual intercourse. The intercourse would be the verbal Knowledge of God. With
that assumption, therefore, original sin may have included some type of
spiritual knowledge between the seraph Lucifer, and the “adulteress” Eve.
For instance, God breathed His Divine Breath on clay and the
product of His Knowledge of Good was Adam, or “Divine Clay” since Adam’s
creation was not just “very good” [i]
but perfect. God’s Breath came from His side and gave life just as the breath
of Jesus (water and the blood) gave life to mankind on the Holy Cross.
Likewise, Eve was not created from Adam’s “rib” per se,
but his “side.” Adam surely transferred divine Breath to Eve from his breath.
The implication is that multiplication was sacred and they with only the
knowledge of “good” would reproduce as the angels — without marriage. [ii]
“Marriage” is a coupling between two individuals. In
the beginning marriage was perhaps sinful, to wit: “In the days that were
before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark” (Mat 24:38). That time
was when God destroyed the Earth because of marriage; when people coupled with
each other for pleasure. Hence “marriage” would not be a sacrament but a sin if
it is based on pleasure.
Holy matrimony is a spiritual coupling. Adam and Eve as
one under God was Holy Matrimony. Adam
shared the Virtue of God from his side to Eve; the same Virtue that God had
breathed on him. Thus, unlike marriage that is a mechanical coupling (eros;
lust), Holy Matrimony is a union in the Spirit of God. The point is that agape
love was used to pro-create and although it does not include eros,
it does involve a coupling, or union, of like Spirits between man, woman, and God.
It is not sexual but is pro-creative.
The purest definition of agapao is “to be full of
good-will and exhibit the same” (Thayer’s Greek Lexicon). Now, that should make
sense!
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:13-14)
Jesus came to share Good Will. Jesus came to give life to mankind, not by
multiplication through marriage (coupling), but Holy Union with God. Jesus
would be the “Groom” and the Church the “Bride” of Jesus.
When Jesus arose, immediately His Holy Ghost returned. What would the Ghost
of Jesus do? Come down on mankind, but only on those willing to be children
of God.
Can you not see? Multiplication is more than marriage; it is spreading agapao
— good-will from God and sharing the Virtue of God with others. That still
produces children of God, and perhaps that was God’s intent from mankind in the
beginning. Life, as in the Paradise of heaven, was not meant to be a mechanical
coupling (marriage) in the Garden Paradise. Perhaps, as many believe, an “adulteress”
coupled mechanically with the seraph (Serpent) just as the daughters of men did
with the Sons of God, or dark angels, before the flood. [iii]
The dark angels did not take for themselves “help mates” as God provided
for Adam, but “wives.” [iv]
God had not said, cleave to your mate, but “cleave to your wife” [v]
and sinful angels took for themselves “wives” in Noah’s day. Wife, or ‘ishah
in the Hebrew, means the “opposite of man” and “adulteress” (Strong’s Dictionary).
With her new knowledge, God perhaps knew in advance that Eve would change
from “help-meet” to “adulteress.” Carnal knowledge from under the Tree of the
Knowledge of Evil would pleasure Eve. The outcome of that carnal knowledge was
Cain, who was “of the Wicked One.” [vi]
Consistently, the Bible says, so and so knew his wife. Strong’s
Dictionary (Qal) defines that as “distinguished.” For instance, Adam distinguished the
difference in his genitals and Eve’s, and they coupled. God created them male
and female to distinguish themselves man from woman, and for that
magnetic attraction.
Before original sin, they had been naked but did not distinguish the
difference between themselves. They covered their shame (of sin) with aprons of
fig leaves so as not to continue distinguishing their genitals. Then,
rather than life breathed to replicate, semen became the medium. God planted
the trees and such in the Garden without mankind’s help, but after sin, man thought
that his job was not only to “dress and keep the Garden” but plant it too.
Rather than God as the “Husbandman,” the Serpent was right; Adam became
the husbandman and Eve the vine. He became as God and she as Jesus.
So, exclude eros from agapao because that kind of love was
from the Wicked One. Make that the flow of Virtue in lieu of eros
as Virtue is the provision for healing and the flow of life.
Virtue flowed from Jesus when the woman with the blood issue was healed,
and Virtue surely flowed from Jesus when He lost blood and water to the earth
and the Holy Ghost was given up. That was the good “Intercourse” of Divine Knowledge
that again flowed from the side of God to the hearts of men to change their natures.
Love, then, is encompassed by good-will from God and man’s good-will
toward men. Love is multiplied to create more children of God by God’s Good
Will. Like the Father’s creation of Adam, His Good Will flowed to Adam, then
Adam passed it along to Eve. There was a flow of Good Will from God. That is the
type of love that created mankind and was meant to multiply them. Still, to become
Sons of God requires what?
Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Mat 22:37-39)
This was the intent all along to reproduce divine beings! Jesus did not
say, love with genital contact, but with “all your heart, soul, and mind.” Love
would flow from one being to another — from God to man, from man to God, and
from mankind to mankind without regard to gender!
Jesus did not say the word “love;” he said it in Greek… apagao. What
must flow from the hearts of men? “Good will toward men.” What must flow from
man to God? Good will toward God. Why is that? Because GOOD WILL flowed from
God to mankind as Jesus shed blood and water on the Holy Cross!
Virtue is the “semen” that flows from God to man and from man to God for the
natural man to be born again as a holy man or a changed “adulteress.”
Multiplication was never meant to be by coitus but by the transfer of “goodness”
from one being to another. The Garden of Eden seemed to be a Garden of Souls
that would be filled. “Multiplication” was perhaps all spiritual — God would
supply the empty souls and God would fill them, Adam would serve them his
spirit and Eve would preserve them by her spirit. “Dress and keep” has so much
more meaning in depth. It is to “serve and preserve” (Strong’s Dictionary) what
God would create!
The fact that God has a Will is essential. As essential, is that Adam’s
kind has a will to share as well. Since God did not force
multiplication, then the sharing of His Will is voluntary, or “free will.”
God could have made Eve without the need for Adam, and God did not force
Adam to go to sleep on the job. Adam needed a friend, and he willingly
laid down for God to provide for him a friend.
Eve was not a curse, but a blessing because Adam willed the same as
God. Holy Union is a common will with God, man, and others, If God had
wanted only His Image, He would have stopped with the clay shape. He instilled Good
Will in both Adam’s — male ‘adam and female ‘adam — man’s kind.
God wanted His Image animated for one purpose, and that is the share His Good
Will by multiplying it.
Rather, Eve shared her will with knowing Satan first hand, to
create a new wicked man-beast.
(picture credit: dreamstime; "Adam's Creation")
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