Common Man vs. Adamic Man

What is known about Adam comes primarily from the Bible and sacred texts. What is important is that the genus of Adam was neither gorilla, ape, or monkey and that he came from God, not some lower form of life.

Sinless Adam was not as we imagine; he would not have been a being like us. Repeated, because we come far short of the glory of God, common human beings would look nothing like Adam.

Adam was perfect, called “very good” in the English translation (Gen 1:31). In fact, Adam was created in the divine Image of God would be very much like God in the shape of a man-being. Adam was not only the man’s name but his substance.

Adam: אָדַם — Sinless Adam would not have been a biological being but a threshold intelligence capable of crossing or inhabiting multiple domains, or realms. Adam, before sin, would have been a threshold being and not strictly a biological one.

Sin would have morphed Adam into a biological creature when God changed his habitat from threshold to worldly: God “drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the Way of the Tree of Life” Gen 3:24).

If a threshold being, Adam would not have been driven from the Garden, but his threshold existence changed from a heaven/earth to strictly an earthly existence.

He had not gone anywhere but would have lost his threshold state of existence while keeping the substance of the ground (adama). Adama would not be just material ground but a substance of both worlds. Adama would have been a state of being between objective and spiritual, and so would Adam. Adama would be a threshold substance.

In short, because Adam was of Adama he would have been conscious of all things within that threshold existence; including God, the heavens, and the earth.

The pseudepigrapha Book of Adam and Eve supports that notion:

 

Then Adam cried and said, "O God, when we lived in the garden, and our hearts were lifted up, we saw the angels that sang praises in heaven, but now we can't see like we used to; no, when we entered the cave, all creation became hidden from us."

Then God the Lord said to Adam, "When you were under subjection to Me, you had a bright nature within you, and for that reason could you see things far away. But after your transgression your bright nature was withdrawn from you; and it was not left to you to see things far away, but only near at hand; after the ability of the flesh; for it is brutish."

When Adam and Eve had heard these words from God, they went their way; praising and worshipping Him with a sorrowful heart.

And God ceased to commune with them. (1 A & E 8:1-4)

 

That God ceased to commune with them comes from Genesis 3:24; they were no longer privy to either God or heavenly things. No longer would Adam and his kind be threshold beings that were privy to both realms but merely biological beings in the world.

As threshold beings, they would have communed with God since God is also a threshold Being and privy to existence in heaven/earth.

Jesus was called “Immanuel… God with us” (Isa 7:14: Mat 1:23). Either on earth or in Heaven, God is with us. As such, that fits the definition of God as a threshold Being, and Adam, made in the Image of God, would have also been a threshold being inhabiting both heaven and earth and freely existing on the threshold to the world.

Adam and Eve would have been thrust, not out of the Garden, but from the threshold existence of the Garden. They had not journeyed anywhere but lost the communication with the once visible realm, now invisible to them. No longer could they see God walking as a man in the Garden but could only see God by the things that He had made.

God as a glorious man would have been lost to them, and God became just a memory to them.

The aleph-dalet in the name Adam: aleph – dalet – mem would indicate a vapor., hence Adam, with the letter mem representing dynamics, would indicate that the vapor was alive within itself. The substance of Adam would have been a vapor. To support that idea, when Jacob wrestled with the man-God the “wrestling” that was a vapor. Implied is that the Spirit of God was in both Adam and Israel (Jacob).

So, perhaps the substance of Adam was the vaporous Spirit of God in the shape of a lower state of man from among the beasts of the field. In other words, Adam would not have had bare naked raw flesh like the beasts but “naked” in the sense that he did not have raw flesh before he sinned. Sin would have morphed him into a beast with a soul within, and since God no longer communed with him, Adam would have undergone a metamorphosis from Spirit to flesh and hence only the earth realm of the Garden would have been suitable for both him and her.

With the onset of sin, the two would have crossed the threshold of metamorphosis and no longer like butterflies, they were more like their worms.

Adam was created in the Image of God, but so was Lucifer. About Lucifer, Isaiah wrote, “Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worm covers you” (Isa 14:11).

There are two manners of “worm” in that passage: Tola is the coccus illicis and rimma another species of worm with an exalted state of existence.

Jesus, according to the psalm was a loccus illicis type of worm; one that began as larvae but ended a lofty flying creature.

Lucifer was the opposite, a glorious worm that became an ordinary caterpillar-like creature that on its belly, it would go after a metamorphosis (Gen 3:14). Once a higher state of being, Lucifer was reduced to, not crawling, but to a lower state.

Like Lucifer, Adam would have undergone metamorphosis; thus, losing the lofty state, and becoming a frail and common man (Enos in the Hebrew) and so would have Eve from whom all of us came. Therefore, we are not Adamic but common, mortal men, who like the winged insects will soon die.

In summary, people today are not like Adam but like the Beast, Satan (John 8:44) but arrogantly we claim to be both Adam’s kind and children of God.