What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden

Why we got banished from Utopia — and deserved it

Welcome back to my “Chrysticism” series! Named a portmonteau of “Christianity” and “mysticism,” this Chrysticism series aims to illuminate the esoteric truths hidden in plain sight in the Christian Bible, including humanity’s potential for miraculous powers and physical immortality.

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To build upon the premise of my last post,

God is a hyperdimensional mirror,

insofar as our perception of God can only ever be, at best, a projection on God.

So the version of God we experience, is always the version of “God” we created through our own compromised perceptual filters.

This is why choosing to love God is what makes Divine Love real for us — and indeed, gives us access to the blissful Heavenly realms… whereas our own choosing to hate and distrust God is what creates Hell for us.

And I believe this is precisely what was being conveyed in the Biblical account of how Adam and Eve got banished from the paradisiacal Garden of Eden, found in Genesis — the first, and arguably the most polarizing, book of the Bible.

Schepping van de wereld by Etienne Delaune

The Frustrating Relevance of Genesis

There are countless creation myths from around the world that humanity could have popularized, yet the Biblical Genesis story stands head and shoulders above them all.

And sure, it could be argued that The Crusades forced the Bible into the collective psyche (if historical accounts of Christianity’s development are to believed — which I don’t think they are, but that’s another post LOL).

But even if Genesis got a head-start due to aggressive missionaries, the fact that the story itself remains so polarizing is reason enough to take it seriously as something that we need to integrate.

Consider, for example, how offended some people get by the idea that Eve was created from Adam’s rib.

I’ve seen so many indignant memes saying things like, “Women aren’t created from Men’s ribs! Men are created from Women’s vaginas!”

First of all, men — and all people, unless they were born by parthenogenesis — aren’t “created from women’s vaginas.” They are created from the alchemical fusion of a male sperm and a female egg, and are then born into this realm through the portal of a vagina. But they are actually created from BOTH Men and Women in sexual union.

See? Grey. Both. “And.” NUANCE.

That people think only one sex must be exalted over the other in Creation, is symptomatic of the very “black and white” condition created by humanity’s fall from Eden.

And the fact that we collectively don’t-know that Adam WAS NOT A MAN IN THE FIRST PLACE proves my point!

The “Adam” who existed before Eve was actually an androgyne.

This is revealed in Genesis 1:27, which states,

God created man, in His image he created them; male and female he created them.

The word “them” here is not in reference to two individuals (plural), but rather, a “gender-neutral” reference to one person (singular) who was simultaneously male and female.

The androgyny of the original Adam is reminiscent of Ardhanareeshwar, the being who comes into form when the Hindu god Shiva combines in perfect balance with his female consort, Parvati.

Most mistakenly believe the word “them” is in reference to Adam and Eve, but Eve didn’t exist as an individual yet at this point in Genesis. The division of the first human into an individual male and an individual female didn’t happen until the next chapter, in Genesis 2:

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” [...] So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Fun fact: the word “rib” here is a mistranslation. Eve was actually created from one entire *side* of Adam.

But for whatever reason, somebody along the way decided to mistranslate the original Hebrew in a way that positioned Eve as inferior to Adam…

…and that misogynistic mistranslation has gone largely unquestioned, and the resulting resentment has snowballed down through history ever since.

All of this religious drama could’ve been avoided, if we ever bothered to look more deeply into this hyperdimensional mirror called the Bible, instead of being blindly reactive.

But we don’t look more deeply.

Why?

Because Something In Us wants the drama of a gender war.
Something In Us hates the idea that the two sexes are different but equal.
Something In Us rejects our true state of Oneness with each other, and projects evil onto the “other” under the erroneous presupposition that there is an “other” who is causing our suffering!

In reality, it was us all along.

We are the source of the suffering.

We do this to ourselves, with our own minds.

Our own failure to master our minds is what Genesis is about…

…and is also why Genesis remains like a thorn in our side, eternally reminding us of why we actually deserved to get kicked out of paradise.

Allow me to elaborate:

The Story of Adam and Eve by Boucicaut Master, cropped

Where Eve (a.k.a. All of Us) Went Wrong

To summarize Genesis, basically:

1. God created the universe

2. God made a paradisiacal Garden: Eden

3. God created the first human: a self-complete androgyne

4. God split that human into two complementary halves, so they could enjoy each other’s company as equal partners

5. God gave these humans the responsibility of stewarding the animals

6. God gave them deathless food to enjoy — fruits!

7. and finally, God warned them not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, because it would instantly cause them to die.

There’s so much to unpack here.

But for the sake of making my point, let’s summarize it this way: Adam and Eve lived in a paradise designed specifically for them. They had everything they could need or want, and there was no death.

And then,
the serpent came along.

Genesis 3

¹ Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

² And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

⁵ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Before we talk about anything else,
I offer you this question to consider:

What reason did Eve have, to put her faith in the serpent?

She lived in paradise, in love with her soulmate, in a world of Only Goodness and No Death.

Then some random snake comes along and suggests that the God who created her and gave her everything she could possibly desire, was actually deceiving her — and that it would be desirable to have knowledge of Evil.

So the fact that Eve chose to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, indicates two things:

• She chose to believe the serpent was being more truthful than God (WHY?! BASED ON WHAT?!)

• and she wanted to know what Evil was

Remember, she only knew “Good” before.

In a world of infinite abundance and fulfillment,

only a parasite

would be dissatisfied

and demand more.

More.

More.

More.

The moment Eve decided that paradise wasn’t good enough for her, was the moment Eve chose parasitism. Scarcity. Vampirism.
This is the basis for Evil.

So it’s no wonder that what happened next, was an immediate and automatic descent into a lower realm — a realm I call The Serpent’s Circuit, predicated on an ouroboros-style cycle of give-take, cause-effect, and death-life.

Eve — and moments later, Adam too — freely and willingly chose duality.

The serpent’s presence and purpose is never outright explained by the Bible, and this ambiguity lends itself to projections from the reader’s own mind. Personally, I see how the serpent represented Adam and Eve’s own capacity for deception, as demonstrated a few verses later when they try to lie to God.

Let’s continue:

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

So they hid their true bodies, then they hid themselves from God. This is deceptive, secretive behavior, which has no place in an honest Utopia.

⁹ And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

Either God genuinely didn’t know where Adam was now (which implies that Adam and Eve had now entered an adjacent dimension — still able to interact with God, but not as clearly as before!),
or, God was asking a rhetorical question to give them the chance to come clean.

¹⁰ And Adam said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

So Adam blamed Eve, instead of taking responsibility for his own sovereign, free choice to join her in eating the fruit.

¹³ And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Likewise, Eve also passed on the blame to the serpent, and in doing so, failed to take responsibility for her free choice. In this, she forfeited her sovereignty and chose victimhood instead.

¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

I’m fascinated by the suggestion here that the serpent didn’t always crawl on the ground. Did it originally walk? Did it fly? Was it a dragon?

Considering that Adam and Eve’s responsibility was to “steward the animals” (meaning, optimize their potential), the serpent’s loss of vertical mobility suggests that when Adam and Eve “fell,” they took the animals with them into the lower dimensions of reality.

^[…]16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

This is further proof that God’s original design was not for men to rule over women! — but rather, for them to be equals. So patriarchy was a cursed dynamic resulting from how Adam and Eve blamed each other for their own actions, making enemies of each other when they were meant to experience Oneness as soulmates!

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

So evidently, humans were not originally intended to work for our sustenance, but choosing Evil created the condition of scarcity and depletion.

Also, this is where Death officially enters the picture. The curse of “returning to dust” implies that humans were not originally intended to decompose.

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²² And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever:

²³ Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

This is the part where a lot of Bible-critics say God is being an asshole, by keeping Adam and Eve from obtaining immortality.

But what I’m getting from this, is that Adam and Eve HAD THE OPTION OF EATING FROM THE TREE OF LIFE ALL THIS TIME.

Let’s go back a chapter:

^{Genesis 2}

⁹ The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

^[…]16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Yet again: this betrays how the evil came from within Adam and Eve:

In a paradisiacal garden, given the free will to choose to eat from the Tree of Life or the Tree that Imparts the Knowledge of Evil,

they freely chose Evil.

I also see this as profoundly merciful on God’s part. Instead of giving them the option to live forever as dualistic, deceptive parasites who want to know Evil more than they want Life, Adam and Eve now had to return to their original Edenic nature before they could obtain immortality.

Good.

It’s also interesting to note that Adam and Eve did not experience shame until after obtaining knowledge of Evil… and that this shame was specific to their genitalia. It begs the question: In their original Utopian state of blissful consortship, were they having genital-based sex at all?

In God There is No Darkness

Now
mark
my
f*cking
words:

I will never concede that Death is necessary, or inevitable, or purposeful, or in any way worthy of reverence or respect.

I hate death.
Despise it. Abhor it.

Death is neither interesting nor fascinating, and I am not obligated to “accept” it, or “embrace” it, or “come to terms” with it.

Death is decrepit, putrid, vile, revolting, awful, harrowing, repulsive.
Death is the worst thing there is.
Death is nothing more than a grave mistake.

And it is absolutely,
utterly,
grossly,
embarassingly
unnecessary.

This is where “my” interpretation of Christianity departs from the standard interpretation.

Whereas most Christians seem to believe that the objective of their religion is to “live well so that after you die, you can get into Heaven,”

I am personally convinced, by way of Gnosis obtained within, that the esoteric objective of Christianity is to “live well so you don’t die at all.”

I see Christianity — or, the commitment to being Christ-like — as a pursuit of Physical Immortality. And I see the enduring relevance of Eden in the collective consciousness, as a sort of soul memory of Utopia.

Somewhere in us, we remember Life without Death.
Somewhere in us, we remember that “God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
Despite what pop occultists would have you believe, Goodness does not “need” Evil to exist. Neither does Life “need” Death, nor Light “need” Darkness.

It is precisely that inverted way of thinking that got us into this fallen realm… and only a fierce commitment to Life, Life Only, and Life Forever, can get us out — back to Eden, back to Utopia, back to Heaven — not Heaven in the “afterlife,” but Heaven here and now (Luke 17:21).

With that, lovelings, I am hereby re-introducing myself as an Immortalist — a.k.a., a serious student of physical immortality, particularly as taught by Yeshua.

A desire has been born within me, more intense than any I have ever known, to do whatever I can to establish God’s Free Energy Empire on Earth.

So I plan to map out all my self-sourced, Christ-centered, immortalist transmissions into a coherent body of work over time — and I’ll be tagging these posts with “Chrysticism.”

Thank you for receiving what I’ve shared so far. 🙏🏽

More soon.

Love.

You may appreciate this song, the lyrics of which are very resonant with this post.

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