Decoding the Bible – The Metaphysics of Eden

“And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”

As we have come to learn, the Bible is nothing more than a metaphysical handbook, the individual biography of every being born on the planet. It’s a guide that details the many mental and spiritual states we find ourselves occupying during every waking moment of our lives.

I don’t know what your understanding of Eden is, but chances are that you’ve come to know it as God’s magical garden where he placed Adam and Eve, both of whom then went on to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – a big no-no in the eyes of the lord.

Scientifically (and metaphysically) speaking, we can look at God as simply a nonlocal, multidimensional ‘event’ that developed conscious awareness and ‘asked’ itself why it was. In order to explore this question, the nonlocal multidimensional event individualised itself and generated our local, ‘physical’ three-dimensional reality (governed by space and time).

This being the case, where exactly does ‘Eden’ fit in? Further more, who on earth are Adam and Eve?

In order to answer these questions, we must remember again to look at the Bible as a metaphysical guide concerning the various states of consciousness.

Firstly, ‘Eden’ is not a garden. It’s not actually a place at all. Eden represents a ‘pleasant, harmonious state of consciousness’ leading to growth (that’s where the garden bit comes in). Further, in scriptural symbology, east always represents the within, so what we have is a pleasant, harmonious state of consciousness (Eden) within us (located in the east).

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

Trees represent thoughts of unity. One small thought or idea grows and spreads out, becoming a symbol of strength in which high, spiritual ideals can ‘roost’. Trees are also widely interpreted metaphysically as being the nerves of the body of man, the connecting links between earth and heaven, body and mind.

Within the state of ‘Eden’ can be found “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. Now, this ‘tree’ represents our ability to measure purpose, our ability to assign values to purpose. All things ‘good’ are an expression of purpose, while all things ‘evil’ are things that contribute to the measurement of a lack of purpose.

The other main ‘tree’ that sits in ‘Eden’ is the tree of life. The tree of life represents pure being, existence free of the measurement of purpose. In fact, in a way, the tree of life exists as a result of our individual measurements of purpose.

This ‘tree of life’ is the default basic state of conscious awareness, the state we share with the nonlocal multidimensional event (NME). Even though we are individualised from the NME, we are still connected to our place of origin, which is represented by this tree of life.

“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

When we become individualised in order to measure purpose, we ‘eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil’ and are cast out of the default pleasant, harmonious state of consciousness that we are born into (spiritually).

When we eat from the tree, we ‘die’ – become separated from the NME – we achieve free will in order to measure purpose, we are ‘born’ into an ego.

Man can only regain entry into ‘Eden’ by being ‘born anew’ in spirit – a spirit that is closely associated with the pleasant, harmonious state of consciousness – a state which can come about voluntarily while we are ‘alive’, but is more generally experienced via the ‘death’ of the  physical body.

We eat the fruit of the tree of life when we appropriate ideas of divine existence, ceasing to see life as something that comes and goes, something that consists of a ‘birth’ and a ‘death’.

The spirit never dies.

Which brings us to ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’

Adam represents the ego or will, the Spiritual existing in the physical – the soul, the intellect. On the other hand, Eve represents feeling, and is most associated with love.

Both Adam and Eve together represent the individualised ‘I AM’ consciousness – the conscious awareness of every man and woman. We all have a rational, thinking side, and an emotional side that counteracts it. This is where the old idea of letting your heart rule your head comes from – Eve, tempted by the serpent (which represents desire, by the way), eats the fruit and tells Adam to do the same.

This entire metaphysical interpretation is fascinating in that it explains why we are here, what caused us to become individualised, and how our feelings (Eve) can over-rule our head (Adam) and are in turn influenced and driven by our desires (the serpent).

Again, the serpent represents the fact that all desires are the lowest forms of thought, above which are higher concepts and ideas to do with self and spirituality (lowest forms of thought because they are focused on the material world, a world outside of us).

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman.”

Ever wondered why you get so frustrated and have an almost love/hate relationship with your desires? It’s because there exists animosity, a state of hatred, hostility, antagonism between the ‘serpent’ and ‘Eve’.

In the Bible, this was portrayed as the result of punishing the serpent for leading Eve astray. Metaphysically speaking, when we allow our emotions to dictate our focus and attention on desires, there will always be an element of love in the first instance, followed by the antagonistic follow-up when our desires don’t show up.

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As I delve into these metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, it’s my hope that you are beginning to open up to new ways of looking at a book that has quite a polarising effect on people. More and more of us are labelling ourselves atheists, viewing religion as something to be derided and blamed for many of the world’s problems.

One man’s interpretation of religion can be diametrically opposed to another man’s version of spirituality – however both deal with much of the same fundamental principles; peace, love, harmony, and understanding, not to mention a healthy dose of forgiveness.

It is the job of metaphysics to merge religion with spirituality, science with philosophy, manifesting desires with an understanding of who we are, and why we’re here.

Hopefully, we’ll continue to do this together.

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