UPDATE: Jasmine's Discoveries has been updated. Check the newest version here.
Spoiler Alert: Given the once or twice a month pace
for Just like Eve, this draft will be further developed much later
in the book as one of Jasmine's journal entries. She's journaling her
thoughts and writing them like letters to the One she calls "Spirit." (For a disclaimer of what is not part of Jasmine's quest, see "The Quest not Taken.")
Dear Spirit,
How
much truth could be contained in the brief story of Adam, Eve, the serpent, and
the mysterious plural part masculine, part feminine entity called Elohim? Upon
the conclusion of her quest into her question, “Who is Eve?” Jasmine sits
dumbfounded. Each discovery holds profound insight, yet is entirely
different, even directly opposed to the lessons provided by the church – even
when the story is read the way she had been taught by the church to read it. Jasmine
lists out the astonishing revelations into her journal, beginning with those
pertaining to the relationships of men and women:
1. Women
were sentenced to a mysterious longing: to be completed by their man (Gen
3:16).
2. This
longing would so burden some women that it would be a curse.
3. Others
– those in the fashion, beauty, jewelry and other romance businesses – would
profit in multi-billion dollar industries from woman’s burdensome longing.
4. Meanwhile,
the man would suffer from the woman’s curse to be completed by him as she
unwittingly attempts to force him into becoming the savior/completer she thinks
she needs; and since he was not also given the same curse to be “completed” by
her, he would not understand and marriages would break-down.
5. A
woman was also likely to suffer from the most chilling of all curses: to
be “ruled” by her man (Gen 3:16);
Spirit, when will the church leaders admit the Bible notes a curse to women is to be ruled by men?
6. The
woman (an ezer)
was designed to be more than merely a “helper” for the man, as the essence of ezer suggests
“life-saver” (Gen 2:18).
Spirit, how many English speaking women
have had any idea when they’ve read of the woman’s creation for man ‘I will
make for him a suitable helper’ that a more accurate translation would be ‘I
will make for him a suitable life-saver?’
But, Spirit, I'm discovering so much more
too:
7. The serpent both
deceived and told the truth and both liberated and oppressed.
8. the serpent (nahash: Nun
(50) + Het (8) + Shin (300) = 358) holds the same mystical energy of 358 as the
Messiah (Meshiach:
Mem (40) + Shin (300) + Yod (10) + Het (8) = 358).
9. the God figure, Elohim,
is plural (-im)
with a feminine root, but masculine in plural form, suggesting a far bigger,
complete, and more mysterious entity.
10. Elohim would forbid something
good, that the God of the New Testament would later call for:
knowledge/discernment of good and evil (Gen 2:17 vs. Heb 5:14).
11. As “good and evil,” the tree
would be better called “The Tree of Duality.”
12. Duality involves the Illusion of
Separation, which leads not to death, but suffering.
13. The suffering can be transcended
by finding “completion” not in a human man, but in the Christ, the Christ
within (Luke 17:21); “the mystery is this: Christ in you” (Col 1:27).
14. The illusion of separation,
however, is so deep within humanity that such transcendence cannot be clichéd,
nor over-simplified, but acknowledged as a life-long journey of discovering,
deepening, and peeling the illusion and the ego, layer by layer by layer by
layer.
Spirit, could it be that this Illusion of Separation,
embodied on Earth in our male-female relationships, that is at the center of suffering?
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