"Genesis is deeply symbolic, and cannot be grasped by a literal interpretation,". "Its 'tree of life' is the human body. The spinal cord is like an upturned tree, with man's hair as its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches. The tree of the nervous system bears many enjoyable fruits, or sensations of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. In these, man may rightfully indulge; but he was forbidden the experience of sex, the 'apple' at the center of the bodily garden.
"The 'serpent' represents the coiled-up spinal energy which stimulates the sex nerves. 'Adam' is reason, and 'Eve' is feeling. When the emotion or Eve-consciousness in any human being is overpowered by the sex impulse, his reason or Adam also succumbs.
2007-01-11 06:09:26 · 15 answers · asked by ssss 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"God created the human species by materializing the bodies of man and woman through the force of His will; He endowed the new species with the power to create children in a similar 'immaculate' or divine manner.16 Because His manifestation in the individualized soul had hitherto been limited to animals, instinct-bound and lacking the potentialities of full reason, God made the first human bodies, symbolically called Adam and Eve. To these, for advantageous upward evolution, He transferred the souls or divine essence of two animals. 17 In Adam or man, reason predominated; in Eve or woman, feeling was ascendant. Thus was expressed the duality or polarity which underlies the phenomenal worlds. Reason and feeling remain in a heaven of cooperative joy so long as the human mind is not tricked by the serpentine energy of animal propensities.
2007-01-11 06:09:38 · update #1
Taken from:
Autobiography of a Yogi
2007-01-11 06:10:11 · update #2
That's some deep thinking there, I don't even know how to reply to it. Keep thinking though it's good for you, I gave you a thumbs up for giving me a headache. :)
2007-01-11 06:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Three paragraphs from a book like that are similar to a small portion of the Bible which is trying to express something deeper. You really need to read much more to fully understand what the author was saying. This is obviously metaphorical speech, with a great deal left unsead.
2007-01-11 06:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Frankly, I think it's wrong and it's just one person's way of twisting Christianity to suit their needs. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge were not humans. Sex was not the forbidden fruit because God wanted us to multiply and forbidding it won't help us become plentiful. Your theory is wrong.
2007-01-11 06:30:56 · answer #3 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The serpent will do anything to distort the account of Creation.
This should serve, folks, to remind us all that the serpent of old roams about as a roaring lion, seeking to devour us. He is clever and will stop at nothing to cause us all to stumble and miss the God of all Creation in our lives.
2007-01-11 06:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yogis are dumb, and they must have slept a lot, i lost interst half way and stopped reading, guess if someone was writing such rubbish they must have been on some "root" or other him/herself know wat i mean
2007-01-11 06:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ridiculous.
2007-01-11 06:27:19 · answer #6 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's man attempt to explain it in an intellectual way that may be accepted by those who don't belive in God.
2007-01-11 06:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by Gummy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Garbage.
2007-01-11 06:25:06 · answer #8 · answered by watcherd 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is one interpretation of many-that is why the bible is still the most read and studied book ever written.
2007-01-11 06:20:43 · answer #9 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reading too much into it.
2007-01-11 06:19:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋