My Day in the Garden of Eden - Enter If You Dare

The Garden of Eden

A Reinterpretation

As much as I enjoy the myth of the Garden of Eden, I do realize it is such. It still amazes me how many still maintain a literal belief in something that is so highly symbolic.

I do confess I have no dog in the fight between creationists and evolutionists, you guys and girls may have it, I tend to believe certain mystery's will reveal themselves when the time is ready, all this my-side is better than your-side is nothing but division, minor to most but all one has to do is watch the daily news to see what happens when this my-side versus your-side infects group think, and to think how long this ignorant behavior has plagued humanity, and yet on and on it goes.

I use to wonder what would happen if we took away all the holy books, for just a few generations, enough time for humankind to forget the programmed mindset that has been passed on in ignorance century after century, then bring them all back, the Bible, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad-Gita, the Buddhist Sutra's, and all the other teachings that have been passed down century after century. Would we then see the beauty contained within all the various approaches to Light, would we be able to see the interconnections between symbols and thought, or would we still attempt to divide that which was not meant to be divided, or was it? The answer may lay smack dab in the middle of the Garden of Eden.



Our story takes place in the most idyllic of all gardens, the garden of pure potential, a garden where every seed planted bares fruit.

Like all good gardener's our Master Gardener, who shall remain nameless, carefully prepared the soil, putting his heart and soul in it's design and content, each and every particle had purpose, no matter how small.

Everything vibrated with life, and the sound was good, Om is the primordial throb.

Out of this perfect design, through the expansion of the garden and life, and through the love of the gardener, arrived what we call man, filled with life given vibration at a level above all others. One could easily say everything was a buzz.

As we clearly know, everything has a partner in order to make it whole, not two half's, one whole.

Slowly our Master Gardner's creation blossomed with life, everything was in harmony, the most perfect of all music.

One day while Adam and Eve were picnicking naked in the garden, the much maligned

Will, the serpent of the garden, slide slowly to the naked Eve's side.

Who was this much maligned serpent known as Will, short for Free Will, alias Free Wilson derived from Free Wisdom, because he tempts man to the knowledge of himself.

Smitten by the naked beauty of Eve, he struck up a conversation, hoping Adam wouldn't hear.

As etiquette would require, the much maligned Will presented Eve with two apples, although most think only one but as we know the two make the one, no if's and doubts about it, one from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and one from the Tree of Life, one Delicious the other Macintosh.

It would be foolish to assume that Eve really had a choice, our Master Gardener had planned for every scenario, Eve would take a bite, not only was it the proper thing to do, courtesy required it. She took a bite from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

As soon as the delicious first bite graced her pallet Adam appeared to separate from Eve, instead of Eve and Adam being one they now appeared to be two, two halves no longer a whole, subject object.

Now if you’re a fatalist you may think all is lost, but you’re wrong. Adam and Eve would try to reform the union that had been lost, but one and one only created two again. Eventually it happened, through one of their liaisons, Eve gave birth to another one. Now Adam a one, Eve a one, and now a son Cain a one, added together they formed three, the first geometric whole, the triangle.

Adam and Eve had actually found a way to eat for the Tree of Life!

Some will get….Some won’t….

Riding The Goat

It is my pleasure to introduce you to the “Goat”, the much maligned mythical God that symbolically once stood for something greater, only to find himself used to strike fear in the ignorant and used as comic relief in solemn initiate ceremonies by individuals that understand little of it's symbolic significance.
If truth be told, this symbol the “Goat” is not a goat at all, its actually a veiled symbol for a philosophy known as Pantheism.
Before you continue please understand that I am not preaching the philosophy of Pantheism, yet I do believe those on the initiate path should consider its principal teaching when unlocking meaning of esoteric symbols.

If we undertake to trace the original meaning of the word "Pantheism," we shall have to go back to Greek mythology. There we find that the ancient Greek shepherds used to believe in a god, whom they worshipped, and whom they called Pan.
They believed that that god Pan was the god of the flocks and the shepherds; that he was the guardian of the fishermen and of the bee-keepers; he was the patron of all persons occupied in hunting and in fishing. This god Pan has been described poetically as having the head and trunk of a man, with horns and goat's beard, pug-nose, pointed ears, and tail, and with goat's feet. He was very fond of music. He was the inventor of the shepherd's flute, which he used to play upon. This poetic description of the god Pan is nothing but the crude, imperfect symbolization of the conception of God which the shepherds of those days had. The picture is a symbol of the spirit of nature which exists in man, in beasts, in fishes, in birds, in insects, in plants. The shepherds thus understood the kinship which exists among all living creatures and things. Gradually this idea was changed, was extended. The god Pan became the god of the hills, mountains, rivers, etc., and afterwards he came to be identified with every personified object of nature.

Pan means all, and theism means belief in a god. Pantheism in its rudest forms was universal godism. It asserts the consubstantiation of God with nature.

In 1600 Giordano Bruno was burned at Rome for his Pantheistic opinions. When he was asked what he believed in, he said that he did not believe in creation, but he believed in the world as an emanation of the Infinite Mind. He said: "To realize God everywhere, to see God everywhere, and to realize that He alone Is, and all else is perishable phenomena and passing illusion; that there is one intelligence existing in God, in man, in beast, and in all that we call matter; this would be the aim of true philosophy."
Am I asserting that Pantheism is the path of the hoodwinked?
No, I tend to see our progression towards a more idealistic monistic philosophy, one described beautifully by physisist Amit Goswami, “Pantheism is very limited. When Westerners started going to India, they thought it was pantheistic because it has many, many gods. Indian philosophy tends to see God in nature—they worship rocks sometimes, that kind of thing—so Westerners thought it was pantheistic, and only later did they realize that it has a transcendent dimension. In fact, the transcendent dimension is developed extremely well in Indian philosophy, whereas in the West, it is hidden in a very few esoteric systems, such as those of Gnostics and of a few great masters like Meister Eckhart. In Jesus' teachings, you can see it in the Gospel according to Thomas. But you have to really dig deep to find that thread in the West. In India, in the Upanishads, the Vedanta, and the Bhagavad Gita, it is very explicit.

Now, pantheism sounds very good, but it's only part of the story. It's a good way to worship; it's a good way to bring spirituality into your daily life because it is good to acknowledge that there is spirit in everything. But if we just see the diversity, if we just see the God in everything, but don't see the God which is beyond every particular thing, then we are not realizing our potential. We are not realizing our Self. And so, truly, Self- realization involves seeing this pantheistic aspect of reality, but also seeing the transcendent aspect of reality.”