Genesis I and II ... And ... How Your Story Ends

"In the beginning God created...." 
(Genesis 1:1)

The above phrase does not refer to God's beginning because existence without time has no beginning or ending. Without time, there is only present being. Genesis 1 refers rather to the beginning of the realm of existence we experience as earth.

Prior to the Genesis 1 beginning ... God is. Existence exists. God is formless existence. Prior to this Genesis 1 beginning the earth is not formed, all is formless spirit, emptiness.

Now....

"Let there be light and darkness." Suddenly there seems two: emptiness and radiant light. Radiant light shines into the emptiness so that where light shines emptiness is no longer ... seeming interaction ... seeming time and space. All existence seems two: male extension and female receptivity. Existence identifies itself as "I AM." Yet light and darkness identify themselves as, "We ARE." In reality nothing has changed. God IS.

Now....

"Let there be forms." Suddenly out of light and darkness there seem many. Formless existence has been seemingly divided into formed existence. Suddenly there are various forms: seas and land, plants and trees with seeds and fruit, sun and moon and stars, fish and birds and land animals and mankind. Thus the heavens and earth are completed in all their vast array, each form seeming separate. In reality nothing has changed. God IS.

Now....

Each of these forms of existence, being of God, also experiences the interaction of light and darkness; male virility and female fertility; seeming time and space; the seeming rhythm of creativity according to God's likeness.

All these forms made of God are "good." No forms not good have been made of God.

Now....

God says to all forms, "Be fruitful and multiply." And the forms themselves continue to divide existence into further forms according to their likeness.

Earth life has been set in motion. And the story includes mankind.

God says, "Let us make mankind in our image and our likeness:" the interaction of light and darkness, the synergy of male and female which is also able to further form existence.

Now....

Adam and Eve are aware of who they really are as God in form. They experience no sense of separation from God, but only a sense of oneness with their source. They know neither guilt, nor shame, nor anger, nor fear. They know not of pain, sickness, suffering or death. Even though they are in form, they experience paradise. They are perfectly protected and their every need perfectly provided. Their state of being is called the "Garden of Eden," the natural state of mankind on earth.

In the now moment....

The being of which we are formed ... our Source ... God ... says to our natural selves: "You must not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for if you eat from it you will certainly feel separated from me, separated from the very tree of life. You shall know death."

Yet in the now moment....

We can formulate in our minds temptations. We see forms in the world which we imagine to promise such delicious tastiness, or so much pleasure, or such abundant wisdom, or so great a benefit that we tempt ourselves to ignore God's guidance.

And in the now moment....

We have a choice to ignore temptations or yield to the allure our imagination has made of the world of forms.

In the now moment....

If we yield to such temptations, valuing above God's guidance those forms which offer imagined promise, we now further take our focus off God by heightening our alertness for threats to these idols we have made. We become even more fully willing to ignore God's guidance even unto judging for ourselves what we shall see as good and what we shall see as evil.

And if we so commit this original sin in the now moment....

We are now banished from the Garden of Eden, from the glorious blissful experience of our true nature. We have sentenced ourselves to knowing hardship and pain and suffering and death.

That is the story of earth life's genesis, our beginning story.

But our story continues. The interaction between light's radiance and dark emptiness goes on.

In the now moment....

Jesus draws us to him. His brilliant light, our own light mostly forgotten, extends far beyond hardship, pain, suffering, and death. Yeshua enlivening our being provides us with inklings of Home and shows us the Way.

In the now moment....

We choose to follow. We repent, directing our focus away from temptations, turning back to awareness of God's very real presence, once again experiencing the peace and love and joy that is our natural state, the Garden of Eden on earth.

And in any now moment....

If we join this luminous light of Jesus fully, surrendering ourselves wholly, absolutely, completely into experiencing our oneness with Yeshua...

...even the Garden of Eden disappears, leaving no longer earthly forms but only radiant light.




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