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Origins
After succumbing to temptation and falling from grace, the form of Adam in Origins
is being filled by the lamp of knowledge and awakens to witness the birth of all that is around him. Adam’s symbolic bite of the distant apple raises his awareness and reveals the seed, which represents the birth of life. From the empty space around him, atomic matter joins to form the Earth from which the apple seed germinates and brings forth the diverse ecosystems.
He would not walk this new world alone, however, and was joined by the beautiful Eve with whom his personal union would commence the birth of humanity and all sentient life. After a lifetime of struggle and evolution, Adam reflects and realizes that
With knowledge came awareness of good and evil,With good and evil came experience,With experience came wisdom,With wisdom came understanding,With understanding reality was revealed,And when reality was revealed,Adam saw what God saw and prepared for the final union,Where his body returned to the EarthAnd he and God became one.
And…
It was good.
Mythology can be a misleading term for accounts, which contain seeds of truth that provide insight into reality. In a culture still looking for Noah’s Ark, how unfortunate that we seek evidence to dispel every myth at the expense of seeing the reality of the message. Romulus and Remus may not have been raised by wolves or even existed, but the metaphor paralleled the birth of Rome, which was born and grew out of conflict. Long after the death of Rome, humanity has erased the legend of Romulus and Remus and forgotton the simple lesson: He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Accordingly, the fundamental truth or lesson learned, which was later forgotten, was more powerful than Rome ever was.
As for Adam and Eve, if origins depend on successful unions, then we should never underestimate the importance of all relationships, which give birth to all that matters.
