Symbolically,
eating the fruit connotes an awakening within Adam and Eve of their
natural erotic nature. The Tree and the Apple are Nature images. As
natural products
they provide physical food. As symbolic products they feed the inner
self, the soul. The eating is a relational and intimate moment.
Adam
is temporarily shocked out of his Lone Male vision of who Eve is.
His sense of interiority is shaken,
for he now sees and feels himself as intimate with
Eve. Adam taps into a brooding emotion of deep erotic longing. It
is implied
that he lusts after Eve, and that he satisfied
this lust as he came to “know” her.
It is not inappropriate to plumb the deeper meaning of this “eating” each
of the other. It is a term of communion, but also
deep erotic passion.
Adam now has the knowledge of
her which, up
to this time, only his Lone
Male God possessed. He now knows her as a fully present woman.
She is no longer just his helper. For a moment he
is not the Lone Male. It can be assumed that they shared
a moment of sensual and poignant sexual awakening, and, in
light of the
enraged, wrathful response of the Lone Male God, a moment
of ecstasy.
Adam
will
eventually express this fresh and novel passion for Eve when
he later calls her “Mother of All.”
Ecstasy—in the Warrior's Quest's
over-sexualized world it can carry implications
of degradation or serve as simply a term of sexual pleasure. Let's
use it to express the inexpressible moment of creativity.
When you create or discover something truly original or new, you
shout, “Eureka!” This
is a delight which is holistic. It is a joy expressed physically,
psychologically and spiritually.
The “flipped-out,” “kick
the kids out of the house” anger of the Lone Male God we take
as a confirmation that Adam and Eve had truly
trespassed into what He considered His, and only His,
domain. Now, Adam and Eve know how to create life and they
became the “natural” creators of
human life.
Humans would not have to be created from nothing.
More, were not!
Rather, they would be
born from within the
sensually
precious embrace of the
male and the female
coupled as Beloveds.
Continue—Abrahamic
