Right from the start, then, you
begin to understand—as you first hear this tale told, today
or millennia ago—that something rather peculiar is
being proclaimed. This “Biblical tale” is truly
a revolutionary,
radical break with any then current creation story.
There was no
need to parallel or emulate other creation stories
by using analogy and metaphor,
e.g., humans are not suckled by the Great Wolf. In these
other creation accounts, there is always a way to connect to
the creation story by examining one’s current relationships
to humans and animals. Such stories explained the intimate
life-force linkage, that is, how the energy of life
flows from one living thing to another.
The Biblical account says, There
is no intimate life-force linkage!
There is no necessary or natural relationship between the animal/human
and the god/divine world. The spiritually intimate life-force
power—the vital zest—of this Lone
Male God is absolutely separate and distinct from
human and animal experience. The Creator is not “father” in
a family sense. Rather, He is Patriarch in the
power sense, here, of dominion. His “children” are
to fear, obey and honor only Him.
In the biblical tradition, you cannot go
directly or even indirectly to the divine experience
from the human. You cannot contact God through your
own intimacy. Rather, the contact is through a dominion
relationship. One of submittal. Of being a Captive. Or, in the
Islamic way, through Surrender.
When the bible presents the Eve-from-Adam’s
rib story, it is consistent within itself. For
who, upon hearing this now or then, is not given pause by the oddity of
the account? Women from within men? Clearly, the biblical
folk knew the meaning of their own stories.
They were preaching
a fantastic new way of not only understanding
God, Man and the Universe, but they were unleashing a wild
and even alien spiritually erotic imagining.
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