My take on the allegorical tale of Adam, Eva and the Serpent
This text delves deeply into the symbolic interpretations behind the biblical narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent. It dissects the layers of symbolism, portraying Eve as the initiator of intuitive elements within the race and explores the emergence of free will and choice through the allegory. The text offers a broader understanding of these narratives beyond their literal interpretations, emphasizing the emergence of consciousness, free will, and the symbolism embedded within the story.
The Allegorical Tale of Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a Seth session
Seth: “The serpent is the symbol of the deepest knowledge within creaturehood; it also contains the impetus to rise above or beyond itself in certain respects. Eve, rather than Adam, for example, eats of the apple first because it was the intuitive elements of the race, portrayed in the story as female, that would bring about this initiation; only afterward could the ego, symbolized by Adam, attain its new birth and its necessary alienation. The tree of knowledge, then, did indeed offer its fruits – and “good and bad” – because this was the first time there were any kinds of choices available and free will.
There were other tales, some that have not come down to you, in which Adam and Eve were created together, and in a dream fell apart into the separate male and female. In your particular legend Adam appears first. The woman being created from his rib symbolized the necessary emergence, even from the new creature, of the intuitive forces that will always come forth – for without that development the race would not have attained self-consciousness in your terms.
Good and evil then simply represented the birth of choices, initially in terms of survival, where earlier instinct alone had provided all that was needed. In deeper terms, there is still another meaning that mirrors all of those apparent divisions that occur as All-That-Is seemingly separates portions of itself from itself, scattering its omnipotence into new patterns of being that, in your terms, remember their source and look back to it longingly, while still glorying in the unique individuality that is their own.
The story of the fall, the rebellious angels, and the leader Satan who becomes the devil – all of this refers to the same phenomena on a different level. Satan represents – in the terms of the story – the part of All That Is, or God, who stepped outside of himself, so to speak, and became earthbound with His creatures, offering them the free will and choice that “previously” had not been available.
Hence you have the majestic elements given to Satan and the power. The earthly characteristics often appear as he is depicted in animal form, for he was also of course connected with the intuitive terrestrial attributes from which the new human consciousness would spring.
In terms of simple biological function, you now had a species no longer completely dependent upon instinct, yet still with all the natural built-in desires for survival and the appearance within it of a mind able to make decisions and distinctions.”
The Nature of Personal Reality, session 647
