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The Fall of Men


 

How did we get into this misery in the first place, then?

Well, on that point, the following metaphor might explain some of it: Adam and Eve lived in paradise as divine free beings until the serpent tempted them to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A temptation man couldn't resist. We wanted to know how it feels to eat the fruit. Thus we ate and saw we were naked.

From then on, we wore clothes to cover our shame. We started to be ashamed of ourselves, of being who we are. Suddenly there was good and evil, right and wrong and there was separation. We stopped being divine, we were separated from God, so we believed.

Hence, many people nowadays assume to be separated and they are unaware of the connection to source and thus wander around. Well, of course we do not wander around arbitrarily, because we are experiencing all that was meant to be experienced while being in this condition. We walk through darkness and we walk through light. We discover being human without the divine part.

Therefore, we get involved in all sorts of games, human games. Pleasant games as well as unpleasant ones. We desire to experience the entire range of possibilities and we classify them into good and evil. We condemn and we praise. We left paradise by separating from our divinity. To return into paradise we need to rediscover the connection, relive our divinity and thus reconnect with our source.

On that point, a story from my childhood: I remember sitting in church. I was bored by the sermon because I was very young and did not understand what it was all about. "Well, talk to God then", I thought.

Where else would I find Him if not in church, when else should I talk to Him if not at mass? Thus, I developed an inner dialogue with God and was deeply impressed by the answers I got. These answers had profound meaning and it was fun doing it. I joked around with God and smiled a lot.

After a while I started doubting. Why would God talk to someone like me? I am still so little and God probably won't talk to someone like me. GOD is the mighty one. He certainly does have better things to do than talking to a little kid, joking around. Does God make jokes? I thought I am just making it up and stopped doing it altogether.

Hey presto! There it was, the separation: "I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof." This dogma was stronger than my childlike intuition.

However, was this really the separation from the divine? As a kid I thought God was a person with a beard, some distinct person, somebody outside of me, someone watching me, judging me, talking to me or not talking to me. Furthermore, within other cultures there is the belief in many gods, almost every subject does have its own deity that can be called.

From my point of view the separation already takes place once we move out of our own divine connection and search for an outside authority, an entity whom we trust more than our own inner knowing. We then deny our own access to our own divine source.

Well, but whom are we talking to, once we start an inner dialogue, once we move into silence? Well, we are able to determine that with our intention. We can ask our Higher Self for answers, or our Soul, or our spiritual guides.

Furthermore, we have the possibility to ask divine entities for answers and support. This can be extremely useful but we should also remember our own access to our own divine source through consciously reconnecting with our soul.

 

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