![]() That is the meaning of the parable: the serpent persuaded Eve. Anything that ever happens, happens through the mind. ![]() Even if illness enters your body, it enters through the mind. Your body cannot be persuaded to do something unless your mind is ready. Everything happens first as an idea then it can be actualized. To do bad things, your mind must be convinced of it first to do good, your mind must be convinced of it first. Man is the body principle, woman is the psyche. Translated into the modern idiom it means the psyche. When he came to name Eve he simply said loudly, “She is my heart, Eve.” That became Eve’s name. God told Adam to name things, so he named everything. Adam means the earth and Eve means the heart. The name of Eve is also very significant. Then woman was created – she was not as close to the earth she was created out of Adam, she was a higher synthesis. No, man was created first because he was very close to the earth. God created Adam and mankind has taken it as though, because God created man first, he is primary. The apple is from the earth but it is a superior synthesis – better, more digestible. You can eat the apple and you can digest it, but if you try to eat the earth, you will die. The tree grows out of the mud, so the apple is nothing but earth transformed. Eve was created out of a rib Eve could not be created directly from the earth.įor example: you cannot eat mud but you can eat apples apples are on a higher plane. She was something subtler, something more refined – something of a greater synthesis. Man is the physical body and God created Eve out of man’s physical body. Man is the outer principle, the principle of extraversion: man is the physical body. Adam represents the principle of dust unto dust. The lowest and the highest have both been through the woman.Īdam stands for earth, clay – red earth, to be exact. The Christ child was born out of virgin femininity, out of virgin yin. Then again, when Christ is born, he is born of the Virgin Mary. The woman functioned as a medium for evil. If you want to reach man you have to go through woman. The serpent could not persuade Adam directly – it is as if there is no direct way to man. It is through Eve that the serpent persuades Adam to disobey. The world does not start with Adam, it starts with Eve. It will be good to go into the symbol of Adam and Eve. Once it gets rooted in your heart, things will become very simple. ![]() This is one of the fundamental principles of Tao. The energy of the woman is the ladder of the lowest and of the highest, of the darkest valley and of the brightest peak. That ladder is the principle of yin, the principle of femininity. The direction will differ but the ladder will be the same. You can go to hell through it, and you can go to heaven through it. How does this synthesis become possible? How may one grow into that ultimate synthesis? A few things have to be understood.įirst, the principle of yin, the principle of femininity, is like a ladder – a ladder between hell and heaven. Tao is the ultimate synthesis – the synthesis of man and woman, of positive and negative, life and death, day and night, summer and winter. Tao means transcendence – transcendence of all duality, transcendence of all polarity, transcendence of all opposites. And the king said to his courtiers, “Clever, the way he talked me round with his argument!” You would be far greater than Confucius and Mo Tzu.” If you were indeed to share the aims of these two men, everyone within your four borders would enjoy the benefit. Now Your Majesty is the Lord of ten thousand chariots. Every man and woman in the world craned his neck and stood on tiptoe in his eagerness for their safety and benefit. Confucius and Mo Tzu became princes without owning territory, became leaders without holding office. “The teaching of Confucius and Mo Tzu is what I have in mind. “This is the sort of way I should like to find.” This is three degrees better than courage and strength. Suppose that I have a way to make every single man and woman in the world joyfully desire to love and benefit you. But a man who has no will to harm you may still have no thought of loving or benefiting you. Suppose that I have a way to ensure that men have absolutely no will to harm you. But a man who does not dare to harm you may still have the will to harm you. Suppose that I have a way to prevent anyone, however brave and strong, from daring to stab or strike you. “But even if a stab or blow misses, it is still humiliating for you. “Excellent! This is the sort of thing I like to hear.” “Suppose that I have a way to make anyone, however brave and strong, miss when he stabs or strikes at you. ![]() I take no pleasure in men who preach morality. The king stamped his foot, coughed and said fiercely, “What pleases me is courage and strength. ![]()
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