The name of the first man of the human race, according to the Bible (Gen. 5:1-5). b A city (Josh. 3:16).
METAPHYSICAL:
The first movement of mind in its contact with life and substance. Adam ALSO represents the GENERIC MAN, or the whole human race EPITOMIZED in an INDIVIDUAL- MAN IDEA.
The first movement of mind in its contact with life and substance. Adam ALSO represents the GENERIC MAN, or the whole human race EPITOMIZED in an INDIVIDUAL- MAN IDEA.
EVE is the FEMININE ASPECT of generic man, OUTWARDLY manifest: "male and female created he them. "
If the EGO, or WILL, which is MAN, has adhered to WISDOM faithfully and has CARRIED OUT in its WORK the plans that are idealized in wisdom, it has CREATED a HARMONIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS.
If the EGO, or WILL, which is MAN, has adhered to WISDOM faithfully and has CARRIED OUT in its WORK the plans that are idealized in wisdom, it has CREATED a HARMONIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS.
Adam in the Garden of Eden is SYMBOLICAL of that CONSCIOUSNESS.
Adam in his ORIGINAL creation was in SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION. Spirit breathed into him continually the necessary inspiration and knowledge to give him SUPERIOR UNDERSTANDING. But he began eating, or APPROPRIATING, ideas of two powers--God and not God, or good and evil. The result, so the ALLEGORY relates, was that he fell away from SPIRITUAL LIFE and all that it involves.
Adam in his ORIGINAL creation was in SPIRITUAL ILLUMINATION. Spirit breathed into him continually the necessary inspiration and knowledge to give him SUPERIOR UNDERSTANDING. But he began eating, or APPROPRIATING, ideas of two powers--God and not God, or good and evil. The result, so the ALLEGORY relates, was that he fell away from SPIRITUAL LIFE and all that it involves.
Man is SPIRIT, ABSOLUTE and UNCONDITIONED; but man forms an "Adamic" consciousness into which he breathes the breath of life; this, in its perfect expression, is the SON (SUN--Your ENERGY/ INNER 'G'/ INNER GOD) of man, an EXPRESSION of the divine idea. THIS Adam is all of what we term SOUL, INTELLECT, and BODY. We are CONTINUALLY at work with this Adam; we can breathe into his nostrils the breath of life, inspiring him with the idea of life in all its unlimited fullness. We can LIFT UP this Adam by INFUSING into him these sublime ideas, and in no other way.
Adam was created from the "dust of the ground" (Gen. 2:7).
Dust REPRESENTS the radiant earth or substance. When SPIRITUAL man (I AM) enters into this substance and makes use of the GOD IDEAS inherent IN HIM, he brings forth the IDEAL body in its ELEMENTAL perfection. Adam was FIRST perfect as an idea in elemental DIVINITY.
Adam man--Unregenerate sense man; antichrist: the man who has FALLEN AWAY from spirituality.
Originally Adam was the SPIRITUALLY ILLUMINED man of God. The Adam man was primitively identified with an infinite capacity for expansion. When he recognizes his identity as SPIRITUAL he expands in divine order and brings forth only GOOD.
Adam man, ills of--The many ills of the Adam MAN grew out of his BELIEF that he could satisfy and nourish himself with material food and drink alone. To feed the body is NOT ENOUGH. The SPIRITUAL man HUNGERS for the bread of LIFE and thirsts for living water, even the Word of God.
Adam man, transformation of--We are not to erase Adam, but we are to TRANSFORM him by the RENEWING OF OUR MIND. "And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Rom. 12:2).
-The Metaphysical Bible
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