It is important to understand the symbolism of the serpent of Eden written about in chapter three of the book of Genesis, if what we want is to comprehend the deep mysteries within the Garden of Eden.
Microcosmically speaking, the Garden of Eden is formed by the physical body together with the vital body. This is our own particular garden that we always carry with us.
Let us review: “delight”—which is the Eden above—is the Sephirah Daath. So, “delight” is where Jah and Chavah (Father and Mother, Abba and Aima) are united. Through them the three primary forces descend into our physical body. The Akashic forces from heaven penetrate the physical body through the three nervous systems. This is how God nourishes the physical body; this is how Christ enters into the physical body in order to nourish the vital and physical bodies through the Tree of Life, which, microcosmically, is the spinal column with its nervous systems.
We need to understand that the soul is placed in the midst of the Garden of Eden. The human soul is represented by the Sephirah Tiphereth, which means “beauty.” Therefore, the Essence (our consciousness) is part of Tiphereth, and this Essence is what is in the middle of the garden (in the pineal gland). This is how God places the soul in the middle of the garden.
The one who places the soul in the garden is the Ruach Elohim, which is “the Spirit of the Elohim,” our Spirit, that each one of us has inside. This is our inner Father, represented in Kabbalah by the Sephirah Chesed, which means “mercy.” Chesed is the Ruach Elohim that in the beginning of creation was hovering upon the face of the waters.
Our own particular spirit, Chesed, is the child of the three primary forces, which Jah-Chavah Elohim begot in “delight,” the upper Eden (Daath). This is why when we speak of the Son of God within, our own particular individuality, we speak of the son of our own Jah-Chavah Elohim. Chesed is the son of Jah-Chavah Elohim that descends into the physical body in order to create.
Thus, the Ruach Elohim hovers over the sexual waters of Yesod in order to create our physical body; thereafter, he sends his child, his Human Soul, our psyche. We, as part of that Human Soul, are embryos, called Essence, or consciousness.
These are the generations [creations] of the heavens and of the earth; when they were created, in the day that Jah-Chavah Elohim [which is Father and Mother in Heaven] made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for Jah-Chavah Elohim had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. —Genesis 2: 4, 5
In other words, when the newly born physical body comes out of the womb of our physical mother, those elements (archetypes) that God placed in us are only there in potentiality, waiting for their development.
The physical and vital bodies contain the archetypes that we need in order to develop the “man made in the image of God” within. This is why it is written “and there was not a man to till the ground,” because we are only an embryo of soul within the physical body. Yes, we are only a soul-embryo.
When you see a newborn baby—that is, a newborn physical body—symbolically that is a beautiful Garden of Eden. Part of the Human Soul (Tiphereth) is within that newborn body. There is not a man (Adam, the developed soul, whether the body is masculine or feminine) there yet, just an embryo of soul that could become a man if that physical body reaches maturity. That maturity occurs around twenty-one years of age, and if that soul receives the clues of the mysteries of Eden and starts working with their physicality and vitality and begins developing all of those elements described in Genesis:
Every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for Jah-Chavah Elohim had not caused it to rain upon the earth. —Genesis 2: 4, 5
This passage refers to someone who does not yet know the mysteries of Daath, the mysteries of sexual transmutation, therefore Jah-Chavah Elohim had not caused it to “rain” upon that earth or physicality (Eden); in other words, that person still does not receive water from heaven in order to water the archetypes within them. We need to know about the mysteries of Daath in order to take advantage of the Garden of Eden. It is also stated:
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. —Genesis 2:6
That mist is the sexual force of Chavah (Eve)—or in other words the sexual hormones that relate to our metabolism—as it rises within the physical body, until the age of twenty-one.
If we study the sexual glands in relation with our physical development, we will see how the testicles and ovaries are related with the different glands of our physical body, and how we as individuals develop our physicality through the hormonal influence of our endocrine glands. Little by little, our Garden of Eden grows, blooms, thanks to that mist from the earth, which is that sexual liquid fire that the body takes through our hormones in order to normally develop. We say, “normally” of course, if the individual does not hinder its development by performing depraved sexual activities such as masturbation, which interrupt the activities of this mist from the earth.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, all youth when they are sexually aroused, that is, when they are feeling their sexual hormones, their sexual energy, at a young age they begin to perform harmful acts like masturbation or fornication, entering into homosexuality and all types of depravity that interrupts the normal development of the Garden of Eden, which is our physicality. This is why it is written in Genesis what Jah-Chavah Elohim said to Adam, which in this case is represented by the embryo of Human Soul:
Jah-Chavah Elohim commanded Adam, saying, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” —Genesis 2:16, 17
The essence is that part of Tiphereth, the Human Soul that we have within, that has to learn how to take care of this garden, its physicality, in order to fulfill what is written:
And out of the ground made Jah-Chavah Elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. —Genesis 2: 9
Our physicality is the “tree that is pleasant to the sight” when we reach maturity at the age of twenty-one.
When we are young, the beauty of the sexual force emerges and blooms in our bodies. So, physically speaking, during our youth we are “trees pleasant to the sight and good for (alchemical) food” through the Tree of Life (the spinal column and its three nervous systems in activity) which is also in the midst of the garden (physical body). All the hormones and energies of the three primary forces that express themselves through the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (sex) in our physical body. This is why when we see young people we realize that they indeed are trees pleasant to the sight, because physically they are expressing that sexual beauty.
Regrettably, it is very rare to find “trees” that are producing spiritually, since we see now many young people who are pleasant to the sight, yet unfortunately they have learned from a young age how to extinguish that beauty from their physical body; they extract their sexual hormones through masturbation and through other sexual vices that are very popular. Further, they hinder their development by inhaling injurious elements such as marijuana and tobacco, drinking alcohol and taking other drugs that are poison for their bodies. This ruins the “plants” (senses), and the “herbs” (capabilities) of their Garden of Eden.
The youth want to show their “power” by controlling chemical substances in their physical bodies, but instead damage themselves.
So, most of us interrupt the normal development of this terrestrial paradise or Garden of Eden of which we could otherwise take advantage.
In early childhood, the ego that we bring from our past lives is not yet within the body; in order for the ego to penetrate within the body, we need to develop the personality. In our childhood, only the soul is within the body, so only the small percentage of soul that we have is inside the garden enjoying the fruits of the Tree of Life. In other words, Christ—the three primary forces, the Akashic energy that descends from above and penetrates into the physical body—is given a lot of fruits, senses (the five senses plus the seven chakras are the twelve fruits of the Tree of Life) that the Essence eats and enjoys as energies, forces that not only descend in this physical world but also in the internal worlds. This is how the soul enjoys of the fruits of the Tree of Life.
Unfortunately, little by little—as it is written—the devil penetrates into the Garden of Eden; and this is precisely the tempting serpent of Eden.
Fundamentalists assume that the Garden of Eden was a physical place in the past. They do not realize that they carry the Garden of Eden with them, since they ignore that it is their physical body. They also blame Satan and Lucifer and other beings as evil doers, without understanding that Satan or “the Devil” is within them. The Devil that is called the tempting serpent of Eden is the representation of the ego that gradually enters as the personality develops inside of us, thanks to the erroneous teachings of our parents, teachers, etc.
The ego acts through our Garden of Eden (our physicality). The ego acts through our three brains, which are related to the three nervous systems. Satan (the ego) takes advantage of the three primary forces to satisfy desires; the ego squanders the Christic energy. The ego does this through the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The ego is created by the wrong use of the energy of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is sex.
Adam and Eve, Yin and Yang, Ida and Pingala, Od and Obd, all represent the two polarities of the sexual energy that are rooted in the testicles of man and in the ovaries of woman. The Tree of Knowledge of “good and evil,” the two creative polarities, the two forces that deal with good and bad, are rooted in our sexual organs, because through the sexual energy the Tree of Life nourishes itself. This is why it is stated that the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are in the midst of the garden, because they share their roots. They are rooted in the testicles and ovaries, which are related with the three nervous systems.
When the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the sexual organs which are also in the midst of the garden, acts independently, it extracts the creative water that also nourishes the root of the Tree of Life. Both trees (the medulla and the sexual organs) are in the midst of the body.
The sexual organs—the two testicles or the two ovaries—are related in the vital body to two nervous canals that resemble two serpents entwined along the Tree of Life (the medulla). In the middle of the spinal column there is another serpent that relates to the Tree of Life, and the two serpents that are entwined around the spinal column are precisely Pingala and Ida, Adam and Eve, Ying and Yang, Od and Obd, which in any Edenic child of God are standing upright, properly nourishing the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. In such a person the two trees act in harmony together, unless such a child begins to abuse the energy of sex.
In Gnosis, sexual matter is called semen, whether in the male or in the female. Semen means “seed.” Both masculine and feminine seeds have to be joined to create a new “tree.” Thus, there is masculine semen and feminine semen, which is the water, the essence that nourishes the two trees.
When you have trees or plants, you have to take care of those plants by watering them everyday. The plants grow and are healthy when you water them carefully, since they absorb not only the water, the humidity from the earth, but also the necessary mineral elements that are in the earth, or in other words, the elements that are in the garden. As stated, this earth mentioned in the scripture, the ground, the garden, is our physical body, our physical matter that is charged with solar force. The water of this physical body is the semen, the sexual matter, which nourishes the Tree of Life as well as the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. This is why it is written:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it [as a beast]: for in the day that thou eatest thereof [as a beast] thou shalt surely die [in other words, the Tree of Life shalt surely die within you]. —Genesis 2:16, 17
It is clear that if we take the sexual force out of our body, our body will decay. When a person is young (“a tree that is pleasant to the sight”), when they are sexually potent, they begin squandering the sexual energy. Thus the Tree of Life (the medulla and other nervous systems) no longer receives the sexual strength; eventually old age appears, the physicality decays, and we are no longer trees that are pleasant to the sight. Thus, this is how we allow our ego to extract the Christic energy that we have within our three brains; the ego is the Devil, the Satan that we all carry within.
Fornication, the bestial orgasm, the original sin of the human being, is an activity of irrational animals. If you observe animals you see that when they perform the sexual act they reach the orgasm, since fornication is normal among animals.
Fornication is common among intellectual animals. Over the course of many ages our souls evolved through the mineral kingdom into the plant kingdom, and from the plant kingdom into the animal kingdom, to finally reach the intellectual animal kingdom, at which time we learn that we should not fornicate. In other words, in the intellectual animal kingdom we learn that we should not eat like animals from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. We have to learn how to enjoy the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil without reaching the spasm or orgasm of the beasts. This is the clue. Unfortunately, since we are still animals, we persist in customs which we inherited from the animal kingdom.
Remember that in the physical organism the blood is elaborated due to the activity of the liver, spleen, and other organs of the digestive system. The blood is elaborated in the evolving instinctual manner. Thus the bloodstream—that river that encompasses the physical body—carries in its fiery flow our inheritance from the past, the DNA from the animal kingdom, when we were irrational animals. That inheritance flows in the physical body because in nature everything is recapitulated. So, even though we have human physical bodies, the blood that is elaborated through the liver, spleen, and all the organs in the area of the abdomen, the venom blood that flows in our veins, carries our animal inheritance. This relates with what we call the infraconsciousness of nature.
The infraconsciousness of nature is related with all of those animal aspects of the lower kingdoms of nature that we carry within. It is through that DNA, through that inheritance, that the tempting serpent of Eden enters into the body in order to tempt Chavah (Eve).
The symbols of Adam and Eve can be explained in many different ways. Here, we are addressing Adam and Eve only in relation with our individual physicality.
According to the book of Genesis, the male-female Adam was created in the sixth day—which was “very good”—and thereafter, placed in the Garden of Eden in the seventh day. Thus, talking individually in relation with Malkuth (the physical body), our physicality (the lower Eden), we discover that the Tree of Life is the spinal column and the Tree of Knowledge is the genitalia with its two polarities: good and evil, Adam and Eve, Yang and Ying, Od and Obd, Pingala and Ida. The androgynous Adam-Eve is what Genesis in the Bible calls Tob Me’Od טוב מאד, “very good.”
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] דאמ בוט [very good]. —Genesis 1:31
Me’Od מאד (“very”) is written with the same letters a Adam אדם. In Hebrew, such occurrences are significant. Me’od מאד represents that part of our physicality which relates to Adam, the brain, and is connected to Tob (virtuousness), and Yesod (sex), through the left testicle or right ovary, Pingala. Thus, Tob Me’Od טוב מאד is Adam-Chavah (“very good”).
Me’od מאד relates to Pingala, which is that part of our physicality that relates with the development of the brain, the development of understanding in all of those parts of the head. This is the serpent related with the solar forces. When we refer to the solar forces, we refer to the solar forces of Christ. Likewise, the lunar forces are active in our physical body; the lunar forces are Obd which is Tob טוב (virtuousness) related with transmutation, with spiritual creation—alongside with the solar forces.
Creation relates to Od and Obd, the two polarities, Sun and Moon. The lunar polarity is Ida, which in the Bible in is called Chavah (Eve):
And Adam [me’od/od/pingala] called [tob/obd/ida] his wife’s name Eve [Chavah]; because she was the mother of all living. —Genesis 3:20
Adam (the brain) named his wife (the sexual organs), “the mother of the living” because Chavah חוה derives from Chaiah היח, which means “life.” Chavah (Eve) is an allusion to the sexual organ, which is the organ related with breeding, and with the phrase “Be fruitful, and multiply.”
In the masculine physical body, the “serpent” or channel of energy called Ida (Chavah, Eve, Yin, or Obd) flows between the left nostril and the right testicle. In the feminine body, it is opposite. This serpent or polarity relates with the development of the genitalia in both genders.
Chavah (Eve) relates to Ida, the lunar serpent Obd of the Caduceus of Mercury, and is related with the development of the genitalia. Adam relates to Pingala, the solar serpent Od of the Caduceus of Mercury and is related with the development of the brain.
This is how the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are related. Therefore, when we talk about Eve within any individual, we are referring to the lunar serpent, Ida, the lunar forces of Obd and the genitalia, the sexual energy, whether the masculine or feminine genitalia.
When we talk about Adam within any individual, we are referring to the solar serpent, Pingala, the solar forces of Od and the brain, whether in the masculine or feminine body.
Therefore, when you read in the Bible about Eve, you are reading about your sexual organs. If you read about Adam, that is about your brain. These are “Adam and Eve” in our body, which are also related with the two serpents Od and Obd of the Caduceus of Mercury. This is the way in which we need to comprehend how the Tree of Life relates to the two polarities of the Tree of Knowledge and to the brain and medulla and all the organs. From this point of view, we understand that the physical body has two wombs.
