The Spirit of God that moves upon the face of the waters (Mayim מים) is symbolized by Abraham אברהם, which is a spiritual archetype (the Sephirah Chesed) that all of us have within.
Abraham, the Innermost of any one of us, is the one who has to perform the whole creation through initiations, which are the manifestation of all the archetypical elements that are in potentiality in the upper Garden of Eden (Sarah שרה), which is Daath in the superior worlds. Each one of us has those archetypical elements in potentiality within the superior worlds. This means that all of the archetypes of the world of Atziluth that come from the Absolute (the Ain Soph) are within us in our very depths—but not in activity, only in potentiality.
We already stated that there are two Edens: Daath is the first Garden of Eden that we have to comprehend. For this, we need the Spirit of God (Abraham/Chesed) to descend upon us (Hagar/Agar הגר, the lower garden of Eden) in order to perform His initiations, his works, in order for Him to put into activity for us all of those principles that are in the upper Garden of Eden.
Now, in order to put those elements into activity, we need to keep the Tzalem צלם of God (Isaac), which is that aspect of the Ruach Elohim that descends into the sexual glands. Tzalem צלם is a Hebrew word that means, “image”; thus, the Tzalem of God is “the image of God.” It is written in the book of Genesis:
Elohim created Adam in his own צלם [image], in the צלם [image] of Elohim created he him; male and female created he them. —Genesis 1: 27
When we read the word Elohim, we relate this (in synthesis) to Aelohim in the world of the Absolute, the Abstract Solar Absolute, whose manifested image is the Ruach Elohim. The Ruach Elohim’s image descends from the superior worlds into the physical body, the inferior world; thus, we carry it in the sexual glands. Jehovah Elohim/Binah produces the image of God, which is in the sexual force, through the Ruach Elohim/Abraham. Therefore, we need to save the sexual energy, and transform and manipulate it wisely in order to develop the image of God within us.
When the Bible states that Adam was made in the image of God, this is not referring to the physical body. The Tzalem צלם (image) comprises the astral aspect related with all the archetypal principles in that superior Garden of Eden within which we find Abba and Aima (Iod–Chavah or Jehovah), the Divine Mother and Father,
Here we can understand the fourth commandment that states:
Honour thy father [Adam/Od] and thy mother [Eve/Obd], as Jah-Havah thy Elohim hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in [Adamah, Eden] the land [our physicality] which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. – Deuteronomy 5:16
Father and Mother are Adam and Eve who are Iod-Havah, Jehovah, above. To honor them is to make the fiery image—which is within them—concrete inside of us by lifting it through the initiation, through the alchemical work that we have to perform. It is important to understand that we must study the Tree of Life carefully because it has different lands; every Sephirah is a land.
Let us read what is sequentially written:
And out of [Adamah, Eden] the ground [our physicality] made Iod-Havah Elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life [the medulla] also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil [the genitalia]. – Genesis 2:9
Otz Daath עץ הדעת is Hebrew for “Tree of Knowledge.” Otz Daath עץ הדעת, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, appears as a mysterious Sephirah in the middle of the hieroglyphic of the Tree of Life.
When you read “in the midst of the garden,” imagine the spinal column in the midst of the physical body (the lower Eden). The spinal column is represented by the letter Vav ו, which has the shape of a line, a straight vertical line, with a dot (Iod י) on top. That dot on the top represents the brain. So the letter Vav ו is a prolonged dot upon a straight vertical line.
This dot at the top of the Vav, being the brain, esoterically indicates Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, the holy Trinity of the first triangle of the Tree of Life that are in the head, in the brain. The straight line is the spinal column.
The letter Vav ו is directly connected to God; that is why Vav ו in Hebrew means “connection” or “and.” It is also why many verses in Genesis start with Vav ו: i.e. “And God said,” “And God saw,” “And God called,” “And God made,” etc…
“And” in Hebrew is written with a single letter, the letter Vav ו, similarly to how in Spanish we find that the letter “y” means “and.” In Hebrew, the single Vav ו means “and” and is pronounced "va" or “ve.”
Vav symbolizes for us that all of creation is formed within the spinal column, through the three primary forces, which are the forces that create. Divine creation is done through the spinal column, which starts precisely in Daath.
Daath appears below the first triangle on the Tree of Life. In relation with the body, it is found precisely at the level of the throat, which as we know is the beginning of the top of the spinal column; at the other end of the spinal column, we find the Sephirah Yesod. The letter Vav ו connects the brain (Adam) with sex (Eve).
The first Garden of Eden is Daath and the second Garden of Eden is Yesod/Malkuth. This is explained in a simple way in the second chapter of Genesis:
And [Vav] a river went out of Eden [Daath, the upper] to water [Yesod] the [lower] garden [of Eden]; and [Vav] from thence [fiery water] it [the river] was parted, and became into four [Iod-Hei יה = two above; Vav-Hei וה = two below] heads. – Genesis 2:10
Which river is this? When you imagine a river you imagine a line, even if it is serpentine, like a spinal column. A spinal column is linear but serpentine, like a river.
When we read that “a river went out from Eden,” we have to understand that the upper Eden is Daath (in the sixth dimension) that in our physicality corresponds to the brain. In other words, in us the river (the Vav ו, the medulla) descends from the brain. Remember that the one who works from the brain (the pineal gland) down to the sex is Jehovah Elohim, Binah, the Holy Spirit.
This is how the three primary forces descend from Binah above, through Daath (sixth dimension), into the brain and through our spinal column into our genitalia. The river is our spinal column. Through it the three primary forces—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—descend into us; they descend (from the sixth dimension) in Adam (the brain, our upper garden) in order to water our lower garden (Eve, the genitalia).
This garden (Eve, the genitalia) in verse ten relates to another garden, not the first garden (in the sixth dimension). The lower garden is the Sephirah Yesod (the ninth sphere, the vital body, the fourth dimension). It also implies the Sephirah Malkuth (the tenth sphere, the physical body, the third dimension), because Malkuth is the inferior aspect of Yesod. Therefore, Yesod-Malkuth is this other lower Garden, but in potentiality. When Malkuth is created—as a physical body—it was already shaped, formed in Yesod, which is the sexual energy. Malkuth, our physicality, is the created expression of our own particular Yesod (vital body).
Thus, in Yesod-Malkuth (physical and vital bodies) we find, in potentiality, all the elements that we need in order to create another physical body (a child), as well as all the elements in potentiality that we need in order to create the internal bodies that are made in the image of God. Thus, Yesod-Malkuth (vital and physical bodies) is the lower Garden of Eden.
