The Creation & The Fall of Man, According To Makropoulos, Continued

1.

(Nicola Haigh Lake Reflections )

So, in the first lines of 

The Book of Genesis;

we have God creating

a reflecting surface

a mirror:

sun on water.

After that, 

images begin to appear 

in the mirror:

reflections of the various aspects

of God

Humans, according to the Book of Genesis

are the crowning creation:

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God created he him;

male and female created he them.

Such is how King James translates it.

My only contention is that

man is NOT the only creature

created in God's image;

everything

had to be created

in God's image,

because God, previous to this act of creation

was everything

and in creating, 

everything he created 

was an imitation of some aspect of God;

it had to be,

because there was nothing else but

God

for the original creation to represent.

So the first thing he had to produce was a reflecting surface,

which captured the likeness

of every aspect of

everything:

thus the water,

the trees

the birds

the fish

the animals

and humans

all rose in that reflecting surface,

and gazed back at God,

just as our own image gazes

back at our selves

in the mirror every morning.

2.

Fundamentally, it was the world of Avatar.

( obsessedwithfilm )

Avatar appears miraculous to us

because it represents an entire environment

that cooperates with its creatures

in directly imitating God
and celebrating in God's creation

without being self-conscious about it.

The reason humans look so strange on Pandora

is that we are so self-conscious of how we look,

and of how the natives look,

because, 

well,

we ate the apple.

3.

So at what point did humans stop seeing

that they were just part of the diversity

that appeared in the mirror

reflecting the face and limbs

and body and environment

of God,

and when did we start thinking that they were at the center of it all

and the rest is just background:

Easy: it was that whole

Apple Incident:

At the 

Apple Incident,

the serpent made this claim:

Ye shall not surely die;

For God doth

know that in the day ye eat thereof,

then your eyes shall be opened,

and ye shall be as God,

knowing good and evil.

Not

just 

good

and

evil

!

Everything:

to be as God is to not just know everything

but to be everything.

Eat the apple, and you will think

you are everything.

So Adam & Eve

saw themselves

after they munched

on the Apple,

and each thought

they were everything,

but at the same instant they thought they each thought they were everything

they looked over at the other, and realized

they were not.

And furthermore, they looked a little different for the simple reason

that each was really half of a whole;

together, they imitate

an entire part of

God

(please see my other entries on the palindrome, mirror-images, and God)

But they didn't perceive that anymore:

Adam thought he was the center

of everything,

and Eve thought she was,

too.  

In essence, when they ate that ol' apple,

they went through the equivalent

of the mirror stage.

Suddenly, each had

a separate identity,

and each expected to see

a reflection of himself

in the creature in front of her.

But that's not quite how it worked out:

he saw her mysterious

curving 

earthy

flesh,

and she saw

him:

erect and attentive

to her.

Each thought they were 

everything---

Now, I have a theory that abusive relationships began

at that very instant,

because each wanted to be dominant over the other,
and abuse is an act of domination.

He may have been bigger

than her, though

I tend to think that they were more or less 

the same size.

So, the first form of abuse was not physical;

it was emotional:

both God and man established,

fairly early,

that it was the woman's fault,
and she's been guilty ever since.

4.

Honestly,

who knows if God then made all the proclamations

she is claimed to have made: 

she didn't have to,

because at the instant humans began to think

they were Everything,

they began their own one-way trip

to destruction, or at least to where

we are today.

  If one thinks one is everything,

then everything else

is nothing,

and therefore,

disposable

~

Perhaps the eating of the apple

signifies the moment

when the brain

grew to a point where

the human race began

its evolution towards being

civilized man? It may actually

be the instant

where the imagery of the Creation Story

intersects and exposes

the reality of Evolution