The "Rib" is a Message: the Power to Create is Ours

I have an "imagic" worldview much influenced by Dr. Frank C. Laubach, who wrote the booklet Learning the Vocabulary of God: A Spiritual Diary (1930's. Nashville, TN: The Upper Room). He suggested that God actively speaks to us through images in creation, including the situations we encounter in life. The images and the situations themselves are messages from God. I hope I have learned to listen.

The world is compelled to reflect ourselves, because we are the ones who create it. We create it, but the world we create takes form according to the truth of God. You might say there is a God filter involved. We SEEM to be separated. God causes what we are actually producing with our lives to be created in our world, so the world manifests it and "speaks" spiritual truth about ourselves.

We need to listen to what is being said. The God filter is actually God's nature. Familiarity with the Bible can help us learn the values and vocabulary of God. The stories in the Bible are illustrations of his values and of what he is doing in this world. They are allegories which parallel not history but divine realities. Knowing God through the Bible helps us figure out what is being said. Through these images God informs, directs, corrects, teaches, and develops us. We grow through these influences to be generated into God's likeness. The sooner we learn how to listen and conform to Him, the sooner the "fiery furnace" type of lessons can be alleviated. We can, in fact, make "heaven on earth" by adapting our values, attitudes and practices to God's.

It occurred to me the other day that the power to reproduce is such a message. The word that came to mind at the time was 'phallus' -- the "rib" of Adam. The "rib" is symbolic of creative force, the power to create life -- everything that "lives" or exists in our environment. It has nothing to do with sex or even two people. Each of us are both Adam and Eve, both Cain and Abel, both Abraham and Sarah, both Esau and Jacob. The only way in which they are "real people" is that they are each an "everyman;" i.e., they are us.

As each of us is Adam, each of us has power to reproduce (that being creative power on the spiritual plane, having almost nothing to do with physical reproduction). Each of us reproduces our self in our living environment; that is, each of us is Eve who "births" our world. Godding is a coordinated effort.

The message that I understood the other day, though, was that the power to create our world was given unto us. The phallic power is here, in each individual. The power, and the authority to use the power, is given into our hands: "The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that THOU mayest do it" (Deuteronomy 30: 14).

Says God in Exodus 14:15-16, "Wherefore criest THOU unto Me? (YOU) speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift THOU up THY rod, and stretch out THINE hand over the sea, and divide it" (emphases mine). I.e., you do it. Note: the "children of Israel" are our desires and beliefs; "the sea" is the world of "facts" contrary to our beliefs which surrounds us; "divide it" is to put our beliefs in the sea of contrary facts by faith and create our desired world within it. (Edit in 11/2021: I believe I got this from Neville.)

The only faith a mustard seed has is that it is mustard. So it "mustards." WE have the rod of power and authority because we are the consciousness of God who desired us and who has become us. We "god."

Genesis 4:1 - "Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare . . ." Knew. Knowing has nothing to do with sex. It is thought: mental, inward, and tangible, as it were. The divine life-force "touches" the imagined desire and flips into it, actually becoming its manifestation in the world.  " . . . Cain." Cain,  literally "acquisition, gain." Then Eve said, "I have gotten a man, even YHWH." "Man," a child of Israel: a desire which has come into being. I do not know why this spooks people so much. Well, no, I do know why this spooks people. Each of us is also the Shining one, the serpent, and Canaan, who "bent the knee" to come here. We are "cursed" in that we do not remember anymore that we were, and still are, God. At least, we were so cursed. That curse is lifted by Jesus Christ in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, who brings remembrance that we were and still are the consciousness God breathed into us.

Were to God that everyone was baptized in the Holy Ghost. I am working on an idea that Adam and Eve (each of us) were not "naked and not ashamed" because they were innocent, but because they had no conscience. A person does not have conscience until he or she knows good an evil, and you cannot really know good and evil until you know God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Shining One who spoke to Adam's rib and told him the truth (it was the truth, by the way), wasn't that Jesus Christ? Isn't it the Ineffable who speaks to us through the world we create? "Thou shalt not eat of the tree" was not a warning, it was an indictment. Adam did not want to eat it and "die" into ignorance, giving up their fun.

Did Adam happen to "listen" to his world and come to the point of surrendering himself to the love of God and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, who infused him with consciousness, perception and -- oh my God -- conscience? The old Adam died, truly, and a new creation emerged out of the la-la land he had lived in.

Where the Law (the nature of God) is not known and there is no conscience, sin exists, but it is not imputed. When the nature of God is known and conscience is awakened, we begin the journey to full awareness. In the mean time, the Shining One is stuck down here year after year fighting our ungodly desires, trying to get us to focus on waking up.

Something else to think about: Moses was not writing about history, he was writing mind science, meditation, how to be one with God through the realization that we are God. This message has never been hidden; we just have been too stupid to read what it simply says and to believe it. Much to our loss. Redeem the time.