Eve as Love

I am glad I kept some of my old books. William Leary (1952. The Hidden Bible. New York: C & R Anthony, Inc.) states that Adam, the typal man, needed a helpmeet as an incentive to further progress:

"This cannot mean a mate as man was already male and female in the sixth day. All the animals are led before Adam and he names each one. Naming means describing their nature or character. The nature or character of every animal is examined, but nothing can be found in the nature of any animal which would be the help that Adam needs. It has to be something not found in animal nature. While Adam is in a 'deep sleep,' his higher faculties still not awakened, the Lord God takes out his rib and forms Eve. Eve is not a new creation, but something which comes from within Adam, from close to his heart, and the heart symbolizes the emotional nature. Eve represents the development of love in the heart of primitive man, the first step in his spiritual evolution, something not found in the nature of animals. Emotion and thought are non-physical."

"Primitive man's mental development was hastened by love for his mate and offspring, with consequent desire to protect and care for them" (pg. 16-17).

Adam and Eve is not male and female, man and wife. That’s what was. Adam and Eve is the Divine Consciousness plus Love.