/lit/ - Literature

>>19804390
The Traditionalist interpretation of creation myths is that they don't take place at a point in the distant past, but that they happen metaphysically at all points in time during the eternal Now.
So I am not literally the descendant of Adam whose sin I've inherited by virtue of him being my ancestor, I am metaphysically descended from Adam because I was Adam and the "Fall of Man" describes why my soul is living in the physical world right now instead of the spiritual.
Adam falls every moment a baby is born.
The seven day creation of the world is really describing the super-material forces that the material world (like my body) depends on

"the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters" represents the two aspects of the All or the Absolute (pure consciousness), those aspects being Order and Chaos, Sun and Moon, Fire and Water, Day and Night, etc. The former being the individualized, "freezing" aspect of conscious being and the latter being the infinite possibilities that consciousness can be aware of (the eye of Medusa petrifies men). The interactions between these two aspects of God is creation.

>pic not really related but kind of

>>19497400
What did I miss?!?!?!