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We have all heard of the Garden of Eden; however, what is it really? Some would say it is the original home of Adam and Eve. Some call it paradise, the Kingdom, All That Is, or the Oneness. On the other hand, maybe there never was such a place. Perhaps it is symbolic of what we call Heaven. Real or not, one thing is certain; it is ideally a place or a space of peace, harmony, balance and love that we all seek whether it is within ourselves, the universe or somewhere on earth. For the purposes of this book, Eden will be referred to as an archetype within our unconscious mind, a state of love, joy, balance and perfection that is our inheritance; both a place and a space within us and in cooperation with a greater wholeness of being.
My spiritual guidance revealed to me that angels assist us with their vibration and frequency by singing to us, thereby plucking the right cords within our hearts to awaken deep memories within the Soul. Eden is a component of this eloquent vibration, a melody that is constantly singing its harmonic serenade into our hearts, leading us Home.
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Each of us in our own way is seeking to re-enter Eden. Every time we look for love or fulfillment, we are seeking Eden, a slice of heaven. We have all reached out for it repeatedly, only to be disappointed or hurt by the outcome or lack of. The reason for this pain is that we have allowed ourselves to be misguided. The world has taught us to reach outside ourselves for love, abundance and success, but it was this world's view that became confused, by forgetting its own truth. The older we grew, the more of our world's distortions we accepted as we little by little abandoned our inner truths.
We have been seeking our answers for some time now, as we look for the open door that will lead us to them. We ask our friends, family and God for the answers that only we can find. We know the answers are there, somewhere waiting for our discovery. To find these answers we must look with open hearts and minds as we begin by taking a step outside of what we think we know, to see a new perspective with opened eyes and take in a different view of our world and ourselves. It is time to realize that what we left behind in Eden is our individual truths, wisdom and ultimately, ourselves.
While searching for these truths, Eden revealed itself as a safe haven with many of the answers we all seek. Eden shows us that the wholeness of self is where we unite with the Oneness of All that Is, which is our interconnectedness with everyone and all things. Through this reunion, we can begin to feel the flow of love and life all around us, as we open the door to it once again. When we reconnect to our own heart and Soul, we instantaneously unite with our total knowing, and the remembrance that through our connection with all things, we give, receive and attract everything we choose. We become One with the universal laws of Creation that each reality is built upon, because we are united and in balance with our Spiritual and physical selves. Through this union, we feel our rightful place within the universe and all of our connections beyond the containers of time and space.
If we venture within ourselves, we can discover an Eden that is a space of love, understanding and respect for everyone and all things. This is where all men and women are equal in value and importance. No one is better or above another in this most sacred place. This is where two can unite as a balanced whole through the reunion of their own split halves within. It is also where all colors, creeds and beliefs are respected and shared because they are united with the greater vision of self and the whole. Here, we move forward with the wealth of treasure that is within ourselves to be and to create an expanded expression of ourselves.
Within Eden is where we recognize our connection and importance of our Earth and all that She brings forth, as we understand the greater significance of the world we live in and how important it is to our own well-being. Our fears of each other vanish once we understand the inner workings of our world and the wholeness of ourselves. Eden is a place where fear of being hurt cannot exist because the pain of inequality does not exist as we see each other's truth and respect it. In this place, we nourish each other and work together for the greater good of all. It is a space of wonder and joy we know and feel with every new discovery of each other, our world, and ourselves.
When we feel lost, helpless or confused we can go into this special place of Eden, the place of innocence and our purity of Spirit, where greater understanding is achieved through our love and joy within, as we see our creations unfolding before our eyes through the divine power within ourselves. This gift is our power actualized and the knowing of ourselves as beautiful expressions of God that grows our Light from within us, which in turn creates our heaven on earth through the awakening of our truth. It is also the realization that we never really left Eden. We begin to see the drama in our lives as a dream, an illusion that is not real, and it is only a thought within our mind that makes us believe we are outside of Eden, outside of what is real and less than our truth. This thought has become a belief so ingrained within the unconsciousness of humanity that we forgot why we began this journey in the first place, and how to re-enter the gates of Eden again.
The Christian bible says Adam and Eve fell asleep under the Tree, but nowhere in the bible does it say they woke up. That is because we are still dreaming of being outside of Eden and outside of God's graces.
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Humanity has been in the process of waking up from their dream state for the past several years. This awakening has revived many ancient memories and belief systems that lay dormant within our minds for a very long time as they push their way back up to the surface to claim their voice again.
Intimately connected yet long before humanity's creation, God had formed various realities with Beings who became highly evolved. These Beings were God personified, who grew their wisdom by forgetting their whole truth, permitting them to have different experiences while learning various skills through trial and error, then ultimately finding ways to reconnect and align with their spiritual truth and knowledge once again. These Beings became very translucent in form, because they embodied so much of their Souls Light, and created a high frequency of self, which was much closer to Gods vibration. The closer in alignment someone is to their divine truth, the nearer they are to Gods frequency, which is a very fast moving energy, similar to the speed of light. However, when someone disconnects from his or her divine knowledge and truth, their molecules move slower, creating a denser physical form.
As creation continued to unfold, God developed the idea of a human; everyone chose to be part of this project. Hence, the formation of one human being who could unite all the different beings in creation began. This is why humanity's successful transition into the next phase of development is so important to everyone in creation. It is also the reason why so many experience memories that are not from this human existence; they are remembrances of expanded connections that have been reuniting as we transition back into the state of Oneness and conscious unity with our greater selves.
This one human, called Adam was androgynous and had full knowledge of its real identity. Adam, who was both male and female, went through several formulations with limited success. The final phase of Adams creation involved four main bloodlines from the most evolved Beings and dimensions in creation that would insure the greatest degree of success for humanity. They were from Lyra, Arcturus, Pleiades, and Angelic. The four rivers of Eden represent these fore-parents of humanity.
This human was nurtured and loved by every aspect of God from every level of creation, but eventually the time came for Adam to grow into something more. Adam was ready to experience and come face to face with itself. Through guided assistance, Adam was ready for this next step. This androgynous Adam became two. One-half would represent the feminine qualities and be known as Lilith in many cultures, while Adam would maintain the masculine aspects. Lilith and Adam were each other's counterpart and equal partners for humanity's continued manifestation. This first couple became the original archetypes within humanity's psyche. Everyone in one form or another identifies with their creation, union and separation, as all struggle to heal the root of this fragmentation felt within and return to wholeness once again.
Lilith's feminine energy represents the life force, which brings nature into being through the elements within her. Lilith embodies humanity's origin within the heart of Creation, as the Mother of nature and the elemental spirits who protect and care for all aspects of nature. Lilith in her ancient truth is an elemental angel, from the original creative arm of nature, Ariel. She is a phase of this energy of nature that was part of Adam, but also came to Adam in the form of a human female after they divided; they are the true Mother and Father of this Earth, for their sexual union united humanity with nature and through this union created the Earth as their child.
The creation of humanity required them to have the same elements of the planet in which they would live upon for their continued existence. The nourishment earth would provide contained the correct essentials humanity would need. In addition, this arrangement would help humanity grow emotionally and mentally. They needed to learn that nothing is inanimate; the earth is a living being, just as humans, and thus, created to mirror each other. For humanity to grow, they would have to recognize that they are part of a whole; what they do to the planet, they do to themselves. Without earth, humanity could not survive, nor would they exist. Leading us to another realization ... nature came first, not man. Nature existed long before humans. As an aspect of nature, Lilith also had the ability to shape shift into any form she chose to create, whether it be a flower, an owl, a wolf or a human.
As described in the previous section, life within Eden was paradise; all were equal, acknowledged and respected. They were conscious of their connection to one another and aligned with their Souls Knowing. Until, things began to change ...
All involved with humanity chose to have a new experience, one that would push us to grow our wisdom and learn things that were unobtainable within Eden's embrace. We understood that we would have to leave the comfort we felt within the Oneness we knew. Our Soul's also realized we would have to go against our own nature when we stepped into the unknown world of opposites as we formed a duality to accomplish our goals. In order to create this opposite reality, we had to separate from the wholeness and unity Oneness represents, we had to pull apart, and we had to move from one into two, which is what duality is based on: two pieces or two parts of a whole. To form this duality something foreign and painful had to happen for its creation. A division was created between the core of humanity's roots; a split between the first male and female created, Adam and his first wife Lilith.
Adam was the first to move toward separation, and began disconnecting from his Soul that contained his whole truth. In the process, he forgot his spiritual knowledge, and began to fear what he no longer knew, which was Lilith's knowledge and power. Adam tried to lessen his fears by making demands on Lilith as he attempted to control and lessen her power and creative spirit. He wanted Lilith to lay beneath him, because Adam wanted her to be second to him and obey his orders, as he would place himself above her in importance. Lilith refused to give in; she would not turn away from her essential truth and be under his command, because she knew she was his equal. When Adam turned against Lilith, he turned his back on himself and the creative power of nature.
The discord between Adam and Lilith represents humanity's drive to bend nature to their own will. This is what started the battle between man and nature; the masculine who chose to be blind to the truth within him, as he endeavored to conquer and control nature and the earth.
Even though Adam began the abusive treatment of not only nature, but also the feminine energy, Lilith did not stand idle. Lilith was not willing to allow Adams corruption of the divine feminine principles that all women and men in truth possess, and her anger grew within the feminine principle. As Lilith's anger continued to grow towards Adam, she dismembered the masculine energy. This began the creation of multiple fragmentations for the masculine energy that were scattered in the various dimensions she created. This caused great confusion for him, but also prevented a full onslaught against the feminine principle and slowed his progression, allowing him to learn along the way, as he would experience betrayal reflected to him in many ways. His lessons included battling against these different fragments or aspects of himself, as these assorted versions tried to conquer one another. We have witnessed this throughout history, as wars that pit brother against brother.
Lilith did not go away quietly, but she would maintain what humanity must face, their truth. Lilith would wear the mask of the she-devil for those who feared her, by fueling the retaliation that forces humanity to learn from his or her mistakes. Through the backlash experienced when anyone disrespects another, Lilith assured the lessons of mistreatment, as humanity faced the brutality they began their delusion through. This allows humanity to come full circle through experience, opening the doorway for the understanding and compassion that would heal each division created. This is how humanity had to grow their wisdom and return to their greater self.
The reason Lilith has been associated with childbirth and children is that she is part of the angelic group energy that holds the innocence and truth within us all safe until we are ready to reclaim it. She also challenges us to seek this innocence within ourselves by helping us learn through lessons of duality. As society began to close the door on the inner truths which we are born with and enter the world separation, our Divine Mother and Father also wait for our return and acceptance of the whole truth once again. The truths behind all of our precious aspects we hold within, but taught to fear were kept safe. Lilith in actuality has helped protect the inheritance of humanity, its full potential and freedom to claim this truth. She is also the key piece of the feminine that would redeem the masculine, represented by Adam, but she had to do it by redeeming herself first within the female vessels of this earth. The Soul within each one of the women who walk this earth has an unconscious knowing and understanding of this. All of the things that would lead us to our truth and freedom became hidden and distorted through the world of separation and duality, until now.
Adam wanted Lilith to birth a human child, but she refused, knowing Adam was really seeking his lost innocence. Lilith knew that until Adam reconnected to his own purity of Spirit within, he would try to take it from his children by dominance and submission, to fill his absence of Oneness and wholeness. This began humanity's mistaken belief that a child would fill their void and sense of loneliness. Adam played his role well as he continued to separate from his actual truth to fall deeper and deeper into the sleep and illusion that would teach humanity the value of forgiveness and love.
When Adam and Lilith's arguments increased, so did their anger. As they went their separate ways, the duality that humanity chose to experience formed, as the first divorce in history took place.
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Excerpted from Re-Entering Eden by Carolyn M Greenleaf Copyright © 2011 by Carolyn M Greenleaf. Excerpted by permission of BALBOA PRESS. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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