Interpreting Genesis

My hypotheses is that with a single soul man’s consciousness would have been external. Man’s only source of reference was the animals and birds but this was not enough. The soul needed an internal source of reference so that it could know itself. End of hypothesis

So woman was created from Adam's life (an alternative translation to rib). Woman would have been an exact clone of Adam. Man now had an internal mirror. The soul called Adam would now know itself because it could see the woman. The soul called woman would know itself because it could see Adam. Man was now conscious from within because the soul now had a partner to act as a mirror.

There is no mention of Eve in the whole story. Eve only appears later as a wife who became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.

So now man was now internally conscious. Man now knew the meaning of the word “I”.

Therefore shall a man a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be as one flesh. Genesis 224 KJV

Man has now moved on and left its heritage behind. Man is now unique on this planet in that it is a fully internally conscious species. The single soul “man” has been left behind.

In the centre of the Garden (the human brain) are two trees, the Tree of Life (the connection to all life), and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil (judgment). The only thing we must not do is judge good and evil.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 31 KJV

The serpent is an interesting character because God did not create it. It was more subtle (subtil) than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. This is a real enigma because God created everything.

One possible explanation is that the writer of Genesis needed the serpent in order to explain the sequence of events. If Genesis is a story to explain a principle that snake is a legitimate tactic. There are other explanations including that God was not alone. This last possibility is given weight by the way Genesis slips in and out of the plural (example; Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil). This possibility I will leave to the end of the article.

The twin soul system of internal consciousness is very elegant. It is an almost perfect system with only one weakness. If the souls start judging each other the system self destructs. As the souls start judging each other the perfect mirror is lost. They no longer see themselves as they are (a mirror of each other) but as they judge the other to be.

There is still an internal mirror but it is a cracked mirror of conflict and the twin souls degenerate into what we know as the soul and the ego at war with each other.