>>24697621
Real interesting suggestion, thanks anon might have to get into him now.
There’s an interesting strain of thought in the Christian mystic Jakob Boehme, also, suggesting he thought the Fall of Humanity, as in the Genesis myth, was a necessary stage of the universe, even perhaps ultimately for the best, as it necessitated God’s redemption of the universe and fallen humanity by the direct incarnation of God in humanity, and the ultimate redeemed stage perhaps being even greater than what we would’ve had without the Fall. A deepening of humanity’s consciousness, a more sophisticated psyche and soul having gone through this dialectic, choosing the Good over Evil out of actual freewill, not just because of a state of innocence and total unknowing or incapability of even the possibility of sin.
It is pretty heavyhanded that what causes the Fall is a fruit giving one “knowledge of good and evil”, suggesting that beforehand there was no knowledge of that, no distinction.
I myself prefer to see it more as cosmic allegory, similar to some other cosmogonies. In Taoist cosmogony, for example, the universe is in the state of Void, Wuji, before its splitting into opposites, Yin and Yang, negative and positive, with this then further giving birth to “the 10,000 things” (all manifested reality). The Kabbalah has the limitless Ein Sof at the beginning (lit. “Without End”, the Eternal), which emanates Ohr Ein Sof (the Light of Ein Sof), symbolically in Kether, the Crown of the Tree of Life, then splitting into the duality/opposites of Binah and Chokhmah, themselves further manifesting into the two pillars of the Tree of Life which also represent opposites (masculine and feminine, the pillars of mercy and severity), the Tree of Life itself representing the entire universe and all processes in it. Ein Sof is also often spoken of apophatically, through a theology of negation, hence again a similarity to this idea of the Void birthing all, with a split into duality, too.
I’m bloviating, but I think there’s an interestingly similar system here. Pre-creation is a state of Void, and to go from Void to the Created Universe requires this bifurcation into opposites. The “Fall” might just represent that the creation of the material universe, and consciousnesses embodied within it to experience that universe, requires this play of opposites. Going even before the Adam and Eve story to God creating the universe himself, you have the world being “Tohu wa-bohu” at start in Hebrew, “without form and void”, so some of these bits of the Kabbalah don’t just come from nowhere, and I think can shed light on some of Christian theology or mysticism inasmuch as the Torah is a shared source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohu_wa-bohu
