Ancient history of creation - Act 3: The animal era

From vegetable to animal life. The age of the moon.

In the past, matter had build the ground for vegetable life to be born and now the vegetable life formed a seed bed into which the seeds of animal life fell.

If the state of paradise, of Garden of Eden would have gone on for ever, humanity would have never evolved beyond the vegetable stage.

There was a momentous event: The sun god separated from mother earth and was shining from then on from the sky onto the surface of mother earth. As a result the earth cools, becomes denser, shrinks and the whole of its watery surface is covered by Adam, Eve and their flowery progeny.

Suddenly a giant snake (Luzifer), seemingly endless long appeared, millions of miles of it weaving its way into the cosmos. The snake coiled itself ever more tightly around Adam's vegetable trunk. The story of the serpent entwined around the tree contains the clearest possible image of the earth's transition from vegetable to animal life. The entwining of the snake and tree is a picture of the formation of the spine and central nervous system of animals. The whole earth began to seethe (=wimmeln) with primitive animal life.

This marked the moment from which on beings had to suffer, to strive and to die. The evolution of animal life and its characteristic method of reproduction (sex) brought death with it. As soon as hunger and desire were felt so were dissatisfaction, frustration, sorrow and fear.

Lucifer, the snake, the tempter who inflames humanity with animal desire equates to the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite.

Whilst it might seem counter-intuitive to equate the goddess of Venus/Aphrodite with Luzifer as Venus/Aphrodite is female and perceived as more life-enhancing, there are key points of similarity. Both Lucifer and Venus/Aphrodite are bound up with animal desire and sexuality. The apple is the fruit associated with both.

Any power human beings have to resist the animal desires - indeed what stops us from being a mere animal - derives from our capacity for thought and reflection.

Venus (Luzifer) was traditionally depicted as holding a mirror as a symbol of the power of reflection to modify desire. The god of reflection was the great reflector in the sky: The god of the moon.

(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)