"Mysteries of Genesis" for online reading

byAllen Watson

You can find the full text of Fillmore's Mysteries of Genesis in Google books, at this link:

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Resurrection Lesson from "Keep a True Lent", by Charles Fillmore

The Resurrection

Easter Sunday. Read John 20:1-18.

Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Its inner meaning and spiritual significance is the awakening and raising to spiritual consciousness of the I AM in man, which has been dead in trespass and sin and buried in the tomb of materiality.

"I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly."

Reading for March 14

Because Easter will fall between our March and April meetings, the group is reading and discussing the resurrection story in Luke 24 this month. We also recommend that, for background, you start with reading Luke 23, which tells the story of the crucifixion that leads up to the resurrection. The discussion will focus, though, on Chapter 24.

The Garden of Eden in our Experience

After our meeting this morning in which we discussed Genesis 2 and 3, I had a couple of thoughts about the Garden of Eden. As we said, it represents a state of consciousness, a state of your mind and my mind. Specifically, it represents bliss; complete supply; a state in which nothing is lacking.

The "fall," then, represents the loss of that consciousness.

Meanings of names in Genesis 2 and 3

Posted by Allen Watson
Definitions from the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary

As I posted back on January 5:

Names represents states of consciousness. Places represent places in consciousness. Every character in the Bible is some aspect of you.

Below, I have copied a number of definitions of names and places from Genesis Chapter 2, showing their relation to states of consciousness, from the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of Unity. You might want to print these out to save yourself time in looking them up during your study.

Continuing Fall Ch 3...

This story opens us up to the possibility of our capacity for acting in both good and evil ways and this duality exists in all people. Welcome to the exploration of the shadow. We can choose whether to act out of our better selves or our darker impulses.

This story declares truth about me Gen 3

Judaism does not have the concept of original sin. Instead, it has the concept of "inclination to evil" (yetzer hara).

As consciousness opened to the possibility of an alternative to the way of unity consciousness everything became “fractured & distorted.”

This story is a reminder that the fellowship we were meant to have with God and each other, somehow, in one moment, was over come by ego, selfishness and ungratitude.

Passing through the Cherubim

V 24 God places the cherubim with a flaming sword at the entrance of Eden not to keep Adam and Eve out but to guard the way, lest they eat of the Tree of Immortality in the state of duality. The implies that Adam and Eve had not been immortal.

So, the cherubim with the flaming sword. What do they represent?

You Are Not Enough the Way You Are Gen 3

V 5 ...you're not enough the way you are; created in the image and likeness of God you've got to make something of yourselves

The story we tell ourselves goes like this: Our beginnings are in our achievements. There are no gifts to be given because there's no giver. We end up only with whatever we manage to scrape together for ourselves. Whoever has the most stuff when he dies wins. 'This story ends in despair.

All I see between the devil and me is… Gen 3

In "The Creation of the World and Other Matters" by Arthur Miller, God and Lucifer have a conversation about the problem of Adam and Eve enjoying life and the garden, but not reproducing.