Regardless of whether it’s an embodiment of Satan or a
personification (ophidianification?) of that which is anti-the-L
ord-God, the serpent of Genesis 3:1
shouldn’t be in the garden of Eden. If we accept that Eden is the primeval
temple (where Eden equates to the holy of holies, the garden to the holy place,
and the world outside Eden to the outer court), then the serpent, as an unclean
animal (Leviticus 11:42), presumably shouldn’t be inside the garden. So
already, the man and the woman have failed in their mandate to ‘till’ and ‘keep’
the garden (Genesis 2:15), because they have not policed the proper boundaries
but have entertained something unclean (the serpent) and allowed it to pollute
the holy (the garden).
Or is it something to do with wisdom as you once pointed out? As in wisdom in some way defiling the sacred act because wisdom cannot access it as much as it tries
ReplyDeleteThere may be a connection, especially if wisdom in this case is linked with created wisdom (because the serpent is created) rather than divine wisdom.
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