Picture: Cain and Abel
A new revelation came this early a.m.: As we know Adam represents reason and Eve represents feeling, they are seduced by the downward facing serpent of attraction to the senses. As a result they remove themselves from the Garden of Eden in which they easily commune with God and live in harmony with Divine and Nature’s laws.
Adam and Eve have two offspring, Cain and Abel. The two represent the dual nature, positive and negative attributes of the son of man. Abel is the desire to be in harmony with God and the fruit of his actions pleases Him. Cain represents ignorance and goes against Divine Harmony. Cain becomes jealous of Abel’s easy relationship with God and he “kills” Abel. The negative tendencies of Cain rise up leading to jealousy, anger and murder, and the good tendencies of Abel die, are no longer evident in consciousness.
The mark of Cain is those tendencies of self-absorption, jealousy, anger and greed. He may be known by those tendencies and is marked by them wherever he exists. Cain kills the good tendencies, however the good tendencies cry out from the earth, they remain in the consciousness as an echo, and cannot be completely eliminated. As a result of going against Divine Will and killing good tendencies Cain goes further away from Divine Harmony and lives among those who have the son-of-man only.
This is a tragic and wonderful description of what happens to all souls who have descended into darkness. The good news, the Gospel, is that there is redemption for all who “receive” Christ Consciousness by following in the Way of the Cross, or live in self-surrender.
Go forward in time to when Jesus was nailed to the cross, with two thieves on either side of him. One thief wants to go with Jesus to heaven that day; the other is mocking the Christ and wants a miracle only to save his life. These two thieves are Able and Cain, and their tendencies have remained the same. The one desires to do the will of God; the other is filled with anger and recrimination.
After their deaths both thieves have their legs broken, but Jesus legs are not broken. That is, the power of the good and evil tendencies within man is overcome, this allows the son of man to ascend and fully manifest as the Son-of-God. Jesus told the good thief that he would be with him in heaven that day; that is, the dual nature must be broken, but in the end the good tendencies abide in the Son of God, only now the Son of God is not identified with the ego nature of doing good.
Through the Mystical Crucifixion the serpent fully rises to the top of the tree, or the cross which represents the man or woman whose will is fully surrendered to God’s will. This ascension reverses what was done by Adam and Eve in going with the downward facing serpent on the tree of life and ultimately restores man to God.
This morning, on the day of a full moon and Good Friday, God has shown me this connection between Cain and Abel to the two thieves on the cross. How good God is, how sublime and perfect are the teachings in these stories. These stories are ostensibly about history dating back thousands of years, but even more meaningfully these stories are descriptions of the son-of-man nature and the Son-of-God nature residing in every man and woman the world over. It is the story of redemption of every individual who would seek out Christ Consciousness, by whatever name it may be called. It is the story of you and me.