Of the many things we lost as a result of the fall of man, one of the most devastating and limiting is the quietus of divine manhood, the death of the real man. The original descent and demise was described allegorically early in the Bible as a self-induced ejection from the “garden” planted “eastward in Eden” as a result of “eating” of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” This metaphorical mouthful fundamentally changed mankind and as a result, put the world that man–male and female–was meant to “dress” and “keep,” in disarray.

This archaic and symbolic language describes a willful act of disobedience (“…she took the fruit thereof…” and “…he did eat”), a stubborn unwillingness to repent (“I hid myself”), and a resulting shift in consciousness (“…in sorrow shalt thou eat”). Have you ever had such an experience, that is, a time where you deliberately took the low road, refused to apologize or make it right using a combination of hiding, blame, etc., and then lived under the cloud of your failure to do the right thing? Such moments color your view of the world and of your role in it. This is the fall of man. The original fall was long ago, but it has been repeated countless times since.

The original fall of man, incidentally, was also the genesis of the self-made man. According to the biblical record, man functioned in a manner consistent with his design up until the fall. Man, having been made in the image and likeness of the gods (yes, gods plural!), had dominion over the earth and everything in it. After the fall, man functioned “as gods,” which is another way to say that man started to function self-actively rather than on the basis of a central orientation in the spirit of love.

This tragic (and now normal) self-activity changed the heaven of mankind’s consciousness and as a result changed the earth of his experience. The willful attempt to be “as gods” resulted in a world where real men have been replaced by political men, abstract passions have replaced individual passions, and doctrine has replaced logos. Mankind literally decoupled itself from the larger pattern in which it is set and the fruits of that separation are confusion, conflict, misery, and death.

The world we have now is not how the world has always been. Let me repeat: the world we have now is not how the world has always been. Human nature stopped playing the role it did “in the beginning.” Mankind fell, abdicated its rightful place as a creator, and then experienced shame, hid, blamed, and has—-until this day—-refused to accept responsibility and repent for his misplaced orientation.

We cannot restore the world to its original grandeur by “Making The World Great Again” or by fighting “the good fight.” This judgmental pattern of thinking is exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.

We cannot restore our lost innocence and rightful place through conniving or with might and main, neither can we reconnect to the source of wisdom or “righteous judgment” through strict adherence to a rigid moral or ethical code. And if recorded history teaches us anything, it is that the restoration of mankind cannot occur by way of stomping out all evil from the earth.

We can, however overcome evil in our personal experience. Blessed is he who knows that evil will destroy itself if given half the chance, and it behooves us to let it destroy itself. To overcome we must let

We can and must restore the missing link (aka us in our rightful frame of mind and heart) by letting go of vain self-activity and letting go to that which is higher through agreement, obedience, and humility. To do this, we must let; not try, just let.

Our capacity of free will was given to us that we might serve as creators. Were we merely a part of creation, we wouldn’t need free will. The capacity of free will is there not to empower us to judge good and evil based on appearances, rather, it is there that we might judge righteous judgment and that we might choose the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

Divine manhood our birthright. We were not designed to struggle with purpose, grasp for meaning, or manufacture an identity. We were designed to reveal the unique focalization of spirit that we are in the inner sense. We were designed to make the invisible, visible, to move in dynamic, potent, and fulfilling agreement with the logos, that is, the stream of word-like impulses that guide the larger pattern in which our lives and our planet are set.

This is not a religious, political or scientific claim, neither is it a purely spiritual one. Reality and the patterns of reality are what they are regardless of man’s opinions about them. Truth is not a social construct; it is objective and absolute. You can only reenter the Garden planted eastward in Eden by passing by the flaming sword (of truth) which turns every way and keeps the way of the tree of life. Stop hiding from the truth and let yourself—-your true, inner, divine self—-be seen before it is too late.