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GenesisUntil, one day, understanding dawned. Eve realized that Adam was apart from nature. He joined, but only superficially, and then separated, often violently. That moment transfixed her. Her understanding separated her from her peers. And, perhaps unlike others that came before, she shared her understanding with him. She chose to walk with Adam, to bind herself to him, to follow him on his adventure in singularity. But the adventure didn't end well for her. As her sons grew older, Adam drifted away from her, preferring the company of Cain. Adrift, unable to return to her sisters, she cast upon Abel as a substitute for the love she no longer could express through Adam. And from that conflict for control of their children, tragedy sprang. That tragedy resonates still today. Adam betrayed Eve's confidence. He may not have understood the choices before him, or the distance between their natures may simply have been too great. Men and women manifest the fundamental realities. One joins, another separates. One orders, another disorders. The story of Adam and Eve manifests those truths as contradictions, but a balance exists in masculinity and femininity. It can be bridged. Whether concretely or metaphorically, Adam and Eve failed in that venture, and marked the path that has led Humanity to the present. It is before us now to rectify that failure. The exemplars we need are not exemplars of singularity, but exemplars of joining: men and women, distinct and equal, but integrated in every aspect of their personalities, through time and space, and expressing all the power that creation has gifted to us. |
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