THE THE LEGEND LEGEND OF OF LILITH LILITH © ©

The Legend of Lilith: The Origins of Evil and the Fall of Man
In order to properly understand the writers of the TaNaK .We have to approach the Scriptures from the point of view of
the authors and not from the point of view of the modern fundamentalists, who misinterpret the writings because of a lack
of Hebraic instruction. This is a crime against YHWH and spirituality as it confuses the true nature and identity of Ayn Sof
and creates religion rather than spirituality. Their faulty translations and interpretations distance the student from the
truths of spiritual reality.
Elohim is not an old man with a long white beard, sitting on a throne in the clouds. He is not a spiritual Santa Claus who
rewards us for good behavior and leaves hunks of coal for the bad little boys and girls. Once we mature, we can leave
this childish nonsense behind us and move forward to being a mature spiritual adult. The ancient sages protected the deeper
understandings of spiritual truth from the immature in order to protect their infantile minds from confusion before
their ability to mature and integrate broader and deeper concepts.
Ayn Sof is the intelligent Designer. He is not human at all. He is not even a “He”. It is more accurate to refer to the Creator
as an “It”, a reality that transcends any human concepts. Ayn Sof is the intelligence of the universe, the Universal
Mind, or the Consciousness of creation. In Hebrew this is called the Sekhel HaPoal-“the Active Intelligence”. I n Hebrew
this concept is spelled YHWH ( hwvhy)). It is from the Hebrew root that means “to be”. The verb HOVEY means “be-
ing”. When we add the Hebrew prefix of the YUD (y), we take the base form of the root verb and transform it grammatically
from the passive to the active tense. Thus, “YUD-HOVEY” would translate as Active Being or Being in Action. This
does not an old man on a throne. T his is a reality so different that we cannot even imagine it or ascribe to It any form.
We do such an injustice to the TaNaK and Brit Chadasha by viewing them with fundamental immaturity. The Active Intelligence
wants man to be as intelligent as It Itself is. To be an Intelligent Designer requires us to embrace reality. But, in
order to embrace reality, we must first recognize and know what it is. Therefore, in order to find and embrace reality, one
must first mature from the fundamental mind-set and become a spiritual adult in their understanding. Only a mature adult
can fulfill Torah Law properly.
All our expressions in this material world are filtered through our mind that is filled with prejudices, religious dogmas,
culture, time setting and programmed theological concepts. Everything is thus individualized according to that person’s or
group’s previous teachings and environment. Everything we conscious perceive is thus filtered through the lens of our
individual interpretation. This is one of the major factors in the production of faulty translations of the Scriptures.
The result has been a beautiful eloquently sounding Bible, but a soulless Scripture. Instead of having inspired Scripture,
the world has a fallible book full of meaningless phrases and supposed discrepancies meriting all the criticism it receives.
For centuries disputes and arguments have raged over the meaning of certain words or phrases and methods of interpretation.
The result has been wars and rumors of wars resulting in inquisitions and murders of innocent people by religious
despots.
Religion has slaughtered whole populations and waged long costly wars over the way certain passages of Scripture
should be interpreted. Scholars have speculated and interpreted ambiguous Scriptures. Once the conclusion of their speculation
is accepted becomes enshrined as dogma or doctrine. Then over centuries these speculations become regarded as
established fact by the denominations and the people. Such conclusions are not facts at all. Actually, their speculations
and interpretations congealed into their own tradition and that tradition becomes mistaken for fact.
A person may read the Scriptures and believe what he reads based upon the fact that people have told him it was the word
of Elohim. Some may read it because it is the most widely published book in the world. A person may decide to go to
church and become a Baptist or Methodist as a result and yet still not have true understanding. The natural mind may
spend years studying the Scriptures and produce very carnal and often very evil systems of belief. I am amazed at how
often racists quote Scripture to justify their hate. How are we delivered from this deception? Humility, brokenness, sincerity
of heart, child-like faith, a willingness to acknowledge that we really know very little of the ways of the Creator of the
Universe, these are some of the steps to deliverance. But true deliverance comes when the spirit of revelation brings Light.
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