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The Seed of Cain
#28564166 - 12/01/23 06:10 PM (1 month, 26 days ago) |
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Please share with ye what you know of the Son of Adam named Cain? …they say he was accursed with Serpent Skin. That Cain’s seed will be destroyed because the Blood of Abel defiled the land?
Edited by Buckthorn (12/01/23 06:14 PM)
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The brothers are two sides or aspects in each one of us. We all have in us both Cain and Abel. Abel’s name literally means “breath,” that is, “spirit”; and Cain’s name means “he who is created.” Abel is the individuality in us, that aspect of our being which is a Good Shepherd, the divine Christ spirit, or higher nature. Cain, on the other hand, is the personality that is created each lifetime and produces “fruit of the ground,” rather than of the spirit; it is our lower nature. Cain is the elder brother, because our higher nature is derived from or built up out of the experience of the earthly self; in each incarnation we absorb into the permanent individuality the good fruits of the personality, which thus become permanent by being incorporated into the reincarnating individuality.
The personality cannot make offerings directly to the divine, but only through the individuality. The personality’s offerings are not directly acceptable to the divine nature, but must be mediated by the higher nature. Cain’s slaying of Abel is a dramatic presentation of a personal life that is severed from its guiding individuality. The “slaying” in this case is like that of The Voice of the Silence, in which we are told that “the Mind is the great Slayer of the Real.” Abel is the Real, which is “slain,” that is, rejected and abandoned by Cain, the physical mind.
from Cain and Abel, A Theosophical Midrash By John Algeo https://www.theosophical.org/files/resources/articles/CainAbel.pdf
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Who would Cain have married, being the first generation from Adam?
Although there was no firmly established prohibition against incest, at the time, it is also suggested that humankind might sometimes have interbred with angelic beings, the illicit sex act creating demi-humans.
It is argued that only mankind was made in the image of God, that God became as a man and walked among men, and died as a man for the sins of humankind, only.
Demons and their offspring were presumably irredeemable.
(There is now superstition against tampering with one's germline, having originally been made in the image of God.)
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Buckthorn
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I read Cain’s wife was “Lillith”.
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“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”
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Eve was Adam’s wife!
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Re: The Seed of Cain [Re: Buckthorn] 1
#28569378 - 12/05/23 07:18 AM (1 month, 22 days ago) |
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So we're told What if they both were? I have no definitive opinion Posing a question
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Some people (not in the usual 66 books of Scripture) believe that Lilith was Adam's first wife but would not submit.
Then, there are these occasional accounts of descendants of Adam peopling the continents and finding these unexplained humans / humanoids.
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Re: The Seed of Cain [Re: Buckthorn] 1
#28569694 - 12/05/23 10:39 AM (1 month, 22 days ago) |
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I've also read this.
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In one iteration, those fallen ones are instructed by Enoch to repent before God, although there was no formal procedure established for remittance of sin.
Does God accept, on a case-by-case basis? Is there a zero-tolerance policy?
An interpretation of Genesis 6 is that the great flood was meant to cleanse the Earth of genetic monsters.
On peopling Canaan, the Israelites are supposed to genocide the demi-humans.
Or, God is supposed to drive them out.
Or, after the 10th(?) generation of bastards, they are regarded as fit to rejoin religious life in the temple.
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Buckthorn
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What book cites Lillith?
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Babylonian Talmud Midrash The Alphabet of Ben-Sira Zohar
I think ,people have been disusing and possibly invoking Lilith in the modern era, so there would be alot more contemporary writings.
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