Adam: Human.
Adam: Human.
A Human possessing an I-consciousness, who has his own image and his own world according to his interpretations, as every Human does.
Genesis 3:9
The meaning of Adam in Hebrew is: Human.
Adam is not only the first Human, but Adam is the Human whom God created. The conscious I, who is aware of his own existence.
The Human begins to perceive the material world through the body, through the senses of the body. The Human is, in reality, consciousness, which identifies with the knowledge that intellect forms from the information conveyed by the senses.
We Humans believe that we possess intellect, that throughout our lives and during our natural development we become increasingly intelligent and rational. In reality, however, intellect exists independently of us according to the laws of God.
Intellect exists according to the laws of God:
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
From the available information, intellect forms interpretations and definitions with which it describes the experience conveyed to it by the senses of the human body. Between consciousness and perception, intellect forms interpretations from the incoming information, and consciousness identifies with these interpretations.
The interpretations that have been formed become the conscious I because consciousness identifies with them and comes to know them. The definitions that have become the I then function as a filter, because we become those definitions. The information conveyed by the body reaches intellect according to the definitions that we have already accepted.
If new information does not support the definitions that have already been accepted, consciousness modifies them. However, the longer a definition remains present between perception and intellect, the more capable it becomes of compressing the perceived information and allowing the perceived information to pass only according to that definition. Thus, through experiences, our definitions become increasingly stable, and they increasingly determine the I with which consciousness has identified.
If the definitions already contain evaluations, then the perceived information reaches intellect together with those evaluations, together with the knowledge of good and evil. Intellect also treats these evaluations as information and incorporates them into the definitions, because for intellect they are information in exactly the same way as the perception conveyed by the senses.
Thus, according to our evaluations, intellect increasingly appears to be our own intellect. In reality, however, what happens is that perceived reality — our experiences — reaches intellect increasingly according to our already accepted definitions and according to our own evaluations.
Consciousness does not possess intellect. Rather, intellect, according to the laws of God, continuously forms the most precise definitions possible from the information available to it. The definitions that appear, however, increasingly reflect that with which consciousness has already identified, and thus consciousness increasingly regards the appearing definitions as its own interpretations. This is why we believe that intellect is one of our own attributes.
During perception, consciousness always perceives the appearing reality — the material world — through the same body. Therefore, this too is information, and consciousness also identifies with the instrument of perception, the human body.
According to the six cycles of creation, God defined the Human according to the conscious I and the unconscious I, which are the conditions of one another, the two poles of the I, like the two sides of a coin.
In the second chapter, God also defines the human body, the material manifestation. The Human, however, does not exist according to the body, but according to the definitions of consciousness.
Consciousness existed before God created Heaven and Earth. This is already described precisely in the first two verses of the first chapter:
"In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth ... and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
The creation of the Spirit of God does not appear in the description. The Spirit of God already existed independently of Heaven and Earth. When Heaven and Earth were created, the Spirit was already present above the unconsciously existing world.
Later, God defines intellect (light) and the appearance of consciousness in the created world as the unconscious I and the conscious I, which are able to exist and appear in the world because God separated darkness from light, unconscious existence from conscious existence.
Consciousness exists timelessly, but the conscious I and the unconscious I already define themselves through the perception of the world. In this way, the Human enters the created world in order to begin perceiving the material world and to come to know what God has created.
Consciousness identifies with what it comes to know. Thus, in reality, throughout the process of knowing, it identifies with the laws of God. The laws of God become conscious through the Human.