Selections from In the Beginning/B’re-sheet
Genesis 1.1-3.21
In-the-beginning creates El (God and Goddess)
The heavens
and the earth
Let there be
light and separate it from darkness
All living
creatures be fertile and increase
Let’s make
humanity in Eloheem’s (in the Mother’s) image
Creating
male and female with plants for food
This is the
story of heaven and earth:
The seventh
day, we declare it holy
YHVH (God) forms humans from dust
of the earth (adamah)
Breathing
into our nostrils the breath of life
We are
living beings!
We awaken in
the palace of existence
A garden is
planted in Eden in the east
With a tree
of life in the middle
Also
knowledge of right and wrong (duality)
A
river from Eden waters the garden,
A
land of gold and lapis lazuli
We’re
free to eat from every tree in the garden
If
we eat the fruit of duality, we get both life and death
All
alone? Let’s make a helpmate, birds and animals too
A
deep sleep, now fashion woman, now fashion man
Bone
of my bones, flesh of my flesh
Naked
and unself-conscious, two become one flesh (Yes!)
For
clothing God has made us garments of skin (of light)
The
entire universe is our home
God
is calling to us now, saying “Where are you?”
You have only limited time here.
What are you doing with your life?
