The Fall From Grace

When Adam and Eve are cast out of the Garden of Eden, they were punished by Yahweh for several transgressions. First, they disobeyed knowingly and directly a divine command not to eat the forbidden fruit. Second, by obeying the Serpent and disobeying Yahweh, they allowed evil to enter the world, and they introduced Satanism to the Garden of Eden, heaven on earth. Such treachery must be discountenanced and punished thoroughly. Third, by eating the forbidden fruit, they demonstrated disloyalty to Yahweh who could ill allow treacherous dissenters in De's domain, so out they went. Fourth, they conveyed to Yahweh that they were bored with perfect ease, comfort and utter goodness and innocence: their act of sinful rebellion informed Yahweh that they craved diversity, adventure, change and upset. By being cursed and ousted, they were suffering, die, sin and know want and scarcity. They and their descendants would never be bored again--or at least bored by the blissful, blessed, protected goodness and sameness of living in the protected Garden of Eden. Yet, was the fall from grace, that original sin. assigned to the First Parents, and a stain upon the souls of all their offspring, a fall from grace? Certainly, being immortal, all or mostly good, and living in the daily presence of the Divinity were enormous blessings. But, once free from the Garden of Eden, they were free, possessing free will, and despite mortality, an experienced knowledge of sin and evil and their endless pain and discomfort, they were fully alive, with the potential to make something wonderful, lovely and appealing to Yahweh, a chance to demonstrate what they could make and achieve on their own, a gift and offering back to their Maker, extending the kingdom of heaven in this world. Their journey of a fall from grace, their grappling with death, disease and original sin, were a loss of innocence and the withdrawal of God's presence. If they could overcome their sloth, mediocrity, sinfulness and worship of Lucifer, they could make something noble, loving and precious, with God not so easily at hand, and that is powerful faith when exercised by a pious community with no sure awareness of, connection to or direct, daily communication with God. For them to transform their personal souls, their home, their family, their community and their nation (as done in America) into pieces of heaven on earth, that is to grow into great souls, living anarchists individuators that live God's word in their daily lives. That is wonderful. That is a real sacrifice to the Divine Couple. That is new innocence lived and existential. They have converted God curse (their fall from grace) into their greatest blessing given back to God. In this light, that curse was a divine blessing, an entrance into this mortal world, whereat, if they maverized, they would transfigure this exile into a rising up into grace. May we adopt Mavellonialism and make this transfiguration real.