« On the sixth day of Creation, God created Adam in His own image. Adam is created «male and female »Genesis
As I like to refer to the enlightened perspective of Annick De Souzenelle, who has symbolically revisited the Hebrew writings (in «L’Alliance de feu» in particular). Our place on Earth then takes on a different meaning.
The original unity and sexual differentiation
According to her, sexual differentiation does not move in the direction of a female-male duality. The human being (Adam) was «created in the image of God». The word «male» in Hebrew is the same as the verb «to remember» (Zakhor). The word «female» (Nqevah) evokes a container, a matrix whose umbilical cord connects the «divine waters» of the waters «above» to the divine child (Adam), made in the image of God, in the waters «below» (that is to say, earthly incarnation).
The exile of Adam and the quest for unity
Adam is fundamentally both «man and woman» at the same time when he turns back into himself, when he connects with Ishah (or Lilith, his «first wife», that forgotten feminine part). It is this «other side of him», which is within him, that is his inner spouse.
Yet in incarnation, Adam (the human being) is considered to be in exile. And this is where the notion of ’Eve« comes in: she is the woman placed before Adam to help him rediscover his inner Ishah and thus unite with her. The challenge of incarnation is for Adam (the human being) to rediscover his feminine principle, so that he may once again become »ONE«. This also brings an end to the separate and divisive vision of life on earth.
The Tree of Knowledge and the union of principles
This rediscovered feminine enables the sap of the Tree of Knowledge to grow, of which Adam is to become the fruit: the «I AM» reunified, fulfilled, through the inner union of his pacified feminine and masculine, in connection with the Divine, of which he is the incarnation of one facet.
The «Garden of Eden» then takes shape, in the sense of a «Garden of Delight», if one refers to the accurate translation. It is not a question of «delight» in the sense of sexuality, but rather of a state of inner wholeness, of connection to one's reunified profound essence, to the divine within oneself, to the «I AM». Here we find the image of the caduceus, the serpent, or the rising of kundalini from Eastern traditions.
The erasure of the feminine and the path of Tantra
This interpretation sheds light on the vision of our world, where it seems to me that the feminine has been drained from it: whether at a societal level (one only has to look at the place of women in our world at first glance!), or at the level of each and every one of us.
The programmes we offer in the Tantra workshops are inspired by all of this. We are passionate about sharing what makes sense to us.
Indeed, tantra is a magnificent experiential path of self-knowledge, of connection to one's feminine and masculine parts, of reconciliation and inner unity. In order to feel more ‘whole’, more alive in one's daily life, in connection with «the great all». To awaken this strength of the feminine principle lying dormant deep within each of us. So that the forgotten ’Isha« may gradually come back to life in each of us. So that the two foundational principles of the feminine and masculine, once reconciled, allow us to harmonise body, emotions and thoughts and fully embody our identity, our »I AM«.
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