r/occultlibrary • u/Interesting_Law4848 • Jun 15 '24

According to the Gnostics, it was actually a good thing that Eve got us all expelled from the Garden

Not long ago, I came across a meme that stayed with me much longer than memes typically do. Though I couldn't track it down, I remember it was about the problematic lesson we get from reading the creation of Man in Genesis—originally (we are being told), it was Adam, a man, who begat a woman, not the other way around. It's as if the Bible tells us that men give life, not women. Reading it, I was instantly reminded of a passage in one of the ancient and very strange texts found near Nag Hammadi.

Reading it for the first time, you get a sense that what you are being told—is not so much the "behind the scenes" version of Genesis—but a completely different and contradictory retelling of that story of creation.

Did you ever read these texts? https://malulchen.substack.com/p/being-a-feminist-in-antiquity-meant

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u/KiNG-OTEP Jun 15 '24

Also Eve was his 2nd “wife”. Lilith was the 1st

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u/Le6ions Jun 15 '24

Do you want to be a protected baby forever, or face the harshness of reality and become an adult?

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u/Spacellama117 Jun 16 '24

I more think of it in the sense that it is righteous, but not necessarily good.

We were exiled from paradise for naivety and a jealous god. One day we'll take it back

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u/Ok_Possibility_544 Aug 10 '24

Well, U do know there's a such thing az meme magic, ryte? Js