…contrast which comes of course from the book of genesis, from the idea that the lord god formed the world out of some clay. Adam was a clay figurine this idea is not in the same way in Hindu thought, but something deceptively like it is in Hindu…

…are in a Jewish Temple the etzer Hara, or the wayward spirit which god is supposed to have put into the soul of Adam, or in my translation, our element of irreducible rascality, where we are all basically scamps and if you haven't found that you're very…

…is the man, capital m who is common to us all, the man we all have in common, in other words the atman the self, the Adam Kadmon, the one that we all are. You know on one big cell, many tits through which milk comes so on one big cosmos, many…

…the tigris euphrates basin, what gets Split is not the creator but the creature. And you will remember that in the Garden of Eden Adam was divided in two in a sleep he went to sleep the godhead didn't go to sleep the godhead didn't enter into any…

…Adam was divided in two in a sleep he went to sleep the godhead didn't go to sleep the godhead didn't enter into any dream, but Adam was put to sleep and he was divided and became man and woman. So in this and also, Adam was made out of the dust…

…didn't enter into any dream, but Adam was put to sleep and he was divided and became man and woman. So in this and also, Adam was made out of the dust of the ground. He wasn't something which god played, he was something which god created. And so the…

…love and that also means that love, that god is knowledge, because knowledge and love are originally words having much the same meaning and Adam knew his wife. As the King James translates it, to know, in other words is to make love, and we say to make…

…charity, and therefore needs the assistance of god technically called grace, in order to do it. Now what then was the fall of man? Adam first of all you must than men with a small I. Mankind or humanity is what in Greek Philosophy at the time when the…

…say: this is like making love to a plastic woman. I want a Surprise. And so therefore in Hebrew Theology, when god created Adam, he put into the heart of Adam Something called the yetzer Hara, which means the wayward spirit, in other words that something…

…woman. I want a Surprise. And so therefore in Hebrew Theology, when god created Adam, he put into the heart of Adam Something called the yetzer Hara, which means the wayward spirit, in other words that something unpredictable would happen, the spirit of…

…made us in rather the same way that a potter makes pots or a carpenter makes tables. In the book of genesis the creation of Adam is described in terms of ceramics, because the lord god fashions a figurine out of the dust of the earth, that is to say…

…eternally separate from the creation, and I explained it by the analogy which indeed is the Biblical Analogy of manufacture, pottery specifically Adam is formed out of the clay, and so, whereas the Hindu will say tat tvam asi, that art thou where that…

…are in any way blameworthy they can always blame their parents for getting them into the mess and all it goes away back to Adam and eve, and you know what happened then. When the trouble started, god came around and said to Adam man what have you…

…all it goes away back to Adam and eve, and you know what happened then. When the trouble started, god came around and said to Adam man what have you done? And he said: this woman that thou gavest me, she tempted me and I did eat. And then god went…

…they can't find them because they're dead. And so you can go passing the buck way back and you get to some characters called Adam and eve and when they were told they were responsible, they passed it again to the snake. And when that snake was asked…

…the big bang. It pushed us you pushed me. So that's the story of the Garden of Eden. Because when the lord god said to Adam: Hast thou eaten of the fruit of the tree whereof I told thee thou should not eat, instead of saying yeah boss, he said: this…

…there is honor among thieves. We're all thieves let's Face it. There is a doctrine in the Jewish Religion that when god created Adam, he put into him a spirit which is called the yetzirah, and that means the wayward spirit, or what I call the element…

…same as spirit, and spirit means breath. In the book of genesis, when god had made the clay figurine that was later to be Adam, he breathed the breath of life into its nostrils and it became alive because life is breath. But now if you hold your…

…culture as a whole is what promotes the survival of mankind. Now in most translations of the book of genesis it is said that Adam and eve fell from the state of grace because they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Actually this…

…I was brought up it's my mother's fault and then of course it was her mother's fault and so on back I suppose to Adam and eve. Of course Christianity has always held that man's freedom is imperfect just because the problem does go back to Adam and eve…

…to Adam and eve. Of course Christianity has always held that man's freedom is imperfect just because the problem does go back to Adam and eve that he is as the theologian says fallen and so his freedom of action is impaired, he retains perhaps some…

…Framework that we are selfish, somehow congenitally, that due to something that happened a long time ago whether it was literally Adam and eve or not nevermind but nevertheless we are congenitally selfish. And before the time of Christ it was really…

…these things. And they believe that god implanted in the human heart at the beginning of creation, when he very first made Adam, Something called the yetzarah or the wayward spirit, because he knew that if that wasn't there, human life would be insipid…

…thing. We imagine ourselves to be results of the past and we're always passing the buck over our shoulders like when god approached Adam in the Garden of Eden and said: hast thou eaten of the fruit of the tree whereof I told thee thou shouldst not…

…Adam in the Garden of Eden and said: hast thou eaten of the fruit of the tree whereof I told thee thou shouldst not eat? And Adam said: this woman thou gavest me she tempted me and I did eat. And god looked at eve and said: hast thou eaten of the…

…or a carpenter a table. And we get that, of course right from the book of genesis, where it is said that god created Adam Out of clay and then breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. So it is fundamental to the common sense of all western…

…can be predicted, you see and so controlled. We have the ambition to be god. And in the genesis myth, where the lord god tells Adam that he must not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, knowledge of good and evil the Hebrew words for good and…

…like the subjects or even the slaves of a King, because they do not contain the divine essence, with the possible exception of Adam, the man who does have the ruach adonai breathed into him and so that when he dies, although his body returns to the…

…love of woman is the great snare. This is interestingly a doctrine invented by men and it goes back to the words of Adam: the woman that thou gavest me, she tempted me and I did eat her. Now in the development of Christian Theology, from approximately…

…since the grandparents are dead we can't get at them and in any case supposing we could, we would pass the whole blame back to Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden and they say they started all this mess. But then eve would say no, the serpent tempted…

…to nature: look, you submit I know how you ought to be run and I'm going to take charge that is the moment of hybris where Adam eats the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that is to say of technical knowledge, and tries to be god to the world and god…

…is stuff and the other of which is form. This is a myth based on a model of the world which is fundamentally ceramic. God formed Adam Out of the dust of the ground, and so there is a stuff and so there are forms engraved in it or imposed on it or…

…was I made? As if you know you were somehow put together. But that goes back to the imagery of genesis, where god creates Adam and makes a clay figurine and then he breathes the breath of life into the nostrils of this figurine and it comes to life.…

…all these things. And haven't you heard the story about the yetzer harah that according to Jewish Theology, the lord god implanted in Adam at the beginning of time a thing called the yetzer harah it means the wayward spirit. I call it the element of…

…of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. That was the one sure way of getting it eaten. But, of course when the lord god accused Adam and said: you've been eating of that tree I told you not to eat. And he passed the buck to eve and said: this woman…

…environment, because of family conditioning, because of his mother, and there's no end to that. We take that all straight back to Adam and eve and therefore responsibility is evaded because it was in the first place limited. We think, you see that. The…

…contrast which comes of course from the book of genesis from the idea that the lord god formed the world out of some clay Adam was a clay figurine. This idea is not in the same way in Hindu thought, but something deceptively like it is in Hindu…

…made us in rather the same way that a potter makes pots or a carpenter makes tables. In the book of genesis, the creation of Adam is described in terms of ceramics, because the lord god fashions a figurine out of the dust of the earth that is to say…

…the other hand according to our scholars, the Jews were historically minded because they remembered the story of their descent from Adam and Abraham, the great event of the liberation from Egypt and then the triumphant reign of King David. And then things…

…since the grandparents are dead we can't get at them and in any case supposing we could we would pass the whole blame back to Adam and eve in the Garden of Eden and they say they started all this mess but then eve would say no, the serpent tempted…

…same as spirit, and spirit means breath. In the book of genesis when god had made the clay figurine that was later to be Adam, he breathed the breath of life into its nostrils and it became alive because life is breath. But now if you hold your breath…

…be made of something, because we still think with aristotle's common sense or with the imagery of the book of genesis, where god made Adam Out of the clay. In other words he made a clay figurine and breathed breath into it and it became alive. And so…

…analysis even here, but only just enough to illustrate the ways of thinking in diverse spheres. In the Garden of Eden, Adam saw the animals before he named them. In the traditional educational system children named the animals before they saw them. But…

…the other hand according to our scholars, the Jews were historically minded because they remembered the story of their descent from Adam and Abraham, the great event of the liberation from Egypt and then the triumphant reign of King David. And then things…

…know and therefore they made me neurotic. And their fathers and mothers were neurotic and made them neurotic and so it goes back to Adam and eve and you remember what happened in the Garden of Eden. God set a trap by saying there is that specific tree…

…anything about it. But by drawing attention to it in this way it was obvious they were going to eat it. So when he saw Adam looking guilty and he said: Adam, Hast thou eaten of the fruit of the tree whereof I told thee thou shouldst not eat? And he…

…attention to it in this way it was obvious they were going to eat it. So when he saw Adam looking guilty and he said: Adam, Hast thou eaten of the fruit of the tree whereof I told thee thou shouldst not eat? And he said: the woman you gave me,…

…be no fun in that because there would be no surprises. So it is the Hebrew Theology that god put into the heart of Adam at the creation a thing called the yetz Hara, which means the wayward spirit, just the kind of little just like when you make…

…you put some salt in it you don't want the whole stew to be salt but just a touch see. So god, in creating Adam, put just a touch of wickedness in it so that something surprising and different would happen, which god would not be able to…

…look back over their shoulder and say well it was our parents. Everybody passes the buck to the past until it gets back to Adam and eve. And you know what happened there. They passed the buck, too, to the serpent. And god looked at the serpent. He…

…Theology is called the yetzer harah. This word in Hebrew means the wayward spirit and it, according to Hebrew Theology when god created Adam in the beginning of time, he put in his heart the yetzer harah, and that was in other words a predisposition to…

…beginning it speaks what yakuzawa called the natural language and he says that man at his fall, talking about the fall of Adam, Lost the natural language. And the natural language is understood by birds and beasts because they speak it. Because a lot of…

…peace and create evil. I, the lord do all these things. And so hebrews believe that god put into the heart of Adam Something called the yetzer Hara, which is the spirit of waywardness, which I translate as the element of irreducible rascality that is…

…just put a pinch, and god put a pinch of waywardness, of disobedience, of unpredictability and therefore of evil in the heart of Adam. And that is the reason why Jews have a very subtle, itchy sense of humor is that they recognize this. Christianity on…

…means the one who is of divine nature, son of god and son of man means the essentially human, the man, the second Adam, the regenerate Adam. But he had a terrible time you see, expressing these ideas, because if you are brought up in a culture…

…who is of divine nature, son of god and son of man means the essentially human, the man, the second Adam, the regenerate Adam. But he had a terrible time you see, expressing these ideas, because if you are brought up in a culture where the prevailing…

…the potter imposes his will on it and makes it become whatever he wants. And so in the book of genesis the lord god creates Adam Out of the dust of the earth in other words he makes a clay figurine and then he breathes into it and it becomes alive,…

…most important of which is the knowledge of time. You know the myth of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man that when Adam and eve had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge, death came into the world. Why it wasn't that there wasn't death before…

…the parents say: I know we're mixed up but that was the fault of our parents. And it all goes back to a guy called Adam and he blamed it on eve and she blamed it on the serpent. And god said about the serpent, I'm not responsible for the serpent,…

…pot or the sculptured or the modelled figure, for as you know it is said in the book of genesis that the lord god created Adam Out of the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. And so our language, our poetry is full…

…the world. But in the book of genesis it is not the godhead who splits, it is man, the creature, who is Split into Adam and then into eve. But thus in the eastern world we have the dramatic view in India in particular, and although it's interesting to…

…so you see you pass the buck back back back, back back just as in the story of genesis in the Garden of Eden, when Adam was accused of having something wrong with him, and the lord god saw him after eating the fruit. He said: this woman that thou…

…So in Hebrew Theology, incidentally, that there is a thing called the yetzer harah. And in the beginning of time when god created Adam, he implanted in him the yetzer harah and the yetzer harah means the wayward spirit. He put something funny in man, so…

…He put something funny in man, so that man would be a little odd. And it was a result of the yetzer harah that Adam was tempted by eve, who was tempted by the serpent to eat that famous fruit. But the Hebrew believes that everything that god created…

…do they're obeying. You see that's a double bind. Say to somebody disobey me but god was much more subtle than that. He didn't tell Adam to disobey him, he told him to obey but subtly he put this yetzer harah thing in like that so that god would say,…

…because my mother dropped me and she dropped me because she was neurotic because her mother dropped her. And away we go back to Adam and eve or to a disappearing monkey or something we never get at it. But in this way you're faced with it you're doing…

…the potter imposes his will on it and makes it become whatever he wants. And so in the book of genesis the lord god creates Adam Out of the dust of the earth. In other words he makes a clay figurine and then he breathes into it and it becomes alive,…

…same as spirit, and spirit means breath. In the book of genesis, when god had made the clay figurine that was later to be Adam, he breathed the breath of life into its nostrils and it became alive, because life is breath. But now, if you hold your…

…are in a Jewish Temple, the yetzer Hara, or the wayward spirit which god is supposed to have put into the soul of Adam, or in my translation, our element of irreducible rascality. Where we are all basically scams, and if you haven't found that you're…

…of this by the esoteric Jews, the kabbalists and the hasidim. The ruach is the breath which god breathed into the nostrils of Adam. It is differing from the soul the individual soul in Hebrew is called nefesh, and so we translate the ruach into the…

…artifacts to a maker. We have, of course a ceramic model of the universe because it's said in the book of genesis that god made Adam Out of the dust of the ground. In other words he made a clay figurine and then blew the breath of life into the…

…the love of woman is the great snare. This is incidentally a doctrine invented by men and it goes back to the words of Adam the woman that thou gavest me she tempted me and I did eat. Now in the development of Christian Theology from approximately the…

…can be predicted. You see and so controlled, we have the ambition to be god, and in the genesis myth, where the lord god tells Adam that he must not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, knowledge of good and evil the Hebrew words for good and…

…or a carpenter a table. And we get that, of course right from the book of genesis, where it is said that god created Adam Out of clay and then breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. So it is fundamental to the common sense of all western…