The serpent told Eve that if she ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil her eyes would be open and they would be as gods knowing good and evil. We may have lost more than we think. Today we see good and evil, we experientially know good and evil, but we lost knowledge that was neither good nor evil. Today everything we know about our world is from the perspective of fallen humanity. We somehow became disconnected from the knowledge of how our world works.
Think about what your life might be like if you lost one of your senses. Your understanding of the world around you will be limited. That is how I compare our current state in the spiritual realm. We are blinded by the loss of a spiritual connection that man was created with. We don’t understand spiritual beings or how the universe is balanced. We only experience three dimensions, and we can only know four. If there are 10 dimensions we are held back by not knowing the other six. Some scientists speculate there are actually 26 dimensions. Height, width, length, and time are the four dimensions I understand. Interestingly Paul explains in Ephesians the love of Christ in dimensions.
Eph 3:17-19 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. KJV
To understand dimensions lets use letters instead of words. If you are looking at a bookshelf you can see X Y and Z. X is horizontal, Y is vertical, Z is front to back or through. Time is the point at which you are seeing the bookshelf. If you look at the bookshelf with one eye closed you are seeing it 2 dimensionally, you need your brain to translate shadows and lighting and the information from your second eye to give you depth.
The 5th dimension is an alternate reality meaning from this point in time I could either go to the store or stay home. If I choose to go to the store then the alternate reality would be if I stayed home. If, while I was at the store, a meteor hit my house, my alternate reality would have been dramatically different. Branching out from each option there continues to be fracture after fracture of what could have been. As in Back to the Future, the future changes based on the actions of the 1985 Marty and what he did in 1955.
An understanding of dimensions is not all humankind lost in the garden. We know things by our senses, however there are things that go on that elude our senses. That is not hyper dimensional, but beyond our reality. Dr Masaru Emoto’s water crystal experiments show that we cannot see behind the scenes as to what is either destroying or giving life to things. The bible tells us that the power of life and death are in the tongue, but does that include words written on paper? If this was a cartoon I’d denote good words with happy heart “vibes” moving from the written word to the object it is in front of. If I were to denote bad word “vibes” I’d use flaming arrows attacking an object. While I cannot see the vibes in reality, I can see the effect of the vibes on things like food or water. Therefore I know there is something going on that I cannot identify by my senses; I can only see the after effects.
Let’s look at that a different way. The bible says not to curse the King in your thoughts or the rich in your bed chamber because a bird of the air will take it to him. So what I say and what I think will have an effect on someone else. How is that possible? Somehow we are all connected, and the things that we think, and say have an effect on everything.
In his book The Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden explains quantum physics and how we are connected. It is a spiritual connectedness that we cannot see with our eyes but we can see the effects of. One of his interesting descriptions of our connectedness was a situation where a beloved family dog became ill with lung problems. The owner of the dog went to the doctor to get checked out although the owner felt fine and had no symptoms. The doctor found some lung problems that were the same as the dog had. As soon as the dog’s owner had surgery and healed, the dog’s lung problems healed all by itself. It seems odd to draw a connection between animals and humans. But our pets have a connection to us. What reminded me of this book was someone recently told me that she had lupus. She then pointed out that one of her dogs had lupus too. Lupus is not contagious so there has to be a reason for both to have the same disease. In particle physics, particles react differently when they are being watched, as if they know they are being watched. So there seems to be a connection, aether, a fifth element that connects us all.
Animals seem to have a wider range of perception than humans do. We have dog whistles that humans cannot hear but dogs hear and respond to. We say dogs can “smell” fear. What is that like to a dog? Are there little fearful cartoon question marks being exuded from a human to the dog’s nose? I would guess it is much like walking into a room where people had been in disagreement and we can feel the tension. Sight is another area where humans are deficient. We can only see a tiny fraction of light spectrum compared to how broad the spectrum is. Sometimes camera’s can pick up a slightly broader range than our eyes can see. This is especially true of the infra reds. If we had the ability to see everything what would our world look like? Maybe its better we don’t see it.
It is suspected that Jesus in his resurrected body existed in 11 dimensions. He walked through walls, he knew what people were thinking, he could eat, and yet people could touch him and put their fingers into his wounded hands. He was solid and non solid at the same time. He was intuitive and knew non verbal thoughts. When he was on earth in human form he seemed to know where the fish were all schooling. He had knowledge of things not seen. He could walk on the water and calm the storms. Somehow he did not sink and by words he changed the elements. By his words he could speak and people would be healed. What kind of energy moved on his words? He had inherent power and exercised authority. He didn’t use magic words. Most people would just shrug all of that off but Jesus said the works that he did we should do also and greater than these shall we do because he was going unto his father. I have not walked on water, or calmed storms. Peter did however walk on water for a short time, until he saw with his eyes the storm around him. This begs the question which was more real, the waves Peter sees or water molecules he is standing on. Maybe our ability to stand on water is more real but the distraction we are faced with is to rely on our senses for truth.
When I stand in my house I believe the floor is solid. I believe it will hold me up and not move. But the reality is that the floor is not solid and the molecules’ are moving. Molecules are composed of at least two atoms and are always in motion. They can be in motion at different rates of speed and different types of movement. Energy rises form molecular movement. Temperature is a measure of molecular movement. I can’t see the movement but the movement produces an energy so I see the result of the molecular movement without seeing the molecules. What I see with my eyes is deceptive to the reality of molecular motion. In truth the floor I stand on is no more solid then the water Jesus and Peter walked on.
Now back to Adam and Eve. The serpent told Eve that if they disobeyed they would know good and evil. Let’s ponder that for a moment. What would it be like to not know good or evil.
Gen 3:4-5 4 The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die. 5 God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil."
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
What would it be like to not judge everything we see and think according to a standard of good and evil? The first thing Adam and Eve “knew” was shame and fear. If they lived without the knowledge of fear before disobedience how were they living? They knew of death but they didn’t seem bothered by its threat, so they were not hindered by fear from eating of the tree. The book of Jubilees states that on the first day God created the bottomless pit. God knew good and evil but Adam and Eve did not. From that moment on the story of humanity has been about redemption. Now there had to be a savior to redeem us from eternal death. In order to put forth guidelines for the Israelites to keep themselves pure so that Christ could be born through their lineage, Moses gave them the commandments and the book of Leviticus. If they would live by the rules of what is good and shun what is evil they would do well.
Understanding that there is a spiritual connection throughout our world and there is more for us to learn about God’s creation keeps us hungry for more.
End Notes
Aether
Although hypotheses of the aether vary somewhat in detail they all have certain characteristics in common. Essentially aether is considered to be a physical medium occupying every point in space, including within material bodies. A second essential feature is that aether's properties give rise to the electric and magnetic phenomena and determines the propagation velocity of their effects. Therefore the speed of light and all other propagating effects are determined by the physical properties of the aether at the relevant location, analogous to the way that gaseous, liquid and solid media affect the propagation of sound waves. The aether is considered the over-all reference frame for the universe and thus velocities are all absolute relative to its rest frame. Therefore, in this view, any physical consequences of those velocities are considered as having an absolute, i. e. real effects.
