The story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Paradise of Eden or the "Original Sin" is no doubt the most well known story of all times. While it is universally accepted that their expulsion was on account of the disobedience to God's word, a deeper scrutiny unravels an altogether different message, a coded message.
Recall the picture. It shows the first male and first female standing under a tree, one on each side. Sometimes they are shown holding the forbidden fruit, while satan is shown to be present in form of a snake to lure them. The sanke is shown coming down the tree. The fruit which was their folly, their fall from the divine to the humane, from the immortal to the mortal, from bliss to pain, hunger, thirst and so on.
Now let us try a different view. Let us recall the oriental knowledge of 'Kundalini'. The kundalini is the immense untapped energy, shown as a coiled snake, which when unlocked and channelized to the highest 'chakra', opens the door of divinity for the humans. The door to bliss and immortality.
There are said to be three channels of energy, 'Ida', 'Pingala' and 'Sushumna'. Ida starting on left side is the feminine, Pingala on the right side is the masculine, and sushumna is the middle path to the divinity.
So, to summarize, the energy of the snake when taken upwards through the middle path of sushumna makes a human divine.
In my post on The interpretation of the form of Shiva that we worship is also shown in this light.
The same message is being given in the story of Adam and Eve in the reverse way. Here also a male and female on sides of a tree, which symbolizes the spinal cord holding the tree like brain, while a snake is shown coming down. The message is the downward movement of the energy of kundalini metamorphosing the divine to the human.
So, the Oriental says that the Rise of the snake( kundalini) gives the divine knowledge while,
The biblical story gives the same message in the reverse way, that the coming down of the snkae locks the divine knowledge and subjects the immortal blissful divine to humanity and the perils of hunger, lust, mortality and sorrow.
A wonderful example of the unity of the most guarded knowledge!
P.S. - 'Caduceus' is the symbol of the medical profession world over. It is said to be the staff held by greek god 'Hermes'. Hermes was also said to be first teacher of the Alchemy. Now, take a look at caduceus, which seems to be telling the same story symbolically. More on this later.
