Canning Apples |
I have been listening to “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville for
the past few days. It is such a
humorous book with a lot of deep meaning. It is also surprisingly filled with several homoerotic scenes like
the following relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg.
“We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so
chilly out of doors; indeed out of bedclothes too, seeing that there was no
fire in the room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth,
some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that
is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter
yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then
you cannot be said to be comfortable any more”.
I was in the process of canning apples while listening to
this scene and what caught me was the part about contrast and how nothing
exists in itself. I was reminded of duality and how the symbolism in the Garden
of Eden and how it is about taking us out of our animal nature and into the
world of duality. Everything exists in a contrast it is true that nothing
exists in itself. There is something and nothing, in and out, black and white,
good and evil. By duality and contrast is how we think as humans.
I like the Garden of Eden myth. It is a story which takes
place in the heavens as a celestial myth involving the serpent, Hydra, and
Virgo… “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.” From a symbolic perspective, the casting out of the garden was
the best thing to have ever happened to humanity because it meant we were no
longer animals without a sense of good and evil. When Eve ate the fruit it
opened the eyes of humanity to right and wrong. I never understand why people think
the Garden of Eden was a happy place. People who believe that should read the
text a little more carefully because there isn’t any mention of emotion or
wisdom until after the “forbidden fruit” is eaten. There was no joy because
there was no sadness. There wasn’t awareness of the preciousness of life
because death didn’t exist. It is an allegory about what brought us into the
world of consciousness and into the experience of life, joy and truth.
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