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The mystery is that religion is but a tool to control the masses. Knowledge (or wisdom) is their only god, through which man himself will become god. The snake and the dragon are both symbols of wisdom. Lucifer is a personification of the symbol. It was Lucifer who tempted Eve to entice Adam to eat of the tree of knowledge and thus free man from the bonds of ignorance. The WORSHIP (a lot different from STUDY) of knowledge, science, or technology is Satanism in its purest form, its secret symbol is the all-seeing eye in the pyramid. Bill Cooper, Secret Societies/New World Order
For the religion of the Mystery Schools they believe that man was held prisoner in the Garden of Eden by an unjust and vindictive God. And that man was not told by this unjust and vindictive God that he could have the same powers. And man was set free from the bonds of ignorance by Lucifer ... And that through the gift of intellect man himself will become God. Bill Cooper
The implication is overwhelming that even the Bible infers that before Adam And Eve there are already other creatures on the Earth, other humans on the Earth ... Where were these people that Cain were concerned about? Bill Cooper
Quite a lot of people are upset that the findings of evolutionary science don’t coincide with what is written in Genesis. And there are people who think Genesis should be taken literally. David Attenborough, interview Horizon: A War on Science, BBC 2006
A kind of conjuring trick of taking a rib out of a man’s side in a trance. David Attenborough, televised interview
All too many preachers, while agreeing that evolution is true and Adam and Eve never existed, will then blithely go into the pulpit and make some moral or theological point about Adam and Eve in their sermons without once mentioning that, of course, Adam and Eve never actually existed! Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth pp7-8
But surely Adam
can not be excusde,
Her fault though great,
yet hee was most too blame;
What weakness offerd
Strength might have refusde,
Being Lord of all,
the greater was his shame. Emilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 1611
When Adam day by day
Woke up in Paradise,
He always used to say
‘Oh, this is very nice.’
But Eve from scenes of bliss
Transported him for life,
The more I think of this
The more I beat my wife. A E Housman, Occasional Poem
Europa is Eve: she ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; she got enlightened. Henrik Palmgren, lecture Bath February 2010, ‘The Hidden Roots of the European Union’
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935
Adam was not human – this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden. Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. ibid.
Where was the creature Adam or man formed? ... The Bible doesn’t say God created man in the Garden of Eden. It says Genesis 2:8, And the Lord God planted a Garden eastward of Eden and there he put the man he had formed. Jordan Maxwell, Forbidden Knowledge
The correct transliteration behind the story of Adam and Eve is that mankind was deceived in prehistory by a shape-shifting reptilian creature. Chris Everard, Secret Space II
The mysterious first wife of Adam. Two texts excluded from the Bible tell her story in detail. The first is called the Zohar also known as the Book of Splendour, probably written in the thirteenth century. The other called the Alphabet of Ben Sira is a collection of writings compiled in the Middle Ages. Though both are medieval they are said to rest on traditions dating back into antiquity. According to these traditions Lilith was Adam’s first wife created before Eve. Banned From the Bible: Enigmas of the Old Testament, Blaze 2008
Cast out from the Garden, Lilith became an evil spirit doomed to lose a hundred of her own off-spring each day as punishment for her defiance. ibid.
This reference to Lilith as a demon provides a clue to the origin of the text. Lilith herself appears to be monstrous creature dating from prehistoric times. Carvings thought to betray her as such have been found in Egypt, Sumeria, Babylonia and Greece. ibid.
Eve was Satan’s bait, poison for men’s soul. Peter Damien, Italian cardinal
At the very beginning it wasn’t just Adam who was created from the dust of the ground. Adam and his mate, his partner Lilith, were co-created from the same dust, the same ground at the same time, separate and equal. Unfortunately, Adam didn’t quite see it that way. And the time came when he began to insist that Lilith be subservient to him. ‘Lie beneath me, woman,’ he said. She refused. Kenneth Hanson, author Secrets of the Lost Bible
There’s reference to her in an ancient Babylonian relief sculpture that pictures a woman with bird talons flanked by owls ... The Hebrew word Lila means night. Kenneth Hanson
The reason Lilith was rejected as Adam’s wife was because she insisted on equality. Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles
Stories about a Lilith-type character always existed from the first fire-sides. Lilith takes the mythological space of the evil woman; which is a space that exists in almost every series of mythologies – part of it is the discomfort with sexuality; and part of it is the human imagination creating devils, demons, all sorts of difficulties to explain evil in the world. Rabbi David Wolpe
What made in particular male religious leaders so uncomfortable about Lilith was that she was associated with seduction; and also she was associated with full equality. Rabbi David Wolpe
Semitic legend describes Lilith as having a ‘base’ nature and a taste for biting Adam and drinking his blood. She had refused to submit to Adam’s authority ... Lilith has become a symbol to many feminists of the independent woman who refuses to submit to the control of men ... She is Death, and this cannot be ignored when working with her magically. Aleister Crowley, The Invocation of Lilith
She [Lilith] rides astride the Beast ... In her right she holds aloft the cup, the Holy Grail aflame with love and death. Aleister Crowley
In modern Luciferianism Lilith is considered a consort and/or an aspect of Lucifer, and is identified with the figure of Babylon ... When she and Lucifer mate, they form an androgynous being called Baphomet, or the goat of Mendes, also known in Luciferianism as the God of Witches. The Church of Lucifer
Lilith forms the Luciferian trinity, composed of her, Samael and Cain. Likewise, she is said to have been Cain’s actual mother. Black Witchcraft: The Foundations of the Luciferian Path
I believe there was a literal garden. And a literal Adam. And a literal Eve. So it’s very real to me. And part of ancient history. Vinny Commons
Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death unto the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden. John Milton, Paradise Lost 1:1-4
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind. ibid. 1:34
So clomb this first grand thief into God’s fold:
So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.
Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life,
The middle tree and highest there that grew,
Sat like a cormorant. ibid. 1:192
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,
Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind
Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true,
If true, here only. ibid. 1:248
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. ibid. 1:256
For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace,
He for God’s only, she for God in him. ibid. 1:297