Consider the spontaneous leap of consciousness that transformed our prehistoric ancestors into modern, self-aware beings. Imagine if you will, that this enigmatic event was triggered suddenly and wholly in a flash moment by means of a divine ideal being directly endowed into the collective unconscious mind. That in such a moment, we became capable of discerning the qualities of Christ eons before he would ever draw his first breath. That upon such a moment, man looked up to the stars for the very first time in history and wondered “why am I here?” Indeed the consumption of the apple may simply be the allegory to describe such an ineffable moment. Consciousness of good and evil by means of knowing ‘good’ in its ultimate form. The universe existing, the trees flowing in the wind, a stream with bright fish–all known to be good, as is the nature of good being what exists at all. Such that God made the universe and it was good. We know Christ as the ultimate personification of man in his perfect state, but consider how it was even possible that we could reckon such a thing in the face of our absurd and nihilistic universe? Yes, in this moment man was made forcibly aware of his insufficiency in the face of this new overwhelming ideal. In the light he had no choice but to avert his eyes in shame and cover what is the most part of him. This covering of this part of himself, or even simply himself, representing a level of introspective awareness hitherto unknown and incomprehensible, shattering his peace with the concept of beyond. Because you see, humans were perfect in their ignorance just as an animal is perfect in nature–incapable of neither sin nor folly. Thus he became man, brought into the reality of his eternal, sisyphean, and impossible task of achieving a spiritual state worthy of his innate perfect understanding of God. We are cursed to see the star that guides us in the darkest night. Virtue bound and entwined within the very essence of what it is to be human, yet simultaneously out of bounds entirely while we walk this plane.
The Spontaneous Evolution of Man
