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| Marilyn Monroe in Laurel Canyon in 1953. Photo by Milton Green. |
Marilyn Monroe as many already know holds my admiration and my fascination with how and possibly why she was so compelling a beauty. Could it be a combination of pathos, and delicate humor that played against the racial hatred of the time she was alive that crossed over the racial divide held fast by terror of the repercussions of crossing over to talk to, at the least, and at the most to seek a permanent relationship with this white woman, with such a one that grips my senses?
Too many words. She was fine, playful and was the sexual being she could not hide from. Her influence plays its part every year since she died of whatever took her life. Was it too much attention, sadness, lack of what she needed, or the abuse of being Marilyn Monroe or being the wife of white men, and idolized by men, period?
In the 1950's when Marilyn Monroe was alive the Iron Curtain held West Germans prisoner as well as East Germans hostage to an ideology not fit for a good life. The wall Trump wants to put up entombs white Americans in their paranoia, and their deep fears they vehemently deny exist in their thinking and decision making. Marilyn Monroe, like countless white women of her time, before her time, and long after are bound by the social mores their white men insist upon them to stay on this side of their opinion of people, and stand in this, and behave thus because you are better than them!
"Look at Eve!" they shout at their rebelling wives. But what they cannot conceive is Eve was awake before Adam and had a grasp on everything he missed in his prior romps around the garden of Eden.
Let's move out of the volatile subject of race because white men largely incapable of seeing outside that realm have already blanked out. If we do that they get tricked into thinking we are getting down to business now, and they don't have to multi-task and think about historical stuff, ramifications of actions, karma, or weigh their souls against the dynamic they created. That being said do men need to move out of the way? Do we? Are we in the way of what we see, out of touch with what we should know and unaware of what women know and understand about what is around us, and within them?
Adam basically cut himself off from a set of truths he needed to be the man for Eve's well being. Well, maybe that wasn't fair. God created Adam. He was alone in the garden. He had access to everything he needed except knowledge outside of an immediate state. He knew enough to name animals. That meant he was in touch intuitively, but that wasn't enough as Eve's presence showed him. The story goes that God felt Adam's loneliness. Adam probably was watching animals couple and copulate. He could not have known what they were doing, but his instinctual knowledge triggered a response within that felt indescribable. Its presence was pressure and to releave that pressure Adam could not articulate so, mercifully God put him to sleep and
out of his body to remove a rib and created Eve.
Now, old Hebrew stories speak of Adam's first wife, Lilith. In hush tones of voice throughout the ages her name was whispered. Intuitive souls, like mine, felt something forbidding about Lilith and sequestered her somewhere in the shadows of a forbidden forest, or a dark cold cave beneath the earth before we discovered the Earth is our Mother! She wasn't compliant. She was strong and opinionated. She must have been. That was the tone of voice used by the few who talked about her legacy. What condemned her was her fierceness, lack of fear and a deep power to prevail against elements Adam was intellectually incapable of hearing, and understanding because he was undeveloped in ways only a woman's touch, a woman's powers from her womb could stimulate into action, and powers to develop him into the fullness of man!
What Adam did not have was creative energies in his employ. Esteem he had. Knowing? Well, let me stop myself there. Life was not his ally. In this era of spiritual development the Hebrew people had not themselves evolved beyond this level of consciousness, if the Hebrew story is indicative of a time in their evolutionary history. Accepting that let's say Adam was simple as a man in the embryonic stage of growth between formlessness and form somewhere and not criticize him but try and understand our individual level of consciousness. After all, if this creation story is yours by adoption then we are joining ourselves in a growth process parallel with Adam, if we are men.
Now, Eve as the second wife had judgment coming towards her because she did not conform to the order of Hebrew man's estimation of women's place. It seems this way in retrospect, but inside of their present she was in order. When she was created Adam was asleep. He had never had the weight of responsibility, nor the release after sex so we cannot say how long he slept, but from a sacred woman's point of view did he give her the time she needed to explore the garden in depth with attention to details he did not consider and discover the layers concealed from Adam's perception, but open to her in the life of the garden? If so, then here is where the story becomes mean because when he awoke she was his surprise and he was baffled with no idea of what to do, or say or how to compose himself and he could not go into an arena within himself to pull up inner strength because life for him did not require it.
It gets mean because this is where men have taken it upon themselves to judge Eve condemning her for the curse of work, toil, hard work without end because she gave the fruit to Adam to eat and become like gods! The truth is the story from her perspective. When Adam woke up she saw his erection and sat on it. This awakened and woke Adam up: the strongest creative energy on the planet!
The first awakening of Adam was when God created him. The second awakening was when Eve had him enter her body! His exploration of Eve was the most powerful testament of Life. The whole of Creation was stirred within him and Eve was able to unveil many things previously held away from Adam because he was both unprepared and not initiated from within for the deeper mysteries of Creation within the body of, the punany of Eve. Adam learned before and during his orgasms birth comes through the womb at every level of Creation. The female copulation with the male within the Creator is best told as a child's story using math.
The Creatress is Mother. She has the womb that births all of existence. Within her instantaneous being was born as The Creator who is Father. He is the dividing of the Zero. From this copulation come all numbers with their meanings and significant powers to create. This she bore into Adam's being. From him came no resistance. How could he? What man can resist in this embrace giving his virginity to the right woman? All Adam could do was submit and awaken to receive in the giving up of his seed.
Now, in your critical mind you want to get analytical and say this mathematical equation is not of the Hebrew mystery teachings. It isn't but it is because these things are universal within all Life, therefore the strict boundaries of law in religion flounder about in this instance because they stump and stop growth, which is the lesson of all I have shared, and speculated about. Adam lived before religion and church and synagogue. His advantage was that and the fact that the sacredness churches pretend to have lives in each fold and flower and tingling sensation within Creation! So, his sexual experiences penetrated him into and with the deep mysteries of the garden, hence all of the universe.
The Bible says Jesus was the second Adam. Leaving that alone I will only say that the woman who penetrated Jesus opened up the same and different things within him. His wife, as required by Rabbinical law, equaled the status of Eve's capacity to penetrate her man with the energies of Creation awakening from slumber that which was mighty and slept within him! By this stage of human history the adherents to the release of Adam's seed within Eve have slept with the idea that holy men do not and are better off without women in their beds as help mates and co-creators in the energy work their missions in life are. The way this leads back to Marilyn Monroe is obvious and easy to connect to these stories.
For the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe is the vision, the exquisite, the ideal preference of what is envisioned to be the social persuasion of a people who need to believe that history should be written with them as the progenitors of humanity when they are not, not with their recessive genes. Pliant, easy on the weakest sense of manhood the image of Marilyn Monroe was left, by appearance, for all men to have access to, but all men weren't to afford her, or capable to gently attend to her secret tears. She was sexually available because she appeared naïve and complaint because she could be put in her place by force of words, or anger as her husbands so easily did with cruelty. This has been a socially accepted practice by many cultures and she submitted to it with regret in silence. In a nut shell this is how Eve is presented to us in Sunday school, and enforced daily by numerous means and examples.
This is why Lilith was not able to be Adam's wife. She couldn't put up with it. So, a question comes up asking if the standard understanding of Eve is accepted and is opposed to strength and spiritual powers women are imbued with from the Most High what value do women have? Perhaps the answer is in the dismissive theology of Eve being the weaker vessel made weak by not telling the creation story from her perspective. Is this a good place to stop? No. This is a good place to begin to reexamine the value of what we believe and reexamine the structures we live by as men and as women, of marriage and the social construct of race white people have created to raise themselves above morality as they took apart the African spirituality they interpreted as a means of acquisition of power and resources from the Earth they cannot see as Mother.
Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 8, 2017
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| Maat Petrova in paradise. (2014) |
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| Maat Petrova's mystical self. |
