imagine the garden of eden as the primal state of onenessa harmonious, undivided existence, much like the tao or the undifferentiated unity before creation. adam and eve, before the fall, represent this singularity. adam, created from the dust of the earth, contains within him both the masculine and feminine potentialhe is whole, like the yin and yang symbol, where the dark contains light and the light contains darkness. but then, from within adam, god creates eve, not as a separate entity, but as the extraction of one half of this whole, an act that mirrors the birth of duality in the universe.
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