“Why don’t you just pair ‘em up in threes?” ~ Yogi Berra

 

Interestingly enough, this is exactly what God (YHWH) would have done in the Beginning – had the Elohim not interfered and made their creation (including humanity – the creation in which we currently reside) incomplete. The evidence for this is seen in the way humanity is still primarily behaving like a virus on the planet – spreading rapidly, depleting all natural resources, warring with one another, and oppressing &/or murdering all other life-forms (which is exactly what the Elohim commended humankind to do when they told us to “have dominion” over the Earth in Genesis 1:26 and then to “be fruitful & multiply” in Genesis 9:7, as the ancient Hebrew of these phrases more accurately reads “authoritatively possess” and “multiply in swarms” – see weyirdu Strong’s #7287, along with urebu sirsu Strong’s #7235 & #8317 ), and the evidence for this is seen in the ancient Hebrew of the Bible itself …

 

Concisely stated, in the first chapter of Genesis, we see the Elohim (translated incorrectly as “God” in most Bibles) presiding over the first creation mentioned therein. And, seeing as how whole creations were always represented by the number three in Judaic thought at the time Genesis was written, it is no surprise that the first Creation happened in a series of three’s – light coming from waters & darkness on Day 1, the waters above being separated from the waters below by the “dome” of the “sky” on Day 2, vegetation in general & plants yielding seeds & tress bearing fruits coming forth on Day 3, the Sun & the Moon and the stars shining forth on Day 4, larger marine animals & fish & birds coming into being on Day 5, and finally wild animals & domesticated animals & all “ground crawlers” entering the scene on Day 6 (see Genesis 1:1-25) … None of these trinities were directly created by the Elohim, but rather were all allowed to come forth from something else, and everything that came forth was part of its own complete triad.

And then the Elohim decided to create something by themselves – humankind.  And instead of creating us whole & complete in our own triad, they – being the incomplete, “fallen” spiritual beings that they themselves were – created us incomplete as well; created us in their image; created us as either anatomically male or anatomically female (see Genesis 1:26-27) …

And this flagrant imperfection gave rise to a level of catastrophic overpopulation & brutal violence very similar to what we ourselves are experiencing today, which is why the Elohim then “utterly destroyed [commonly mistranslated as “finished” – see “waykal“, Strong’s #6515] all that they had made” on the seventh day – which then paved the way for God-aligned Elohim (translated as “LORD God” in most Bibles) to then create a whole, gender-neutral human (the “ha’adam” of Strong’s #120) to tend a peaceful Garden in the subsequent Creation seen in Genesis 2.

 

Yes, it is true that these whole humans – again, thanks to the interventions of the Elohim) also fell into incompleteness and proceeded to create the challengingly barbaric mess in which we are all living today (assuming the tale is more than merely metaphorical, of course), and yet it remains ever possible for us to amend their failings – to rise above the temptations of the Elohim to dominate and defend and attack and abuse, and choose to peacefully tend our own section of The Garden instead – in essence to “pair ourselves up in threes”: to pair the past & the future with an immersion into the Here&Now, … to pair our culture and our conscience with a courage that injects the latter into the former, … to pair every stranger & every enemy with every Soulmate (by treating the formers like the latter) – essentially to actively pair “self” & “other” with LOVE.

 

Amen … Let it finally be so.

 

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