The Fall – carnal knowledge – enabled us to have our own children, but it also brought about spiritual blindness, which is represented by the ego in English (I, a closed eye when rotated by ninety degrees). We must make the progression to O, an open eye, if we are to see the people and things around us.

In between the vowels a and i in the alphabet is the vowel e. The name of Adam’s partner in Genesis is Eve, “because she was the mother of all who live” (Gen 3:20).

Now there are two coincidences, and coincidences are indicators of truth. The first is the correlation between Eve and eye (v-y is a pair of letters that look alike, one is an extension of the other). The second is the way the words eye and I sound exactly the same.

Eve is taking us in the direction of the Fall (I), but I don’t see this as a bad thing. Without carnal knowledge, without a fall into bed, we could not have children. We had to make this progression in order for the world – and then heaven – to be comprised of our own creations. The alternative was for God to create a clone army, to keep on removing ribs from Adam in order to make more humans. God knew perfectly well what would happen in Genesis, chapter 3. But it was necessary for us to co-partake in creation – after all, we are divine creatures, we bear God’s name (AM is in ADAM). And there is no doubt that children give great joy and make life worth living.

So, the Fall made it possible for us to marry and have children. But with carnal knowledge came spiritual blindness. And this is something we don’t realize. We think when our eyes are opened shortly after birth, we can see. But our physical sight is extremely limited. We see things as objects. We label them. We move them about. We trade in them. We build lines around them (walls, fences) to protect them from others. This is not sight.

And this is why the ego, I, if we rotate the word by ninety degrees, represents a closed eye: —. This explains the correlation between eye and I. The ego is a closed eye, because it is spiritually blind. And we are in this life (apart from to have children) to open our spiritual eyes and to form the letter O. O is eternity. O is an open tunnel. O is a cry of recognition. O is a sigh of repentance. It represents restoration, redemption. Do you see how all these words begin with the prefix re-? It is a return – we are restored to ourselves – but it is a return with knowledge.

We have seen how this progression from the A of creation to the I of the Fall and the O of redemption can be discerned in the question words what, why and who (how).

Let us take the name of God in Exodus, AM, and apply the same progression. AM gives I’m (self-importance). We no longer call on God, we rely on our own resources (only to discover, later on, that they are limited). When we reach the end of our tether, we make the further progression from I’m (the ego gets to be pretty boring with its repetitiveness) to om, a mantra in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. But I don’t mean that. For me, om represents the Holy Trinity: O₃ (three in One).

And if we apply the phonetic pair m-n and add final e (which is extremely common in English), we find that om gives no one. Amen-mean-name do the same – they pass through mine (acquisitiveness) to nemo (Latin for “no one”) and omen.

No one – O₁ – is God the Father, as we will see in a later chapter. So, again we call on him, just as we did by being human (the first word the human apparatus is capable of pronouncing, a combination of breath and the first vowel to emerge from the throat, the root of our word God). Or by moving away from the line and producing three symbols, A+O, that spell another name of God, Alpha and Omega.

This progression, AIO (sometimes written AIW), is inherent in language. We will see more examples.

Jonathan Dunne

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