When Genius Failed

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" Genesis(1:1)

It was a good start. The master painter had just wet his brush. Shades of liquid, flowing blue and solid, granular brown covered his canvas. The foundation was laid. It was time to haul his bricks on it.

"And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good" Genesis(1:10)

"And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good" Genesis(1:12)

Brilliant!! With one circular stroke of his brush, He defined Life: a self-perpetuating system of existence.

Circle. What does a circle mean to us?

For us humans, its either one or both or all of the following: A Tit, A Gulab Jamun or Nothing. But for God, it was a theme, it was a dream and it was the meaning of life. Anything that is a part of his creation goes through its a circle which is its own. its individual circle of life. This microcircle is in turn part of a secondary circle which consitutes of millions of microcircles which interact at a primary level. And this secondary circle is a part of the tertiary circle which is the assemblage of a legion of such secondary cirlces. This complex, intricately-entwined, live mesh of circles was the essence of God's creation.

"And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good" Genesis(1:21)
"And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good"

God beamed and smiled at what he saw. He was enormously proud of what he had created. But like a true artist, who after having poured out his mind and body into his peice of work, he reckoned his creation to be a part of him. It was something that he couldnt separate himself from. But he knew that it was time to let go. It was time to cut out this rose out of his flesh. It was time to complete the circle of creation.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.And God saw that it was good." Genesis(1:26)

So all was well with the world. Adam filled himself up quite regularly with all kinds of fruits and vegetables and what not that God's garden had offered him. He discovered things by the moment. He spent his days being fascinated by the things around him and getting acquainted with the beasts and birds around him. In short, he was having a really good time rolling about in the park and God was happy for him.

As days passed by, God saw that Adam was spending more of his time throwing small rocks in ponds and watching the ripples or trying to devise newer ways to consume his fruits and vegetables and whatnot. God also saw that there was a marked difference between the wide-mouthed, gasping and gulping Adam of the earlier days and a sealed-lip, weary-eyed and sulky Adam of now. Though God was offended because of the speed with which Adam had come to be indifferent of his myriad creations, He felt sorry for him. He got back to his design table. He slashed and cut through his canvas in a frenzy. His hand moved as if it had a life of its own. He was more driven by a desire to prove to man the magnetism of His creation than by a genuine intent to cure Adam's boredom. In this frenetic urge to create His magnum opus, God crossed the limits that He had set for himself. His curves grew dangerously acute. In a madrush to surpass himself He picked up the most enticing of ingredients: skin from the ripest of fruits, scents from the most fragrant of flowers, plumage of the most beautiful of birds, ripples from the water, softness of the clouds, freshness from the dew and so on. And then, He created the Woman. Little did He know then that He had created such a dimwit who, with one foolish act, would poison the center and the essence of His circle of creation: Man. Little did He know that He was making a irreversible mistake for which He would have to regret for eternity. That was the day. Woman set her foot on Earth.

There she was standing by a tree with a flower in her hand clinging to it like an ivy. A rustle that he hadnt heard before, a scent that he hadnt smelt before, he stops midway in his stone-throwing action and looks around. God was watching too. He couldn't miss this for anything at all. Eyes and mouth react almost at the same time opening themselves to the widest possible extent and he instinctively puts the small rock in his hand into his mouth and swallows it. Feet rooted to the spot, he just stands there making loud breathing noises. God, vicariously affected, couldnt help feeling ashamed at the singularly idiotic way man was reacting to the sight of a woman though he was heartily congratulating himself for having created something that would fascinate and entice man for eternity. He thought he had solved his problem.

As time passed by, Adam and Eve got on rather well together. All other birds and beasts, to their surprise and envy, were pushed to the background. Adam spent all his time walking in the park with eve, resting under a tree with eve, listening to eve, eating with eve and so on and so forth. All this walking and talking and eating and all that, though it was nice, was making Eve a little restless for attention and adventure and then one day she wandered deep into the garden looking for A and A....

"1.Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat" (Genesis 3:5)

Not only did Eve sin, but she was not content until she had enticed Adam to also sin. We read, "…and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat" (Genesis 3: 6)
"Sin and sinners always want company" (I Peter 4: 4)

".. she saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eye.." Yeah! wasnt it? And why? Werent there fruits and trees in Eden which were equally good and pleasant to the eye? Oh, but they werent forbidden, were they? But this one was and woman desires the forbidden. She has an insatiable thirst for the proscribed. An innate will to taste the untasted. (When Eve answered the serpent) she showed that she doubted and had little faith in the word of God. All this is indicated by the etymology of the word; for Femina (Latin for "woman") comes from Fe (=faith) and Minus (=less) since she is ever weaker to hold and preserve the faith.

Well, God was piqued beyond doubt. Piqued would be a very mild word here. He was plainly ashamed for having created such vacillating, spineless, unbelieving, slavering idiot like woman. He had to make whatever amends he could because he reckoned that the posish had definitely gone beyond repair. He unleashed his wrath onto the sinner and the sinner's idiot lover by casting a curse on them which would be a burden that the world would carry until the end.

God has pronounced sentence in these words:

"Thy will shall be subject to thy husband, and he shall bear dominion over thee. Forasmuch as you have abused your former condition, and because your free will has brought yourself and mankind into the bondage of Satan, I therefore will bring you in bondage to man. For where before your obedience should have been voluntary, now it shall be by constraint and by necessity; and that because you have deceived your man, you shall therefore be no longer mistress over your own appetites, over your own will or desires. For in you there is neither reason nor discretion which are able to moderate your affections, and therefore they shall be subject to the desire of your man. He shall be lord and governor, not only over your body, but even over your appetites and will." (Genesis 3:16)

This sentence, I say, did God pronounce against Eve and her daughters, as the rest of the scriptures do evidently witness. So that no woman can ever presume to reign above man. They are both reprimanded by God, who says to Eve: “I will multiply your pains in childbirth. You shall give birth to your children in pain. You will long for your husband, but he will lord it over you.” (Genesis 3:17-19) ]

And why do you think there are more superstitious women found than men? Why do you think women are so averse and uncooperative to scientific reasoning. Its simply because they are more credulous; and since the chief aim of the devil is to corrupt faith, he attacks the female. So women are naturally more impressionable, and more ready to receive the influence of anything that they find exciting and amusing. Women have an extremely deep and purple wicked streak in their souls. For you see in Genesis xxi. how impatient and envious Sarah was of Hagar when she conceived: how jealous Rachel was of Leah because she had no children (Genesis xxx): and how Miriam (Numbers xii) murmured and spoke ill of Moses and how Martha was jealous of Mary Magdalen, because she was busy and Mary was sitting down (S. Luke x). Meaning that it is useless to consult with a woman, since there is always jealousy, that is, envy, in a wicked woman. And if women behave thus to each other, how much more will they do so to men.

"I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than to keep house with a wicked woman. All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman." Ecclesiasticus

Another dimension which adds to the vile, depraved and iniquitous nature of the woman is that female by nature is more carnal than man. Sin of flesh being the most forbidden of all sins, the female finds it particularly alluring. All evil that the female perpetrates proceeds from lust, which is in women insatiable. And it should be noted that there was a defect in the formation of the first woman, since she was formed from a bent rib, that is, a rib of the breast, which is bent as it were in a contrary direction to a man. And since through this defect she is an imperfect animal, she always deceives.

Cato says "When a woman weeps she weaves snares. And again: When a woman weeps, she labours to deceive a man. And this is shown by Samson’s wife, who coaxed him to tell her the riddle he had propounded to the Philistines, and told them the answer, and so deceived him. And it is clear in the case of the first woman that she had little faith; for when the serpent asked why they did not eat of every tree in Paradise, she answered: Of every tree, etc. —lest perchance we die. Thereby she showed that she doubted, and had little faith in the word of God."

Let us consider also her gait, speech, habit and how she dresses herself in which is vanity of vanities. There is no man in the world who studies himself so hard to please anybody or anything as even an ordinary woman studies by her vanities to please men.

Women are evil, my men, and by reason of their lacking authority or power over us, they scheme treacherously how they might entice us to themselves by means of their looks. And whomever they cannot enchant by their appearance they conquer by a stratagem. Indeed, the angel of the Lord told me and instructed me that women are more easily overcome by the spirit of promiscuity than are men. They contrive in their hearts against men, then by decking themselves out they lead men's mind astray, by a look they implant their poison, and finally in the act itself they take them captive. For a woman is not able to coerce a man overtly, but by a harlot's manner she accomplishes her villainy ... ...

.........for what else is woman but a foe to friendship, an unescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic danger, a delectable detriment, a sweet poison, a diabolic child, a snapdragon, painted with fair colours.