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VIRGO WHY EVE WAS TEMPTED
If we turn back the pages of the Bible to the time when man first appeared on earth we find him inhabiting a garden. One whole 30 degree section of the zodiac, where the Sun may be found from August 22/23 to September 22/23, was set aside by those who anciently studied the stars as representing just such a garden, and as having an influence over the fruit of the trees and the grain of the fields. It is the harvest sign, Virgo.
When the Sun moves out of this garden sign into Libra it will be in the cold half of the year, when the nights are longer than the days. As Virgo adjoins, but is not one of, the winter sings, when the Sun is in the harvest sign quite appropriately may be termed the cool of the day.
The sign Virgo has rule not merely over gardens but over labor and harvests of all kinds. Therefore, when Adam and the woman who was called Eve because she was the mother of all living, were thrust from the parental environment to shift for themselves, it was said that in order to live they must till the fields and raise crops, not all of which would be wheat, as thorns and thistles are also mentioned. Furthermore, to keep warm they had to make clothing.
All of these things required just such labor as the zodiacal sign rules; and people still sweat to get the bread they eat; such bread as is signified by the ears of wheat held in celestial Virgo’s hand.
From what is said in the third chapter of Genesis, it seems that before man partook of the fruit which Eve offered him he was unable to distinguish good from evil. This same fruit is characteristic of this section of the sky, for Virgo, more than any other sign, confers the ability to discriminate. In fact, the key-phrase for the sign is, I Analyze.
It was quite in character, therefore, that Eve should discuss the merits of the tree with the serpent, or with anyone else who would talk with her about it. She wanted to know all there was to know about the tree and about everything else. And after talking it over with the serpent she decided that the tree of knowledge was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and to be desired as making one wise.
The implication is plain that she decided knowledge is worth all it costs. She paid the price, but she acquired that which Virgo most desires; for after they had eaten, the Lord God said, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.”
There are many things that man inherits, many things that come as gifts without cost, but knowledge is not one of them. No one can be given knowledge; it must be acquired. And the only method of acquiring it is through a process similar to that which Adam and Eve and their offspring followed after eating of the so-called forbidden fruit. That is, through a wide variety of contrasting experiences.
There is but one basis for consciousness, and that is the perception of relations. Whenever the mind, or soul, is unaware of relations it is in a state of coma.
The soul before its incarnation on the physical plane is depicted as Adam, without knowledge or responsibility, and, therefore, in a state bordering on unconsciousness. If it was to acquire that wisdom expressed in the Bible, “And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil,” it had to have a broad basis of experience upon which to build. The entrance into physical conditions gave it the opportunity for such acquisition.
Consequently, the answer is given to the frequently asked question why man must undergo incarnation in physical form, must work and struggle, must have pain and hardship, and go through other experiences. Without such experiences he could not acquire the knowledge and power which enables him to participate in divine attributes. Such participation is clearly set forth in the Bible when it states that man was made in the image of God.
Virgo is an earthy sign, and to those who understand the stellar doctrine, the Sun’s entrance into this sign symbolizes the descent of the soul into matter. Mother Earth is the place of the soul’s gestation; and that after the preparatory development which is supplied by the earth – after it has partaken of the fruit of the tree of good and evil which alone enables it to acquire knowledge – it will be born into a more glorious life.
At all times we are sowing in the soil of our own consciousness. We are building thoughts into ourselves of various kinds. When sufficient energy is supplied to these thought-cells to give them the strength, they will work to attract events of a similar quality into the life. The heavenly message of the sign Virgo is that we reap what we sow.