Reading Notes: The Darkness, Part B

The second story that I read from the Adam & Eve collection is the story "The Darkness". The story begins with God speaking to Adam and God explaining the situation to Adam. God tells Adam that he will send him back to Earth due to Adam transgressing as an angel and being sent to the "darkness' which is Earth. The darkness may seem like a punishment as it sounds horrible and almost certain death, but God puts his own twist on it stating that it was a learning moment for Adam not to transgress and sin. The story continues with multiple segments of dialogue between God and Adam, but most of the talking was coming from God himself. TO me, it felt like it was more of a lecture towards Adam than it was dialogue back-in-forth which is interesting. Adam & Eve, by the end, are extremely sorrowful for their actions that has caused them to be in the position that they are. The couple is sent on a journey that must be fulfilled before they are allowed to return to the garden which is interesting that God is so hard on the couple. Forgiveness is a big part of religion and seeing God punish people for mistakes they have made is a different feeling that I am used to getting from dialogue of God.

This is sort of image I thought of when I heard about the darkness. A foggy and not totally dark with a chance to return to a normalcy. https://images.app.goo.gl/sKRZv8uZRaaS5tTq7

Source: The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. (1926): The First Book of Adam and Eve 13-14-15 http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/adam-and-eve-darkness.html