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Aunt Clair,
Awesome!!!
as I have come to understand "adam's rib", it as "she" pulled from him, not as "her origin, but rather as "her" release from his imagined role in and of himself, that had held her in a limited role. She ever present persevered this, as even in today's world "She" suffers this non-release of Her true identity, wherein our world "She" is held to an imagined masculine role.
this is portrayed in the symbolism of the hebrew letters, layed out from above to below, or below to above, revealing both her binding and her release, in a flip of our collective consciousness perspectively.
this we do not realize, that Creation is finished to It's completion, even as we would yet be in It's throws of re-forming passion. to say, that as for us in the world, as it is, the story yet plays itself out, even as it is finished.
this reveals to us that time is not linear, that time, past and future, crash against the present as if the present as a rock pummeled by bi-directional waves.
this 'rock' we do cling to, with waves to and fro, catching us up to throw us about in the rings of our circular sense of time.
in every respect, so is a male held to a limited imagined role herein time's to and fro. if 'he' releases 'her', so it is that 'he' is released. this truth in an arse backwards (flip) way of the world, is why that in the world, 'she' in all her glory was removed in the telling. however, when deeper interpretation of 'the story' comes under the eye's standing, "she" is everybit within the story as she was, is and ever shall be. but again, this interpretation is upon his release of her as imaginary role, thusly his release following.
in Hosea this plays itself out in the world of men's making, wherein he release her from his indictments, fetches her back to be free, himself released, they to live freely being as she and he.
also in Ruth, Boaz lays it down to pick it up again, in a word, freeing her from preconceived judgements imaginatively holding her in bondage.
this 'passion' theme runs through the entirety of the OT, is finished in the NT as you have pointed out. yet, our world is yet in time's playing out of what has already transpired in specific time, as if through many building cycles of awakening from our imaginations unto our god given reality.
sumptin like that...two ends against the middle, just as there are two understanding of genesis, the whole of torah, the christian bible as it were.
nistar and nigleh, or nigh unto nigh, face to face, past and future; the two that are one 'in' the midst of our sacred and holy presense as one body 'of'.
mankind's past may seem to be as in 'all him', yet mankind's future has ever been of 'all her'.
tim
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