How God Formed Man

God creates Adam, painting by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Cistene Chapel - Public Domain
It's been said by many, that God is pictured here inside a brain, the mind of man.
Reflecting the mystery mechanics of connecting with the divine inside us.

• How God Formed Man
  • From Rev 3:18
  • From John 9:6
  • From John Chrysostom commentary on John 9:6
  • From Athanasius
  • From Genesis
  • Commentary

From Rev 3:18

Χριστός is a Bronze Age pharmakon term that means applying a salve or unguent (see Christ for literary evidence).

Its application can be a "rubbed in christing" (egchristos / ἐγχριστός) as in Interlinear Greek Rev 3:18 (egchrisai / ἐγχρίσαι) states clearly in Jesus' words:

They're talking about applying pharmakon to induce the revelatory visions.

• This "rite" is what made the prophets of Jesus's time famous, notably John the Baptist, and Jesus himself. They borrowed the technology from the oracular priesthood, who had long established those rites.

From John 9:6

• christing a person's eyes, so they "open" their eyes, and regain "sight". In the context of the mystery cult, we're talking about using drugs to induce visions containing spiritual insights.

Χριστός and its applications (ἐγχριστός and ἐπιχριστός) were understood in Jesus time to mean what they meant in the Bronze Age because that is how the NT uses those words (see Christ for literary examples).

The hallucination (fairy tale) that these words mean something religious today, is what scholars should be OPPOSED to.

From John Chrysostom commentary on John 9:6

It was John Chrysostom who said, and it was either in question format, or as a direct statement, that when God created man, it was from a plaster from earth.

Regarding John 9:6

• making clay and shaping his eyes - creating a plaster, applying it, so that they may "see"
• took dust from the earth and formed man - creating a plaster, applying it, so that they may be educated as full humans

That word for shaping is Diaplatton (διαπλάσσω) It means to form/mold. It means to plaster and is related to palo.

A liquidy mixture being applied to the eyes in John 9:6. The mixture of spit, earth, drugs, poured on, allowed to dry, then washed off.

From Athanasius

From Genesis

From Genesis 2 verse 7

• plasen (πλασεν) - to Mold or form by education. To Mold your soul with muthois (μύθοις), myths or stories, with strings of logoi.

The Hebrew text translates plasen / πλασεν (mold or form) into the oversimplified “create”, which loses the nuanced meaning being communicated by the text.

• Why dismiss the Hebrew as mistranslation?
  • Greek as Primary: The Greek Old Testament is the one the New Testament authors were using, which is why it's important to focus on the Greek meaning. The Greek Old Testament was definitely the primary text of the 0-200CE's. Though there's evidence of a Judaic sect who edited that Greek down to a simpler version and used that instead (just like King James edited in 1600's away from the originals losing original meaning).
  • Paleo Hebrew naturally leads to mistranslation: The Paleo Hebrew seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls (earliest evidence of a Hebrew canonical work, which dates after Septuagint) isn't as expressive as the Alexandrian Koine Greek with Atticisms. There are many many non-sensical examples of Greek->Hebrew in the Hebrew OT text, that serve as evidence of back translation from Greek into a less expressive language.
  • Greek may be the original anyway: The Greek Septuagint books are composed collected and framed in 290BCE. As with any new composition, sometimes pulling in earlier inscriptions or fragments into that entire original work.
    • Dead Sea Scrolls (dated after 250BCE) were the earliest manuscriptal evidence of a Paleo Hebrew language Old Testament (apart from short blessings or minor inscriptions going back to 800BCE). And it appears to be backtranslation of the Greek, Greek fragments in the Dead Sea Scrolls were also simplified vs the older Alexandrian Septuagint work.
    • Paleo Hebrew was a dead language (like Oscan was) by 400BCE, there simply is no ancient Hebrew literature or libraries or education system, the ancient Judaics were educated in Greek schools.
    • Today's known Hebrew version (Masoretic) was authored and edited later (6-9th cent CE) than the Greek Septuagint (290CE) 5 books, and Masoretic work claims to be derived from 2nd cent CE Hebrew scrolls (from ~500 years after Septuagint in 290CE; And 250-450 years after Dead Sea Scrolls that contained evidence of a backtranslation scheme into a simplified Greek and corresponding Paleo Hebrew). Modern Masoretic text is based on the Greek or Latin, has text in common with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • Mistranslation: The Hebrew has clearly simplified and reframed those Greek Septuagint works - and they get the nuance wrong. In this case, implying supernatural manifestation of a lifeform. Which is pretty exceptional to any human's experience, and thus extremely unlikely.
  • Plausibility: We see from the basic text that it's simple education from a medicinal and visionary plaster. That's the simple explanation.

Kurios plasen’d man

• plasen (πλάσσω) - generally, mould, form by education, training. Or III. form an image of a thing in the mind, imagine.

The word doesn't mean create.
We're talking about mystery mechanics here, of guiding an initiate with imagery and pharmakon to a certain mental space.

And what kind of molding can we do?

With a Medical plaster/poultice:

• ναὸν (naon) – "temple" or "sanctuary"
• χρῑσάντες (chrisantes) – aorist active participle of χρῑ́ω (chríō), which generally means "to christ" which means "to apply" or "to smear" a medicinal salve, unguent, ointment, or oil (plasters also qualify). In medical and ritual contexts, this verb was used for applying medicated oils, salves, or ointments, often for healing, or for purification of the mind or soul.
• πλάσαντες (plāsantes) – the aorist active participle form of "πλάσσω" (plássō), meaning "having made" or "having created." molding or shaping of the naon (inner sanctuary - soul or character) through wisdom, education or experience.

Literally: “Having christed and having molded the (inner) temple.”

It’s the inner chamber of the mind, the place where your adelon is

• adelon - (ἀδήλον)
  • describe things that are hidden, obscure, or mysterious
  • the image reflected in a mirror or in water; image in the mind
  • place or state of hidden knowledge, mystery, or the "inner chamber" of one’s being.

It’s about enlightenment.
The authors are all from crete.

Commentary

That's what it means when God made man from earth/mud in genesis. It’s earth from the ground. You take it to make a mold for it to be emplastered. They’re plasters. You make troches and lozenges out of them for pharmaceutical administration.

That word for molding man means "to plaster". We can easily argue that "molding" means to educate (as opposed to creating some sort of gollum from mud - education or molding one's spiritual enlightenment is far more simple explanation than some supernatural action of creating lifeforms). Therefore, it means to plaster. It quite literally means both in the lexical entries, but after reading a lot of sources revolving around plastering, we can see that plaster + education is what is meant. This aligns with usage in the mystery cult.

Remember : A magi is one who emplasters

The first Adam, Adam, was made from the earth. The second Adam, Jesus, was made from a virgin.

Being made from earth is an initiatory performance in the rite, in order to open ones eyes so that you may see.

Adam wasn’t born in the purple of a virgin, thats why he needed Eve as his help mate in order to be initiated.