Homeopathy...How To Make Your Own Remedy

How To Make Your Own Remedy

March 17, 2005

Elaine shows us how to make our own remedies when we don’t have access to regular ones or when the “regular” ones don’t address the problem.

What’s the value of knowing this?  It’s immense!  If you’re sick from vacationing in Mexico (famous for the water giving tourists diarrhea), you can make a remedy out of the local water — no offense to our lovely Mexican readers!  (And here they are now!)  

If the polluted air or pollens in the air are causing your problem, you can put a cup of water outside for 24 hours and let it collect whatever is in the air (make sure the water doesn’t evaporate out), and then make a remedy out of the water.  (I’m going to explain how to do this, don’t worry; and it’s very simple.) 

If you’re sick from something you ate, drop some of the food into half a cup of water, swish it around a few times, and make a remedy out of a few drops of the water.  If you threw the food away, then spit into an ounce of water, swish it around, then make a remedy out of the water.  

If you’re sick from the side-effects of a drug, make a remedy out of the drug.  If you’ve over-dosed on something you’ve smoked, blow some smoke into a half-filled, small bottle of spring water, shake it up and make a remedy out of the water.  If you have a cough and were lucky enough to have coughed up some mucus, spit what you coughed up into 1 or 2 ounces of water, swish it around, and then make a remedy out of the water. 

If you got a rash from pulling weeds out of the garden, mash up one of the weeds, soak it in water, then make a remedy out of the water.  If you’ve got a rash or an eruption that’s oozing or discharging, make a remedy out of the discharge using a Q-Tip to scoop it up and then let the q-tip soak in an ounce of water, then make a remedy out of the water. 

If you’re never well since exposure to radiation of some sort, like the computer screen, for example, place a glass of water in front of your computer screen for at least an hour, then make a remedy out of the water.   

As you can see, the list of possibilities for what you can make a remedy out of is endless!  Remember that whatever something causes, it can cure in small doses–that’s homeopathy’s motto!  So now, if you’re ready, here are the very simple instructions:

Get a small bottle of  water

(in an emergency any safe water will do), the exact amount of water or the size of the bottle is not relevant.  I always say “small bottle” because small is cheapest.  So, an 8 or 12 ounce bottle.
The bottles pictured above are 8 ounce bottles.

Pour half the water out (but save the water, you’ll be needing it.  In fact, you will actually need to buy more than one bottle of water; you’ll see why).

Now you have a half-filled bottle of water.  Pour in a small amount—maybe an ounce or less— of what you’re trying to make a remedy out of—let’s say for the sake of argument that you want to make “Homeopathic Coca Cola”—maybe because you drank some and now you don’t feel well, maybe that can of Coke was contaminated in some way; therefore, your half-filled water bottle should now consist of a solution of 90% water and 10% coke—there’s no need to be fussy about your percentages, just guess at what 10% might be when you’re adding your Coca Cola.

Now it’s time to “Succuss” this solution (pounding the bottle into your opposite palm).  Succuss means “pound” or “bang”.  Do it 40 times (see video demonstration below)  The lady in the video is making a “water potency” of the remedy “Thuja”.  What I want you to observe here is how to “succuss” the bottle:

OK, so now, pay attention:  Here is what you’ve done so far:

1. You’ve bought a small bottle of spring water, it could be any brand of bottled water.
2. You’ve poured half of it out so that you’ll be able to “succuss” the bottle.  (You can’t succuss a full bottle!)
3. You’ve poured in an ounce (roughly) of a liquid—this time, it’s Coke—so that your half-filled water bottle now consists of 90% water, 10% Coke.
4. You’ve succussed the bottle 40 times.

Now, here’s what you do next.  Get a piece of paper and write down the number “1”–meaning that you now have Coca Cola in the 1C potency, this means you’ve done a one-in-ten dilution with 40 succussions and you’ve done it once. 

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Now, I know, some of you purists are going to say, “Elaine, isn’t this really a 1X potency?  Or a 1D as they say in Europe?”  Answer:  It doesn’t matter!  What’s important is the number!  It’s the first dilution!  You can call it whatever you want.  I’m calling it 1C for the sake of expediency.  We’re not counting drops here like they do in the homeopathic pharmacy, it’s just not necessary; this remedy, this way of doing it, will work just fine!  By the way, “C” is the Roman Numeral for 100; so, in the pharmacy, they would make a remedy by adding one drop of Coke into a vial of 99 drops of water and then succuss the vial.  You see?  That’s where the “C” comes from.  If the drop was added to 9 drops of water, the potency would be 1X—X being the Roman Numeral for the number 10.  Sorry I felt the need to dive into the weeds there.

Now, next step: Pour out 90% of this solution (the 1C you just made)—again, no need to be fussy about the exact amount, just guess at what 90% might be (you can think of it as leaving one swallow at the bottom)—and refill half way with bottled water again (so, please buy a few bottles of water rather than just one), succuss 40 times, and write down the number “2” on your piece of paper (meaning you’ve now dumped out, refilled, and succussed 40 times, twice).  Now pour out 90% again and refill half way with bottled water again and succuss 40 times again and write down the number “3” this time.  Do you get it now?  Over and over again you will: Dump out, refill, succuss;  dump out, refill, succuss; dump out, refill, succuss.  Keep going in this way until you’ve written down the number 6.  You’ve now got, in this case, Coca Cola 6C.

A 6C would probably have to be taken frequently, as it’s a low potency; in a chronic case, two to four times a day, in an acute case, maybe every 15 or 20 minutes; whereas, a 12C would be taken, generally, once a day in a chronic case; once an hour or every half hour in an acute case, and a 30C on an as-needed basis—one dose may be enough depending on what’s wrong with you.  As a matter of fact, don’t be surprised if even one dose of a 6C cures the whole case!  For that reason, I always say:

If there’s a striking improvement after the first dose or at any time, stop dosing for as long as the improvement lasts!  

Dose again if you start to relapse.  

Take less often as you start to feel better.  Always succuss your bottle roughly 5 times before each dose.  A dose is a sip.  Yes, I know, before I said 40 succussions; I am talking now about the number of succussions you need to do before each dose.

Now label your bottle “Coke 6C” and store it in the refrigerator.  Before each dose, succuss five times as I just said.  When the bottle gets low (when one swallow is left), fill it back up half-way with bottled water, succuss 40 times and now you’ll have a 7C; then, resume dosing as before with 5 succussions before each dose.

If you’re trying to make your remedy from something more solid, like for example, if you want to antidote the side effects of Penicillin or any other drug, or let’s say a drug was helping you but you had to stop taking it because of the side effects but felt that the drug, itself, was helping you in general; well, here’s what you need to know: the homeopathic remedy made from the drug can be given for the following reasons: it can be given for what the drug was FOR, it can be given to antidote the drug, it can be given to help you ease off an addicting drug and it can be given for the side effects of the drug.  

Just empty one or two capsules of the drug into an ounce of water in a disposable cup (and if it’s a solid pill, mash it up into a powder with a mashing implement) and let it sit in the ounce of water until the water is thoroughly saturated with this powdery substance.  Stir the substance around a few times, swish it around.  Now empty the watery part of this solution into your half-filled water bottle to get the 90% water, 10% drug ratio that we talked about in making a remedy out of Coca Cola.  Now proceed with “potenization” (succussing 40 times, dumping out, refilling, succussing 40 times, again and again) until you reach your desired potency, at least a 6C.

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A brief note on dosing in acutes: Let’s say you’ve made a 6C.  In an acute, you may have to take a dose as often as every 10 or 15 minutes, take it less and less often as you get better.  Always succuss the bottle a few times before dosing.  If you should get worse, stop the remedy; an improvement may follow.  If it does, repeat only as needed.

If you’re making this remedy for a chronic case, figure on 2-4 doses a day, but be prepared to take more or less often, depending on how quickly or slowly you improve.

HOW TO “PLUS” YOUR BOTTLE (raising the potency)

When your remedy bottle is no longer working as well as it used to, you’ll need to raise the potency.  This is called “Plussing”.  The way to do it is this:

1. Pour out 90% of your bottle.

2. Refill with bottled water half way.

3. Succuss (pound the bottle into your opposite palm) 40 times.

4. Again, for the second time, pour out 90% of the bottle.

5. Refill with water half way.

6. Succuss 40 times.

7. Repeat this process one more time.  You will now have raised the potency by 3 degrees.  It should work again now.

What if you have to make a remedy out of a solid pill?

I already answered that?  But I’ll say it again.  You need to grind or mash this pill up into a powder.  I’ve done it using a chopping knife.  I could have used my coffee grinder if I had thought of it.  A mortar and pestle would be the best way but most people don’t have that in their home, but maybe they should purchase it.  

What if you have to make a remedy out of something you can’t mash up? 

I faced this dilemma once, and found I was able to do it, believe it or not,  just by letting the item sit (soak) in an ounce of water for an hour, then making a remedy out of the water!  How is that possible?  Because the water picks up the “energy” of the substance.  I know, it sounds a little “out there”, but it worked!

OK, so let me just summarize.  This method doesn’t replace Homeopathy as we know it.  You still need Arnica for injuries, you still need Gelsemium for the flu and you still need Calendula for cuts and scrapes.  

This method is a great option when “regular” remedies have failed over and over again, also, when you know what made you sick, and especially when there are no “mentals” to prescribe on!  If you know, for example, that you suffer from a side-effect of a drug, that drug “in potency”, as we say, is the best remedy you can take!  If you know that toxic fumes from your workplace are what’s making you sick, making a remedy out of the fumes (by placing a bowl of water in your workplace overnight) should be your first thought!  

When it’s not clear what caused your illness, when there’s no direct cause-and-effect situation that you can point to, but you have a discharge, then make a remedy out of that.  If there’s no discharge, then there’s saliva, urine or blood.  

Be sure to check the comments below for experiences people have had  doing this, very valuable!

Articles where people have made their own remedy:

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Elaine Lewis, DHom, CHom

Elaine takes online cases.  Write to her at LEWRA@aol.com

Visit her website: https://ElaineLewis.hpathy.com

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About the author

Elaine Lewis

Elaine Lewis, D.Hom., C.Hom.
Elaine is a passionate homeopath, helping people offline as well as online. Contact her at LEWRA@aol.com
Elaine is a graduate of Robin Murphy's Hahnemann Academy of North America and author of many articles on homeopathy including her monthly feature in the Hpathy ezine, "The Quiz". Visit her website at:
https://elainelewis.hpathy.com/ and TheSilhouettes.org

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Notes from commenters

Definition of Isopathy:

“Isopathy refers to the decision to ignore the symptom picture and give the substance which caused the problem in the first place. It is common in isopathy to give a product of a disease (nosode) for the disease itself, thus administering the same thing in an attenuated form. Many people use it as a shortcut to repertorizing.”

Isopathy is a good method, but we should not name it “homeopathy”, because it is not a cure by a similar, but it cures by the same substance that caused the disease.

A note to what once has written Paracelsus: For every disease a remedy (plant) grows in the vicinity of the patient. Well, then isopathy is the most modern application of what Paracelsus has advised to do.

Response

Isopathy is a branch of homeopathy. It’s perfect for when there are no symptoms to repertorize! Everything is common–sneezing, runny nose, runny eyes…nothing peculiar; or, there are no symptoms but you know you’ve been exposed! Or, no symptoms, you just don’t feel well, and you know you drank the water! Or, all your symptoms match the side-effects of your antidepressant! What are you going to take? Does that mean you’re too lazy to repertorize? You’ve found the culprit, the etiology, the “ailments from”! Etiology over-rules symptomatology. Sometimes the isopathic remedy is the only one that will cure, especially when well-selected remedies have been tried and failed. But, of course, when you see a remedy picture in a case, go for the remedy, not the isopathic.

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I have failed to understand why to succuss 40 times. When ever we want the potency in X form with 1/10 ratio you always succuss ten times this is what makes it succeeding X. And in C potency with 1/100 ration even the you succuss for 10 times. Can you explain 40 times logic behind.

Response

I must have read it somewhere; but, clearly, this is a random number because I have also read that you should succuss 100 times when changing the potency, and I have also read 20 times; AND, I have also heard that there is a machine that does it just once: a good hard shake and then the vial is dumped out, refilled, and shaken again! God only knows which one of these is “right”. The important thing, I suppose, is that you must succuss (any number of times) and then dump out and refill and succuss again. Certainly, the more one succusses, the more powerful the medicine becomes. If you want a gentler medicine, succuss fewer times. This is the only guidline I can give you.

Sorry, Abdul, I misread!
Solution 1:10 —— 10 succusions (each time)
Solution 1:100 —–100 succusions (each time)
And so on…..
That’s why it took Hahnemann’s students weeks or more to prepare high poteny remedies.
All the best, Eva

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I have a homeopathic liquid that is made up of a combination of about 4 strengths or Xs. Can I use it as a Mother tincture to create more of the very same remedy? Making and collecting at each dose level and mixing together as it is listed on the bottle?

Response

Yes, you can increase the potency of that liquid bottle by adding a dropperful to a small bottle of spring water (pour half the water out first so you’ll have room for succussion) and succuss 40 times and you will then have the next higher potency of that preparation.

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https://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/how-to-make-your-own-remedy/

Listening to Brenda Lee

Listening to Brenda Lee

Came across this on youtube while listening to Brenda Lee sing 'I'm Sorry'...The person who went by @minuteman048 wrote this under the comment section...It struck a chord in me and created a vivid image in my mind of the timelessness of time and the memories and emotions that help shape it...

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I'll be 64 this month and I remember my Dad listening to Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, and Patty Page on a Sunday night in New York City after he put us to bed on his stereo that was the size of a huge piece of furniture.. He turned off the TV  and sat in a dark room smoking his cigarette just chilling out preparing for a new work week. I find myself doing the same thing to relax and prepare for another stressful week during these times. My dad is still with me and thank him for setting an example of taking the time too relax and handle life.

@minuteman048

3 years ago (edited)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLR25EJtfE

Genesis 3...The Garden of Eden

Genesis 3...The Garden of Eden

Genesis 3

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The Garden of Eden

1 Now the serpent5 was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God6 had made. He said to the woman,7 “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden.8 God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”

4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die, 5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened,9 and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food,10 and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked.11 They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. 8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day,12 and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”13

11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

you are cursed above all livestock,

and above every animal of the field.

You shall go on your belly

and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

15I will put hostility between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring.

He will bruise your head,

and you will bruise his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.

You will bear children in pain.

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,

and have eaten from the tree,

about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’

the ground is cursed for your sake.

You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you;

and you will eat the herb of the field.

19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,

for you were taken out of it.

For you are dust,

and you shall return to dust.”

20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living. 21 Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.14

22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.15 Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—” 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden,16 to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man;17 and he placed cherubim* at the east of the garden of Eden,18 and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

1. [The annotations for this chapter are primarily from Unity magazine and Charles Fillmore's Mysteries of Genesis, p50-52. These interpretations are religious and focus on the importance of taming the passions.] The serpent, who represents sense consciousness, is the untamed power within human beings which usurps the fine essence of life for the pleasure of the flesh. When the soul, through desire for sensation, indulges in pleasures that lie beyond the perfect balance of the creative law, it is robbed of its vital elements; consequently the body is shorn of the sustaining power of life, and decomposition results. We must then prove that we are master over all the appetites, the passions, and the sensations of our nature. We then discover the path by which we can retrace our steps, which will lead us back into the Edenic state idealized by God in the beginning.
2. [Later interpretations in Unity magazine are philosophical and emphasize the effect of duality in consciousness.] The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represent a consciousness of duality instead of a consciousness of the reality, good. The consciousness of duality gains entry into the mind by way of the soul, which is subject to impressions from the realm of appearances. The woman (the soul) saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise. Human beings are saved from duality by Jehovah God, or Christ, the supermind in man, who brings to bear spiritual power in both mind and body, and sensation is thereby lifted up and harmonized. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.”
3. [More recent interpretations of this story (Ed Rabel, Joseph Wolpert, Jim Lewis) are psychological and focus on the interplay of mental/emotional processes.] Wolpert writes, “In the allegory, there are four characters, man, woman, the serpent, and God. Man symbolizes the thinking function. Woman symbolizes the feeling function. And the Serpent and God symbolize Sensation and Intuition respectively. With this understanding, it becomes clear then that the disobedience which this allegory illustrates was the failure to follow the Intuitive function of consciousness through which God speaks to man. The result of course was catastrophe.”
4. [By far the most radical (and prescient of feminist theology) interpretation of this allegory is from Ursula Gestfeld, New Thought pioneer and collaborator with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to The Women’s Bible. She wrote in the late 1890s,] “The story of the Garden of Eden is an Allegory of nature and not of Ethics. Adam could not find among all the things brought to him to name, a Help-meet for his soul. Because of its divine origin, soul cannot thrive upon the husks of externality, but demands the spiritual food that nourishes. It must have self-knowledge, for it alone satisfies soul hunger. Eve (or Intuition) the ‘Mother of All living’ supplies this demand, for her office is to minister to the rational or masculine nature and lift the man who ‘tills the soil’—‘up and out’ the ‘slough of materiality.’”(Ursula Gestfeld, Course Notes, Chapter 4, The Origin of Evil and Chapter 5, The Ascent of The Soul)
5. serpent. In individual consciousness, the serpent represents wisdom of sense, or sense consciousness. It may also be called desire, and sensation, or the activity of life in an external expression, apart from the Source of life. When the life is lifted to the realization that it is Spirit, it becomes healing, as illustrated by Moses’ lifting up the serpent in the wilderness. (MBD/serpent)
6. Yahweh God. In consciousness, “Yahweh God” is the real or spiritual Man Idea established in Mind-substance.
7. woman. In consciousness, the “woman” represents the intuitive faculty: that in the soul which develops into feeling of life and substance, without the positive guiding light of Divine Wisdom.
8. but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. The fruit of the wonderful tree in the midst of the garden is the pure essence of life, the transmuted seminal fluid, which should be used only for the glory of God. When one uses this holy fruit to gain selfish sensation, there is waste, depletion, and finally death.
9. God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened. God, All-Good, knows no evil. We are convinced that he cannot exercise balanced judgment without knowledge of these opposites, the positive and the negative. In reality they neutralize our power to express the divine image and likeness involved in God. It is not necessary for us to know both good and evil in order to reach our highest development. To reach our highest development we must know good. To know evil in the sense of experiencing evil in ourself is to lose ground, or retrogress, instead of developing. The belief that infinite wisdom includes knowledge of both good and evil is the first great error that let the soul, represented by woman, astray.
10. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food. That the forbidden fruit was useful (“good for food”), beautiful (“a delight to the eyes”), and capable of bestowing wisdom (“to be desired to make one wise”) are all specious reasonings by which the soul attempts to justify its intention to disregard the divine law. These are not the true reasons why the soul heeds the voice of sensation. The senses are avenues through which we grow conscious of the manifest world, but because they tend to draw our attention away from the ideal to the world of form and limit him to what is passing, instead of what is enduring, we need to control and direct them intelligently.
11. Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. Through ignorance of the divine law the generative function is being misused by many persons. A sense of guilt and disobedience leads to concealment. Our nakedness must be overcome and our bodies be clothed with radiant spiritual essence. To do this, we must get understanding of the law of transmutation, by which the elemental substance and life are raised to spiritual consciousness.
12. in the cool of the day. The “cool of the day” represents the relaxation or emptiness that follows sense expression. After the high tide of sensation has subsided, the voice of Jehovah God, commonly called conscience, is heard. We are convinced that we have acted out of harmony with divine law. After experiencing sensation the picture visualized by the conscious mind is impressed on the life stream and sets up a subconscious tendency. Consciousness would hide from facing this situation, taking refuge amongst the “trees of the garden” (other sensations), but this is not the way to redemption. Every idea is to be dealt with. All error is forgiven when Truth is brought to bear on it, and if this method is pursued, only constructive thought habits will be put into activity in the subconscious realm of mind. (Mysteries of Genesis, pp 51-52)
13. I was naked; so I hid myself. We hide from God by allowing ourself to be ruled by our emotions and allowing our powers to be wasted in fruitless living to ourself, instead of merging our aims and efforts in the universal life expression.
14. Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. Here we have the biblical reference for the first time to an embodied person, an embodied individual who is male and female; although the way it sounds you have a man and woman here, but you have a man and woman in one, male and female, one individual. Here is manifestation of humanity. From now on, the Bible includes the manifest human being in its symbolism. (Ed Rabel, Old Testament Lectures, Embodiment: Coats of Skin, p44)
15. the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. “Good and evil,” primarily representing the two poles of Being, are opposite but not adverse to each other. Human beings developed divine consciousness—came into an understanding of ideas in their relation to Being itself—and when they became involved so intensely in the feeling or negative side of his nature, they lost consciousness of the equilibrium of the Christ Mind. They became independent of wisdom, and an unbalanced condition in both mind and body was set up. And “lest he put forth his hand [appropriating power of mind], and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,” using the forces of Being toward the expression of a consciousness adverse to the Christ Mind, omnipresent wisdom closed the door to the within until human beings should again enter into the “garden” by establishing the divine consciousness, Christ, the Way. (Mysteries of Genesis, p 57)
16. God sent him out from the garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden represents the divine consciousness. When we are driven out of Eden, we are bereft of the supreme blessing. We start the journey back to Eden by recognizing God and acknowledging His presence and His will in all that comes to us, whether good or seemingly evil, we make such a start.
17. So he drove out the man. We find that the Woman was not turned out of the garden, but ever dwells in Eden, and makes Heaven upon earth for him who heeds her words of wisdom. Her spiritual insight pierces the veil of materiality and clearly sees what man’s outsight fails to penetrate. Adam (or intellect) leans wholly upon the outer until Eve, his “better half” shows him the “better part” and thus helps him to forsake the error of his way and turn to the Lord. (Ursula Gestfeld, Course Notes, Chapter 4, The Origin of Evil)
18. placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden. The word “Cherubim” meads protection or sacred life. The inner spiritual life is protected from the outer, coarser consciousness. The “flame of a sword” is the divine idea or Word of God. We unite with the inner Word or sacred life, through spiritual thought, meditation, and prayer. These protect us from consciousness of duality.

Fillmore Study Bible annotations by Rev. Mark Hicks.

World English Bible Footnotes:

• * 3:24. cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.
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Genesis 2...The Creation of Divine Ideas

Genesis 2...The Creation of Divine Ideas

Genesis 2

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The Creation of Divine Ideas (continued)

1 The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.1 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day2 from all his work which he had done. 3 God blessed the seventh day,3 and made it holy,4 because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

1. were finished. That point in active creativity where involution is now ready to evolve. Where all that is involved into this principle called creativity is finished. This has all been involution culminating in the great climax of all spiritual involution. (Ed Rabel, Old Testament Lectures, pp 24-26)
2. and he rested on the seventh day. A created being has been formed, still in the mind of God. And the resting of God on the seventh day is that interval where creation has now been turned over from Almighty God, creator, to the creative idea, the creative principle, which is the human being, spiritual human, Christ, the climax, the epitome of all creative action of God. From now on, it becomes our making [evolution]. (Rabel)
3. God blessed the seventh day. Observing the Sabbath later becomes a command in the book Exodus, and the way it is to be observed is to take a moment to realize this interval between involution, which was all God Almighty, Creator or the father’s doing, and our place in creativity, which is to become evolution or expression. (Rabel)
4. and made it holy. To realize this, to take a moment of rest from externalizing ourself, and take a moment of internalizing ourself and knowing the truth and where we stand in life, this is observing the Sabbath and keeping it holy. We will always be aware, then, of our holy purpose in life. (Rabel)

The Creation of Divine Humanity

4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh*1 God made the earth and the heavens. 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,2 6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.3 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden,4 and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden;5 and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium† and onyx stone are also there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil;6 for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper7 comparable to‡ him.” 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.8 Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep.9 As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Yahweh God made a woman10 from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.11 She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

1. Yahweh. Yahweh (ASV, Jehovah) (I AM) in the Hebrew. Yah is the masculine and weh the feminine. The word is made up of masculine and feminine elements and represents the joining together of wisdom and love as a procreating nucleus. This is the Yahweh God who made the visible human being, the human of self-consciousness. God manifest in substance is the Jesus Christ human being. Elohim, universal Mind, creates, but Yahweh God forms. (Mysteries of Genesis, p 32)
2. There was not a man to till the ground. All things exist as ideas, but these ideas are manifested only as spiritual human, becomes conscious of them. The "rain" represents the descent of potential ideas into substance. Spiritual human, in whom all the ideas of Divine Mind are imaged, is not yet manifest in substance. (Mysteries, p 33)
3. and man became a living soul. Spiritually, “nostrils” represents openness to the inspirations of mind. The “breath” is the inner life flow that pulsates through the soul. The breathing of the manifest man corresponds to the inspiration of the spiritual man. Anyone who is inspired with high ideas breathes “into their nostrils the breath of life.” Spiritual inspiration quickens us to the awareness that we are a “living soul.” (Mysteries, p 34)
4. Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden The human body with its psychical and spiritual attributes comprises a miniature Garden of Eden, and when we develop spiritual insight and in thought, word, and act voluntarily in accord with the divine law, then rulership, authority, and dominion become ours in both mind and body. We dress and keep this garden by developing, in our consciousness, the original, pure ideas imparted by Divine Mind. As we establish ideas of Truth we call into manifestation our spiritual body imaged in substance by Divine Mind. “East” represents the within as “west” represents the without. (Mysteries, p 38)
5. A river went out of Eden to water the garden. "River" symbolizes the activity of life in the trees or the current of life in the organism (garden). The "head" of the river represents its directive power. Pishon is descriptive of Spirit at work in man's consciousness, Spirit diffusing its ideas of intelligence and light into man's soul (MBD/Pishon). Gihon represents the deific breath of God inspiring man and at the same time purifying his blood in the lungs (MBD/Gihon). Hiddekel symbolizes the spiritual nerve fluid that God is propelling throughout man's whole being continually, as the electromagnetic center of every physically expressed atom and cell, the very elixir of life (MBD/Hiddekel). Euphrates represents the blood stream (MBD/Euphrates).
6. you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In the purely interior realm of being, the soul of mankind is told, “of every tree in the garden thou mayest freely eat.” The moment the soul of man becomes or evolves to the place where he can eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of duality or polarity or good and evil, which is pure symbolism, then it stops being a purely subjective being and begins to emerge into active self-conscious expression. (Ed Rabel, Old Testament Lectures, pp 26-28)
7. I will make him a helper. Humankind must have avenues through which to express itself. These avenues are the "helper" designed by Yahweh God. Male human represents wisdom. It is not good for wisdom to act alone; it must be joined with love if harmony is to be brought forth. Both the soul and the body are helpers to human beings (spirit), avenues through which we express the ideas of Mind. (Mysteries, p 40)
8. to see what he would call them. We evolve, attain consciousness in mind and body, as we become aware of the divine ideas implanted in our being. In this chapter Adam “names”—calls to consciousness in life’s activities—the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens (animal and intellectual realms). Then in moments of meditation, when the outer mind is still, we make contact with the subconscious. It is on the soul or substance side of consciousness that ideas are “identified,” that is, “named.” Whatever we recognize a thing to be, that it becomes to us because of the naming power vested in the human being (wisdom). (Mysteries, p 40,42)
9. Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. A limited concept of Jehovah God caused a deep sleep (mesmeric state) to fall on the man (Adam). Nowhere in Scripture is there any record to show that Adam was ever fully awakened; and he (man) is still partly in this dreamlike state of consciousness. In this state he creates a world of his own and peoples it with ideas corresponding to his own sleep-benumbed consciousness. [This interpretation is not typical of Unity's teaching about the nature of human beings created by God. It is included here as an example for caution and for discussion.] (Mysteries, p 41)
10. Yahweh God made a woman. Adam is the objective and Eve the subjective in primal man, both in the same body. As man evolves Eve becomes objective. "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." If the ego or will that is man has adhered to the guiding light of Spiritual faithfully and has carried out in its work the plans that are ideated in wisdom, it has created a harmonious consciousness. The original Adam in Eden is symbolical of such a consciousness. (Mysteries, p 42)
11. and they will be one flesh. We know that Adam is the basic ability to think; and from this basic ability to think, the Lord God or the Lord of our Being has extended or expanded another dimension of the ability to think, and it is now woman, or the ability to feel. These two components shall cleave together and become one. We call that one factor that these two components form, thinking and feeling—Consciousness, the self-conscious individual. So, they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed, meaning that in our basic, primary thinking and feeling natures there is nothing to be ashamed of, or, all is good. (Ed Rabel, Old Testament Lectures, pp 31-32)

Fillmore Study Bible annotations by Rev. Mark Hicks.

World English Bible Footnotes:

• * 2:4. “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
• † 2:12. or, aromatic resin.
• ‡ 2:18. or, suitable for, or appropriate for.
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Genesis 1...The Creation of Divine Ideas

Genesis 1

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The Creation of Divine Ideas

1 In the beginning, God*1 created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.2

6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.3

9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. 10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good. 11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so. 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.4

14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.5

20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” 21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.6

24 God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 God said, “Behold,† I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.7

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1. Elohim means God in absolute universality.
2. The first step in creation is the awakening of man to spiritual consciousness, the dawning of light in his mind, his perception of Truth through the quickening of his spirit.
3. The second step in creation is the development of faith or the "firmament." The "waters" represent the unestablished elements of the mind.
4. The third step in creation is the beginning of the formative activity of the mind called imagination.
5. The fourth step in creation is the development of the "two great lights," the will and the understanding, or the sun (the spiritual I AM) and the moon (the intellect).
6. The fifth step in creation is the bringing forth of sensation and discrimination. The "creatures" are thoughts. The "birds ... in the open firmament of heaven" are ideas approaching spiritual understanding.
7. The sixth step in creation is the bringing forth of ideas after their kind. When man approaches the creative level in his thought, he is getting close to God in his consciousness, and then the realization that he is the very image and likeness of his Creator dawns on him. This is the consciousness in man of Christ.

Fillmore Study Bible annotations compiled by Rev. Mark Hicks.

World English Bible Footnotes:

• * 1:1. The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
• † 1:29. “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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