“When Eve was [in] Adam, death didn’t exist. When she was separated from him, death came into being. If she becomes one with him again and he receives her within himself, there will be no death.
“[My] God, my God, why, Lord, [have] you forsaken me?” the Teacher said from the cross, because he was divided in that place [in death], as a way to reunite all those who had been separated from God [in their minds]. The Teacher resurrected beyond death. He became what he was before the separation. His body was whole, and it was a true body, unlike ours, which is merely an image of the true body.” (Gospel of Philip, vs. 71-72)
The separation of Eve from Adam that is reported in the book of Genesis is a metaphor. It tells us of their original oneness, when both male and female were alive in one body at Creation.
“So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
In Genesis chapter 2, we get a little more detail about the creation of Eve as a helper for Adam.
“So, the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” (Genesis 2:21-23)
Here, we read that, after God created “Man,” he then created Eve by literally pulling her out of the body of the Man. This means that, originally, both Adam and Eve were alive in the same body. Not that we should take this literally, but metaphorically, it provides a picture of the original Oneness between Male and Female.
This same original Oneness is restored when we are found in Christ, as the Apostle Paul says in both his letter to the Galatians (one of his earliest epistles) and also in Colossians (one of the epistles based on his private teachings to his disciples published after his death).
“So, in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26-28)
“(In Christ) there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.” (Colossians 3:11)
In the earlier passage to the Galatians, Paul proclaims that “In Christ…there is neither…male and female, for you are all one in Christ,” and in the later passage, he amends that to say that all forms of “Us and Them” are invalid because “Christ is all, and is in all.”
What was separated in the Garden is restored in Christ. All are made one again. All humanity is once more united with one another, and this unity is made possible because of our unity with Christ who “is all and in all.”
In this restoration of Oneness, death ceases to exist. Why? Because separation brought death, but Christ has come to give us life, and life more abundantly.
When Jesus cries out from the cross at his crucifixion, he is experiencing death. Death itself is separation when our eternal spirits leave our mortal bodies. Jesus experiences this separation of body and spirit, and cries out. But what he says is a direct quote from Psalm 22, which goes on to say that, even though our mortal bodies may experience separation from our eternal souls, “(God) has not hidden his face from (us), but has listened to (our) cry for help.” (Psalm 22: 24)
Therefore, even though Death is a form of separation, it is only a separation of reality and illusion. This is where the illusion of separation is finally abolished; when our eternal spirits are fully revealed and restored to the Oneness of unity with all things.
This is why the Gospel of Philip says that the death that Jesus experienced was “a way to reunite all those who had been separated from God [in their minds].”
After death comes the resurrection. Nothing can resurrect without first dying. This is where we all become what we were before the illusion of separation. Our spiritual bodies become whole and complete again as we are reunited with God, and with all things.
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