“Adam was born of two virgins: the breath and the earth. The Logos is born of silence, to witness that the origin of humanity was simply not a fall.
“There are two trees in the middle of the garden, (The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil). One engenders animals, the other engenders humans. When Adam ate from the tree that engenders animals, he became an animal.
“It is good to revere animals, for they are like the first human.
“The tree of animals that Adam ate from bore much fruit. There is no lack of animal-humans. They are many and they revere each other.
“In the beginning, God created humans, then humans created gods. This is the way of the world: Humans create gods and worship their creations; now their creations may revere them, and gods worship humans.
“The works of humans come from their power; this is why they are called energies (dunamis). Their children are born from their repose; their powers is manifested in their works, and their repose is their children.
“This is an image: humans produce their works with effort and their children in repose.” (The Gospel of Philip, vs 83-86)
In this section, Philip’s Gospel reimagines the Genesis story of Adam in the Garden. Valentinian Christianity tends to symbolize the primal human as a being of Pneuma (Spirit/Breath) and Hyle (Matter/Earth). Both are called “virgins” because neither had previously touched or been divided. Together they represent both primordial purity and original wholeness. Spirit and Matter are not opposites. They are complements. Both are expressions of the Source.
In Quantum Physics, where the foundational reality of the Universe is not materialism, both matter and energy are simply manifestations of the one continuous Quantum Field.
For both Valentinian theology and Quantum Science, nothing is separate. Everything arises from the same unified field or source.
Therefore, “Adam”, the symbolic first Human, emerges from the marriage of these two virgin concepts – breath and earth – just as every quantum particle originates from the same unified field.
“The Logos is born of silence, to witness that the origin of humanity was simply not a fall.”
In the Valentinian view, “silence” is the womb of Divine Fullness (Pleroma), and the “Logos” is both reason and the spoken word which arises from this Divine womb as an articulation of the ineffable One.
Philip’s Gospel asserts that humanity’s origin is not grounded in any failure or shame stemming from disobedience to God’s command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Instead, humanity was created in the perfection of Divine intentionality, harmony and Oneness.
In Quantum terms, “silence” is like the apparent emptiness of space, which, in truth, is not empty at all but filled with a myriad of quantum particles of infinite potential. Therefore, humanity is formed from Oneness with the Source of all reality. We are not a cosmic mistake. We are eternally connected to Divine Love and forever intertwined with God.
“There are two trees in the middle of the garden, (The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil). One engenders animals, the other engenders humans. When Adam ate from the tree that engenders animals, he became an animal.”
These two trees are metaphors for two modes of consciousness. The Tree of Knowledge symbolizes the “Us vs Them” modality. This is the dualistic mindset of good vs evil, right vs wrong, etc. This is the “animal” state of mind. Ego-based. Blinded by the illusion of separation.
The Tree of Life symbolizes non-dualistic consciousness. This is the mindset of Unity, Oneness, Connection, and Harmony. This is the “true human” state of being.
So, when Adam ate from the tree that engenders animals, he became animal-like. Not biologically, but in his way of seeing and thinking.
Yet, this Gospel also affirms that “it is good to revere animals, for they are like the first human.” Why? Because it is not “sinful” to become trapped in this mindset. It is simply our earliest developmental stage as human beings. We all begin with a survival mindset that centers the Ego before we eventually awaken to the reality of the non-dual Self.
From a quantum perspective, this is like the shift from Newtonian Physics, which viewed reality as being composed of separate entities and particles of matter, to Quantum Physics, which reveals that reality is fundamentally relational, entangled, and unified. Our human spiritual evolution mirrors this shift as we awaken from separation into Oneness.
“Animal humans” are those who are still seeing the world at the level of separation. There are many, as this Gospel notes, because dualistic thinking dominates our everyday consciousness and it is “only in Christ that the veil is taken away.” (See 2 Cor. 3:14-16)
“In the beginning, God created humans, then humans created gods.”
This brilliant observation predates the famous quote from Voltaire who noted in the 1700s:
“’In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”
In other words, humans living under the “Animal” level of consciousness tend to externalize and anthropomorphize the Divine, projecting aspects of their own nature onto God. This leads to worshipping our own mental constructs rather than the One God of reality.
This also parallels how the observer participates in influencing the reality they perceive. We do not merely observe the world, we help shape it.
As our illusion of God reflects our level of consciousness back to us, we begin to interact with this projection as if it were actually God.
This is why Philip’s Gospel says:
“This is the way of the world: Humans create gods and worship their creations; now their creations may revere them, and gods worship humans.”
Our ideas of God evolve with our consciousness. When we are dualistic, our gods are dualistic. When we awaken to non-duality, God is revealed as the One in whom all things live and move and have their being.
“The works of humans come from their power (dunamis)… Their children are born from their repose.”
Works are what we create through our own effort. Our ideas, systems, religions, societies, etc. are inevitably influenced by our mindset. If we have an “animal” mindset, we create an “animal” world based on separation, division, and an “Us vs Them” structure.
Our “children” are what is birthed from within our “true self” where connection and Oneness are realized. This is the Divine Silence.
This creates a dichotomy between “doing” versus “being” and “force” versus “flow.”
The Quantum reality reveals to us that everything arises not from mechanical construction but from spontaneously creative emergence, like wave functions collapsing into form through relational interaction.
Creation is about resonance, not construction.
So, our “works” are about our power and effort. Our “children” are what emerges from our inner stillness where the Logos is found in non-dual reality.
Simply put, this passage is all about dismantling the myth of separation that is found in the Garden of Eden story. It reframes the story as one where Humanity begins in unity with both Spirit and Earth; where the Logos arises from Silence, not from chaos, and where our dualistic consciousness creates the illusion of animal-like separation from creation and from God.
As long as humans project their ideas of God outward, they will remain like animals. It is only when they awaken to the reality of God within them that they may return to eat from the Tree of Life.
The true human is the one who has awakened from the illusion of separation to embrace the reality of Oneness that enlivens every atom, molecule and particle in the Universe with the frequency of Divine love.
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