THE PSYCHIC NETHER WORLD OF HELL

      According to Judeo-Christian biblical history, the first human being, Adam,  a male, came into being after all other animal life had been created, having a higher degree of intelligence and awareness than the animal. ("The Lord God then formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life, and the man became a living being." Gen. 2:7 NIV). Adam, with his greater intelligence, was then given dominance over the animal world.  Later, his helpmate, Eve, was created; having the same intelligence and awareness as he, but with a female body instead of a male body.

     Although in the spiritual chain of command, Adam was submissive to God, he had the dominant role over Eve and she was submissive to him.  However, both of them had an awareness of  their own selfhood and sovereign individuality, as well as a sense of their self-worth relative to  God, and to each other, which I see as being the Pride-Ego faculty in their consciousness.

      Because all forms of creation have both positive and a negative factors inherent within them to maintain balance and harmony in their lives or function, the Pride-Ego faculty within the human consciousness also has both positive and negative aspects within it. (Webster's New World dictionary depicts those factors as being: self-respect and dignity, as well as an over high opinion of oneself as haughtiness and arrogance.)

     There are also other positive and negative attributes of character within the human consciousness. Expressing love in its truest sense of unselfishly caring for someone else without needing or expecting to be loved in return; being virtuously moral; treating others as you would have them treat you, and having a conscience to tell you when you fail to live up to that high standard would be considered as being the "Good side" to your consciousness.  Selfishness, the lack of virtue and morality; treating others badly because they have treated you that way, and the lack of conscience would be considered as being the "Dark Side" of your consciousness.

      However, even though the "Dark Side" is obviously a self-centered  destructive-negative factor within your consciousness, it still has a meaningful purpose in each person's life as it creates and provides the negative stress that calls forth the positive virtue-building, character-strengthening, humanistic qualities of the "Good side."  Example: the emotion of fear brings forth courage; hate brings forth love, impatience brings forth patience, etc.  As long as they are functioning harmoniously within the human consciousness, the "Dark" and the "Good" side" then enable the human entity to be much more than a human animal (selfishly living in a "Survival of the fittest" environment.)

       Because of Adam and Eve's original fall from the state of grace though, we their progeny, are currently born with the "Dark side" of our Ego being dominant within our consciousness, with the positive "Good side" being repressed to the extent that only the facet of conscience is still active.  (Even that facet is non-existent in the amoral Psychopath, who continues to fall further into the Psychic Nether world of Hell.)  With little or no positive, counteracting, modifying and regenerative qualities within us to balance and create harmony within us, there is little true love being expressed and, for the most part, human beings live a negative existence filled with hate, dissension and egocentrically competitive strife.
    
      According to the scriptures and the history of Adam and Eve (which I refer to because, their story not only depicts the disruption of the harmonious relationship between the man and woman as a "unit," it also metaphorically depicts what transpires within the confines of each human being's consciousness between the "Good Side" and the "Bad Side"), both Adam and Eve were aware that they were "beneath" God, ego-wise.  As Adam's helpmate, Eve was also aware that she was beneath Adam in that regard, and that challenged her Pride-Ego faculty to test both Adam's and God's authority over her (just as all children, compulsively test the authority of their parents.)

      When there is a void or "need" in any facet of creation, there is always something to "fill" it, and that need in Eve then attracted the serpent (which I call the Serpent of Pride) to tempt her to rationalize that since she could freely eat the "fruit" of all the other "trees," God was wrong when he admonished Adam and her to refrain from eating the fruit of the tree of "The knowledge of good and evil."  So, Eve doubted God and ate the forbidden fruit, and in doing so, gave her allegiance to the Serpent of pride instead of to God. Since no apparent harm came to her, she then convinced Adam to also eat the fruit. (This is where Adam, being the dominant one over Eve, failed to keep her from disobeying God.  By giving his allegiance to Eve and eating the forbidden fruit himself, he also failed to remain true to God.)

      After both of them ate the fruit of the "Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil," they immediately became more aware and saw that they were "naked" (which I metaphorically interpret to mean their conscience began to express itself within them, causing them to be aware of their wrongdoing.)  Then, when God asked Adam if he had eaten the fruit, he failed Eve again by blaming her for tempting him to do wrong.

      Because both Adam and Eve gave their allegiance to the Serpent of Pride and catered to the negative self-centered "Dark side" of their consciousness, it separated them from the dominance of God, repressed the "Good Side" and became the motivating factor within their consciousness, Without it bringing virtue and saving grace to balance the selfish negativity with them, they fell to the level of the animal and began to live a selfish, egocentrically competitive lifestyle.

      The progeny of Adam and Eve then come into the world, with the "Dark Side" of their consciousness still being dominant within them, which is controlled by the Serpent of Pride. Working through the Pride-Ego facet of the "Dark Side," it motivates them to compulsively seek to reign supreme relative to God and to each other.  In doing so, it tempts the husband to utilize his God-given hierarchy of male dominance and physical brawn to bully his wife into being submissive and beneath him.  At the same time, it tempts the wife to create an illusion of manliness and ego-superiority for her husband by catering to him physically and serving him sexually. When he becomes emotionally dependent on her to maintain that illusion, she then withdraws her support and gains the dominant role over him; he then reverts back to bullying her to frighten her to be submissive again, or, more often than not, he simply becomes a "wimp" and gives her the dominating role.

      In that way, both the man and the woman compete with each other over who will be the "boss" in the home.  Then, when the children are born to them, the same competitive lifestyle is passed on to them so that  they also compete with each other over who will be the one on the top rung of the family " Totem Pole," with the weaker or younger children being on the lower rung.

      As such, the Serpent of Pride rules in each human being's mind, body and life, fulfilling its own negative agenda by expressing through them. Therefore, they are no longer Children of God but Children of the Serpent of Pride.  Instead of living in Paradise, with the positive spirit of God expressing true love through them, and fulfilling his purpose for their lives, they express hate, and live and die in the Psychic Nether World of Hell.
 
       "Thou shall have no other Gods before me" and "Thou shall love  thy neighbor as thyself."