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Walton&#8217;s Book (2025) &#8220;New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0(Part 16 of 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0160 Chapter three covers topics in the Creation Story (Genesis 1-2.3).&nbsp;&nbsp;This examination has covered only portions of this chapter.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is enough, I suppose, to establish&nbsp;<em>that the Lost World approach<\/em>&nbsp;cannot avoid entanglements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any time there is a thing, composed of matter and form, there is the possibility that the form will entangle apparently unrelated matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;While this application of substantiation and entanglement is a tad long-winded, it shows the relevance and the reach of&nbsp;<em>one of the significant discoveries of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A confounding<\/em>&nbsp;can take&nbsp;<em>the shape of a sign-relation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0161 In chapter four, Walton considers God resting in&nbsp;<em>His temple of creation<\/em>&nbsp;on the seventh day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0162 In ancient southern Mesopotamia, when a god &#8220;rests&#8221; in a temple, its presence invisibly radiates order, in the same way that the sun radiates light.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The divine radiation<\/em>&nbsp;empowers&nbsp;<em>an unspoken agreement shared by all participants in the civilization, despite labor and social specializations<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The divine sustenance<\/em>&nbsp;operates, despite wars among Sumerian cities and intra-urban conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0163 Note that the agreement is unspoken because, if one goes to temple, one may look upon the icon of the god and hear its voice, in a synaesthesia sort of way.&nbsp;&nbsp;The god&#8217;s proclamation does not contain words like &#8220;order&#8221; or &#8220;social stability&#8221; or &#8220;anything that a modern intellectual might be willing to proclaim&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The god&#8217;s visage tells the person&nbsp;<em>what he or she already knows must be done<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In short,&nbsp;<em>the presence of the god<\/em>&nbsp;activates&nbsp;<em>the human&#8217;s sensorium of transcendence<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is Eric Voegelin&#8217;s term, by the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See his book,&nbsp;<em>The New Science of Politics,<\/em>&nbsp;published in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0164 Walton does not acknowledge&nbsp;<em>this type of encounter,<\/em>&nbsp;which greets the modern mind as&nbsp;<em>hypotheses from&#8230;<\/em>&nbsp;well&#8230;&nbsp;<em>the frame of mind that one does not want to entangle<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember that the Creation Story is not about physical creation, it is about metaphysical creation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Take a look at&nbsp;<em>photos of Sumerian statuettes gazing upon the divine icon of their god<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The enormous eyes<\/em>&nbsp;say&nbsp;<em>it all<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Look and taste the wisdom of the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See Razie Mah&#8217;s e-book,&nbsp;<em>Synaesthesia and the Bicameral Mind in Human Evolution,<\/em>&nbsp;available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0162 Now, let me see whether&nbsp;<em>the last Genesis day<\/em>&nbsp;fits&nbsp;<em>the pattern of confounding and resolution proposed in this examination<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First,&nbsp;<em>the Lost World confounding<\/em>&nbsp;looks like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide41-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide41-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide41-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide41-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The mediation is in green.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The entanglement is in red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0163 This confounding takes the shape of a sign-relation, where the sign-interpretant (the entangled matter) manifests as a sign-relation.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s almost as if&nbsp;<em>the entangled matter<\/em>&nbsp;offers&nbsp;<em>an image, indication or representation<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>the mediation that contextualizes and potentiates the originating substantiation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide42-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide42-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide42-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide42-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0164 Then, the confounding resolves in favor of entanglement, resulting in the following figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide43-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0165 Matter constellates the normal context of divine mediation<sub>3<\/sub>, as well as its formal design<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;(not physical, but metaphysical) and its final attributes<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;(God intends to create a living image capable of sensing His Meaning, Presence and Message).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0166 On day seven, God rests in his temple of&nbsp;<em>the cosmion of the world<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And&#8230;. Walton immediately shrinks that temple to the size of a ziggurat, which is large, but not as expansive as&nbsp;<em>what the Christian imagines<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0167 After a bumbling transition, Genesis starts anew with verse 2.4, describing&nbsp;<em>God&#8217;s formation of something that seems like an ancient Mesopotamian royal garden,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>located right next to the temple,<\/em>&nbsp;where&nbsp;<em>an icon of god<\/em>&nbsp;radiates&nbsp;<em>authority<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder, what do authorities do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, they tell people not to do things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0168 This is sort of confusing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Are Adam and Eve fashioned to work the royal gardens as priests or to work the royal gardens as wardens, appointed by someone in charge of&nbsp;<em>the icon of an ANE god?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In chapter five, Walton notes that Ephrem the Syrian (in the 300s AD) regards the Garden of Eden as a tabernacle and Adam and Eve as priests.&nbsp;&nbsp;He goes on to say a whole lot more.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, that is the Christian imagination at work.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes, the entanglement is dangerous.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometimes, the entanglement works like a miracle.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is for the Body of Christ to decide, one way or another.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Danger<\/em>&nbsp;leads to&nbsp;<em>ruin<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Miracles<\/em>&nbsp;lead to&nbsp;<em>salvation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0169 So, Walton originally agrees that Adam and Eve are (something like) priests in the sacred space of a divine garden.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The strongest evidence for Eden&#8217;s sacred status<\/em>&nbsp;is the four rivers flowing from it.&nbsp;&nbsp;At the same time,&nbsp;<em>the strongest suggestion for the location of Eden<\/em>&nbsp;is at the mouth of four rivers emptying into the infilling Persian Gulf, around 8800 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, well.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am going with the sacred space concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0170 Remember&nbsp;<em>the structure of mediation<\/em>&nbsp;and how it fits into&nbsp;<em>a category-based nested form?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question as to&nbsp;<em>the nature of the divine garden<\/em>&nbsp;arises when humans are placed in&nbsp;<em>a realm<\/em>&nbsp;(Eden)&nbsp;<em>that expresses divine order<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the second excursus, authored by the author&#8217;s son, J. Harvey Walton, order is located where God lives and manifests when God&#8217;s will is carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it seems that&nbsp;<em>the order that radiates from the divine presence<\/em>&nbsp;would be a place where humans would want to live.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, in&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt,<\/em>&nbsp;humans experience anthropocentric order, where&nbsp;<em>some specialized authority<\/em>&nbsp;tells them not to do this or that.&nbsp;&nbsp;They no longer seem to respond to&nbsp;<em>the radiance of<\/em>&nbsp;<em>the icon of god<\/em>&nbsp;who is locked up in&nbsp;<em>the city temple<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0171 There are good reasons why&nbsp;<em>the icon of a god<\/em>&nbsp;is locked in its temple.&nbsp;&nbsp;First, when one gazes upon the god,&nbsp;<em>the visual impact of the idol<\/em>&nbsp;is heard by&nbsp;<em>the supplicant<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Through synaesthesia, the god tells the supplicant&nbsp;<em>what to do<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Second, the establishment cannot tolerate synaesthetic messaging willy-nilly.&nbsp;&nbsp;For the safety of everyone concerned,&nbsp;<em>the icon of the god<\/em>&nbsp;is sequestered in a holy space, which, because it has been set-aside from regular human life, increases&nbsp;<em>the power of the icon to register messages in other sensory modalities<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0172 Surely, this argument seems counter-intuitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder whether the garden of Eden (like a holy space within the guarded temple in the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia) could be dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0173 For this reason, maybe&nbsp;<em>a subtle shift in the imagery of a royal garden<\/em>&nbsp;is called for.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eden is not a place where God dwells in a human realm.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a place where humans dwell in a divine realm.&nbsp;&nbsp;But,&nbsp;<em>humans in the cultures of the ANE&nbsp;<\/em>experience&nbsp;<em>order<\/em>&nbsp;in the human realm.&nbsp;&nbsp;So,&nbsp;<em>an audience<\/em>&nbsp;hearing&nbsp;<em>the opening of the Story of the Fall&nbsp;<\/em>would envision Adam and Eve living in&nbsp;<em>a royal order<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>a royal realm<\/em>&nbsp;(rather than in a dangerous divine zone).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The royal realm is divine in a modest sort of way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, God telling Adam&nbsp;<em>what not to do<\/em>&nbsp;is sensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Royalty tells their subjects&nbsp;<em>what not to do<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0174 Here is a picture of&nbsp;<em>the mediation<\/em>&nbsp;as a category-based nested form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide44-4-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The normal context of<\/em>&nbsp;<em>human perceptions within a mediating divine order<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;brings&nbsp;<em>the dyadic actuality<\/em>&nbsp;of {Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden<sub>1(?)<\/sub>&nbsp;[cultural river<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;as efficient cause &amp; human as author<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;as formal design] wardens in royal garden}<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;into relation with&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;divine order perceived as royal order and divine intentions operating as functions in a royal realm&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0160 Chapter three covers topics in the Creation Story (Genesis 1-2.3).&nbsp;&nbsp;This examination has covered only portions of this chapter.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is enough, I suppose, to establish&nbsp;that the Lost World approach&nbsp;cannot avoid entanglements. 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