Being human does not mean merely looking like the human species. Few hominids looked like us. Evolutionary changes affect not only physical forms but also internal mechanisms and behavior.
I assume that among wild, instinct-driven early hominids of one particular species - some began giving birth to more advanced individuals: those driven by reason. The difference lies in how they perceive the world, what they find desirable, what holds value, and what triggers their actions.
For instinct-driven ancestors, who operated on primitive drives like pleasure and pain, the new generation gained the potential to act according to an understanding of the underlying meanings behind every instinctive pull - not just understanding, but pursuing and desiring what is truly meaningful. For them, ritualized actions made no sense. They recognized that feelings, desires, and emotions are not absolute, and relying on them can lead to disaster.
But something went wrong. The voice of Reason was counteracted by the intellect, which had an advantage over Reason. Animals possessed intellect long before humans, perfectly integrated into their instinctive system. Intellect is a tool for understanding, recognizing patterns and associations, making calculations and predictions. But the question is: who is the master?
It was the highest and most advanced feature on the planet before Reason emerged, designed to serve Reason and humans for their own sake. Yet because humans are born as helpless babies and must be raised by parents and society, they only had instincts, intellect, and the behavior of elders to copy. The voice of Reason was drowned out by feelings, desires, emotions, and thoughts. No one was able to teach children to quiet their minds.
I believe some rare sages understood this and encoded their knowledge in riddles. One such story appears in the Genesis of the Bible, with similar narratives in many older cultures and religions - Zoroastrianism, the Vedas, and others.
God is the Design, Love, and Reason of the Universe. His voice within us is a serious, silent wisdom we sense, granting understanding of the meanings of things and phenomena. It is also the driving force for action: a craving for meaning, truth, harmony, and the embodiment of Design.
In this view, Love is the meaningful intention for good - the desire to uncover and fulfill the Will of God. Reason is awareness of God as Design. Awareness involves deep dwelling in it, but to articulate understanding, you need intellect to find words and associations to explain it to the mind. This was the role the serpent once had but lost.
Instead of leading people to live by the original human Design - the Tree of Life - intellect convinced us to chase illusions. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil represents instinctive guidance. Its fruits are illusions in the form of feelings, desires, and emotions: the pleasure-pain system, chasing what feels good and fearing what is painful.
Instead of desiring children, nutrients, balance, and harmony, people chase pleasure, taste, power, and wealth. Intellect can understand the purpose of sex, yet it binds us to instinctive drives of pleasure rather than a reasonable desire for family and children. Thus, the serpent - as a tool - now serves instinctive nature, the human-animal instead of the human-divine: crawling on the ground instead of flying in the skies.
I know what the Cherubim represent - the guardians protecting the entrance to the heavenly garden. When people draw closer to God (meaning they begin to sense the presence of Design, Reason, and Love), they experience an intense emotional reaction. Because we operate on lower-level "software," we perceive the world through feelings and other instinctive reactions. Our intellect forms thoughts based on this, protecting and empowering our animalistic nature.
People become attached to these divine emotions in the presence of Design, Reason, and Love, mistaking them for God Himself, and cannot go further. To break through, we must reject all of it. Only then can we sense God through pure awareness of His Reason, Design, and Love - without feeling it emotionally and without thoughts.
"Deny yourself, reject illusions"—this lies at the heart of every religion. Unfortunately, people failed to grasp the true meaning of these teachings and instead created religions: illusory structures to serve something while pretending to serve God.
People do not need a savior; they need an awakening. It is time to realize we are trapped as slaves by unreasonable instinctive guidance, with the intellect acting as the guardian of this prison.
Repentance is possible if you sense the original blueprint within yourself. Meditation and prayer are tools for accessing God’s Reason. By denying yourself, you shift your agency from instincts to Reason. Then intellect can help you understand the reality of this world.
Using Reason as your eyes, ears, and mind, you transform your nature, and this Reason becomes you. Thus, God in you is your Reason to understand, your Design to be authentic, and your Love to crave meaning and live. And God of the World is the Reason, Design, and Love of the World.
We were meant to live by meaning-aligned awareness, but became enslaved by desire-guided cognition — and the way back is awakening, not reward.
- We observe in ourselves and others that raw feelings, pleasures, fears, and status-seeking often override deeper understanding of what is truly meaningful or harmonious.
- We observe that the calculating mind (intellect) excels at rationalizing and amplifying those impulses rather than quietly serving a higher clarity.
- We observe that rare moments of silent, non-emotional insight—when the chatter of desire and thought subsides—reveal a different mode of being: aligned, meaningful, and strangely “designed.”