Genesis 3:21, The Beginning of Spiritual Amnesia

🌟 Chakra / Energy Center Focus: The Root Chakra

📜 Introduction

In the beginning, the journey of the soul begins with a spark—a divine invitation to awaken and create. Genesis 3:21 reveals a pivotal moment in Adam’s spiritual journey, where God clothes him and Eve with garments of skin. These garments represent the tribes, cultures, religions, and families that God provides as outer identities or personas for Adam (representing mankind) and Eve to navigate their spiritual journey. These garments of skin are the roles we are born into or choose to embody during our time on Earth. While these garments serve as tools for spiritual growth, we must eventually shed them to return to our true spiritual essence. This passage invites us to reflect on how we must wear these personas to learn, grow, and eventually transcend them to reclaim our divine connection.

📖 Scripture Passage
Genesis 3:21
“Also for Adam and his wife, the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.”

🕊️ Allegory & Metaphysical Interpretation

In this passage, the garments of skin are symbolic of the outer roles and identities—tribes, cultures, religions, and families—that God provides Adam and Eve as they enter the material world. Before their spiritual awakening, Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed, reflecting their pure spiritual connection to the divine. However, after their choice to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, they became aware of their separation from divine wisdom. The garments of skin represent the personas—the roles we must wear to experience life in the material realm, where we learn through experiences, challenges, and growth.

In Genesis 3:21, we see the Lord God providing garments of skin for Adam and Eve—an act of mercy and spiritual provision. While this figure has often been interpreted as the Divine Masculine or Creator, we can also understand it as the work of Archangel Raphael. Known as the healer and divine protector, Raphael’s role is to offer spiritual nourishment and guidance to those in need. In this moment, Raphael provides Adam and Eve with the garments of skin—symbolizing the spiritual protection and personas they must wear as they journey through the material world. These garments are not merely coverings but serve as a necessary tool for their spiritual evolution, allowing them to navigate the challenges of separation and learning. Raphael’s act of spiritual provisioning ensures that humanity can continue its journey, even in a fallen state, and eventually ascend to the Tree of Life once it is ready.

The tribes, cultures, religions, and families we are born into or choose during our journey on Earth act as garments of skin—they shape our earthly identity and guide us in our spiritual lessons. These personas are external layers we wear to interact with the world, but they are not who we truly are. They are necessary for spiritual evolution, as they help us navigate the world of duality and illusion.

However, like the garments of skin, these personas eventually must be shed once we integrate their lessons. The pain of wearing these garments represents the struggle of egoic identities—the false selves—that we must transcend to return to our true spiritual essence.

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🟤 Emerald Tablet Reflection: Genesis 3:21

— The Beginning of Spiritual Amnesia

🌱 Chakra Focus: Root Chakra – Disconnection from Divine Grounding

Genesis 3:21

“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”

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🪞Emerald Tablet Insight

In this mysterious gesture—covering the soul with “coats of skin”—we witness the great descent from remembrance into forgetting, from light into density, from oneness into form. The Emerald Tablet speaks of the “binding of the Fire within the Form”—and here, that alchemical truth takes shape. The light-body, radiant and fluid in Edenic awareness, is veiled in the denser materiality of flesh. This is not punishment—it is initiation. The soul is clothed not simply to hide shame, but to experience embodiment through layers, masks, and personas necessary for the alchemy of return.

This is the moment the soul accepts the illusion of separation as real. The coats of skin become the veil through which we begin to forget who we are. The I Am becomes the I was. And so begins the journey of spiritual amnesia—not as exile, but as ritual descent, a purposeful burial of divine truth within the vessel of the body.

🜃 “Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, gently and with great ingenuity.” — Emerald Tablet of Thoth

This is the Earth phase of the Work—the Root Chakra’s tethering to survival, density, form, and the illusion of lack. Yet beneath the flesh lies the seed of remembrance. Every layer of skin, every lifetime cloaked in flesh, becomes a parchment that hides—and simultaneously reveals—the encoded truth of divine origin.

⚡ Energetic Interpretation
The Root Chakra governs our sense of belonging, security, and identity. In Genesis 3:21, the grounding of spirit into matter is completed through the donning of flesh. But without spiritual memory, the Root becomes fear-driven—seeking safety through control, domination, or material accumulation. The soul begins to believe it is the body, and forgets it wears the body.

But the Emerald Teachings remind us: What has been clothed can be unclothed. What has been buried can rise again. The Work is to awaken the Root, not to escape embodiment, but to ignite it with conscious fire, making the body once more a temple of light.

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🌟 Tarot as Sacred Symbol

Why I Use Archetypes to Read Scripture

🔮 Suggested Tarot Card(s): The Fool and The Emperor
The Fool symbolizes the beginning of the spiritual journey, where we must put on the garments of skin (personas) as we navigate our path. The Emperor represents the external identities and roles we assume, such as family, culture, and religion, and the structures that guide us through life.

In my work, I use Tarot not as a tool of prediction, but as a language of the inner world. Tarot represents the archetypes we encounter on our spiritual path. In this passage, The Fool represents the soul’s journey of putting on the garments of skin, stepping into the material world with innocence, openness, and a willingness to learn. The Emperor symbolizes the personas we adopt through cultural, familial, and spiritual structures—the roles that help us navigate earthly life. But The Fool reminds us that these roles are temporary; we are ultimately called to shed them as we awaken to our true divine nature.

The Fool represents the journey of spiritual growth, learning through experiences, and eventually returning to the divine truth beneath all the personas we wear.

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🌟 A Course in Miracles Reflection

A Course in Miracles invites us to shift from fear to love, seeing every word and action as an expression of divine blessing and service. The garments of skin represent the illusion of separation that keeps us locked into the false self—the personas we identify with. These personas—tribes, cultures, religions, and families—are temporary structures that help us learn through earthly experiences. However, the true self transcends these layers, and through forgiveness and spiritual practice, we can return to divine unity.
Key Lesson: Personas are tools for spiritual growth but must eventually be shed as we return to our true essence.
Reflection: By forgiving the ego and aligning with divine truth, we can transcend the personas we wear and reconnect with divine wisdom.

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🎧 Sound Journey for the Soul: “I Forgot I Was Fire” (396 Hz)

As you read this sacred reflection on Genesis 3:21, allow the music to become your grounding companion. “I Forgot I Was Fire” is a Root Chakra healing track tuned to 396 Hz, composed to evoke the ancient moment when spirit first entered form—when the light-body was veiled in flesh and the memory of divine origin dimmed beneath survival.

This soundscape is a gentle descent into the body—a sonic ritual that echoes the truth: though we are wrapped in skin, we were born of light. Let the earthy rhythms and ancestral tones hold you as you reclaim your connection to the ground beneath your feet and the fire within your soul.

Press play. Breathe deep. And remember what the world made you forget.

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✨ Closing Blessing

May the divine light illuminate your path, guiding you to remember who you truly are. Let it awaken the sacred truth within you, and may you walk each step in harmony with the Source of all creation. You are the light of creation. So may it be.
— Alchemist Iris