The Coming of Lilith

The Coming of Lilith Analysis

The center of the Lilith narrative is the Luciferian encounter with God, as conceived in the Chaldean creator God, Yahweh. The divine creator approaches Lilith to try and encourage her to return to her filial duties, but Adam is so intolerable that Lilith absolutely disagrees. God threatens her, but in the end, Lilith proves herself worth of freedom, because she is not intimidated by divine recompense. This is a statement of her being in tune with her own divinity. She is a minor goddess, but since she left Adam, another petty deity all his own, Adam tells Eve she is a demon.

Eve's journey is the archetypal journey from the constrains of classical gender role into full blown enlightenment. Eve's encounter with Lilith is an encounter with her own archetypal predecessor. Eve finally admits that there is imbalance in Adam's conception of her, and after brewing silently on what she learns from her new best friend, the alleged demon that she had to climb a wall just to see, she finally comes to the conclusion that Adam is not as powerful as he thinks he is.

Now we come to the central image of all human experience, according to Jewish and Christian folklore—the Fall of Man. What is the cause of the Fall of Adam and Eve? It is Adam's inherent misogyny and selfishness. Just because his physical body manifested itself in a larger, more muscular form, Adam instantly concludes what animals also conclude by nature; if he is physically dominant, he should be automatically acknowledged as a tyrant. Lilith proves him wrong without doing anything at all. She just stands up and leaves, and in that one decision, the entire premise of feminism is demonstrated.

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