All About Eve: Women in the 21st Century

According to Rudyard Kipling, “four things greater than all things are: Women and Horses and Power and War (“The Ballad of the King’s Jest”). So, today I speak of women. And as I do this, all women perk up their ears, ready to say, “He’s clueless.” And they would be right. But of women must men talk; for all await that one piece of wisdom that will enlighten people of this mighty topic. And the mystery persists, nevertheless.

I begin by inviting my friends to read Nietzsche’s wisdom about women, in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” the subtopic “Old and Young Women.” Here’s a sample:

“Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman has one solution: It is called pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: The end is always the child. But what is woman for man? The true man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore, he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be trained for war; and woman, for the recreation of the warrior: All else is folly. Too sweet fruits, these the warrior does not like. Therefore he likes woman: Bitter is even the sweetest woman. Better than man does woman understand children; but man is more childlike than woman. In the true man, there is a child hidden: He wants to play. Come then, you women, and discover the child in man! A plaything let woman be–pure and fine, like the precious stone, illuminated with the virtues of a world not yet come. Let the beam of a star shine in your love! Let your hope say: ‘May I give birth to the Superman!’”

The Heart and the Stomach

I share with you, then, a few insights about women. My way of speaking about women is to bring the topic one step deeper into the human body. My inspiration is the creation narrative in Genesis. For me, the Garden of Eden of Genesis is a metaphor for the human body, based on the following: “The Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21, King James Version).

In the human body, then, there is Adam; there is Eve; there is the Serpent. This is how I ascribe them:

Adam: the stomach — the will, love Eve: the heart — beauty, emotion, feeling Serpent: the brain — intellect, knowledge, intelligence

That Adam and Eve were set to be lords over the earth means that the earth is destined to bend to human will and love. The essence of human will is love–just like God is love. This means that the earth is destined to be ruled by love and to respond to the feeling of love.

Herein lies the first clue as to the relationship between man and woman: Man is the source of love; woman is the feeling that responds to love.

Temptation: The Knowledge of Good and Evil

There is, however, one fly in the ointment in this plan. This happens when man and woman become a brain instead of a stomach and heart; when man and woman become the knowledge of good and evil instead of love and the feeling of love. The Creator warned Adam and Eve about this as follows:

“7 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Gen. 2:17, New King James Version).

The death was obviously not physical–since Genesis says Adam and Eve lived many years after they abandoned love for the knowledge of good and evil. When Adam abandoned love and was seduce by knowledge, he became the Serpent. And here’s the important point: God created a war between the woman and the Serpent. Speaking to the Serpent, the Creator said,

“And I will put enmity Between you [the Serpent] and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:15)

Is it any wonder, then, that human history is the history of the conflict between man and woman? But about this conflict, two things must be said: First, “man” in human history is not the true man but rather a caricature of man. And second, this war was instituted by God to move human history back to the ideal condition, and one day this war will end.

In my way of thinking, the war between man and woman has already ended. I believe that, as of December 21, 2012, there is no more war between man and woman. The war now is between Adam and the Serpent. I believe the generation of people that was born right after World War I was a generation of Adam-like men, or the Second Coming of Christ. In other words, Christ has already returned.

Now, I have Christians, ministers, priests, former priests, former seminarians, Muslims, Jews, and other types of religious people among my friends. You may be shocked and alarmed when you hear me say that Christ has already returned to earth if perhaps you never heard of it. But about this, I ask for your patient analysis of this claim, and I encourage you to apply Jesus Christ’s standard and approach for recognizing if a claim of revelation is true or not: You judge by the fruits. Here’s what he said,

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them” (Matthew 7:15-20).

So, keep this standard in mind as you examine my claim. I am claiming that the Second Coming of Christ has already taken place–namely, in the generation that was born after World War I. That is the so-called Greatest Generation. They were the ones that fought in World War II. About those young men and women who fought in World War II, Sir Winston Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

My claim, then, is that the generation born after World War I was a generation that carried out the Second Coming of Christ. What I ask you to do is not to believe in me, but rather to do your own research. Look at the fruits. Look at what happened after World War I from the perspective that Jesus Christ was back on earth, in the millions of individuals of that time. Look at what those people did, what they said, how they acted, the way they changed the world. Pick out your favorite hero of that age and examine their actions from the perspective that this individual was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. See if this will help you acquire a better understanding of the world, a better understand of events, a better understanding of the people of that time, and a better understanding of the world in our own time today. See how many individuals at that time would perform deeds of extreme valor as naturally as breathing and think nothing of it: “I was just doing my job,” they would say.

Back to the Topic of Women Again

Thus, I return to the topic of women. The world is beginning to be filled with true men; and true men bring about true women. So, I expect a new way of relating between men and women–a world of beauty that history has never seen.

Paulo-Juarez Pereira Michigan, USA December 15, 2016