Genesis 2:10 Meaning A River Went Out of Eden

The river flowing out of Eden is imagination pouring itself into a person's life. Eden is the mind at rest, the source; the garden is all that grows from what that source waters. Nothing appears outwardly that the inner river has not first fed. The Lord who tends this garden is your own human imagination. It waters what it dwells upon.

The stream parts into four heads because one power spreads out and takes many forms, yet the source stays single. A desire is an Eve, an emanation that comes out of imagination asking to be given life. Imagination must enter the wished-for scene and remain in it, cleaving to that feeling until it hardens into fact. The self a person holds within becomes the self he lives from. When what the river carries changes, everything downstream changes with it.

The living current rises inside the head, at the place of delight where consciousness first wakes, and pours down through the whole body as the single stream of spirit that keeps every part alive. Eden is not a lost place behind a person but the seat of awareness carried now, and the garden it waters is the flesh it animates.

Where the one river splits into 4, the undivided energy of spirit meets the 4-part nature of matter and takes on the body's 4 elements, becoming the earth, water, fire, and air a person is built from. The one becomes many the moment life descends into form.

Eden: the place of delight in the head where consciousness wakes and the current of spirit begins River: the single stream of living energy running down from the head to animate the body Garden: the flesh and its members kept alive by that inner current 4 heads: the 4 elements of the material body that the one spirit divides into as it enters matter