The father who resides over a kingdom is a father to nations. He is a protector over his people, casting serpents out of his kingdom into the outer darkness.

If the kingdom becomes overrun, then the father has failed. He then shrinks his kingdom down to a small garden within the world. If he can restore the kingdom in the small garden, then he can scale up his solution to the rest of the world and restore his full kingdom.

When the father fails to protect his wife and child in the small garden from the serpent, he utterly fails. Next, he turns against himself and casts himself out into the outer darkness. After all, what good is salt which has lost its saltiness?

The father must redeem himself. He is no longer just a protector, but must become a man who goes on a journey looking for treasure of great value that he can bring back to restore his kingdom.

The female is at home in this world because the counterfeit, matrix-like reality of this world is feminine in nature.

In contrast, the father stays connected to the highest reality of the kingdom, so he has a more complicated relationship with the counterfeit kingdom of this world. While he casts out the serpents on one hand, at a deeper level, he feels an odd kinship with them.

In the garden, the father is divided in how he relates to the serpent. The serpent is a threat to order but the serpent is also a man of great wealth and wisdom, capable of miraculous feats - the fulfillment of the father himself.

So when the father casts out the “devil”, he is protecting his people but he is also casting out his potential as a man. In order to honor his promise, he must turn against himself and side with the serpent. He must cast himself out into the outer darkness and face the same persecution he previously served out. As it is written.

The wise person realizes the best way to live life is — not to optimize for security, comfort, happiness, or status — but rather to optimize for meaning. The more you serve life, then the more meaning you will have since meaning is associated with the fulfillment of life.

In the Grand Narrative, the father eventually realizes that the preservation of the status quo is in opposition to meaning. As he narrows his focus to his own personal garden, or on himself, meaningful progress requires that he undermine his personal status quo. He does this by weakening his attachments to / desires for comfort, security, happiness, and status within his status quo life. Once he alienates himself from his garden, then he is able to relate to and unify with the serpent.

However, as the serpent, he does not have as much control over conscious awareness as Adam and Eve do. They are the ones in the driver seat and they are suppressing the serpent as instructed by their father.

Of the two, Adam is the one who has more in common with the serpent. Eve is female so she is at home in the garden and at home in the status quo in general. Adam ruminates and ruminates on what he hears from the serpent and often makes plans on eating the fruit, but he never follows through.

The serpent is stuck, but he is shrewd. He remembers who he is as a man. He is the groom and the female is his faithful bride. Even though Eve sees him as an evil serpent, he trusts that at some level she will recognize his voice.

He doesn’t try to reason with her like he does Adam. He doesn’t become discouraged when she forcefully rejects him either. He calmly persists until she recognizes him and submits.

The serpent knows once the female eats the forbidden fruit, then she will make sure Adam eats it too and the serpent will have more agency over the mind in order to move forward in the story.