Parakalein

Traditional Worship often has the congregants sing the 
"Gloria Patri" which I suppose in our day should be the "Gloria Matri".  In it there is reference to "As it was in the beginning even now and ever shall be world with out end. Amen Amen!"  What is the endless or eternal or preexisting world of peace and tranquility.  It may be what Sigmund Freud reverend to as "the quiescence we return to when we die".  Whatever it is, it is free of fear and lust.  The Fear of loss and the Desire for gain are dual drivers of self-destruction.

There is nothing to fear except fear itself.  Fear is debilitating as it keeps us form faith hope and love. If we could step out of our fears and desires, we would change the whole dynamics of the system that keeps us enslaved.  When Adam and Eve ate the fruit they did not loss their appetite for food they lost their perfect communion with God.  The enemy of love and peace sowed an idea in the hearts of both Adam and Eve.  The idea was that they could not trust each other, they began to fear that they were missing out on something, they began to s=desire what tastes good rather than being good, kind, loving, compassionate, toward each other.  Their union had slipped from being based on their communion with each other and God to basing it on sharing the choice of excitement of taking something that is forbidden and doing so together.  Conspiring replaced inspiring.  The result they began to hide in fear (unreasonable as Go always came to visit them every morning and even the morning after their eating of the fruit God came into the Garden wondering where they were.  For God nothing had changed.  The God of love still loved in fact loved in a greater way that ever. They didn't have the words, "if I gain the whole world and lose my soul what value is that to me?"