The Book of Jasher Chapter 2 And it was in the 130th year of the life of Adam upon the earth, that he again knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare a son in his likeness and in his image, and she called his name Seth, Saying, Because God has appointed me another seed in the place of Abel, for Cain has slain him Going off of what Philo has to say, as not to cause Confusion, Adam is the Brain, or the Mind, However you want to look at it, and Eve we know is the mother of all living, and the mother of all living is the Earthly Mother. And Abel as we have established is the mind speaking truthfully. Cain is the Blood Thirsty Opposite, The Mind speaking falsehood, The False Prophets, Opposing their brother. Now then, Who is Seth? Seths name means Irrigation, says Philo, and here is why. As therefore, the seeds and plants which are put into the ground grow and blossom through being irrigated, and are thus made fertile for the production of fruits, but if they are deprived of moisture they wither away, so likewise, the soul, as it appears when it is watered with the wholesome stream of wisdom, shoots forth, and brings fruit to perfection. Now, Irrigation may be looked upon in a two fold light, with regard to that which irrigates, and with regard to that which is irrigated. And might one not say that each of the outward senses is irrigated by the mind as by a fountain, which widens and extends all their faculties, as if they were so many channels for water? No one, therefore, in his senses would say, that the eye sees, but that the mind sees by means of the eyes, or that the ears hear, but that the mind hears by the instrumentality of the ears, or that the nostrils smell, but that the predominant part of man smells through the medium of the nostrils On which account it is said in Genesis, And a fountain went up from the earth, and watered all the face of the earth. For since nature has alotted the most excellent portion of the whole body, namely, the face, to the outward senses, therefore the fountain which goes up from the superior part, being diffused over various parts, and sending up its streams like so many water courses as high as the face, by their means conducts the faculties to each of the organs of the outward senses. In this way in truth, it is that the word of God irrigates the virtues; for that is the beginning and the fountain of all good actions And herein, In their song, Word of God Speak, Mercyme reaffirms the claims of Philo, by speaking of the Word of God, as pouring down like rain.
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