29- Garments of Death and Garments of Light
The Symbolic World
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The Origins of the Tradition of the Dead Skin
The notion that Adam and Eve had garments of light actually comes from the very same text which says they were given garments of skin. The word skin was interpreted in the first century before even Christianity kind of took its, its full shape by certain Jewish rabbis as having an alternate reading. So it's very interesting that the tradition about the garments of light are actually the same as the garments of Skin. And so he becomes, he once again enters into the possibility of being, of radiating light, that is, of being the source of meaning.
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