Only the first chapter of Genesis is about the original divine creation. This is God's creation of wholeness. Its components are all God's divine ideas that pertain to us. It is finished, whole, total. The second story is an allegory of something which proceeds WITHIN creation. It is the forming of individuality. It is about the beginning of each person as a living individual soul, endowed with great creative possibilities. It depicts the turning point in us from involution (existence in Eden) to evolution (emerging into the world). Our role in creation is to bring forth, to produce, and cause manifestation, and to grow in consciousness.
Only the first chapter of Genesis is about the original divine creation. This is God's creation of wholeness. Its components are all God's divine ideas that pertain to us. It is finished, whole, total. The second story is an allegory of something which proceeds WITHIN creation. It is the forming of individuality. It is about the beginning of each person as a living individual soul, endowed with great creative possibilities. It depicts the turning point in us from involution (existence in Eden) to evolution (emerging into the world). Our role in creation is to bring forth, to produce, and cause manifestation, and to grow in consciousness.
Ed Rabel - Metaphysics 1, The Creative Process, Two Creation Stories