It is thought that the narration at the beginning of Genesis is just an allegory, not to be taken literally.  But it is a true account, it is just not talking about what most people think it is talking about.   The first chapters of Genesis are not speaking of the creation of the Earth and a single man and a single woman.  Genesis 1:2 makes it clear that they are not talking about planet Earth.  In these pages we present to you what the original text is talking about.

In Genesis 1:1 (in the original Hebrew) it speaks of something being brought forth out of which came all of the physical and spiritual creation.  This something is Adam, or as others have called him, Nous, Logos or Christ.  

In the beginning, Mother/Father God brought forth that which became the spritual realm and the physical realm  Genesis 1:1

The Adam in the beginning of Genesis is Adam Kadmon, the primal man of the Qabalists. The great Qabalistic work, Zohar, teaches that the original Adam is a divine being, the only expression of the Unknowable Reality.  This being is the causal sphere, the source of all the universe, containing all of spiritual and physical existence within himself.  He is Christ, the only begotten of the Father. 

Of Christ the scriptures say:

In the beginning was the word (Logos), and the word was with God and the word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.   All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.   In him was the life.  John 1:1-4

The Son whom he hath made heir to the whole universe, and through whom he created all orders of existence: The Son who is his perfect reflection, and who is his physical expression, and who upholds the universe by the power of his word. Hebrews 1:2-3

The infinite, unknowable God brought forth that which is knowable and has form.  The Greeks called the primal god Chaos, which means, not confusion, but that which cannot be understood.  That which God brought forth which can be comprehended, the Greeks called Logos, or Order. 

While we may thing of spirit as almost nothing, it is quite substantial when compared with God.  Adam/Christ is the spiritual expression of God.