So we are jumping back in time a little bit today and focusing on the play "Back to Methuselah" written in 1921. The play itself divides into five acts, the first act focusing on Adam and Eve, acts 2 through 4 focusing on humanity and it's psychological evolution and the fifth act ending with a reflection by biblical characters on the other arcs. Overall themes include humanity eliminiating suffering, cruelness etc. from the human condition and transcending matter and into something else.
Lilith is an overarching figure, but she stays off stage for much of the play. Act 1 demonstrates that she is the creator figure of Adam and Eve and Eden, not a God figure. She is a maternal figure for certain, but is not the first wife of Adam or anything remotely relating to the mythology that has preceeded her. Indeed, really not any aspect of the Lilith mythology appears in the Lilith character in the play. She is far removed from the first wife of Adam, mother of demons etc. rather she is an insightful, intelligent creator figure.
Very little research seems to have been done about Lilith herself in this play, perhaps only borrowing the name for the sake of a good name.
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