Chapter XV - Genesis
Fear comes of error
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himself was one of nakedness and shame. Had he lost
himself was one of nakedness and shame. Had he lost
man's rich inheritance and God's behest, dominion over
all the earth? No! This had never been bestowed on
Adam.
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Genesis iii. 11, 12. And He said, Who told thee that
Genesis iii. 11, 12. And He said, Who told thee that
thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I
commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? And the man
said, The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave
me of the tree, and I did eat.
The beguiling first lie
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Here there is an attempt to trace all human errors
Here there is an attempt to trace all human errors
directly or indirectly to God, or good, as if He were the
creator of evil. The allegory shows that the
snake-talker utters the first voluble lie, which
beguiles the woman and demoralizes the man. Adam,
alias mortal error, charges God and woman with his own
dereliction, saying, "The woman, whom Thou gavest
me, is responsible." According to this belief, the rib taken
from Adam's side has grown into an evil mind, named
woman, who aids man to make sinners more rapidly than
he can alone. Is this an help meet for man?
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Materiality, so obnoxious to God, is already found in the
Materiality, so obnoxious to God, is already found in the
rapid deterioration of the bone and flesh which came from
Adam to form Eve. The belief in material life and in-
telligence is growing worse at every step, but error has its
suppositional day and multiplies until the end thereof.
False womanhood
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Truth, cross-questioning man as to His knowledge of
Truth, cross-questioning man as to His knowledge of
error, finds woman the first to confess her fault. She
says, "The serpent beguiled me, and I did
eat;" as much as to say in meek penitence,
"Neither man nor God shall father my fault." She has
already learned that corporeal sense is the serpent. Hence
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she is first to abandon the belief in the material origin of
she is first to abandon the belief in the material origin of
man and to discern spiritual creation. This hereafter
enabled woman to be the mother of Jesus and to behold
at the sepulchre the risen Saviour, who was soon to mani-
fest the deathless man of God's creating. This enabled
woman to be first to interpret the Scriptures in their true
sense, which reveals the spiritual origin of man.
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Genesis iii. 14, 15. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said
Genesis iii. 14, 15. And the Lord God [Jehovah] said
unto the serpent, . . . I will put enmity between thee and
the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Spirit and flesh
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This prophecy has been fulfilled. The Son of the Virgin‑
This prophecy has been fulfilled. The Son of the Virgin‑
mother unfolded the remedy for Adam, or error; and the
Apostle Paul explains this warfare between the
idea of divine power, which Jesus presented,
and mythological material intelligence called energy and
opposed to Spirit.
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Paul says in his epistle to the Romans: "The carnal
Paul says in his epistle to the Romans: "The carnal
mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that
are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the
flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell
in you."
Bruising sin's head
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There will be greater mental opposition to the spirit-
There will be greater mental opposition to the spirit-
ual, scientific meaning of the Scriptures than there has
ever been since the Christian era began. The
serpent, material sense, will bite the heel of
the woman, – will struggle to destroy the spiritual idea
of Love; and the woman, this idea, will bruise the head
of lust. The spiritual idea has given the understanding