Chapter XV - Genesis
Creation's counterfeit
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that dust should become sentient, when all being is the
that dust should become sentient, when all being is the
reflection of the eternal Mind, and the record declares
that God has already created man, both male and
female? That Adam gave the name and nature of
animals, is solely mythological and material. It can-
not be true that man was ordered to create man anew
in partnership with God; this supposition was a dream,
a myth.
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Genesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah]
Genesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah]
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and
He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God [Jehovah] had
taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto
the man.
Hypnotic surgery
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Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, with inducing
Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, with inducing
a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam in order to perform a
surgical operation on him and thereby create
woman. This is the first record of magnet-
ism. Beginning creation with darkness instead of light,
– materially rather than spiritually, – error now simu-
lates the work of Truth, mocking Love and declar-
ing what great things error has done. Beholding the
creations of his own dream and calling them real and
God-given, Adam – alias error – gives them names.
Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of the
creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them
mankind, – that is, a kind of man.
Mental midwifery
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But according to this narrative, surgery was first per-
But according to this narrative, surgery was first per-
formed mentally and without instruments;
and this may be a useful hint to the medical
faculty. Later in human history, when the forbidden
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fruit was bringing forth fruit of its own kind, there
fruit was bringing forth fruit of its own kind, there
came a suggestion of change in the modus operandi, –
that man should be born of woman, not woman again
taken from man. It came about, also, that instruments
were needed to assist the birth of mortals. The first
system of suggestive obstetrics has changed. Another
change will come as to the nature and origin of man,
and this revelation will destroy the dream of existence,
reinstate reality, usher in Science and the glorious fact
of creation, that both man and woman proceed from
God and are His eternal children, belonging to no lesser
parent.
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Genesis iii. 1-3. Now the serpent was more subtle than
Genesis iii. 1-3. Now the serpent was more subtle than
any beast of the field which the Lord God [Jehovah] had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the
woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is
in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Mythical serpent
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Whence comes a talking, lying serpent to tempt the
Whence comes a talking, lying serpent to tempt the
children of divine Love? The serpent enters into the
metaphor only as evil. We have nothing in the
animal kingdom which represents the species
described, – a talking serpent, – and should rejoice that
evil, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and
has neither origin nor support in Truth and good. Seeing
this, we should have faith to fight all claims of evil, be-
cause we know that they are worthless and unreal.
Error or Adam
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Adam, the synonym for error, stands for a belief of
Adam, the synonym for error, stands for a belief of
material mind. He begins his reign over man some-