Chapter XV - Genesis
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God at first create one man unaided, – that is, Adam, –
God at first create one man unaided, – that is, Adam, –
but afterwards require the union of the two sexes in order
to create the rest of the human family? No! God makes
and governs all.
Progeny cursed
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All human knowledge and material sense must be
All human knowledge and material sense must be
gained from the five corporeal senses. Is this knowledge
safe, when eating its first fruits brought death?
"In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die," was the prediction in the story under consid-
eration. Adam and his progeny were cursed, not blessed;
and this indicates that the divine Spirit, or Father, con-
demns material man and remands him to dust.
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Genesis iii. 9, 10. And the Lord God [Jehovah] called
Genesis iii. 9, 10. And the Lord God [Jehovah] called
unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he
said, I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Shame the effect of sin
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Knowledge and pleasure, evolved through material
Knowledge and pleasure, evolved through material
sense, produced the immediate fruits of fear and shame.
Ashamed before Truth, error shrank abashed
from the divine voice calling out to the cor-
poreal senses. Its summons may be thus paraphrased:
"Where art thou, man? Is Mind in matter? Is Mind
capable of error as well as of truth, of evil as well as of
good, when God is All and He is Mind and there is but
one God, hence one Mind?"
Fear comes of error
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Fear was the first manifestation of the error of mate-
Fear was the first manifestation of the error of mate-
rial sense. Thus error began and will end the dream of
matter. In the allegory the body had been
naked, and Adam knew it not; but now error
demands that mind shall see and feel through matter, the
five senses. The first impression material man had of
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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