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Rh mortal belief, but it cannot be true that he was ordered to create man anew, in partnership with God.

Here falsity, error, charges Truth, God, with inducing a hypnotic state in Adam, in order to perform a surgical

operation on him, and thereby to create woman. Beginning creation with darkness instead of light, — materially rather than spiritually, — error now simulates the work of Truth, mocking Love, and declaring what great things error hath done. Beholding the creations of his own dream, and calling them real and God-given, Adam — alias error — gives them names. Afterwards he becomes the basis of the creation of woman, and of his own kind, — calling them mankind.

According to this narrative, surgery was first performed mentally, and without instruments; and this

may be a useful hint to the medical faculty. Later in human history, when the forbidden food had been evilly digested, there came a change in the modus operandi, — namely, that man should be born of woman, and not woman again taken from man. It came about, also, that instruments were needed to assist the birth of mortals. As the first system of obstetrics has changed its character, the next change in the manner of mortal birth may usher in the glorious fact of creation, — namely, that both man and woman proceed from God, and are His eternal children, belonging to no lesser parent.