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526 woman, who aids man to make sinners more rapidly than he could alone. Is this “a help meet for man”?

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 intelligence is growing worse at every step; but error must have its suppositional day, and multiply until the end thereof.

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 so much, that corporeal sense is the serpent. Hence she is first to abandon the belief in the material origin of man, and to discern spiritual creation. This hereafter enables woman to be the mother of Jesus, and to behold at the sepulchre the risen Saviour, soon to manifest the deathless man of God's creating. This enables woman to be first to interpret the Scriptures in their true sense, which reveals the spiritual origin of man.

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 that Jesus presented of divine power, and mythological material intelligence — as opposed to Spirit.