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532 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.

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 consideration. Adam and his progeny were cursed, not blessed; and this indicates that the divine Spirit, or Father, condemns material man and remands him to dust.

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 corporeal 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 was the first manifestation of the error of material 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