. . . the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods of the early rise in the land of the sons of Belial as oppositions, that became more and more materialized as the powers were applied for self–aggrandizement.
The entity was among the children of the Law of One that succumbed to the wiles—and it may be well interpreted in that answer recorded in Holy Writ—”Ye shall not surely die, but it is pleasant for the moment, and for the satisfying of longings within.”
Thus did the entity begin to use spiritual forces for the satisfying of material appetites.
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And the eyes of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked . . . And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. (Genesis 3:7-8)
Both Adam and Eve became self-conscious, aware that the appetites of their bodies were at variance with the desires of the spirit. The new consciousness brought fear.
. . . with these changes coming in the experience of . . . Adam and Eve, the knowledge of their position, or that as is known in the material world today as desires and physical bodily charms, the understanding of sex, sex relationships, came into the experience. With these came the natural fear of that as had been forbidden, that they know themselves to be a part of but not of that as partook of [the] earthly, or the desires in the manner [of those] as were about them, in that as had been their heritage.
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Apparently, the temptation and Fall were part of the Divine Plan, a necessary experience which had been foreseen by Amilius while in the spiritual state.
. . . as the first begotten of the Father, [who] came as Amilius in the Atlantean land and allowed himself to be led in ways of selfishness.
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The Fall also involved a clairvoyant experience for Adam.
(Q) When did the knowledge come to Jesus that He was to be the savior of the world?
(A) When He fell in Eden.
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The God-Force became sexual force, or carnal force, in the Garden. The destiny of Adam, after the Fall, was to restore and demonstrate the full potential of man’s creative energies in the flesh. This was realized through the Immaculate Conception of Mary (who had been Eve) and in the life of Jesus through his ministry and especially his Resurrection, the ultimate triumph over the physical.
This reading was devoted solely to the sex question.
Yes, we have the question here regarding sex and sex relationships . . . This has been the problem throughout man’s experience or man’s sojourn in the earth; since taking bodily form with the attributes of the animal in which he had projected himself as a portion of, that he might through the self gain that activity which was visualized to him in those relationships in the earth.
Hence slow has been the progress through the ages. And as has been seen, and as may be gained by a study of man’s development, this . . . has ever been a problem before man.
This is ever, and will ever be, a question, a problem, until there is the greater spiritual awakening within man’s experience that this phase biologically, sociologically, or even from the analogical experience, must be as a stepping stone for the greater awakening; and as the exercising of an influence in man’s experience in the Creative Forces for the reproduction of species, rather than for the satisfying or gratifying of a biological urge within the individual that partakes or has partaken of the first causes of man’s encasement in body in the earth.
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The different natures of Cain and Abel may reflect a change in Adam and Eve concerning the purposes for sexual union. Cain was rebellious, self-indulgent, and unruly. Abel sought the approval of his Creator. Seth, the third son, is the beginning of a nation dedicated to God and to the proper uses of the creative energies which Man had been given.
Train him, train her, train them rather in the sacredness of that which has come to them as a privilege, which has come to them as a heritage, from a falling away, to be sure; but through the purifying of the body in thought, in act, in certainty, it may make for a people, a state, a nation that may indeed herald the coming of the Lord
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The First Adam and the Last Adam
For all that ever was and ever is to be learned is [that] “The Lord thy God is one”—one . . . No matter in what clime, under what name, all must come to that as was from the beginning. For, know that He—who was lifted up on the Cross in Calvary—was . . . also he that first walked among men at the beginning of man’s advent into flesh! For He indeed was and is the first Adam, the last Adam; that is the way, the truth, the light!
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(Q) What was meant by “As in the first Adam, sin entered, so in the last Adam all shall be made alive”?
(A) Adam’s entry into the world in the beginning, then must become the savior of the world, as it was committed to his care. “Be thou fruitful, multiply, and subdue the earth!” Hence . . . Adam, the first Adam, the last Adam, became—then—that that is given the power over the earth, and—as in each soul the first to be conquered is self—then all things, conditions and elements, are subject unto that self!
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The story of the Old Testament is one of evolution—spiritual, mental, and physical. The growth in attitude from the self-centeredness in the first Adam to the spiritual directions of the Last is demonstrated in the following:
Let’s draw comparisons of man made perfect through experience, and man willfully being disobedient.
In the first, we find man listening to those influences which were at variance to God’s way. Then in the temple, even at twelve, we find the perfect man seeking, asking, and answering as to man’s relationship to God . . .
Draw the comparison within thyself as to those experiences indicated in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of Genesis and those in the 2nd of Luke—where we find our pattern, our lesson . . . one willfully seeking to know the relationship to the Creator, or the answer, “Know ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” How different from that other, “The woman thou gavest me, she persuaded me, and I did eat!”
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The following indicates a similar evolution In Eve, who listened, but did not weigh the words of Satan or their implications.
. . . seek not for knowledge alone. For, look—look—what it brought Eve. Look rather for that wisdom which was eventually founded in she that was addressed as the handmaid of the Lord, and who “pondered those things in her heart,” as to how and why Gabriel would speak with her.
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The life as Jesus completed the cycle and established the pattern for all men. The soul again was purified and spiritualized, yet, by having passed through the earth and