Thus prepared matter awaits the expression of the Soul.

When any solar system is ready for expressions of life, there occurs that which is typified, according to the symbolism of the ancient interpretation, in the Book of Genesis. The physical life has been evolved to meet the involved Soul, and, at the point where they can meet, creative expression in the physical form takes place, and could no more be prevented than could two lines of light approaching each other be prevented from conjunction, or any two coincident lines be prevented from meeting. Just where matter is prepared to meet this involved Soul science can never discover, and only Revelation can make known.

The Breath of the Soul is the generic life in matter of the expressions of the Soul under such circumstances as we shall make known.

The Spirit is the breath of life that reaches matter from the Soul.

At the gates of Paradise - the typical Eden of human existence, the Eden of innocence, of unconsciousness of the Soul-state and also of that which is to come; the complete unconsciousness of what matter is to be when expression begins - stand the summoning Angels and Archangels. They do not leave the Soul companionlesa. Such Souls as are to take on expression in outward life are grouped according to their states, and enter the typical Eden of human life where the earth has been prepared, by the Creative Act of the Deity and the operation of law, in a generic sense, to meet the Soul. The first impulsion from the Soul in its dual capacity, and the impulsion from the Deity conjoined, produce man, the typical Adam and Eve.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them."

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

In the first paragraph quoted the dual nature of God and the dual nature of the Soul are revealed. We think "his own image" refers to the image of the Soul, i. e., dual. "In the image of God created He him," the image of the Soul is like the image of God, which is further proven by "male and female created He them." In the second paragraph quoted, "the dust of the ground" refers to all atomic life beneath man; as it is a well known, and almost axiomatic, fact in science that the human organism contains some portion, however minute, of all the primal substances of the earth. "And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;" here is the Spirit of God producing the action of "breath of life," spirit of man; life is used here for existence, genesis instead of being; the latter is the Soul state. "And man became a living soul;" i. e., the Soul had taken on the expression of life instead of remaining in the state of being.

The Garden of Eden, the Paradise of the dual expression of material life on earth, appears clear under the light of this interpretation. This Paradise, the Eden, is the state of innocence into which the life is first introduced on earth, ignorant and innocent, "a little lower than the angels," because the angel is that which must lose itself in matter, even thus divided, to begin expression. Therefore, when dual life finds expression in material form occurs that which is denominated "the fall," i e.: the Soul has put off its celestial, and has taken on its terrestrial state.

This typical Garden of Eden, portrayed in the Book of Genesis, is the introduction of man and woman on earth, the expression of the Soul, not only in its dual, but in its involved state. "The fall" of man is the descent from the celestial kingdom to material life, the introduction into matter. And the whole narrative (although it seems to hare been termed a fable by some) is a very careful and very distinct statement of that which was known to the Ancients and preserved by the Kabala concerning the contact of the Soul with matter. And that was denominated the Eden state, because it is the state of pleasantness, of innocence. Innocence differs from purity in this: that innocence is without knowledge, parity is victory. So after all, this state of innocence is the state of being tempted, and the matter or material things in which the Soul seeks expression must contain the elements of temptation. The serpent was the coil of material life which surrounds, encompasses or forms the environment here. All that is meant in the Adamic fall is, that the consciousness of the celestial state is overshadowed or eclipsed by the consciousness of time, or the sense of this limitation, bo that the outward state is not aware of the Soul and its celestial state.

The earth and heaven having been prepared, the Creative Act by the Creator, was, for the last time, in operation; producing, The first expression of the Soul on earth: Mas and Woman. The typical Adam and Eve. Adam: the red earth, i. e., the creature of the earth.

This Creation (Adam and Eve) was not simply one pair, (bat whenever and wherever the earth or other involving planets are read; for the Adamic birth there man and woman are created.) The; appeared as created, not as generic beings.

The inbreathing of the Sou! into matter is Spirit, that which precedes every embodiment is the breath of its life; and the breath of that life is the Spirit of that life. The spirit of Adam, therefore, is the spirit of the first or primal man; and the spirit of Eve, the spirit of primal woman. This dual expression of Adam and Ere, or the man of earth and the woman of earth, and the woman the serpent, mean: out of the paradise of the Soul, the man of earth, abandoning the spiritual companionship which precedes the earthly, and the celestial companionship which was before that, enters the mortal state; the earth is the serpent, the primal mother, the Egyptian Isis, the surrounding coils of the senses. It was not Eve (matter, or the wisdom of the serpent) who was the Soul wife of Adam, she was the outward expression of which Lilith was the Soul; as Adam was not the Bridegroom of the Soul. Thus the outward woman came unto Adam as told in the Garden of Eden, following him into material life from within.