The Inner Life

of his separative human thoughts (the birds of the air), bringing them and showing them to man so that he might fully know them, could name them, and could gain complete dominion over them.

But the love side of his nature was not yet among these qualities, for it had not yet been quickened, and it was now necessary that it come forth and manifest in order that the Sons of God might continue Their work of man’s redemption. So Jehovah God caused to be born in man’s heart (opened his heart—symbolized by taking out a rib—so love could come forth) a new realization of his relation both to his fellow man as a brother and to his Father-in-Heaven; that his Father’s Love within his heart was his true life, and that that life was sacred and must be fostered and lifted up within him and within all His creations, thus co-operating with the Sons of God in Their divine mission.

Thus was Eve (meaning life-giving, enlivened, quickened) or Love born into the world, and manifested as woman—man’s helpmeet—as separate from Adam (the earth or ground from which all are born), man, the basis or original type of the soul. In other words, woman became the quickened phase of the awakened human soul—reborn man, and thereafter being the sensitive, intuitional side of human nature she represented the soul in human form; while man, being only the reasoning and practical side of human nature, represented the mind in human form.

Thus the mind and the soul dwelt together thereafter in separate human forms in the Garden of Eden, or in their purified soul consciousness, and they were naked and unashamed; for they were pure and “knew” not each other as yet in their bodies, their consciousness still being largely centered in the soul realm.