had to separate a part of its consciousness seemingly into an outer consciousness of the body and at the same time to retain an inner consciousness of the Soul.

“So during the course of ages the Lord God caused man grad- ually to fall into a sleep of forgetfulness of his Divine nature en- joyed while in his soul life, by directing his consciousness more and more into the sensations felt in his physical body, thus caus- ing him to pay more attention to his physical needs and to his human comrades, and thereby arousing his curiosity and interest in them.

“You will remember that during these days the Lord God out- pictured from the ground of consciousness—thus giving them forms—all of man’s animal qualities, his appetites, desires, feel- ings (every animal of the field), and all of his separating 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 qual- ities, 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 the Lord God, during this sleep of his Divine nature, caused to be born in man’s heart (opened his heart—symbolized by taking out a rib—so love could come forth) a higher realization of himself, of his relation to his fellowman as a brother, and to the Lord God within himself; that there were two parts to his nature instead of only one—an outer mind and an inner soul. And found that time on Adam, because of this new understanding, found himself dwelling in an outer consciousness—his mind, and was aware of his soul as a ‘separate’ inner consciousness—a helpmeet —a woman.

We now have man functioning as two—an outer consciousness, constituting mortal mind, or Adam, the male part of man; and an inner consciousness constituting the soul, or Eve, the female part of man. While man was evolved to the consciousness of an awakened and immortal soul and was privileged to live in his soul consciousness, he still possessed a physical body, but instinct- ively functioned in it only enough to take care of his physical needs.

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