what they were, and in time could be mastered and controlled, and thereby could be lifted up and brought fully into the Light of My Consciousness.

This could be done only by extending the consciousness of the soul as much as could be into the consciousness of the brain-mind of the body. To that end I caused the soul in the course of time to fall into a deep sleep, during which I gradually induced the soul’s consciousness to become engrossed in the body, by directing all its interest and attention upon its sensations and its conflicting forces, thus causing it in time to forget Me in the Garden of Eden within the consciousness of the soul.

This “fall” in consciousness is what is described in the Book of Genesis as the creation or separation of Eve—the soul or the feeling part of man—from Adam, the mind or the thinking part; and also explains the “temptation” by the “serpent” of the senses and the “driving of Adam and Eve from the Garden of the soul.”

If you will try to realize that this was actually the separation of the mind-Adam, and the soul-Eve from the former united consciousness that was Adamic man’s original state in the Garden of Eden, where Adam walked and communed with Me therein, it will help you to see why mind and soul thereafter were apart and could not reunite until they could again find and know Me as I AM within their consciousness and could wait upon Me there and serve Me only.

But neither mind nor soul can know Me until I first prepare their consciousness so that they can comprehend what is selfless Love. That cannot be until I have grown the soul to maturity, and mind and heart have learned that all the knowledge and powers they have gained are not for self use, but are solely for My use and for the good of others.

So I must let you as a soul follow self which it teaches you what all these things in the world of your creation are not and cannot provide—soul satisfaction, happiness and peace; and you meet with failure, disappointment, disillusionment and discouragement, go through the purifying fires of suffering, until all desires of self are burned away and you seek only to be free to follow the leading of that silent voice within speaking with ever more clarity and insistence.

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