IN THE article “Adam and Eve” in the preceding issue was explained the male and female principles of man’s nature from the standpoint of consciousness, showing that the male side is the outer mind with its positive faculties of Will, Reason and Initiative; while the female side is the inner soul with its negative faculties of Emotion or Feeling, of Intuition, Imagination and Memory.

It was shown that man originally contained all of these faculties in perfect balance in body, which was bisexual when he dwelt in the Garden of Eden, being then in his perfect soul body formed in the image and likeness of the Gods. This being so, and man having had the positive and negative parts of his nature separated and placed in different bodies, where then driven from the Garden of Eden or the soul consciousness, what is more likely than that man and woman in their inner natures are now instinctively always seeking to return to their former oneness—to reunite all their faculties, and to regain their former estate in the Garden of Eden?

If you will consider carefully this thought and keep it in mind as we proceed in our study of the subject, you will find it is the basis and reason for all of the sex impulses and desires of man and woman, and it will account for all that they do in what we call human life.

You must understand, in this long period covering countless ages since the birth of the Adamic race, mankind has been gradually unfolding in consciousness morally, mentally and spiritually, from the almost animal stage it was then in. We are speaking of the race as a whole—the majority of mankind; some of course always being in advance and many more being laggard souls. This means also that there are those who are highly mentally developed but are undeveloped morally and spiritually; while others have acquired a high moral sense but intellectually are still as children.

Remember also it is the soul that is unfolding—unfolding in understanding of the true meaning and purpose of life and of