The Secret of the Creation | Page 6

which had been cast out of Heaven and he cast the soul into the
body which he had made, and the body arose up with the vigor of life,
and became an active soul before Jehovah, its creator. And he called his
name Adam, because he had made him out of the red clay of the
heights, and man was red after the appearance of Jehovah. And Jehovah
caused all of the beasts to pass before Adam. And Adam gave names to
them after their kinds. And he called the beast which had hands and
feet and stood upright as himself, Serpent. And Jehovah placed Adam
in the vineyard to live, and gave to him the serpent to be his servant, in
the garden of rest which he so named Eden. And Jehovah returned

about and refrained from his work on the seventh day, and sanctified it
as a day of rest. And Adam dwelt alone in Eden. And he was lonesome.
But after a time Jehovah returned with his hosts, and he said it is not
good for Adam to dwell thus alone. I will now make for man his
mother. And she shall be wiser and mightier than he in wisdom, and
shall be his counselor, and a light to rule over him that his days be
many in the earth.
And Jehovah caused a sleep to come over Adam, and he took out one
of his ribs with the flesh of the bone, and closed up the flesh of Adam.
And out of it he made the body of a child,--leaving Adam twelve ribs
on one side and eleven on the other side. But the ribs of the child were
even twelve on both sides. And Jehovah placed within her a soul and
gave her to Adam, and he knew that she had been made of his flesh,
and he called her Woman. And also shall her name be Eve, because she
is the beginning of the mothers of man.
And there was a tree which Jehovah had planted in the garden of Eden.
As if a hundred feet to the first limb, and the leaves of the tree hung to
the ground--touching the ground on all sides, "Broad and strong like
rubber, yet with velvet softness. Beneath this tree was the home of
Adam and Eve." Beneath the downy fragrant leaves they were shielded
from all heat and cold. And the eagles and the fowl of the air run into
the branches of the tree in time of storm. Here in this sublimeness Eve
grew up with Adam, and the Serpent was their servant.
The Trees of the vineyard brought forth every thing which was good
for food. There were trees which bare fruits large and shining as gold,
fruits of all manner colors as a field of stars in glory. A river run
through the Garden. Crystal waters rifting over fields of beautiful
stones. The bedellium and onyx stones and much gold abounding in
and about the waters. And on one side of the river stood a tree which
bare fruit twelve times in the year, whose substance would cause one to
live forever. It was the tree of life. None that eat of its fruit should ever
die. From month to month and from year to year it had power to renew
life perpetually. And on the other side of the river stood a tree which
had power to make one wise. It was a tree of knowledge, one whose

fruit would intoxicate and revitalize,--speeding up the action of life,
causing one to think rapidly, and to see with a clearer vision. Setting
the vitalities in a key where they must wear out, bringing forth the
order of death. This tree was called the tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil, because its power was the division between man and sin. He
could eat of the tree of life and realize the power and nature of life in
all its glory. But he could not realize the nature and effect of death and
sorrow until he should eat of the fruit of the tree of death, and become
intoxicated with the mania of its devastating forces. And for this cause
Jehovah commanded Adam that he should not eat of the fruit of the tree
of death or come near it.
But the command was not given to Eve, for she was but a child--left in
Adam's keeping. And they dwelt in glory in their home beneath the
wings of the tree in the vineyard. And they were naked 'But knew it
not.' Satan was upon earth, and envied them in their salvation, but he
could not come near the vineyard, neither could he tempt them to sin.
For they were redeemed, and Satan could not break