In other words, a body for man (humanity) to function in.

Speaking of the Second Great Outpouring, Mr. Leadbeater, on page 30 of "Christian Creed," small edition says: "On the downward arc of its mighty curve it simply aggregates round itself the different kinds of matter on the various planes, so that all may be accustomed and adapted to act as its vehicles."

The "Kabbalah" says, page 334: "When the male is joined with the female they both constitute one complete body," and again, "when the Masculine and Feminine are joined together they appear to form only one body, and this is Arcanum"; again, “The Mother H is joined to the King and is found to form one body with him.”

So evidently this episode is simply showing the providing of an Astral vehicle for the race to function in.

"He shall leave his father and his mother" (the creative forces that have brought him here), "and cleave" to his Eve, his vehicles that he has entered, till he gets control of them.

But he and his body were naked (of experience).

Now comes the tempter, through this new strong desire body which is full of craving for sensation. Tame obedience does not give it the thrills it wants.

The serpent is a symbol of wisdom. The brazen serpent is true wisdom; the black serpent, black art; but it always refers to wisdom of some sort, or a great teacher of some sort. So this teacher shows the young race how to get sensation by breaking law. The "Kabbalah" says: "When the inferior man descendeth (into this world) like unto the Supernal

form (in himself) there are found two spirits, so that man is formed from two sides, from the right side and from the left side. With respect to the right side he hath the Holy Intelligences, with respect to the left side he hath the animal soul." (Here is the animal that man was commanded to sacrifice.)

So when Adam said to Lord Jehovah, "The woman Thou gavest me she did it," he simply meant, this new body that You gave me, she did it and passed the experience on to me her higher self.

By breaking the law humanity find themselves so naked of experience that they know not what to do next, so they hide from Lord Jehovah in fear. Breaking the law has also blinded their clear sight upon the higher planes. When the Lord Jehovah comes they can see Him but faintly, and it seems as though the dusk of evening had settled down upon them, as indeed it had, because by breaking law they have densified matter and soon their sight of those higher planes will be cut entirely off.

In the curse of the serpent we see the distinct cleavage of the Mental Plane. There will ever be a lower and a higher Mental Plane, although in a sense they are really one. The serpent, or teacher, or the Wisdom, is represented as creeping when manifesting upon the lower Mental Plane. Of dust shall she eat, or of mental matter, and Humanity will now gain wisdom only as he stumbles over the serpent in hidden places and feels the pain of the experience.

Unto woman, or the desire body (remember woman is the manifestation of the Second Person of the Trinity upon any plane), "Thy desire shall be to thine husband" or thy higher self ("Thy maker is thine husband") "and he shall rule over thee."

Unto Adam, "cursed" (or bound by the law of cause and effect), "is the ground for thy sake." That is, since you will have it so, you will have to learn to conquer this plane according to law. "In sorrow shalt thou eat of it, in the sweat" (or emanations) "of thy head shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the ground, for dust thou art, to dust shalt thou return." That is, by intellectual comprehension must he learn to get his bread according to law, for of dust, or of mental matter he is made, and to the Mental Plane must he return. And Humanity called his wife's (his bodies) name Eve because she was "the mother of all living," in the sense that she was the H, Hevah, the symbol of the Second Great Outpouring, the form producing outpouring, as stated elsewhere. ("In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Without Him was not anything made that was made." John I, 1. This is the great woman of Scripture. The great creative Love Wisdom Out Flow no matter where manifested. In this case it manifested as vehicles in which man could manifest.

Humanity, by gratifying desire, has sunken into animal bodies or, perhaps I should say, physical bodies. These bodies have been evolving up from the animal kingdom, so Lord Jehovah does not make any new ones now; He only wraps about them the skins of animals, their own skins, or circumscribes their development.

H. P. Blavatsky says that the first men were very fluidic, but the day came when their development was definitely checked by a thickening of the outer layers of the atoms of their bodies. I am not attempting to quote exactly, as I have not the book at hand.

Man was driven from the Garden of Eden by his own rebellion against law, and will only be able to return when by ages of experience he learns how to be able to grasp the handle of the sword of spiritual truth that he might have had by abiding in the law all of the time.

And humanity knew Eve (became accustomed to his new vehicles), and they conceived and bare Cain Abel the dual-natured first really physical race, H. P. B. tells us.

When Eve, the vehicle of humanity, brought forth the child she said, "I have gotten a man with IHVH"; that is, I have gotten a man with the Spirit of God within.

Abel means Spirit, and Cain means Possessor. It is the dual-natured humanity. The first human race is born. Abel the spiritual nature of man, naturally becomes a keeper of sheep or a teacher of the more evolved, and would gladly put his animal nature upon the altar in the service to God; but Cain, the strongly physical Cain, will offer up the first fruits of the earth, or anything else, but his animal nature, never When the Spirit within remonstrates he kills his Abel (Spirit) and buries it beneath the earth, or his dense physical. His animal propensities are in the ascend

ant.

The curse is, because he has done this thing the natural law of cause and effect will force him to be a wanderer in the land; that is, he will have to reincarnate many times in the physical body, and wander upon the Physical Plane, until he learns the lesson that his animal nature is his reasonable offering to God. It will take him ages to learn this lesson, hence the necessity of reincarnation.

He dwelt in the land of Nod (wandering) on the east of Eden, on the side of intellectual understanding.

And Cain knew his wife (became used to his new bodies), and brought forth a new sub race called Enoch, and the race Cain built a city and called it Enoch for the new sub race.

Hindoo writings say that when the bodies were ready the most evolved of the egos who were coming down into incarnation refused to use them, and then the mindless ones rushed in. Probably these are the ones referred to in the Bible by the race Cain. was no doubt the great Lemurian race.

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That these are the people is shown by that quaint old allegory of Lamech and his two wives (physical and astral bodies), Adah (ornament, physical body), Zellah (shadow, or astral body). Adah bare such as dwell in tents (have bodies), and Zillah bare Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass, and iron, or every instrument of destruction and judgment. Through desire cometh judgment and destruction. In this little poem we see violence ushered in.

In Seth we have the great fourth root race. For nine hundred and thirty years these egos kept dropping into incarnation, and now men began to call upon Jehovah.

In the genealogy of Seth that follows may be discerned the seven sub-races of the fourth root race, but space forbids our handling it at this time.