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that dust should become sentient, when all being is the
reflection of the eternal Mind, and the record declares
that God has already created man, both male and
female? That Adam gave the name and nature of
animals, is solely mythological and material. It cannot
be true that man was ordered to create man anew
in partnership with God; this supposition was a dream,
a myth.
(Hypnotic surgery)
Genesis ii. 21, 22. And the Lord God [Jehovah, Yawah]
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and
He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God [Jehovah] had
taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto
the man.
Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, with inducing
a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam in order to perform a
surgical operation on him and thereby create
woman. This is the first record of
magnetism. Beginning creation with darkness instead of light,
- materially rather than spiritually, - error now simulates
the work of Truth, mocking Love and declaring
what great things error has done. Beholding the
creations of his own dream and calling them real and
God-given, Adam - alias error - gives them names.
Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of the
creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them
mankind, - that is, a kind of man.
(Mental midwifery)
But according to this narrative, surgery was first performed
mentally and without instruments;
and this may be a useful hint to the medical
faculty. Later in human history, when the forbidden
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