Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-02
THE SERPENT.
A REVIEW OF BIBLICAL HISTORY IN
 SCIENTIFIC LIGHT.
ElucidatiOn of the Mysteries of the Book of Geneies---A Theory that is Sub
 Timely Beautiful and Logical.
MORALES. July 27th 1S9t

MORALES, July 27th 1890.
 As times are very quiet in and around the little generally lively city of Nogales, and so many times have our natural facilities, etc, been placed before your many readers, that I concluded to write you some of my views which, if they in tere5t those who read your excellent pa per, 1 shall have been amply paid for their writing.
 Once I read in a French periodical some thoughts expressed by one Lenomaut, who stated that in all of the art-products of the oriental nations of antiquity, one of three trees appeared with the serpent in embrace These trees were the Haonla or Soma, which affords a sweet fluid upon macerating the boughs, and steep ing them in water; the palm from which a sweet fluid is derived by arresting the flow of sap, and the vine, from the fruit of which q sweet fluid also IS obtained by expressing it. Ali these juices afford an acoholic liquid by fermentation. This writer concludes that the first sin consls- ted in the use of these intOXlcants, and that the serpent" represented the princl- pie of evil long before its connection with the narrative in Genesis, and probably was the sea, which was ''Chaos, and from which all things were originally made, and which swallowed up the sun, moon and stars, and produced the storm clouds at which the gods hurled their darts the lightings. These views give the narrative the appearance of an ale gory or fable, designed to convey an idea by way of illustration rather than by the expression of fact.
 In thn 11arratIua in (NanpGIG the idea was impressed upon my mind at least that the statement that god made man of the dust of the ground" was the statement of an abstract truth, and that the details consisted in a knowledge of the way in which the inorganic elements are elevated into the fruits and grains under the laws that govern vegetable growth and thence into our own bodies under the laws that govern digestion and assimilation.
 The reference to mans food as prepared for him when placed in the garden, is very positive, and is evidently corrobo- rated by the experience of mankind, as being the best to sustain the system in a high state of purity and health. The conviction that these true statements were abstract truths, led me to conclude, that the "tree of life" and "tree of knowledge of good and evil" had basis and could be understood, provided we know how to interpret correctly that portion of the narrative that has reference to them, and the same of the serpent
 In reading the account of the trees of the garden, detected an intimation that they did not grow out of the ground, as did those that were pleasant to the sight, and good for food" It also occurred to my mind, that man was tie only one of all the vertebrate that maintains an erect posture when making his best efforts physically, which would give his cerebro-spinal system the upright posi- tiOn of a tree,-while the cerebro-spinal axis would represent the tIunk, the nerves of sensation and motion bearing a most striking resemblance to the pendant branches of a tree. These intimations, with the admitted fact that the brain Is the organ of the mind, and that the nerves of sensation, constituting the five senses" are the instruments for taking cognizance of our external surroundings and conveying the same to the brain, | forced the conviction that this structure was the tree of knowledge of good and evil"
 Several years ago I decided, to my own | the great sympathetic, was to preside over the entire process of nutrition and depuratiOn: that 1t was independent of, and preceded, as well as presided over the growth of the cerebro-spinal system and was the organ of the involuntary functions
 This IS not discovery of my own, as several others have the same views though the general profession IS yet un decided as to the junction of this system of nerves, many of them claiming that il Is an offshOot or portion of the cerebrO spinial system. The conclusions to whicl 1 had arrived in reference to this matter enabled me to predicate a course of treat ment for the loathsome disense of cancers in their incipient state at least, that ha' certainly proved of much value in my
 hands. It prevents their iurther progress and also ill removing them even aftel
 having made considerable progress, with
 out resorting to the knife, or sloughins
 as is generally the case, where constitu
 hOnal Vigor is not too much impaired
 The organs of digestion, absorption, cir
 culation, secretion, assimilation and de
 puration; are the instrument or servant
 of this set of nerves; their center of in
 telligence being probably in the sola
 pleXus. WE;le the outlying ganglia rep
 resents a series of milit9ry out-posts O
 nervous intelligence and energy, storeO up for future use by the various organ
 under their immediate control. This sys
 tenn of nerves we'll represents the tree 0
 life" with its branches like the tree 0 knowledge of good and evil, distribu ted into innumerable minute tWigs
 The similitude of a tree Is found in tn distribution of the arteries and veins dis
 tributed into twigs with the lungs fo
 leaves; but these are the instr lment
 of this set of yes, depending on 1t fo their energy, which, if withheld for tn shortest period would result in deatl
 This system of nerves is the home of tn , ''soul'' while the mind" constitutes ma
 a free agent This view presents the hu , man being as a kind of partnership proI erty, God supplying the vital principle c , energy and material, and building th !, structure, and giving man the priyileg : of supery sing or directing the detail ! and thus controlling the structure. Wha a privileges; what powers for good c
 eyl, and what consequences must nece
 sarily attach to his every act. Havin
 settled these points to my own satisfa,
 ton at least, l next proceeded to scare II - narrative, and discovered that it was il 0 base of the brain: called by phrenologis e alimentiveness, combaiveness, destru g tivepess, ,and secretiveness, and the speci j. organs when perverted, that afford a rel a resentation of the sserpeBt' traits in Il n temptation to which the first pair wei s they subjected. infer this to be the case }. would not likely disobey in the directic > of vita iYeness or amativeness, since the ' were commanded by implication to e s freely of the tree of life'' and were pos e lively commended to multiply and r e plenish the earth and subdue it. Hoy .- eyer, while it is very doubtful that ol q first parents were troubled with a pc l. verted amativeness, it is now one of u 1T organs of the base of the brain, wi r. which we moderns have to deal vel > seriously.
 e In the spbdring process the organs l. which l have ascIibed the temptatio
 had legitimate duty to perform; ma
 unlike the serpent, has a superstru
 ture of cerebral development, that is al
 pie to govern the base provided it is Ike 'e in activiyy by systematic and sufficent IS f"equent exercise. If we are to belle sr the narrative, and ! find conclusive e'
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