Evening star., 1921-05-22


called it good, does not once appear after
the third verse cf the second chapter of
Genesis. We read in the sixth and sew
enth verses.
There went up a mist from the
earth
And the Lord God mot Godl
formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nos
trils the breath of life; and man
became living soul.
Who was this Lord God?" Where
was the necessity of recreating man,
when God had finished His work and
pronounced it the manifestation of His
eternal being,-good, or God? The story
narrated in the second chapter of
Genesis continues its delusions and hyp-
motto suggestions, in the twenty-hrst
and twenty-second verses:
And the Lord God caused 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
had taken from man, made He
woman, and brought her unto the
man.
This implies that the Lord God" had
suggested helpmeet for Adam. Ac-
cording to this legend. the first anes-
thetic was sleep. Has mankind improved
upon the primitive mesmerism, which
incapac1ated Adam and removed, with
out his knowledge, valuable member
of his anatomy. Adam is represented in
this NEUROLOGICAL story, as the first upon
whom a surgical operation was per-
formed. The Lord God" brought the
rib. which he had taken from Adam,
"And Adam said she shall be
called Woman" Has Adam ever re-
named his rib, Woe man?
Did Adams subdivided self prove a
helpmeet to him? May we not infer
that this mythical Adam continued to
claim his prerogative-hu villas
the lord of this dust creation? For the
Lord God" said of his creation, Dust
turn" Genesis, 3.19) The will of the
human Adam was exemplifed by his
Eve qualities; and this carnal will, has
always been opposed to the will of God
Some one says of the so-called mortal
man.
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.
And of Adams rib, called Eve, it has
been said:
When she will, she will,
You may depend ont;
When she won't, she won't,
And there's an end ont
This Adam-Eve human will has
always opposed the will of God.
Therefore we conclude that the myth
ical Adam-Eve, the be1ief-man, whom
Jesus denounced as lie and the father
of liess-as a murderer from the begin
ming, and whose progeny has continued
to sin, suffer, and die-is not the man
of Gods creating.
terial generation, found in the second
chapter of Genesis, the opposite of the
spiritual generation, recorded in the first
chapter of Genesis, God is not men,
toned. Lord God" is reported as the
origin of Adam and Eve. When Eve
conceived, and bare Cain, she said, II
have gotten man from the Lord"
Genesis, 6.l.) She did not charge God
with being the father of Cain.
Christ came to destroy the works Of
the deviF-the material generation.
Mrs. Eddy denounces the Adamic race
She says:
Evil is neither quality nor guam
tity; it is not intelligence, person
or a principle, man or woman,
a place or a thing, and God never
made it. message for 1901, D. 1z)
Christ, the light of the world. is re-
vea1ing the man and universe of Gods
creating, and as the radiance and inn
n,inence Of his presence, lessons the
shadow of the mythical Adam-Eve, his
foam and fury of ilfegitimate living
and of fearful and doieful dying"
MARY Baker Eddy)-
Behold, come quickly; and my
reward is with me"
Revelation, 212)
Our Father other, Life and Love- is
opening the windows of heaven, dis
closing a world of beauty, health, har-
mony and Holiness universe peopled
with perfect ideas, all governed and sup
ported by the law of a perfect Prin-
c;ple,-God, Spirit, Mind The follow
ers of Christ are looking for "a new
heaven and new earth," and fulfill
men of the promise, that
The tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people. and
God Himself shall be with them,
and be their God.
tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither
sorrow. nor crying. neither shall
there be any more pain; for the
former things are passed away.
Revelation. 21,34.)
Christ Jesus declared:
am the way, the truth, and the
life; no man cometh unto the
Father. but by me. (John xiv, g.
Mrs. Eddy tells us:
There is but one way to heaven,
harmony, and Christ in divine
Science shows us this way. 1t is
to know no other reality-to have
no other consciousness of life
than good, God and His refec-
tion, and to rise superior to the
so-ca1led pain and pleasure of the
senses.
(Science and Health, p. 242)
She also says:
The Revelator was on our plane