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separation, "And the Lord God called unto Adam,
and said, 'Where art thou?' And Adam said, 'I
heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked.' "
Adam was afraid to appear in the presence of
the Lord naked. This means he was afraid to
appear as the Lord God made him, as God's own
image and likeness. This condition in people
comes from their having hid themselves in external things, "amongst the trees in the garden."
The conversation which takes place between them
and the Lord after this is as between two persons.
To this recognition the Lord God no longer
speaks in man but seems to speak to him from
without; and He says to this serpent, or mental
belief, "I will put enmity between thee and the
woman and between thy seed and her seed, (or
between thy word and her word); it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Discord is sensed only in the heel or visible body or
form, and it is sensed there only because we mentally listen to impressions made from observation,
and let them voice themselves or take form in
word and deed, and thus reject the consciousness
or true conception and birth.
"The seed (or word) of the woman shall
bruise thy head," means that her Word shall destroy the serpent; her word being truth, it shall
destroy all the seeming life, power, substance and
