setting to convey ideas behind occurrences throughout the universe, in the spirit realm, and in the human body itself.
It is in the second chapter of Genesis, in the story of Adam, that the real history of man as man begins. This is not a recapitulation of what has gone before. Where the first chapter of Genesis speaks of man the spirit, the second chapter deals with the coming of the perfect race and man’s physical tenure on earth, “for there was not a man to till the ground” (Verse 5). The earth was complete in itself, with the ability to supply everything necessary for the reproduction of itself.
As a result of the creation of the sixth day, the earth became occupied with souls who had projected themselves into matter, interested in the physical evolution taking place in the earth—and not yet conscious that they were thus separating themselves from the image in which they had been made. A perfect, physical man had to be created as a separate creation, in order that there might be a comparison for the souls who had projected themselves into animals and produced monstrosities. Man, perfect physical man, created in Genesis 2:7, would be a physical counterpart of that spiritual creation expressed in Genesis 1:26. The material man created was made in the image of God, in that he was formed of the dust of the ground—i.e., the human body is chemically composed of all the elements in the earth.
As the souls were created in the beginning, they were neither male nor female but both, a complete whole. The soul itself has no sex, and it takes on the positive or negative expression when it comes into materiality, according to its development and its purpose to be accomplished.
The time arrived when Adam, too, was divided as in other phases of creation. Eve was created to complete Adam’s expression as the example for others. Adam had already been made complete, so it was necessary to take from his physical body the negative force, which would be expressed by Eve. This does not mean that Adam’s soul was split, but that out of his body was taken negative force through which another soul manifested as Eve. They were what we might call twin souls. Each soul is complete in itself, but in relation to one another, man is positive and woman is negative.
Thus the universe came into being through Mind—the Mind of the Maker. The earth came into existence much in the same way in which each atomic cell multiples in itself; and worlds are still being made by the same process.
When the earth cooled and became habitable, man as man entered through the mind of the Maker. He entered into materiality in the form of flesh-man—that which carnally might die, decay, and return to dust. But the spirit in man is immortal and eternal that he may again be one with the Creator. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
Although man has come a long way towards subduing the earth, materially and scientifically, he nevertheless persists in trying to subdue his fellow man. He has not yet fully accepted the Brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God. For all men are indeed brothers; there is no other real relationship.
Overcoming the monstrosities, the mixtures, and the animal influences was accomplished through rebirth, surgery, and evolution towards a more divine purpose. The animal influences finally disappeared about 9000 B.C. Remnants of these pathetic creatures with their appendages of wings, tails, feathers, claws, and hooves were later depicted accurately in Assyrian and Egyptian art. The sphinx is a notable example of one of the earlier monstrosities.
EXTRACTS FROM THE CAYCE READINGS
“When the forces of the universe came together, upon the waters was the sound of the coming of the sons of God. And the morning stars sang together. Over the face of the waters was the voice of the glory of the coming of the plane for man’s indwelling. The earth in its form became a place; and afterwards able to be an abode for the creature called man.”
(341-1)
“The entity was . . . in the beginning when the first of the elements were given and the forces were first set in motion that brought about the sphere . . . called the earth plane . . . when the morning stars sang together, and the whispering winds brought the news of the coming of man’s indwelling, of the spirit of the Creator; and he became a living soul. The entity came into being with that multitude.”
(294-8)
“The entity finds itself body, mind, and soul; which answers to the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—in the three-dimensional world. God moved and the spirit came into activity. In the moving was brought light and then chaos. In this light came the creation of that which in the earth came to be matter; in the spheres about the earth, space and time. In patience it has evolved through those activities until there are the heavens and all the constellations, the stars, and the universe as it is known—or sought to be known—by soul-entities in the material plane.
“Then came materiality as such into the earth, through the Spirit pushing itself into matter. Spirit became individualized and then became what we recognize in one another as individual entities. Spirit which uses matter, which uses every influence in the earth’s environment for the glory of the Creative Forces, partakes of—and is a part of—the Universal Consciousness.
“As the entity, the individual, then applies itself, it becomes aware through patience, through time, through space, of its relationship to the Godhead. For in itself it finds body, mind, and soul. As the Son is the builder, so is the mind the builder in the individual entity.”
(3508-1)
“Let it be remembered that the earth was peopled by animals before it was peopled by man! First (there was) that of a mass, about which there arose a mist; and then the rising of same, with light breaking over it as it settled itself (to be) as a companion of those (planets) in the universe; as it began its natural (or now natural) rotations, with their varied effects upon various portions of same (earth), as it slowly recedes—and is still slowly receding or gathers closer to the sun, it receives its impetus for awakening the elements that give life itself (by radiation of like elements . . . from the sun) . . . . These elements have their attraction and repulsion, or . . . animosity and gathering together. This we see throughout all of the kingdom . . . whether we speak of the heavenly hosts, or of the stars, or of the planets.”
(364-6)
“Man was made as man. There were—there are, as we find—only three of the creations . . . matter, force, and mind. All flesh is not one flesh, but the developing of one has always remained in the same (pattern) . . . and only has been (developed) to meet the needs of man, for whom was made all that was made. Man’s evolving has only been . . . the gradual growth upward to the mind of the Maker.
“Man was made in the beginning, as the ruler over those elements which were prepared in the earth plane for his needs. When the plane became such that man was capable of being sustained by the forces and conditions . . . upon the face of the earth, man appeared. And in man there is found all that may be found without, in the whole earth plane, and other than that, the soul of man is that which makes him above the animal, the vegetable and the mineral kingdoms of the earth. Man did not descend from the monkey, but he has evolved, renewed from time to time—here a little, there a little, line upon line.
“Man is man, and God’s order of creation which he represents even as (does) His Son who, as the representative of the Father, took on the form on man, the highest of the creation in the plane; and became for man the element that shows . . . the Way, the direction, the Life, the Water, the Vine to the Everlasting . . .
“All souls were created in the beginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came.”
(3744-5)
“. . . God moved and
