Sons of God looked upon the daughters of Men and saw them as being fair.” (Gen. 6:2)
Adam was an individual but he was also more; he was the symbol of the whole race of man, the five races. Eve was created as the ideal helpmate for Adam, because of the division of man’s spiritual nature into positive and negative. Thus Eve was also the symbolic “other half” of man’s nature in all races. This was the last of the important creations.
In woman, the negative and receptive was expressed, the positive suppressed. In man, the positive and active was expressed and the negative suppressed. For at first the Sons of God, the souls, were androgynous, combining male and female as one. The first companion, Lilith, was a projection into the animal world—a means to an end, for the satisfying of desire that had entered. With the turning-back to the Creator’s plans and the turning-within to creative impulses, the creation of Eve was made necessary as a helpmate and a balance in the long struggle back to God, which was to ensue. Eve was created by God and drawn in an instant from the soul-entity already in existence. “God said, ‘Let there be life,’” and there was life.
Through Eve, the perfect complement to Adam, there was the channel for reproduction of the perfect race. Cain was born of physically perfect parents. Adam and Eve, with their contemporaries, were special creations and not evolutions from that which had already been created. Man did not descend from the monkey.
Everything in the earth had been prepared for the coming of man. The immutable laws of nature were established for his life and sustenance. Through the law of relativity, the positive and the negative, man and woman experience earth: night and day, hot and cold, good and bad—all realized through the five physical senses via the reasoning of the mind.
Yet always man retains—even unknowingly—the sixth, seventh, and eighth senses. These are the psychic or extrasensory factors of the soul that have gradually receded into the background as man has entered more and more into matter.
The projection of the perfect race into matter occurred not only in the Garden of Eden—which the readings say was in Iran and the Caucasus—but in five different places in the earth at the same time.
These five occupations in the world represented the five physical senses that are to be conquered before spiritual perfection can again be attained. There were 133 million souls in the earth at this time. The white race was in Iran, the Caucasus area along the Black Sea and the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe. The yellow race was in what was later to become the Gobi Desert of East Asia. The black race was in the Sudan and upper West Africa. The brown race was in the Andes and Lemuria, the continent lying then in the area of the Pacific Ocean. The red race was in Atlantis and America.
The environment and climatic conditions determined the color of the race. For all peoples, regardless of color, were of one blood and members of the perfect race. Color of the race merely adapted man to the conditions that were to be met, and symbolized the chief attribute of the people of that race. In the white race, sight or seeing was predominant or emphasized; in the red, feeling or emotion; in the yellow, hearing; in the black, gratification of the appetites; and in the brown, the emphasis on the sense of smell.
The Jews, as a people, developed at a much later date. The Egyptians also came later, as a result of the mixture of red, black, and white races, in about 10,000 B.C.
The continent of Atlantis was the most important land area of the world and the center of the first civilization. With the second influx of souls—i.e., the coming of the perfect race, some 10—million years ago—a new era was to begin in the evolution of man in the earth.
The Atlanteans were a peaceful people and made rapid progress in utilizing the resources of nature. Natural gas and fire were among the first discoveries. In the years ahead, they were to build a civilization superior in many ways to any fashioned since.
Division of the forces of mind took place during the first thousand years of the occupation of the earth by the perfect race. By this division, part of the mental forces related to the material, and part to the spiritual. It occurred as man emphasized less and less the divine aspect of his nature, became less and less aware of that from which he came. For man recognized that he was a part of what was about him, and he acknowledged the oneness of all matter and force, but he relied more and more on the physical mind with its carnal interpretations. As time went on, only dreams, prayer, and religion remained to remind him of his divine origin. Desire led him to accept things that he instinctively knew were not true; he mingled with the monstrosities and produced the “mixtures”—half animal and half human. Finally, he put ego of self above everything else, “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him in his heart.” (Gen. 6:6) The Bible gives an account of the flood, which occurred about 28,000 B.C., and in Atlantis it resulted in the submergence of many large islands. Lemuria, too, vanished into the Pacific Ocean.
Yet even in those days, as in all ages, there were men who were able to attain to such a high consciousness of the Creator that it was not necessary for them to pass again through the earth plane. For “even in that day did they call upon the name of the Lord”. . . .and “Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him.” (Gen. 5:24) A few souls return to the earth plane by choice, the many by law.
From time to time individuals were raised for specific purposes, and as the cycle continued, again and again there rose certain souls manifesting in a “more beneficent, more magnificent and noble manner” to show the way for man. There has always been direction for those who seek the light, the way to become one again with the Creator. Throughout man’s many and varied periods of development, his progress has accelerated or retrograded, or remained stationary in proportion to the exercise of his will toward good. Thus in each man’s development the first to be conquered is self. Like begets like, for this is part of the universal law. Putting it another way, the mind of man itself, in its total functioning, must be unified and harmonized if he is to remember and accept his divine origin, his inheritance.
There have been almost as many variations in the use of mind-force as there are individuals. What a soul fed upon or dwelt upon became its means of development or retardation; for good and evil were expressed according to motives and the use made of motives. The people of Atlantis were to pass through the same stages of development as did the other races in other lands; but their progress was to be more rapid, materially if not spiritually.
Thus through the Christ spirit, the Holy Spirit in Adam—in man as a race—a way was prepared for the conquest of the world; the conquest of spirit over matter, good over evil. Hence, Adam, as an individual as well as a group (Adam means man), started humanity on the long journey back to the state of being worthy of and companionable to the Creator. It was to be a long, weary journey, for men are strangers in the earth.
In the 1930’s Edgar Cayce gave a series of lectures on the creation story in the Scriptures. This is the gist of what he said.
In the Bible, the writer of Genesis had the task of explaining infinite happenings in finite words, understandable to finite minds in principle if not in method. The first chapters deal with the period before and during the five-point projection of the Christ Soul, Amilius, into the earth plane.
The book of Genesis is supposed to have been written by Moses with Joshua, and was evidently done with the idea of giving the people of Moses’ time a concept of what took place in the beginning of man’s advent into material consciousness.
The Book of Job, written by Melchisedek, is an account of the Son into whose hands the earth was committed and who passed through the trials in the flesh so that he might become the deliverer of mankind.
The Bible is primarily an esoteric book, a symbolic book; Genesis is the story of creation compressed
