mixture of thought-forms and animal life. Great monstrosities evolved, and many other sordid and unnatural creatures which were eventually eliminated at the time of the Flood.
It is interesting to note that verse 19 of the King James translation, when the animals are brought before him, is the first reference to Adam by name. Until then he is referred to solely as “the man.” The Lamsa translation refers to Adam throughout. The Catholic New American Bible uses “the man” exclusively.
Liberal theologians claim Genesis is a symbolic account of the evolutionary events in the history of mankind, created from speculations of early man once consciousness had evolved. “The man,” or “Adam,” is the personification of the entire human family. Some say Moses was aware of other forms of human life, but that he represented the highest order, the most advanced, and his account is not about mankind in general, but only of his race, or superior order. The Humanist scholars assert man evolved from the lower forms of life, and was not “created.”
The Fundamentalists assert literally man was a spontaneous creation of God, and did not evolve. They also claim that man is literally descended from two original parents, Adam and Eve.
According to the Cayce readings, a great deal of Truth is found in both positions, but neither one has “all the truth.” There is evolution, and man’s physical frame was modeled after the highest of the primates—the great ape. The ape was used as a pattern. But the soul, with its consciousness and creativity, improved even upon that form. Thus man appeared. There was a set of first parents, a literal Adam and Eve. But they are also symbolic of all the “first parents” in all the five lines of the Adamic race, and were the highest order of the many varied forms of soul-life that were manifesting.
Adam’s search for a helper, or “helpmeet,” suggests a larger pattern. The Life readings show that many Sons of God came in with Amilius (or Adam) as helpers.
One woman asked in her reading:
(Q) In Atlantis, was I associated with Amilius? If so, how?
(A) One as projected by that entity as to a ruler or guide for many, with its associating entity.
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Many of the “trapped” souls had hooves, scales, fins, etc., as portions of their material bodies. One of Cayce’s Bible class students was told in her reading:
This entity was the companion of that beginning of activity in the Atlantean land. Thus, not as a mother of creation . . . but as an advisor to those who would change in their form of activities; or the attempts as later expressed in the entity of being rid of the appendages of materiality.
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This was the beginning of the effort to get souls to disengage from animal associations.
The land was among those in which there was the first appearance of those that were as separate entities or souls disentangling themselves from material or that we know as animal associations. For the projections of these had come from those influences that were termed Lemure, or Lemurian, or the land of Mu.
These then we find as the period when there was the choice of that soul that became in its final earthly experience the Savior, the Son in the earth dwellings, or of those as man sees or comprehends as the children of men.
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Perhaps in verse 19, when the King James changes the general term “the man” to the specific “Adam,” we have a switch in focus from the collective and representational race experience to the specific, singular, and unique experience of Adam, the soul who later became Jesus. Amilius (or Adam) was the leader of this whole movement and it was through his choice that the sex issue or question was settled.
The question before Adam was how he could produce or propagate one of his own kind, or species, in the earth.
Instead of turning to the animal kingdom, Adam drew upon the spiritual resources within himself for the propagation of his “helpmeet.”
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept; and he took one of his ribs . . . and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought he, unto the man. (Genesis 2:21)
The “deep sleep” indicates a state of meditation.
These are, as seen, the records made by the man on the mount [Moses], that this Amilius—Adam, as given—first discerned that from himself, not of the beasts about him, could be drawn—was drawn—that which made for the propagation of beings in the flesh, that made for that companionship as seen by creation in the material worlds about same.
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Adam, we remember, was “a living soul.” He was not encased in the dense, flesh frame of man today.
Yea, but the individual of that period was not so closely knit in matter.
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As a body of “light” or energy, he was able to control its shape by the nature of his thought.
As to their forms in the physical sense, these were rather of the nature of thought-forms, or able to push out of themselves in that direction in which [their] development took shape.”
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All souls were created in the beginning as both male and female; or, more accurately, neither male nor female as we understand the terms today. The soul itself has no sex, but has both positive and negative energies. As it comes into materiality, it takes on either the positive or negative pattern, according to its development and the purpose to be accomplished.
The time came when Adam (as a race) had to be divided into positive and negative forces. This division was necessary in order for the Adamic race to propagate perfect physical bodies through which the entrapped or “lost” souls could manifest and gradually find their way back to the Source. This form of reproduction had to be accomplished through kindred beings—souls—and not the animal kingdom.
Thus, when the deep sleep fell on Adam (the individual), he took on the active, positive, male force.
“. . . He breathed into him the breath of Life and he became a living soul.” As the sleep fell upon him, and the soul separated—through the taking of man’s portion—and He becoming a portion of man.
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. . . then—from out of the self—was brought that as was to be the helpmeet, not just [the] companion of the body.
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Eve was created to complete and complement Adam’s positive or male expression.
How received woman her awareness? Through the sleep of the man! Hence intuition is an attribute of that made aware through the suppression
