are many examples in Scripture—and they win be commented upon throughout—where the spiritual preparation of the parents resulted in the birth of children who became the great leaders and examples for Israel.
The neglect of these activities produced Israel’s great sinners and stumbling blocks. And the first example of this is Cain.
Eula Allen, in her Creation Trilogy,5 suggests that Cain was actually fathered by a Serpent-being who seduced Eve. Literally, the serpent could have been a crystallized thought-form of a soul. Eve could easily have been beguiled into listening to this handsome being who was already wise in the ways of the world, and knew exactly how to present himself to her.
The following thoughts are taken from the Edgar Cayce Bible class notes.
“No doubt that one who tempted Eve presented himself in a very beautiful and desirable way, so that Eve believed him and forgot, for the moment, God’s commandment which, apparently, she had received second–hand from Adam. The serpent (so-called) seemed much more real to her.
It’s the same today. Unless we constantly seek guidance from within, we are apt to be led into temptation by the things of this world.”
Was Cain propagated through the serpent—or fathered through the self-indulgence of our first parents? In either case, Cain is clearly the result of The Fall, the first creation of the created.
The serpent is the earthly form (and first manifestation of evil mentioned in Scripture) of that spirit which rebelled in Heaven, still working to undermine God’s plan for reuniting His children with Him. Adam and Eve, until they fell, were one with the consciousness of God.
It was the eating, the partaking, of knowledge; knowledge without wisdom, or that as might bring pleasure, satisfaction, gratifying . . . Thus in the three-dimensional phases of consciousness such manifestations become as pleasing to the eye, pleasant to the body appetites. Thus the interpretation of the experience, or of that first awareness of deviation from the divine law, is given in the form as of eating of the Tree of Knowledge.
Who, what influence, caused this, ye ask?
It was that influence which had, or would, set itself in opposition to the souls remaining, or the entity remaining, in that state of at-onement
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A Pattern for All
The Fall in Eden symbolizes the experiences of the twin-souls Adam and Eve, yet it also represents the pattern for all the Sons of God who entered with them.
Man, in Adam (as a group, not as an individual) entered into the world (for he entered in five places at once, we see—called Adam in one, see?) and as man’s concept [came] to that point wherein man walked not after the ways of the Spirit but after the desires of the flesh, sin entered—that is, away from the Face of the Maker, see? and death then became man’s portion, spiritually, see? for the physical death existed from the beginning; for to create one must die . . .
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This universal pattern is reflected in this Life reading which describes a temptation similar to Eve’s.
. . . the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods of the early rise in the land of the sons of Belial as oppositions, that became more and more materialized as the powers were applied for self–aggrandizement.
The entity was among the children of the Law of One that succumbed to the wiles—and it may be well interpreted in that answer recorded in Holy Writ—”Ye shall not surely die, but it is pleasant for the moment, and for the satisfying of longings within.”
Thus did the entity begin to use spiritual forces for the satisfying of material appetites.
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And the eyes of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked . . . And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. (Genesis 3:7-8)
Both Adam and Eve became self-conscious, aware that the appetites of their bodies were at variance with the desires of the spirit. The new consciousness brought fear.
. . . with these changes coming in the experience of . . . Adam and Eve, the knowledge of their position, or that as is known in the material world today as desires and physical bodily charms, the understanding of sex, sex relationships, came into the experience. With these came the natural fear of that as had been forbidden, that they know themselves to be a part of but not of that as partook of [the] earthly, or the desires in the manner [of those] as were about them, in that as had been their heritage.
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Apparently, the temptation and Fall were part of the Divine Plan, a necessary experience which had been foreseen by Amilius while in the spiritual state.
. . . as the first begotten of the Father, [who] came as Amilius in the Atlantean land and allowed himself to be led in ways of selfishness.
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The Fall also involved a clairvoyant experience for Adam.
(Q) When did the knowledge come to Jesus that He was to be the savior of the world?
(A) When He fell in Eden.
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The God-Force became sexual force, or carnal force, in the Garden. The destiny of Adam, after the Fall, was to restore and demonstrate the full potential of man’s creative energies in the flesh. This was realized through the Immaculate Conception of Mary (who had been Eve) and in the life of Jesus through his ministry and especially his Resurrection, the ultimate triumph over the physical.
This reading was devoted solely to the sex question.
Yes, we have the question here regarding sex and sex relationships . . . This has been the problem throughout man’s experience or man’s sojourn in the earth; since taking bodily form with the attributes of the animal in which he had projected himself as a portion of, that he might through the self gain that activity which was visualized to him in those relationships in the earth.
Hence slow has been the progress through the ages. And as has been seen, and as may be gained by a study of man’s development, this . . . has ever been a problem before man.
This is ever, and will ever be, a question, a problem, until there is the greater spiritual awakening within man’s experience that this phase biologically, sociologically, or even from the analogical experience, must be as a stepping stone for the greater awakening; and as the exercising of an influence in man’s experience in the Creative Forces for the reproduction of species, rather than for the
