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In the Garden, after eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve hid from God because they felt naked in God’s all-knowing presence. Now there was no way they could be outside of the Whole or beyond God’s all-knowing consciousness, but out of love for them, God developed the illusion of time and space and privacy. In this way they would feel that they had time to become comfortable in God’s presence; they would have a sense of their private realm of imperfection until they could become cleansed and perfect again. The projected, lower, outer mind and being was this opportunity. It was symbolized by God making clothes for Adam and Eve and by their leaving the Garden of God’s immediate presence. The lower divisions of our being gave us the time and space to use our wills to choose life over death, good over evil, and eventually feel comfortable in the All-Knowing’s presence. The separation that we sought eventually becomes a thing of the past as we resolve our discomfort in the presence of the All-knowing. That which had become separated is thus united again.