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. . . we see the creation of the world, as the awareness of these influences that have become enmeshed, entangled into matter; that they are seeking they know not what.

For that desire to procreate in self, or to hold to selfish interests, has grown—grown—until it is—what did He give?—the prince of this world, the prince of this world!

Know that He who came as our director, as our brother, as our Savior, has said that the prince of this world has no part in Him, nor with Him. (John 14: 30)

Then as we become more and more aware within ourselves of the answering of the experiences, we become aware of what He gave to those that were the first of God’s projection—not man but God’s projection into the earth; Adam and Eve.

And then in their early day they were tempted by the prince of this world, and partook of same.

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The readings are very definite about the cause of Adams Fall. Sin came into God’s Creation through the misuse of the God-Force at the sexual level. This was the real temptation, the “forbidden fruit” offered to Eve.

The apple, then, that desire for that which made for the associations that bring carnal-minded influences of that brought as sex influence, known in a material world, and the partaking of same is that which brought the influence in the lives of that in the symbol of the serpent, that made for that which creates the desire that may be only satisfied in gratification of carnal forces, as partake of the world and its influences about same—rather than of the spiritual emanations from which it has its source.

Will control—inability of will control, if we may put it in common parlance.

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Perhaps the Serpent made Eve aware of that mysterious substance which was now the home for her soul—her own body, undefiled and unexplored.

And when the woman saw that the free was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (Genesis 3:6)

Cayce’s thoughts on Conception and Childbirth are worth noting here. The readings placed great emphasis on the ideals and purposes of the parents toward sexual union, conception, and childbirth. Their mental and spiritual ideals can exert a more powerful influence on the unborn child than the physical forces of heredity and environment. A long series of readings, part of the 281 series devoted to the book of The Revelation, investigated such desire . . . is phenomena extensively. The conclusion of this series is succinctly stated in the following:

(Q) It is the spiritual activity within the body of the parents, or the lack of it, that determines the influence predominant in the life of their child.

(A) This is true.

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There 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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