operation on him, and thereby to create woman. Beginning creation with mist, instead of light, — materially rather than spiritually, — error now simulates the work of Truth, mocking God, and declaring what great things error hath done. Beholding the creations of his own dream, and calling them real and God-given, Adam, or error, gives them names; and then he becomes the basis of the creation of woman.
According to this narrative, surgery was first performed mentally, and without instruments; and this is a hint to the medical faculty. Later in human history, when the forbidden diet had been digested, there came a change in the modus operandi, — namely, that man should be born of woman, and not woman again taken from man. It came about also, that instruments were needed to assist the birth of mortals. As the first system of obstetrics has changed its character, the next change in the manner of mortal birth may usher in the glorious truth of creation, — namely, that both man and woman proceed from God, and are His children from first to last, belonging to no lesser parent.
Genesis iii. 1-3. Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” And the woman said unto the Serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”
Whence comes a talking, lying Serpent, to tempt the children of Divine Love? He enters into the metaphor
