This patriarch illustrates the purpose of Love to create trust in Good, and shows the Life-preserving power of spiritual understanding.
Adam. Error; a falsity; the belief of “original sin,”
sickness, and death; evil; the opposite of good, or God,
and His creation; a curse; a belief in intelligent matter,
finity, and mortality; “dust to dust;” red sandstone;
nothingness; the first god of mythology; not God's
man, who represents the One God, and is His own image
and likeness, — even the perfect and spiritual reflection
of Spirit, whose Life, Substance, and Intelligence are in
and of God; the opposite of Spirit and its creations; that
which is not the image and likeness of God, but a material
belief, opposed to the One Mind, or Spirit; a
so-called finite mind, producing other minds, thus making
“gods many and lords many” (1 Cor. viii. 5); a
product of nothing, as the opposite of something; an unreality,
as opposed to the great reality of spiritual existence
and creation; a so-called man, whose origin, substance,
and mind are supposed to be the opposite of God, or
Spirit; an inverted image of Spirit; the image and likeness
of God's opposites, — namely, matter, sin, sickness,
and death; the antipodes of Truth, termed error; the
counterfeit of Life, which ultimates in death; the opposite
of Love, called hate; the antipodes of Spirit's
creation, called self-creative matter; Immortality's opposite,
mortality; that of which Wisdom saith, “Thou shalt
surely die.”
This name represents the false supposition that Life is not eternal, but has beginning and end; that the Infinite enters the finite, Intelligence passes into non-intelligence,
