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innocence. The fully developed body well supplied apparently from the earth, with every sense
gratified is a step to something beyond. Within
are the soul qualities struggling for birth and
that birth is understanding. By the inbreathing man becomes conscious of his soul, but faintly
conscious at first.
The first "three days" stand for soul unfoldment and the second "three days" stand for the
understanding of that enfoldment. The tree of
the knowledge of good and evil is the light and
the darkness that attend upon the way in enfoldment. Up to the day of understanding, the soul
has no temptation to form opinions, to handle
what it does not understand. While understanding is still young --- undeveloped--there is a strong
temptation to express opinions, but Wisdom says,
"Thou shalt not." Parable of wheat and tares.
The soul unfolded to its consciousness of form,
or body, is the Garden of Eden; the place of being
without understanding. The "living soul," created and put into the garden to dress it, is the
enfoldment of individual consciousness to the
place of understanding. The soul begins to see
its responsibility and to assume care of the body.
Man here enters the age of reason, begins to comprehend cause and effect. Soul is recognized as
the essential nature; but in the process of unfoldment into consciousness of Truth body is sub-ordinated
