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higher intellectual centre. They were able to participate, in this way, even though only

passively, in the life of a higher Divine plane.

It was at that time that a rupture took place between man and strictly animal life. In
the vertical position, his liberated hands could be applied to a multitude of different

tasks. And it was through work, that the adamic man pledged himself to the long road of

advancement. Until then, he was only a consumer; from then on, he became a
producer.

Penetrated by the divine wisdom that reached him through the higher centres and

the lower emotive centre, which was still to be found in its original purity, Adam was

wise. He was unconscious of the fact that he was drawing passively on the higher

planes, but this innocent and artless state, which was a superior quality, is described in
the Book of Genesis in a way that seems strange at first sight. The text says: Adam and

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his wife were both naked and were not ashamed .
Creative work, however primitive it was, confronted adamic man with the necessity
of formulating objectives, and of judging what measures should be taken to attain them.

It was under this pressure that the urge to judge, or the critical spirit, was born. The

state of unconscious beatitude that Adam and Eve experienced in the Garden of Eden,

corresponds to their passage through the interval from FA to MI in their evolutionary

octave. But the farther the couple advanced over this chasm filled

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Genesis, II, 25.