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tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve knew that
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they were naked and experienced a feeling of shame .

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Let us study now the creative process of the human prototype. As in the case of the
birth of all the animal or vegetable species, the intervention of the divine masculine

creative force and its feminine counterpart was necessary: masculine energy proceeds

from our Sun insofar as it is an emanation of Absolute II and the feminine energy from

the Moon, which is the matrix of our Ray of Creation. And, as a result of the conscious

intervention of these two forces, Mother-Earth engendered man by means of the dust
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of the Ground .
This is just one example of the creative action of complementary forces in the

Universe, where the whole group of suns constitutes the body of the cosmic Christ,
Absolute II, and the whole group of satellites forms the body of the Mother, Queen of

the Heavens, Regina Astris.

We remind the reader that this description will aid him in his revision of certain

passages in the first volume, relating to the structure of the Universe.

It was thus, by the reflux of feminine energy, reacting to the impact of divine
masculine energy, that the growth of the creature began. The sexual and motory

centres appeared first and simultaneously; then came the creation of the lower emotive

centre. A psychic body being

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Genesis, III, 7.
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Genesis, II, 7.