| 9. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers,
offering Earth Being
an opportunity to acknowledge his guilt, called to him and asked: “Where
are you?”
10. And Earth Being replied: “I heard the sound of your
movement in the garden and I became anxious because I am
naked, and so I hid myself.”
11. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers, said to Earth Being: “Who told you that there is any shame in being naked? Is it because you have eaten of the tree which I warned you not to eat, that you have become thus confused?” 12. And Earth Being replied: “The female Fire Being whom you gifted to be my companion gave me some of the fruit from the tree, so I ate from it.” 13. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers, said to Fire Being: “What exactly is it that you have done?” And Fire Being replied: “It was the Contrary who seduced me into eating of it.” 14. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers
, said to the
Contrary: “Because of you were too direct and disempowering
in your role of testing the authenticity of human conviction, all of the animals of the
fields and the beasts shall in turn withhold their powers from you. On your belly shall
you crawl, for this is the way in which you are to do your work, subtly, not conspicuously;
gently and wisely walking -- not jolting -- humans from their stupor when they become stuck
in absolutes, when life for them becomes rote.
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