20. And Earth Being felt that some part of his being had died,
and that deathness hovered over them both in what they had done.
But he mustered his inner strength and turned to his companion
Fire Being and declared her as Mother of all Life and so named her because
that is how he now saw her in his new awareness. And he was overcome
by a sense of hope and positiveness, for he realized that the same power
of will that had brought deathness and gloom could also be invoked to bring
aliveness and encouragement.
21. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers, was moved by the earth beings’ act of affirmation, and made for them garments of skins in place of their garments of fig leaves, and personally clothed them. 22. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers, said to the spirit
23. And Infinite One, Source of All Powers, sent them from the Garden of Eden, meaning Before Possibility, so that they might work toward healing their relationship with the earth from which they had been taken. 24. But the earth beings experienced it as if they were driven
out because of the confusion of their new perception, and they settled
to the east of the Garden of Before Possibility, so that they might endeavor
always to journey toward it, in the direction of the setting sun, in the
direction of future. And Infinite One assigned spirit beings known
as K’ruvim |
or Those Who Bring Near, and also the Whirling Sword
of the Sacred Fire, as guardians over the path that leads to the Tree of
Life.
