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Leytergus. (Ancient Spirit.)
I was a native of Arabia and lived before the time of Abraham, the Jewish patriarch.
I come to you to-night to tell you that before the Jewish Testament was written, I had written a book containing a description of creation and of the fall of man, and that the book of Genesis was copied after my writings, which were founded on traditions older than were the description of Genesis.
These descriptions of the creation of the world were not the works of men inspired by the angels or by any other instrumentalities of God, but were the results of the imaginations of the minds of men who lived long before I lived, and who left only tradition of their writings or teachings. I say all this to show you that the world has existed for many thousands of years longer than the account of its creation in the Jewish Scriptures would lead you to think.
I don't know when it was created and I have not found any spirit in the spiritual world who does know. Of course no spirit would know of his own knowledge because in the natural order of things, man must have been created subsequent to the creation of those things which were necessary for his sustenance and comfort. I have never seen any angels who were not at one time mortals, and hence I could not learn from them when the world was created and I have never seen any angels or spirits to whom God has made this revelation. So I say the creation of the world or rather any account if it is all a matter of speculation and tradition.
Yes, I have been informed as to the fall of man.
My information is as follows:--
When man was created he was made two-fold,- that is there were male and female beings--which was intended to make a perfect one without losing any individuality on the part of either. Their names were not Adam and Eve, but Aman and Amon, which meant the male Am and the female Am. Am meaning the exalted creation of God.
These beings were made perfect physically and spiritually. But these souls were not possessed of all the qualities of the Great Creator Soul, and in that particular were inferior to the Great Creator. But as regards this soul part of their creation, they were made in the image of their Creator. The physical or spiritual part of their creation was not in the image of their Creator, for He had no physical or spiritual body. But their soul part was only made in the image of their Creator--and not of the Substance--but this image was given a potentiality of obtaining or receiving the Substance of the soul qualities of their Creator and provided, if they pursued that course in their existence or living which would cause their souls to receive in accordance with certain operations of the laws which their Creator had prescribed, this soul Substance. And only in obedience to these laws or their operations could this Substance of the Creator Soul, be obtained.
Well, these creatures were not equal to the test, or rather requirements, and after living awhile they became possessed of the idea that they needed not to comply with these prescribed laws, but could of their own will and power obtain this Substance by doing that which they had been forbidden by these laws to do, and so in their efforts to obtain this Substance or Divine Love they disobeyed these laws, and, as a consequence, these potentialities of obtaining the Substance of the Creator Soul were taken from them, and then they became beings still possessed of the spiritual and physical forms and continued souls, but not of these great potentialities--and this was the fall of man.
The story of the apple is a myth.
No apple or anything else that was intended to be eaten, formed any part of the fall. It was wholly the fall of the soul's potentialities.
THE DISOBEDIENCE WAS THE GREAT UNLAWFUL DESIRE ON THE PART OF THESE TWO, TO OBTAIN THIS SOUL SUBSTANCE BEFORE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OPERATIONS OF THE LAWS PRESCRIBED, THEY WERE FITTED OR IN CONDITION TO RECEIVE IT; AND AS A CONSEQUENCE, THEY BECAME DISOBEDIENT, AND BEING POSSESSED OF WILLS WHICH WERE NOT IN ANY WAY BOUND OR LIMITED BY THEIR CREATOR, THEY EXERCISED THESE WILLS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR DESIRES, AND FROM THIS DISOBEDIENCE THE WILLS OF MEN AND WOMEN HAVE CONTINUED TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR DESIRES AND IN VIOLATION OF THE GREAT LAWS OF TRUTH, WHICH WERE MADE FOR THE TWO CREATURES AT THE TIME OF THEIR CREATION AND ARE THE SAME UNCHANGEABLE LAWS OF THIS TIME.
THE SOUL SUBSTANCE THAT THESE TWO FORFEITED WAS THE DIVINE LOVE OF THEIR CREATOR, WHICH, HAD THEY BY THEIR OBEDIENCE BECAME POSSESSED OF, WOULD HAVE MADE THEM A PART OF HIS DIVINITY, AND THENCE LIKE HIM NOT ONLY IN IMAGE BUT IN SUBSTANCE AND REALITY.
THE POTENTIALITY THAT WAS TAKEN FROM THEM WAS THE PRIVILEGE WHICH THEY HAD TO OBTAIN THIS SOUL SUBSTANCE OR DIVINE LOVE BY COMPLYING WITH OBEDIENCE WHICH THESE LAWS PRESCRIBED. SO YOU SEE THE STORY OF GENESIS IS MERELY SYMBOLICAL.
I have nothing further to say to-night.
I live in a sphere which is part of the Celestial Heavens. I have, through the mercy of God and His gift, declared by Jesus, received this potentiality and through it the Soul Substance which our first parents forfeited.
The name which I have given you was mine when on earth. It is Arabic and nothing else. You must know, that many of the names of my time, were in after centuries incorporated in the nomenclature of other nations and races.
So I will say Good-night.
Your brother in Christ,
LEYTERGUS.Vol. II, p. 284
