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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
197 the Key of Knowledge. Here we have no time to go into the subject. But Seth which means the appointed is the divine Wisdom which is to take the place of the murdered Abel (unreasoning faith). It is Enos, the child of divine Wisdom, who calls himself by the name of the Lord, that is to say, who
regards himself as a God. Such is the true purport of the legend of the fall in the Jewish Scripture. It is not a narrative of the anger of an omoiscient god at the petty transgressions of a couple of puny mortals, nor a nursery tale composed by savage humanity, soon after its emergence from the monkey race; but a description of some of the most valuable principles of a spiritual science, the psychological analysis of which is more exact and rational than anything known to what is termed science in our day.
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