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was "good" but not perfect. Had it been perfect, there
would have been nothing further to do, and evolution would
have been superfluous. The human race did not become
definitely human until the latter pait of the Lemurian
Epoch when the spirit commenced to draw into the
bodies. The humanity of that time, Adam and Eve,
were very different from our present day humanity. They
were also products of evolution, for there is no instantaneous
creation. These beings had progressed through stages of
plant-like and animal-like development from the mineral
kingdom wherein they started, and it was not a single pair,
as is usually understood by orthodox religionists, but a
humanity
that was both male and female at the time
mentioned in the Bible. It is said that male and female
created He them ; moreover, it was not the first time that
man had been upon the earth, or that the earth had been
peopled, as can be seen from- Genesis 1 :28, where they were
commanded to go out and RE-plenish the earth, showing
that the earth had been the abode of certain other beings
previous to the advent of those which are called Adam and
Eve. Josephus says that Adam means "red earth" and
the Hebrew "Admali" from which Adam is derived, means
"firm ground"; that describes the state very well. Adm
(as it is given in the Hebrew text), did not come upon the
earth until it had solidified and become firm, yet he came
before the earth had become properly cooled as it is now,
and so the earth was really in a red and fiery state at that
time. He had been here before. During the earlier Epochs
before the Lemurian, the spirits hovered over the fiery
earth and helped to form and mold it as it is now. The
human spirits were at that time learning lessons with which
we have no present concern. We were unconscious at that
time, but did the work just as well as, for instance, our