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BOSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
digestive organs perform the chemical operations necessary
to digestion and assimilation although we are unaware of
these processes in our conscious mind. It must be plain,
however, that as the work of children in the kindergarten
and grammar school is the all important foundation for the
later teachings of high school and college, so were the
earlier epochs the foundation stones for our present condi-
tions. They were as necessary as it is to learn the alphabet
before we attempt to read.
QUESTION No. 85.
What was the sin or fall in Eden?
Answer: When the earth came out of chaos, it was at
first in the dark red stage known as the Polarian Epoch.
There humanity first evolved a dense body, not at all like
our present vehicle, of course. When the condition of the
earth became fiery, as in the Hyperborean Epoch, the vital
l>ody was added and man became plant-like, that is to say,
he had the same vehicles as our plants have today, and also
a similar consciousness, or, rather, unconsciousness, to that