Editorial January 15, 1972 Issue

The Rivers of Eden

Naomi Price

The first chapter of the Bible informs us that God, divine Spirit, made man in His image, after His likeness, spiritual and perfect. In the second begins the allegory of Eden in which "there went up a mist from the earth:^{Gen. 2:6;} and a different—a material—concept of creation appeared.

The allegory presents Adam, the false belief of finite, material being, as a mortal believing himself separate from God, with a will of his own, dependent on a material body for life and intelligence.

Eventually, because of his denial of God, Spirit, and of the true idea of being as spiritual, as God made it, he is expelled from Eden, the place of pleasure, and condemned to a life of toil and pain.

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