ABSTRACT
The full significance of the Parable under consideration, and the unity of the mystic Scriptures, become conspicuously apparent when we collate their various corresponding utterances, as by taking into account those also of the Book of Revelation. In creating Man, God creates one whole and perfect being, formed of two distinct parts, Adam the earthly, exterior man, and Eve the spiritual and interior man, his soul and “living mother.” Meanwhile Adam, being interrogated by the Divine Voice, lays the blame upon Eve. In the final exaltation which awaits her as the reward of her faithfulness, the woman, or soul, is described as arrayed by God in the white linen of righteousness, the emblem of perfect purity, and given to be the bride of His “only son,” Christ Jesus. The character or “man” thus reborn is an “only begotten son of God,” because God begets none of any other kind.
