ABSTRACT
The original human creature was a pure and creative form of the divine humanity of God. The real nature of the catastrophe, of which the tradition survives in so many forms under the name of “the Fall,” was to precipitate the period of reproduction. An impulse from the outside could not be evoked and its action sensibly experienced, except as its impulsion had gross material force enough to establish a current acting inwards upon the human organism. The inner organism of man remained as it had been—permeable by the divine vitality; but an outer casing had become relatively solid. There is no perfect safety in the presence of any passion that has not grown from, and does not depend upon, the passion for the divinity.
