(115) Also such an Image was Adam, as God created him before his Eve was made out of him; but the corrupted Salitter wrestled with the Well-spring of Life in Adam, till it overcame. And so Adam became faint, which made him fall into a Sleep. Here he was undone: And if the Barmhert-zig-keit, or the Mercy of God, had not come to help him, and made a Woman out of him, he should have continued still asleep. Of this we will speak in its proper Place.

(24) then it was Time that the Creator should frame a Wife for him, which afterwards set the Sin in Work, and did eat of the false, evil, or corrupt Fruit. Else if Adam had eaten of the Tree, before the Woman had been made out of him, then it would have been far worse than it is.

(22) [paragraph continues] Of this fuller nature the mortal man has little comprehension. Just as spirit contains matter within itself and is both the source and ultimate of the state denominated matter, so Eve represents the lower, or mortal, portion that is taken out of, or has temporal existence in the greater and fuller spiritual creation. Being representative of the inferior part of the individual, Eve is the temptress who, conspiring with the serpent of mortal knowledge, caused Adam to sink into a trancelike condition in which he was unconscious of his own higher Self. When Adam seemingly awoke, he actually sank into sleep, for he no longer was in the spirit but in the body; division having taken place within him, the true Adam rested in Paradise while his lesser part incarnated in a material organism (Eve) and wandered in the darkness of mortal existence.

(20) But seeing the Seed, or Mass, or Lump, out of which Adam was made, was somewhat infected with the corrupt Disease or Malady of the Devil, Adam therefore longed after his Mother, that is, to eat of the Fruit of the corrupted Earth, which then in its outward Comprehensibility was become so evil, and in the Wrath-fire was become so hard, palpable, and comprehensible.