Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1190

1190. It was during the above-mentioned "deep sleep", which means, during the "plant kingdom", that God created "Eve". But He did not create her from "clay" (transformed mineral matter), as He had done in the case of "Adam", but created her from "Adam's rib". So here divine scripture indicates that there was a difference between the arrival or emergence of "Eve" on the physical plane and that of "Adam". "Adam" was "created from clay". "Clay" stands for "soil", which of course consists of the above-mentioned transformed mineral substance. The "Bible" thus says that "Adam" grew directly from the "soil". So the "plant", whose development gradually continued into the animal kingdom and resulted in the present terrestrial human being, grew, like the ordinary "plant" of today, directly from the "soil". But, as we already know, this "Adam" at its initial stage was not a "specifically male being", but, as previously mentioned, a being or a form of life in which the "feminine" principle and the "masculine" principle were in balance. And this balance had of course to influence the vital functions of this "Adam". As a consequence of this it had to be "self-fertilising", among other things. But this phenomenon is one hundred per cent in accordance with the cosmic analyses of life. Being "self-fertilising" is in its highest principle the same as being independent of one's fellow beings. The "self-fertilising" being can provide itself with the things that it needs. It is not dependent on its fellow beings, their whims or discretion for its existence, its life, the survival of its species or its food. Indeed, "Adam", the living being at this stage, knew nothing of "darkness" or so-called "evil". The being or life form still lived here entirely in the "light" or so-called "good". It did not have to "eat its bread in the sweat of its brow" or "in sorrow bring forth children"; it knew no "anguish" in connection with "conception", just as the world it had now entered had not yet been placed under a "curse" that could affect its senses or experiences. The "self-fertilisation" that we usually see in certain present-day "plant forms" is thus merely a little modest part of the great "principle of self-fertilisation", which in its last analysis or culmination is nothing less than the culmination of "cosmic consciousness" itself.