Just as people have cursed the biblical "event in the garden of Eden" and called it the "Fall", so too have they to a certain extent begun to curse the new "Eden-event"
1430. We are thus confronted with, a new "Eden-event" with its "serpent" and "seduction" in the form of the Christ-event or the contribution of the world redemption with its impulse of humaneness or neighbourly love. And just as people for thousands of years have cursed the previous "Eden-event" and in the traditional account have called it the "Fall", just as they have called the intervention of the principle of world redemption the "serpent", "Adam" and "Eve" "sinners" and the terrestrial existence a "curse" representing the "wrath of God" and "punishment" – only later, in the form of the Law of Moses, to acknowledge it to a certain extent as the highest ideal with a certain amount of punishment meted out for each little infringement, however small – so too will people begin, if they have not already done so, to curse to some extent the new "Eden-event" that is beginning now, at the same time as they will also begin to acknowledge it to a certain extent.
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