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they had set up: which consistency no one will be 

 disposed to deny. 



The Adam of Eden was a prototype of the Adam 

 of Galilee, so marked by similarities, and so set off 

 against each other, that the spiritual phenomenon 

 attracted the attention of the Sage of Tarsus. The 

 Edenic Adam was homeless, except for the cave in 

 which he was born, clad in the simplest of known 

 garments; in hunger often, and in peril always. 

 He was contending for the supremacy of the earth. 

 The Adam of Nazareth was also born in a cave; 

 was homeless, shelterless; clad in the poorest of 

 raiment; in hunger often, and in peril always. The 

 one was contending for supremacy over rapacious 

 beasts, the other for the conquest and transforma- 

 tion of rapacious men ; the one establishing the king- 

 dom of man, the other founding the kingdom of 

 heaven. Between the two there was an indissol- 

 uble unity; and here let us consider the alignment 

 between the spiritual and the material. 



When the mathematician announced that the 

 universe was without limits — infinite as space, and 

 ruled everywhere by the same laws — and when this 

 was followed by the spectroscope, which demon- 

 strated that it is a unit in materials as well as in 

 forces, then science had reached the broadest 

 generalization, and philosophy the highest concep- 

 tion that is possible to the mind of man. 



Such, also, is the unity of the spiritual with the 

 material. Our Lord possessed a true human body. 



