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I also believe (though slightly less than my belief in Adam) that God just may have one tree which somehow everyone in the world shall see when Christ comes again, but which surely everyone in the world shall hear, that shall clap its hands, which it will have (just because it is a beautiful passege of poetic imagery in the Scripture) in HALLELUYA to the Lord- just to show this sceptical world of ours, that even though there is no need ''of'' it, there is a need ''for'' it, the need to say that God can do anything to lower the haugty looks of  mankind - no names of any person, and especially of Dr. _______, intended. Now that I think of it, I can hear them now, those virgin trees rustling their leaves (swoosh.. whooosh..) as they lift up their arms to welcome the Bridgroom, their Creator. Can't you hear them? Are you that deaf? (I do not insist that those trees be actual literal Virgins. I, too, believe in the distinction between prose and Poetry)

I also believe (though slightly less than my belief in Adam) that God just may have one tree which somehow everyone in the world shall see when Christ comes again, but which surely everyone in the world shall hear, that shall clap its hands, which it will have (just because it is a beautiful passege of poetic imagery in the Scripture) in HALLELUYA to the Lord- just to show this sceptical world of ours, that even though there is no need ''of'' it, there is a need ''for'' it, the need to say that God can do anything to lower the haugty looks of  mankind - no names of any person, and especially of Dr. _______, intended. Now that I think of it, I can hear them now, those virgin trees rustling their leaves (swoosh.. whooosh..) as they lift up their arms to welcome the Bridgroom, their Creator. Can't you hear them? Are you that deaf? (I do not insist that those trees be actual literal Virgins. I, too, believe in the distinction between prose and Poetry)

And I do believe in a key to understanding that the "myths" contain a greater-than-myth-reality and the "truths" are not the "noble or ethical abstracts" but, rather, realities on another level and very much of the concrete stuff that is real enough to sit on. C.S. Lewis also believed that way (he, also, by the way, smokes a pipe!). I remember in one of his books, Perelandra it is, I think, the protagonist, I think it's a man named Ransom, is wrestling with an embodiment of Evil. While he is wrestling, he is thinking (my remembering, and probably my faulty wording), "... so this is what it means to wrestle with evil. a grimy sweaty man or thing, a 'spirit' of the sort I can clutch on to and choke, or let go and be choked. No abstraction, no ethical anything. And, God, I am losing strength. How much longer!" Ransom then realizes that for him, the final or decisive wrestling with evil, is physical...and real! And the will to hold on, to live, not to be vanquished by this Evil Thing, rested only in thiis his decision, " I shall not give up!" This is the real setting of the Garden of Delight- a thicket, a tree, and a choice..(and a woman)

And I do believe in a key to understanding that the "myths" contain a greater-than-myth-reality and the "truths" are not the "noble or ethical abstracts" but, rather, realities on another level and very much of the concrete stuff that is real enough to sit on. C.S. Lewis also believed that way (he, also, by the way, smokes a pipe!). I remember in one of his books, Perelandra it is, I think, the protagonist, I think it's a man named Ransom, is wrestling with an embodiment of Evil. While he is wrestling, he is thinking (my remembering, and probably my faulty wording), "... so this is what it means to wrestle with evil. a grimy sweaty man or thing, a 'spirit' of the sort I can clutch on to and choke, or let go and be choked. No abstraction, no ethical anything. And, God, I am losing strength. How much longer!" Ransom then realizes that for him, the final or decisive wrestling with evil, is physical...and real! And the will to hold on, to live, not to be vanquished by this Evil Thing, rested only in this his decision, " I shall not give up!" This is the real setting of the Garden of Delight- a thicket, a tree, and a choice..(and a woman)

Why not? Why could it not have been? Why could not the First Adam, "Adam", have been as real, and concrete and singular- all after his kind and order- as was the Second Adam (in Whom we have believed and into Whose body we were baptized), Jesus Christ, after His kind and order? All it takes is a little imagination.

Why not? Why could it not have been? Why could not the First Adam, "Adam", have been as real, and concrete and singular- all after his kind and order- as was the Second Adam (in Whom we have believed and into Whose body we were baptized), Jesus Christ, after His kind and order? All it takes is a little imagination.