<div id="meditmois">\n<h2>Monthly Meditation</h2>\n<ul id="meditnav">\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_01_2021:url]">January</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_02_2021:url]">February</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_03_2021:url]">March</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_04_2021:url]">April</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_05_2021:url]">May</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_06_2021:url]">June</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_07_2021:url]">July</a></li>\n<li class="active"><a href="[meditmonth_08_2021:url]"><span style="color: #ffffff;">August</span></a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_09_2021:url]">September</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_10_2021:url]">October</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_11_2021:url]">November</a></li>\n<li><a href="[meditmonth_12_2021:url]">December</a></li></ul>\n<h1>The true meaning of the Fall</h1>\n<div class="stack-column" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 35%; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 10px; width: 35%;">\n<table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4" align="center">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align="center"><a href="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_medit/adam-eve-tissot.jpg" class="fancybox" id="single_image" title="God's Curse – James Tissot (c. 1896-1902)"><img style="width: 100%; max-width: 350px;" src="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_medit/adam-eve-tissot-min.jpg" alt="God's Curse" width="350"></a><br><br><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>"God's Curse"</strong> - James Tissot (c. 1896-1902)<br><a href="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_medit/adam-eve-tissot.jpg" class="fancybox" id="single_image" title="God's Curse"><em>(click to enlarge)</em></a></span></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n<div class="stack-column" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 60%; vertical-align: top; width: 60%;">\n<table style="width: 100%; float: left;" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class="omapenseesmall" align="justify" valign="top">'As I have already said, the entity that we call <strong>God</strong> is both masculine and feminine, the <strong>heavenly Father</strong> and the <strong>divine Mother</strong>. Similarly, every human being created in the image of God is polarized as both masculine (symbolized by <strong>Adam</strong>) and feminine (symbolized by <strong>Eve</strong>). When a human being incarnates he necessarily leaves his heavenly Mother and Father, but even though he is obliged to leave them, <strong>he must not sever the ties that bind him to them</strong>.<br>His parents have not cast him off, alone and unprovided-for. They have given him the means he needs to remain linked to them, and those means are the <strong>soul</strong> – which is <strong>feminine</strong> – and the <strong>spirit</strong> – which is <strong>masculine</strong>.<br>Yes, but the soul and spirit are living entities. They are not inert objects like a link of rope or metal, and in order to remain in touch with the heavenly Father and the divine Mother, a human being has <strong>to work with wisdom</strong>, the masculine principle, <strong>and love</strong>, the feminine principle, the two attributes of God from which flow all others.<br>And as attraction exists only between opposite poles, the <strong>soul</strong> must attach itself to the <strong>heavenly Father</strong> by working with wisdom, and the <strong>spirit</strong> must attach itself to the <strong>divine Mother</strong> by working with love.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n<div class="stack-column" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 55%; vertical-align: top; width: 55%;">\n<table style="width: 100%; float: left;" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class="omapenseesmall" align="justify" valign="top">Our spirit must keep in touch with its Mother through love, and our soul must keep in touch with its Father through wisdom. It is this contact that enables them to communicate their light to our <strong>minds</strong> and our <strong>hearts</strong>. Without this light our minds and hearts would repeat the fault of Adam and Eve.<br>Just as Eve listened to the false promises of the serpent – a terrestrial animal – and convinced her weaker partner, Adam, to follow her example, so a heart that is seduced by promises of material gratification can lead the weaker intellect astray. <strong>The human heart is always stronger than the mind</strong>.<br>Of course, this story, too, is an <strong>allegory</strong>. It means that when the heart and mind no longer receive true wisdom and love through the soul and spirit, they fall into the clutches of the powers of darkness. This, then, is the story of Adam and Eve. Adam is not a man and Eve is not a woman, and you must no longer identify all men with Adam or all women with Eve. <strong>The story of Adam and Eve is a description of a psychic process that takes place within each human being</strong>, whether man or woman. When our mind and heart are no longer linked to our soul and spirit – which are reflections of the cosmic spirit and the universal soul – we are inevitably drawn down into the lower regions.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n<div class="stack-column" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 40%; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 10px; width: 40%;">\n<table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4" align="center">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align="center"><a href="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_medit/adam-eve-rodin.jpg" class="fancybox" id="single_image" title="Adam and Eve - Marble by Auguste Rodin (1905) - © Musée Rodin"><img style="width: 100%; max-width: 350px;" src="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_medit/adam-eve-rodin-min.jpg" alt="Adam and Eve" width="350"></a><br><br><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>"Adam and Eve"</strong> - Marble by Auguste Rodin (1905) - © Musée Rodin<br><a href="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_medit/adam-eve-rodin.jpg" class="fancybox" id="single_image" title="Adam and Eve"><em>(click to enlarge)</em></a></span></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n</div>\n<div class="stack-column" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 95%; vertical-align: top; width: 95%;">\n<table style="width: 100%; float: left;" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="4">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class="omapenseesmall" align="justify" valign="top">This is the <strong>‘Fall’</strong>. 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