The strange effects of faith. Fourth part

And so I placed my plan for man,
In all my own likeness.
My Son and I were both as one;
I took him from my side;
And so I did form the woman referring to Eve or the spiritual Bride,
Whom I pronounced the Bride,
To bring forth a glorious earth,
As I had made in heaven;
I made the angels like the birth
Of children you have been given.
I shall explain what this means:
I brought up children there,
And they rebelled against me—
Let every soul see clearly.
Now I will begin in plainer words,
As this puzzles you;
But surely it is for learned men
To see the mysteries:
How the earth was then drawn out
To be so much like heaven,
To test the king who wants to reign,
A power was given to him.
When I cast the rebel down below—
Let mortals know this—
Now I will show the mysteries plainly,
How everything was placed.

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"The tree of knowledge of good and evil was the knowledge of God and the devil; therefore I forbade the man to eat from it, and pronounced him dead if he ate of it. This command was given to man; and to test the whole, I left the man to himself, the woman to herself, and the devil to himself; all were left to their own will and power, to obey or disobey. The man and woman stood in perfect obedience until the serpent began on earth—as he had done in heaven—to work by arts to betray the woman. For as his malice came, so that you may judge the earth, I have shown you my plan: why I created the whole, and why I placed it on conditions. Could you call me just toward Satan—who was once an angel of light and had long been a companion of God and angels in heaven—if I had cast him from heaven and chained him down in hell for his rebellion in heaven,