Hi Pam
Paradise Lost is our destiny. Paradise Found is our destiny
I have just lost my post by trying to save it by pasting it....just in case it was lost. I have now only 5 mins to start what took over an hour. The great rite out of Eden was the first act of sacrifice that enables the Divine Union to take place. The Great Sacrificer of all the Christ Consciousness took place as it says "as a Lamb slain before the foundation of the world." The supreme sacrfice takes place as it says "through the Eternal Spirit"....the union of Spirit and soul is the process that starts with losing Eden and then regaining Eden through sacrifice. The Great Spirit of us all waits until we too learn to sacrifice one by one. The First great sacrifice took place when consciousness into matter, millions of years have passed since this great sacrifice took place. Spirit or Consciousness veiled itself in a billion forms of matter and by sacrfificing Itself moved stage by stage and precept by precept unvelied Itself at every step upwards..... slowly evolving, from the homogenous to the hetergeneous, the indefinite to the definite, the simple to the complex, each step being by sacrifice until man arrived and with man the slow process of sacrifice as others soon learnt to cooperate and sacrifice for others was for not only one's own well being but that of the whole. It was out of this Spirit of sacrifice that civilisation rose. And so each one became part of this plan of sacrifice where one gave one's free time to learn and fir in with occupations and trades that enabled one to sacrifice for each other and thereby the greater gain of all.

Soon this great Scarifice was returned by the soul of men, through the beauty of it's poetry, arts and workmanship and skill of tradesmenship, so all could see no man could stand truly alone. It was this realisation of one's connection with others that enabled the proces of union to take place so eventually man could see that great place of Supreme Scarifice the Altar of the Spirit.....and go within unveiled in the supreme flight of joyous return.