The Meaning of the Fall
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The Science of Mind, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1926], at sacred-texts.com
THE MEANING OF THE FALL
The story of the fall typifies race-experience as brought about through its belief in duality. Man is created perfect; that is, he starts on his journey as a perfect being, but he also starts as an individual; and this, of course, means that he starts with self-choice. Self-choice would have no real meaning unless it were backed by the power to externalize this choice and experience
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the effect of it. Man has the ability to choose and to externalize his choice; for he is a real individuality.
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