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It is corroborated, however, as we have shown, by the Esotericism of Genesis. Not only are the animals created therein after the “Adam of Dust,” but vegetation is shown in the Earth before “the heavens and the earth were created.” “Every plant of the field before it was in the earth” (ii. 5). Now, unless the Occult interpretation is accepted—which shows that in this Fourth Round the Globe was covered with vegetation, and the First (Astral) Humanity was produced before almost anything could grow and develop thereon—what can the dead letter mean? Simply that the grass was in the earth of the Globe before that Globe was created? And yet the meaning of verse 6, which says that “there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground,” before it rained, and caused the trees, etc., to grow, is plain enough. It shows also in what geological period it occurred, and further what is meant by “heaven” and “earth.” It meant the firmament and dry incrustated land, separated and ridden of its vapours and exhalations. Moreover, the student must bear in mind that, as Adam Kadmon, the “male and female being” of Genesis i, is no physical human being but the host of the Elohim, among which was Jehovah himself—so the animals, mentioned in that chapter as “created” before man in the dead-letter text, were no animals, but the zodiacal signs and other sidereal bodies.