emmerich -13

When Adam and Eve returned to the region of shining light...

a radiant Figure like a majestic man with glittering white hair stood before them. 

He pointed around, and in few words appeared to be giving all things over to them, and to be commanding them something. They did not look intimidated, but listened to him naturally. When he vanished, they appeared more satisfied, more happy. 

They appeared to understand things better, to find more order in things. 

For now they felt gratitude. 

But Adam more than Eve. 

She thought more of their actual bliss.

And of the things around them. 

Than of thanking for them. 

She did not rest in God so perfectly as did Adam. 

Her soul was more taken up with created things. 

I think Adam and Eve went around Paradise three times.

Again I saw Adam on the shining hill, upon which God had formed the woman from a rib of his side, as he lay buried in sleep. He stood alone under the trees, lost in gratitude and wonder. 

I saw Eve near the Tree of Knowledge...

as if about to pass it, and with her that same animal more wily [sluw] and sportive than ever. Eve was charmed with the serpent, she took great delight in it. It ran up the Tree of Knowledge until its head was on a line with hers. 

Then, clinging to the trunk with its hind feet... 

it moved its head toward hers and told her that, if she would eat of the fruit of that tree, she would no longer be in servitude, she would become free, and understand how the multiplication of the human race was to be effected. 

Adam and Eve had already received the command... 

to increase and multiply... 

but I understood that they did not know as yet how God willed it to be brought about. 

I saw too that, hád they known it and yet sinned áfter that knowledge... 

Redemption would not have been possible. 

Eve now became more thoughtful. 

She appeared to be moved by desire for what the serpent had promised. Something degrading took possession of her. It made me feel anxious. She glanced toward Adam, who was still quietly standing under the trees. 

She called him. 

And he came.

~bron~