It Happened In Hypnophany-Adam Meets Eve
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When you receive the Seal God will reveal Himself to you. This may happen by hypnophany, the way God revealed Himself to Adam--the first man--when he fell asleep and God created the first woman--Eve--out of him.
God created the world in seven days. On the seventh day He rested. He did not need to sleep but He did rest from the work of creating the earth and what surrounds it in the universe.
On the fifth day God created the first man Adam. But God did not create the woman yet. He waited because He wanted Adam to know how alone he was. Then he would realize just how precious the woman was to him.
And it worked. Adam felt very alone. He had God as his Companion--the perfect friend. God was his husband and lover, his best friend. But God was not always available.
God came to visit Adam every day but He soon left him alone. Adam spent his time in the beginning discovering all that God had created. He gave names to all the animals and birds in the Garden of Eden.
But none of those animals or birds were suitable friends for him. He missed God when He was not there. He felt a oneness with God when He was not there but it was not the same as His Visits.
He longed for the Visits of God every day. It was the only time he could talk with someone like him. None of the animals could talk to him. They were living souls but they had no spiritual life. They could not understand him.
God's Plan was working. Adam knew how alone he was and he desired another companion. The animals had their companions, but he did not have one. Why had God not created a companion for him?
God visited Adam most every day for a while. And when it was time He visited Adam in his sleep. Adam had gone long enough without the woman as his companion. It was time for them to meet.
Adam often experienced divine dreamlike states. That was when he felt at one with God. He wanted the experiences very much, because then he was not alone but was with God even when God was not in the Garden.
One day God cast Adam into a deep sleep. Then He appeared to Adam in a hypnophany, a vision of the dream. He told him it was time for him to meet his new companion.
Adam rejoiced even in his sleep. And when he awoke the dream had not vanished into unreality. It was real! And there she was! His companion. His wife. The first woman. Eve.
God had taken one of Adam's ribs and fashioned the woman out of the rib. "She is bone of my bones," said Adam, "and flesh of my flesh, and she shall be called woman."
Eve was even more like Adam tha
God was. Adam was like God. But Eve was like Adam. She had not been made alongside him. She had been made from him. It was deeply fulfilling.
When you are sealed God will appear to you in hypnophany. In the beginning He will use sleep to warn you away from evil but eventually He will appear with approval instead of warning only. This will happen when you receive the Seal.
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