Hypnotic surgery
Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, with inducing
a sleep or hypnotic state in Adam in order to perform a
surgical operation on him and thereby create
woman. This is the first record of magnet-
ism. Beginning creation with darkness instead of light,
- materially rather than spiritually, - error now simu-
lates the work of Truth, mocking Love and declar-
ing what great things error has done. Beholding the
creations of his own dream and calling them real and
God-given, Adam - alias error - gives them names.
Afterwards he is supposed to become the basis of the
creation of woman and of his own kind, calling them
mankind, - that is, a kind of man.
