The Antediluvian World (1)

In our former essay attention was directed to the two kinds of seed -- that of the woman and that of the serpent -- to which Eve gave birth. We were wit­nesses of the struggle between the two commence­ments of each seed (Cain and Abel) -- a struggle cul­minating in the murder of Abel. It was noticed how Cain having drenched the ground with the innocent blood of his righteous brother, is made to appear be­fore the divine tribunal and forthwith sentenced; that he thereupon went out from the...