a reading from Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis, Book III, Part III, Chapter XVI

We will now look over our analysis and study it from a different point of
view: that of the possible correction of this dangerous situation. We will
recapitulate what was set out here and there in our earlier text, so as to sketch in the complete picture.
The Book of Genesis, which teaches that pre-adamic man and woman were created, simultaneously but distinct, on the Vlth Day, at the same time as the animals, does not give us any details about the process used.1 As for the creation of Adam, this was after the Vllth Day, the divine day of rest, that is, when organic Life on Earth was already complete in its three notes, FA, SOL and LA.
In this case the process is described. It is written: 'And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of Life; and man became a living souL'*
Thus, while the creation of the two sexes of pre-adamic humanity took placeas a single stage, as with the animals, that of adamic humanity took place in two stages. Adam was created:
1) First, as a human being, in the proper use of the term, analogous to his
pre-adamic predecessor, and like him, mortal, though of finer substance.
2) Then, as a living Soul, by the addition of the Breath of Life, of the divine
essence that was introduced into his^j^e, and through that into his hyk, which rendered him immortal.
Readers of'Gnosis' already know that at the second stage, Adam was endowed with the real I, which was divine in nature, and the consciousness of which was established in him from that moment through the intermediary of the higher emotional centre. He was given this in addition to the I of the body and the ephemeral I of the Personality, which also exist in pre-adamic man.
We repeat: 'Before the fall, Adam had in him three Is: the I of the body
(hylic), the I of the Personality (the psyche), and the real I (pneumatic),
whereas his counterpart of the Vlth Day only had, and still only has, the first two: the I of the body and the I of the Personality.
It is through the higher centres, the means of access to the real I and Paradise, the 'geometric place' of the divine consciousness, to which pre-adam man had no access as he lacked the necessary means.

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