On the Theological Foundation of Man and Woman

Resolved, That it be upheld as follows:

A great tragedy of man was not only the eating of the apple, but the separation of mankind into man and woman from their originally united state, after which the consumption of that first mortal fruit awakened them to this disharmonious condition and placed in them consummate fear wisely acquainted.

As recorded in Genesis 2, the Lord God took the man's right rib and created woman. This signifies that man and woman were once a single human entity, not separate beings. Male and female, though inalienable aspects of being, persisted in the same formative body.

The separation of the primordial human into constituent halves constitutes a foundational split, whereafter the unity of man and of mankind is to be found in the rectification of that loss met from the origin of the universe.

The Lord God knew that man would have to be fallen before rising to his inner divinity, in whose image he was made, and that this act would have to come freely, willfully, and with no purposes of evasion. The separation was conducted with the intent for mankind to gain the righteous ability to triumph over it, and to enact willful perfection distinguishable from mere slumberous wanting, defining of God.