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Section 2 of 3, Chapter 10, Science of Being, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.   
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12	    XXIX.  The word Adam is from the Hebrew adamah,
  	signifying the red color of the ground, dust, nothingness. 
  	Divide the name Adam into two syllables,	                             Adam not
15	and it reads, a dam, or obstruction. This                 	             ideal man 
  	suggests the thought of something fluid, of mortal mind
  	in solution. It further suggests the thought of that
18	"darkness . . . upon the face of the deep," when mat-
  	ter or dust was deemed the agent of Deity in creating
  	man, — when matter, as that which is accursed, stood
21	opposed to Spirit. Here a dam is not a mere play upon
  	words; it stands for obstruction, error, even the sup-
  	posed separation of man from God, and the obstacle
24	which the serpent, sin, would impose between man and
  	his creator. The dissection and definition of words,
  	aside from their metaphysical derivation, is not scien-
27	tific. Jehovah declared the ground was accursed; and
  	from this ground, or matter, sprang Adam, notwith-
  	standing God had blessed the earth "for man's sake." 
30	From this it follows that Adam was not the ideal man
  	for whom the earth was blessed. The ideal man was
            revealed in due time, and was known as Christ Jesus.