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It is hard to understand why Adam and Eve needed angels with flaming swords to drive them out of the Garden of Eden. Surely the boredom of such a place was enough inducement for them to leave voluntarily, even eagerly? Men pass through heaven during the period between earthly embodiments, yet they do not remain there but must return to "this vale of misery." Why? Do they come to a time when unalloyed happiness, without a flaw and without an opposition, can be sustained no longer and a change from this Eden-like state, any change, seems more preferable?

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2 : Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 154