Then came the Peacock in the likeness of Jibrail to the Lady Eve and said: “O Lady of Light, why is thy Altar upon the left hand and the Altar of my Lord upon the right?” The Lady Eve said: “It is a remediable error,” and she remedied it with her own hands, and our pure Forefather fell into a great anger. Then entered Jibrail in the likeness of the Peacock and said to Adam: “O my Lord and Very Interpreter, what has vexed thee?” Adam said: “What shall we do? The Woman who sleeps in my bosom has changed the honourable places of the Altars, and if I suffer not the change she will weary me by night and day, and there will be no refreshment upon earth.” Jibrail said, speaking in the voice of the Peacock: “For the sake of refreshment suffer the change.” So they worshipped at the changed Altars, the Altar to the Woman upon the right, and to the Man upon the left. Then came the Peacock, in the similitude of Jibrail the Trusty One, to our Lady Eve and said: “O Incomparable and All-Creating, art thou by chance the mother of Quabil and Habil (Cain and Abel)?” The Lady Eve answered: “By no chance but by the immutable ordinance of Nature am I their Mother.” The Peacock said, in the voice of Jibrail: “Will they become such as Adam?” The Lady Eve answered: “Of a surety, and many more also.” The Peacock, as Jibrail, said: “O Lady of Abundance, enlighten me now which is the greater, the mother or the child?” The Lady Eve answered: “Of a surety, the mother.” The disguised Peacock then said: “O my Lady, seeing that from thee alone proceed all the generations of Man who calls himself God, what need of any Altar to Man?” The Lady Eve answered: “It is an error. Doubt not it shall be rectified,” and at the time of the Worship she smote down the left-hand Altar. Adam said: “Why is this, O my Lady and my Co-equal?” The Lady Eve answered: “Because it has been revealed that in Me is all excellence and increase, splendour, terror, and power. Bow down and worship.” Adam answered: “O my Lady, but thou art Eve my mate and no sort of goddess whatever. This have I known from the beginning. Only for Peace’ sake I suffered thee to build an Altar to thyself.” The Lady Eve answered: “O my Lord, but thou art Adam my mate, and by many universes removed from any sort of Godhead, and this have I known from the first. Nor for the sake of any peace whatever will I cease to proclaim it.” She then proclaimed it aloud, and they reproached each other and disputed and betrayed their thoughts and their inmost knowledges until the Peacock lifted himself in haste from their presence and came to Jibrail and said: “Let us return each to his own shape; for Enlightenment is at hand.” * * * * *