In the Nazarene or Bardesanian System, which may be termed the Kabala within the Kabala, the Ancient of Days--_Antiquus Altus_, who is the Father of the Demiurgus of the universe, is called the _Third_ Life, or _Abatur_; and he is the Father of Fetahil, who is the architect of the visible universe, which he calls into existence by the powers of his genii, at the order of the “Greatest;” the Abatur answering to the “Father” of Jesus in the later Christian theology. These two superior _Lives_ then, are the crown within which dwells the greatest _Ferho_. “Before any creature came into existence the Lord Ferho existed.”[429] This one is the First Life, formless and invisible; in whom the living Spirit of LIFE exists, the Highest GRACE. The two are ONE from eternity, for they are the Light and the CAUSE of the Light. Therefore, they answer to the kabalistic concealed _wisdom_, and to the concealed Shekinah--the Holy Ghost. “This light, which is manifested, is the garment of the Heavenly Concealed,” says Idra Suta. And the “heavenly man” is the superior Adam. “No one knows his paths except _Macroprosopus_” (Long-face)--the Superior _active_ god.[430] “Not as I am _written_ will I be read; in this world my name will be written Jehovah and read Adonai,”[431] say the Rabbins, very correctly. Adonai is the Adam Kadmon; he is FATHER and MOTHER both. By this double mediatorship the Spirit of the “Ancient of the Ancient” descends upon the _Microprosopus_ (Short-face) or the Adam of Eden. And the “Lord God breathes into his nostrils the breath of life.” When the woman separates herself from her androgyne, and becomes a distinct individuality, the first story is repeated over again. Both the Father and Son, the two Adams, love her beauty; and then follows the allegory of the temptation and fall. It is in the _Kabala_, as in the Ophite system, in which both the Ophis and the Ophiomorphos are emanations emblematized as serpents, the former representing Eternity, Wisdom, and Spirit (as in the Chaldean Magism of Aspic-worship and Wisdom-Doctrine in the olden times), and the latter Cunning, Envy, and Matter. Both spirit and matter are serpents; and Adam Kadmon becomes the Ophis who tempts himself--man and woman--to taste of the “Tree of Good and Evil,” in order to teach them the mysteries of spiritual wisdom. Light tempts Darkness, and Darkness attracts Light, for Darkness is _matter_, and “the _Highest_ Light shines not in its _Tenebræ_.” With knowledge comes the temptation of the Ophiomorphos, and he prevails. The dualism of every existing religion is shown forth by the fall. “I have gotten a man from _the Lord_,” exclaims Eve, when the Dualism, Cain and Abel--evil and good--is born. “And the Adam knew Hua, his woman (_astu_), and she became pregnant and bore _Kin_, and she said: קינתי איש את־יהוה: _Kiniti ais_ Yava.--I have gained or obtained a husband, even _Yava_--Is, Ais--man.” “_Cum arbore peccati Deus creavit seculum._”