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CRT:5:23 In the days when Estartha was teaching, Namtenigal often came to hear her words, and The Children of God were not displeased, for teaching the wild men about them was a duty with which they had been charged. Namtenigal, therefore, participated in their rites but could not partake of the elixir from the Gwinduiva, because this was forbidden. While it gave health and strength to The Children of God, safeguarding them from the sicknesses of the Yoslings, if given to others, it caused a wasting away. It was also altogether forbidden for any of The Children of God to mate with the Yoslings, for this was deemed to be the most unforgivable of sins.

CRT:5:24 Now, the wily one learned much from Estartha and, in the fullness of time, brought his own son to her and he became as her son, living in her house and forsaking the ways of his people. Estartha called him Lewid the Lightbringer, for it was her intention that he should be taught the ways of those who walked in light, that he might in time enlighten his own people.

CRT:5:25 Lewid grew up tall and handsome; he was quick to learn and became wise. He was also a man of the chase, strong and enduring, a hunter of renown. But there were times when the call of his people was strong; then, he would go out furtively into the night to indulge in their dark rituals. Thus, he became knowledgeable in the ways of the flesh and in the carnal indulgences of the body.

CRT:5:26 Dadam became a servant of the Sacred Enclosure, where the misty veil between the realms could be penetrated, for all those having the blood of Aruah had twinsight, an ability to see wraiths and sithfolk, ansis and spiritbeings, all the things of the Otherworld, not clearly, but as through a veil.

CRT:5:27 Beside the place called Gisar was a pleasant parkland with trees of every kind and a stream, also thickets of flowering bushes and all manner of plants growing lushly. It was the custom of Maeva to wander there in the sunshine, and Lewid also went there; so it came about that they met among the trees. Maeva knew the man but had shunned him in the past; now, she saw he was handsome, possessed of many attractions, so her foot was stayed, and she did not run away.

CRT:5:28 As the days passed they dallied longer together, and Lewid talked of things Maeva had not heard before. She felt a stirring in her blood, but did not respond or heed his temptations, because of the things that were forbidden. So Lewid went to the Moonmother, wise woman of the Yoslings, and telling of his desires, beseeched her to help him. The Moonmother gave him two apples containing a vile substance, which they had drawn through their stalks; this Lewid gave to Maeva who then became helpless in his hands.

CRT:5:29 They met again after this, for Maeva became enamoured towards Lewid, but it happened that she became ill with a strange sickness and was afraid. Then Dadam became ill, and Lewid also, and Lewid said to the woman, "You must obtain the pure essences from within the Sacred

Enclosure, and Setina, the Moonmother, will prepare an elixir which will cure us." This he said because none of his kind had ever been able to obtain the Sacred Substances, though they had always coveted what had been denied them. Now, because of her frailty, the woman was pliable in his hands, and Lewid seized the opportunity.

CRT:5:30 To achieve his ends, Lewid gave Maeva a potion which had been prepared by the Moonmother, and she administered this to Dadam and those with him, by guile and deceit, so that they fell asleep. While they slept, Maeva stole from the Sacred Substances and took them to Lewid, who gave them to the Moonmother, and she made a brew.

CRT:5:31 Part of this was given to Maeva, and the rest was drunk by the Yoslings, from their awful ankital during their night rites. When the morning came, they were all smitten with grievous pains, and before the sun set that day, all the Yoslings were stricken with a sickness, such as they had not known before.

CRT:5:32 Maeva took what had been given to her and, finding Dadam, laid low in his bed gave him a draught from her vessel, though she had to use womanly wiles to get him to drink it. She drank the remainder, and they both slept. But when they awoke in the morning, both were suffering pains, and this was something they had not known before. Dadam said to the woman, "What have you done, for what has happened to us cannot be unless the things which are forbidden have been done." The woman replied, "Lord, I was tempted, and I fell, I have done that which is forbidden and unforgivable."

CRT:5:33 Dadam said, "I am bound by duty to do certain things, but first let us go into the Gisar to the place called Bethkelcris, where I will seek enlightenment." So they went there together and stood before the shrine beneath the Tree of Wisdom. There, they were filled with an inflowing vision, seeing themselves as they were and as they should have been, and they were ashamed. He, because he had not followed the proper path of a man and she, because of her falsity. There, in the reflecting mist, the contamination of the woman was revealed, and the man's heart shrivelled within him like a flower licked by flame.

CRT:5:34 Then, they saw a great Spiritbeing materialising in the reflecting mist, and he said to them, "Woe to you and your house, for the greatest of evils has befallen the race of The Children of God, and it is defiled. The heritage of Kadamhapa is lost. The fetid flow defiling the woman results from the incompatible intermingling, but it is not all, for sicknesses and diseases are also generating from the ferments of the impure implantation."

CRT:5:35 Dadam said, "The fault is with the woman; wherefore should I suffer?" The Spiritbeing replied, "Because you two are now as one, the cankerworms of disease and sickness strike both equally, but you shall not again defile this place. Henceforth, the misty veil becomes an impenetrable barrier severing our two realms from each other, so they can no longer be easily spanned. Between us, there will now be no means of communication. Henceforth, man and woman, fated to unite in love divine, shall be divided and set apart, though ever yearning reunion. They may cleave one to the other, seeking the unity, which will rekindle the flame, but unless their efforts transcend the limitations of earthly things, they will be in vain. The spirit of man is now severed from the whole and cast again into unconsciousness, and it too shall long for reunion with the whole. The spark shall seek to return to the fire; for otherwise, it becomes nothing. The web of fate is rewoven and the paths of destiny remade; the design of life is redrawn; again, the progression begins in ignorance, birth and death, pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, success and failure, love and hate, peace and war, all the light and shade, the many hues making the splendidly intricate pattern of life on Earth. This is a new beginning, but a beginning not in purity and unencumbered, but one already weighted with debts and burdens."

CRT:5:36 The Spiritbeing continued, "Enough wickedness has been wrought by your wilfulness and disobedience, for the decrees forbidding certain things were for your own benefit. Immortality was nearly within your reach, but had you achieved this, you would have brought an even more grievous evil upon yourselves and your inheritors, for freed from servitude to change, you and they would have been unable to progress."

CRT:5:37 The Children of God were driven out of the gardenland by Spiritbeings, and then guardians were set at its gates so none could re-enter. Then, it was withdrawn beyond the misty veil; the waters ceased to flow, and the fertility departed; only a wilderness remained. The Children of God went to dwell in the land of Amanigel, which is beyond the mountains of Mashur by the sea of Dalemuna.

CRT:5:38 From this time onward, man fashioned his own spiritlikeness. Some, who were loathsome in aspect even unto themselves, went apart and were mercifully veiled in dark depths, and they said among themselves, "Let us dwell here in the darkness and prepare a place for others like ourselves, so that when they follow, they abide here and join us." Thus, were the Dark Regions formed and inhabited by demons who are nought but the hideously fashioned spirits of evil men.