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The Creation Of Adam When the Maker willed the birth of mankind into existence to see what he would do with good and evil, God commanded angel after angel to take a handful of clay from the earth as a deposit that would have to be returned. Each time the earth begged that this not be done, each time refusing God's emmissaries, for the earth knew that she would not be ruled or honored or provided for by any less than God Himself. "Don't ask me again," said the earth to Azrael, "Don't ask me to take on your quest. I am slave to no one but Him, The one who raised dust from the sea, My ear is deaf to all words but His, He is dearer to me than my own sweet soul, The soul that came out from him, I am deaf and dumb and blind to all but him, For I am as the spear in his hand." And so the clay was gathered by God Himself, and mankind was born by the will of God alone.
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