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Like a shadow morphing through the form<br/>
Of the one who stands before it…<br/>
Like a reflection throwing back the light<br/>
To unveil and reveal…<br/>
So are we made to be the image of our Creator,<br/>
But fractured from that Source.<br/>
Our nature is preternatural:<br/>
Having a likeness of who and what we should be<br/>
And yet are not.<br/>
But Yahweh is our Origin<br/>
And history pulls us forward<br/>
To a future day when all creation is not just redeemed,<br/>
But restored!<br/>
Until then we exist—<br/>
One step closer, one step removed—<br/>
An echo of Eden.
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<h2>What is the Purpose?</h2>
<p>This site is created to reinforce the belief that man is a spiritual and physical union, where faith and reason work together, and where the elements of our humanity are an extension of one another.  The title, Echo of Eden, conveys that we are other than what we should be, yet restoration is not far.</p>
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<p>Is an arena for chewing on and struggling through thoughts and ideas.</p>
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<dt><a href="/bias/">Bias</a></dt>
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<p>The podium from which we voice our opinions and beliefs in detail and structure.</p>
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<dt><a href="/imaginarium/">Imaginarium</a></dt>
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<p>The playground for artistic expression.</p>
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<dt><a href="/twisted-minds/">Twisted Minds</a></dt>
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<p>an introduction to the personalities outside the machine.</p>
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<dt><a href="/resources/">Resources</a></dt>
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<p>links that may benefit our visitors as they have benefited us.</p>
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<h3>Modern man is fractured</h3>
<p>The categories of his life disconnected from each other and their Source.  This is represented in the logo by the back of the <q>F</q> cutting between the words, forming a line that we must cross from this echo to Eden, in the menu line holding us down below our true nature, and in the warped and inverted <q>E</q> of our echo.  The dark, impersonal color scheme of black and gray punctuated by blue and green and by the sharp, unnatural lines in the upper menu represents the cold, impersonal, machine-like universe.</p>
<h3>Restoration from the fractured and the machine</h3>
<p>Is represented by the logo’s <q>of</q>, which forms the image of a key to open the door to our destination, by the color purple—color of royalty, kingship, and dominion over the Earth in the ancient world, and by the straight <q>E</q> on which the inverted one leans and points toward.</p>
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