Alline wrote and espoused many sound ideas, but others moved into the realm of mysticism, and some were simply convoluted. He taught that the souls of all humankind are emanations from the same spirit and that the spirits and the angels had lived in a paradise with God. Furthermore, Adam and Eve existed as one combined spirit. It was after the fall from heaven that Adam and humanity took on corporeal form and, as a group, participated in original sin. He further stated that all time (past, present, and future), occur instantaneously and that at the time of judgement, all will remember their participation in the act of original sin.