The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil

It’s good to know, beloved, that the voice of doubt and temptation was first external to us, it was not internal! 

What did the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil symbolize? The Hebrew word for knowledge is daath, which is taken from the root word yada, which means to know intimately – to become one with. The fruit of this tree didn’t have one piece of fruit growing as good and one piece growing as evil, but that all of its fruit was the admixture, fusion, bonding of good and evil together – it is the realm of doubt and confusion. The realm of doubt and confusion is an unholy, unsanctified, unseparated realm that has not gone through a divisionary process, but where good and evil merge as one.  No bueno!

Before we ate of this fruit, we had absolute clarity in our conscience heart -- we saw, comprehended and perceived clearly. We were, in essence, one with God Himself. We lived in the realm of God’s reality of truth, which had gone through a divisionary process, and we lived in the pleasurable state of good and holy! 

When we ate of this unholy fruit, we fell from a very high place of light and uprightness, God’s absolute Truth, into a realm of shadows – variations of an admixture of light and darkness – what God had clearly separated in His creation! Before the fall, doubt and temptation were external and unknown to us. But once we chose to eat the admixed fruit of bonded good and evil, the voice of doubt was internalized -- now on the inside of us! We now have both a desire for good and an internal urge to merge with lesser states. The phrase, “You are what you eat” is most apropos for this point, we became the fruit of our choices and fell into confusion of soul. Doubt paralyzes us from doing and acting upon what is true, absolutely true!

When Adam and Woman made the unseen choice, their choice manifested in the seen world and they saw (perceived) that they were naked. They then wanted to cover up the choice of what they were then manifesting. 

As mentioned before, naked is a poor translation for the word aram which means to be subtle, crafty and shrewd – this is not a word that described their physical bodies, but their internal consciences. The absence of our once experienced inner-beamin' garment of shining Light, the very Presence of God within us, was now gone and external to us. And now confused we are in a crafty unclean guilty conscience, laden with partial truths and mystic doubts. Our physical bodies would eventually follow suit.

God called out to Adam, “Where are you?” Obviously, the all seeing God knew where Adam was, but gave him an opportunity to voluntarily come Him. God knew the truth about where they were, but they didn’t! Isn’t that where we all substitute reality, the absolute truth, for the construct of our illusions? 

Adam comforted himself with the illusion of being hidden from the One he knew could see him, but chose to beleive that He didn't. Why is that? Because we are so afraid of the pain of our fallen conscience. The sound of God’s Presence pierced him as he found himself now separated from the once internalized Presence of God and experienced The Lord external to him. Shame realized is the dispossession of our upright and holy selves.

So, Adam began the momentum of the abdication of personal responsibility:

The woman whom You gave to be with me (abdication of personal responsibility and blamed God for giving her to him and the woman for giving him of the tree), she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

The Serpent tempted Adam and Woman with an accusation of God’s good character, now Adam, has fallen under the influence of the same serpentine spirit making an accusation towards God by saying, “…that woman you gave me…” as though God is responsible for his disobedience and downfall. Adam was speaking the same accusatory non-sense that Satan said of God. Here is a basic principle in the spiritual dimension: we become the physical agent of whatever spirit we are influenced by – whether holy or unholy! Our attitude and the words we speak reveals the nature of what or who is influencing us.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.  James 3:6