Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
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The Fruit of 'Good and Evil'
Divine energy is in all and everything that exist. When that energy becomes self'aware and without any education that everything is divine energy, what becomes self'aware focuses only on what it knows. The eyes open and become as a god judging what is evil, or not God..judging what is good, or God. This functioning isolation of divine energy is the fruit, the heady rush of feeling, of knowing however much isolated, that one is as a god...a god surely, but with very limited vision and wisdom.
Of the 'Fruit of the Serpent Tree and the Cherubim'...eating its fruit empowers one to make judgments of what is good and what is evil, judging where God is, and where God is not...indeed, what God is, what God is not. The only way to make such judgments is to become as a god. "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:5.
This is clear, the first commandment of the Torah. So why do so many religious organizations promote the knowledge of good and evil? Why do so many clergy of different faiths encourage the consumption of the fruit of the Serpent's Tree?
With a predisposition to judge what is good and what is evil..what God is, what God is not, an environment of intolerance is created. Intolerance begets hate, and hate begets war. An environment of violence, grief, and tragedy is created, for which the clergy and their organized religions conveniently offer their services and comforts. Creating such an adverse environment in which one offers salvation creates a renewable revenue of tithes and source of power wherein poverty and suffering become virtues, and such virtues become the resource that feed the coffers of organized religions promoting them, promoting ever on, the consumption of the Serpent's Tree fruit.
As a legal system has the same economic need to outlaw drugs, religious clergy has the same need to promote the consumption of the Fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil, encouraging people to become 'as gods' in their limited world in their own fashion. Such promotion has proven indeed to be lucrative and power garnering.