(THE GARDEN OF EDEN)[29th March 1987]

[Redbook3:71][19870329:1210t](THE GARDEN OF EDEN)[29^th March 1987]

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One may see the eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good (or God) and Evil as {being} not so much a sin, as an essential stage in the development of Humanity: the acquisition of a Con-science, the ability to recognise God even when he was not physically present in Man(?)-like form, and to recognise and distinguish what is separated from God the Spirit. The expulsion from the Garden of Eden was not so much then a punishment, as an inevitable consequence: a change in the state of Man's mind*, without which no inner development could occur.

(This view, and the archetypal view of Christ, are probably Jungian in origin.)

*{To be more like God's?}

It seems that some 9,000 years ago, a climate change occurred which forced Man to supplement Nature's bounty (as it were![sic]) by his own efforts. <890930>

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