Was not the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, morality? Before they ate of it, Adam and Eve were innocent - innocently naked, for instance. They were, to use Nietzsche's phrase, beyond good and evil. But the serpent gave them the teaching, *seduced* them to adopt the teaching, that certain things were right and certain things wrong: for instance, being naked before someone else than your own spouse (including before God). So what really *spoilt* their happy innocence, what really made them lose Paradise, was morality - Judeo-Christian morality, to be precise. And is not the following teaching the fruit of the tree of life?
"1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul[...].
2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body[...].
3. Energy is Eternal Delight."
[William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.]
Take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.
2006-07-10
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