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> But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
The sin of eating from the tree of knowledge is what started the cycle of suffering. Its a fable for the descent of the spirit into the material world where we inhabit bodies that are bound for death.
>And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever
The knowledge of good and evil is a code for the duality which defines the physical world.
>The Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah which takes its name from that verse, explains that the enlightened are those who ponder the deepest “secret of wisdom.” What is that secret? The answer varies from text to text, tradition to tradition, but in the Zohar and elsewhere, the deepest secret is that, despite appearances, all things, and all of us, are like ripples on a single pond, motes of a single sunbeam, the letters of a single word. The true reality of our existence is Ein Sof, infinite, and thus the sense of separate self that we all have—the notion that “you” and “I” are individuals with souls separate from the rest of the universe—is not ultimately true. The self iis a phenomenon, an illusion, a mirage. This view is called “nonduality” (“not-two”), and it is found at the summit of nearly every mystical tradition in the world. Nonduality does not mean we do not exist—but it does mean we don’t exist as we think we do.”
This being misunderstood is what leads people to believe God lied in the garden.
>Lucifer
Lucifer represents ego. Nothing is above God because all is God and ego is a rejection of this wisdom and identification with the body. To enter the kingdom of heaven the damage of the original sin must be fixed within you because the kingdom of heaven is within.
