the Beginning of the Ten Thousand Things Read as metaphor, poetry....the beginning of duality and the fall from one to the ten thousand things....
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to
till it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You may
freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that
you eat of it you shall die."
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that
the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You
shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to
the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;
but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is
in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall
die.'" But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die;
for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the
woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make
one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some
to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of
both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
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