Remembering
He must have dreamed; for when his mind cleared and he was fully restored to his surroundings, he overheard the last of a discussion between the man and his wife. And he had spoken up, saying, “Yes? Has HaShem said you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?”
The woman replied that they were free to eat the fruit of the trees in the garden, but not the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden—that is, the tree made implicit by the trees that were manifested. They could eat what appeared, but the invisible things of God were not to be considered.
They were unprepared; and that which would serve them for life when they were capable of digesting strong food would poison their immature systems They had understood that the symbolic tree was clearly special, because it stood in the midst of every tree, and because the four main pathways all led to its base.
The tree separated the garden into spheres of influence, creating halves and quarters, which both confronted and mirrored one another; and the woman had continued to expound on her prescient understanding of the hidden things of la, saying, “Of that fruit we cannot eat because it is inaccessible by our hands, neither can we gain access to it, unless we die. To touch is to agree, and to send the thought of touching is to send the thought of eating. This we cannot do.”
The Covering Cherub was gladdened by her answer. It was wise, and it was true; but her heart had added a detail and had missed an inference in the father’s counsel. The father had not said that they could not touch the lesser tree’s fruit, nor that they would die by eating its fruit, but that eating of it would put their lives in danger.
Continuing to teach, heaven’s fiery serpent, aroused himself from his rest in the branches of the Tree of Life, and set forth the day’s lesson.
Speaking before their faces as they were positioned above the firmament, he taught them, “You will not surely die; for HaShem knows that in the day you partake of the fruit of duality, understanding the interplay between the seen and the unseen, your eyes will be opened to the dynamics of creation; and you shall be like him, in that you will have knowledge of good and not good.
Evil figs are easy to spit out. It takes mature control to reject a fig that is less than evil, but simply not so good as it should be.” They were being schooled in the skill of judging between cattle and cattle.
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