Forbidden Fruit & The Tree of Knowledge (The Temptation Explained)

Speaker: Ryan McMahon

00:00 - INTRO
00:29 - The Tree of Life (The Ultimate Archetypal Symbol For Mankind)
02:24 - The Paradox of Duality (Why Darkness is Necessary To Find The Light)
03:08 - Cycles In Nature (Mans Greatest Spiritual Teacher)
04:49 - The Tree of Knowledge Glyph (Explained)
09:10 - The Temptation of Eve (Temptation Latin Root Word Explained)
18:08 - Mans Eternal Nature (Paradise Etymology Explained)
18:52 - Why Did The Serpent Tempt Eve First, Not Adam? (The Question No One Ever Asks)
22:45 - Why Was There Two Tress In The Garden? (Tree of Life & The Tree of Knowledge)

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THE TWELVE FRUITS OF THE TREE

Again the last chapter of the Bible supplements and illustrates the first ones. Nothing is more revealing than its second verse. The seer announces that the spirit has shown him the “pure river of the water of life, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb”. “

And in the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

Hardly could there be found a more sublime delineation of the graph of man’s historical existence and its scheme of unfoldment anywhere in poetic literature. The great stream of vivific creative energy flows forth from the highest or innermost seat of Being and nourishes the growth of this tree of constructive organic existence, man’s creatural life among the rest.

The most luminous item of the depiction is that the tree grows on either side of the river of water. In this single phrase, had esoteric penetration prevailed over stupid literalism, was to be seen the immediate rebuke and denial of all that vast sweep of pious religionism and alleged “spiritual” philosophy which elevated and worshipped spirit and equally deprecated nature, matter and body.

For the tree has, and must have, its roots firmly grounded in both banks of the stream, the spiritual and the material. Here is truth that mankind sorely needs, and never so as now. The fate of religion, philosophy, human culture, hangs precariously in the balance until this point is certified in all thinking minds.

Genesis does not expressly say that the tree bears “twelve manner of fruits”, but Revelation does. Again here is mighty instruction. Man, it was once known, is to evolve in his entire life course twelve distinct forms or faculties of higher consciousness, to which he will give full function as he becomes the god he is destined to be.

This basic knowledge was the ground and origin of all the divisions of twelves in arcane literature and religious symbolism. It is generic for the twelve months of the year, the twelve hours (twice) of the day, the twelve tribes of Israel or sons of Jacob, the twelve disciples of the Christos, who were “shepherds” under the sign of Aries, “fishermen” under that of Pisces, the twelve stone pillars in ancient temples, the twelve lines of the four faces of the great pyramid, and many another twelvefold type of depiction.

Men will be as gods when they shall have perfected these twelve unfolding aspects of divine Mind. The putting forth one of the twelve fruits each “month” is a further play on the symbolism of the evolutionary process, in which each cyclic period is thought of as producing its given spiritual product in regular order of growth.