The Forbidden Truth
“Adam’s apple is so named because a piece of the Biblical forbidden fruit is supposed to have stuck in his throat. The name Adam itself is the Hebrew word for ‘man’. What sticks in our throat, then, is the… Forbidden Truth. When we manage to cough up the bolus and inspect it, what do we [...]
Animals
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." – George Orwell
"Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity." – Erich Fromm
"Man has liberated himself (by breaking the divine commandment not to eat of [...]
Art II
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb." – Jean Arp
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus." – William Blake
Fruit
"For the creative mind, there is no right or wrong. Every action is an experiment, and every experiment yields its fruit in knowledge." – Hagbard Celine
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" – Frank Scully
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." – Thomas [...]
Paradise
"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." – Sri Chimnoy
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." – Laurie Anderson
"Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' : thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents." – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and [...]
Ripeness
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Worship, A.D
"There is much truth in the parable of the tree of knowledge and its fruit, though I want to make an addition to it to make it fit into my picture of Adam: [...]
Tree of Knowledge
"They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't eaten as yet, as a rule they do not." – Clarence Darrow
"Jehovah, who of all the good [...]
Tree of Life
"We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life." – Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes: Paradise
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." – William Blake
"Eating is the form of [...]
God and His Angels Rape Eve
The Rulers laid plans to impregnate Eve and create a slave race to worship them, but Eve simply laughed and hid in the Tree of Knowledge, leaving her sperm-spilling suitors with naught but a ghostly decoy.
“…Eve, since she existed as a power, laughed at their false intention. She darkened their eyes and left her [...]
The Forbidden Fruit
Hoping to keep mankind ignorant, the Archons warned Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge:
“Then the seven took counsel. They came to Adam and Eve timidly. They said to him… “Every tree which is in Paradise, whose fruit may be eaten, was created for you. But beware! Don’t eat from the [...]
