Nourished By The Fruit Of The Tree Of Life

On a Deist forum there was a portrayal of a Tree of Life. I wrote about this tree: While the symbol of a tree with roots in a circle is nice, can you eat the fruit of this tree and attain Eternal Life? "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever" (Gen 3:22-23).

The Tree Of Life is the blueprint and pattern of your own Mind: "'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God'" (Rev 2:7)..  As personified in the Image at the right, your mind has 12 spheres which are comprised of 4 Trinities -- and each of the Trinities are male/female paradoxical opposites that not only perceive the world differently -- but often in conflict with each other. The 12 signs of the Zodiac -- the 12 tribes of Israel - the 12 disciples of Jesus -- are all portrayals of the Tree of Life -- which is a portrayal of the pattern of your own Mind. And ONLY when you evolve the 12 spheres -- solving the paradoxical opposites in the 4 Trinities -- and become nourished by the Sacred Knowledge -- can you enter into Life. In the above quotation where it states: "He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat" -- what is inhibiting you from eating the fruit of the Tree of Life, is the Natural Laws that are responsible for evolving you from the Alpha of Ignorance, to the Omega of Enlightened Life. This is God's School House -- and there are no auto-advancement. All advancement is accomplished by overcoming the Natural Laws and prevailing over SELF. And this is the true meaning and objective of the scriptures. But this was corrupted by priest-craft and Revealed Religion. In the words of Thomas Paine:

But the Church of Rome having set up its new religion, which it called Christianity, invented the creed which it named the Apostle's Creed... It then manufactured the allegories in the book of Genesis into fact, and the allegorical tree of life and the tree of knowledge into real trees, contrary to the belief of the first Christians, and for which there is not the least authority in any of the books of the New Testament; for in none of them is there any mention made of such place as the Garden of Eden, nor of anything that is said to have happened there. But the Church of Rome could not erect the person called Jesus into a Savior of the world without making the allegories in the book of Genesis into fact, though the New Testament, as before observed, gives no authority for it. All at once the allegorical tree of knowledge became, according to the Church, a real tree, the fruit of it real fruit, and the eating of it sinful. As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin... ...Reason is the forbidden tree of priestcraft, and may serve to explain the allegory of the forbidden tree of knowledge, for we may reasonably suppose the allegory had some meaning and application at the time it was invented. It was the practice of the Eastern nations to convey their meaning by allegory, and relate it in the manner of fact. Jesus followed the same method, yet nobody ever supposed the allegory or parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the Prodigal Son, the ten Virgins, etc., were facts. Why then should the tree of knowledge, which is far more romantic in idea than the parables in the New Testament are, be supposed to be a real tree? The answer to this is, because the Church could not make its new-fangled system, which it called Christianity, hold together without it. To have made Christ to die on account of an allegorical tree would have been too barefaced a fable.

A True Deist is able to convey to those who dwell under the shackles of Revealed Religion that their scriptures possess a meaning of the utmost importance that has been robbed from them by priest-craft -- whose main concern is the collection plate. The words of Thomas Paine does not say that the allegories in Genesis are worthless myths -- only that they do not mean what Revealed Religion has created out of them. The fact remains -- i.e., if you fail to eat and be nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life, you will have failed to achieve the very objectives of the life you are presently living. If you want to learn about the symbolism of the Tree of Life, it is at http://TreeOfLife.Nazirene.org

When the question is posed: How are the twelve spheres of mind -- each of which perceive and understand the world from a very different and often opposite perspective -- worked on and evolved?  While Deists claim to understand the Natural Laws, this claim is little more than a bogus lie.  To understand the effect of the Natural Laws and what is portrayed as the Tower of Babel Syndrome, you would have to understand The Enigma Of The Segmented Mind http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#SegmentedMind .  And the words of Jesus in the Gospel: "Judge not, lest you be judged".  When you judge others, you alienate yourself from them, and this alienation inhibits your own ability to to develop that sphere of mind that their train of thinking relates to within yourself (see The Solution http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Solution ).  And more important, inhibits the person's ability to Triangulation - Overcoming The Tower Of Babel Syndrome - The Secret To Mental/Spiritual Growth, Expansion and Soul-Birth http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Triangulation .  Thereby inhibiting the person from Using Triangulation - The Laws - The Spiritually Mature Mind Of Man http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org/#TheLawsAndTriangulation .  Which is why organic man who the Apostle Paul portrays as being of an "animal-soul" level of consciousness (see Animal-Soul http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ), is incapable of understanding the spiritual meaning of the scriptures, as well as their own higher Soul-Reality.  Which is why Jesus warned:  “Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (Matt 7:21 NIV).   Thus, only those who actually live in accordance with the Royal Law of God, and do the Will of the Father, are those who can eat and be nourished by the fruit of the Tree of Life, and themselves enter into Life.