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tempts man to try experience without knowledge. In divine illumination man does not consciously enter into that dual condition typified by "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Good is all; evil is that which might be if man forsook his guiding light. In the serene mind of God there is no duality, no good and bad, no understanding-and-ignorance. The brilliancy of all-knowing Mind dissolves all shadows, all negations.
16. It is man's privilege to abide in the light, to know how to work out the problem of existence as accurately as the mathematician who follows, without deviation, the rules of his science. The Lord admonishes the unfolding Adam not to "eat"--not to incorporate into his consciousness the knowledge of duality, good and evil. But, like the child who refuses to take the advice of one who knows, man falls into indulgence of the sense of pleasure and excess. The reaction of sense indulgence is pain. Through these experiences, man comes into a consciousness of an opposite to the good. The dual mentality naturally sets up positive and negative forces in his mind, and these opposing forces are reflected into his body. The commotion is so great that the soul is forced out of its temple--man is put out of the garden, and in time forgets his former Edenic state.
17. Some metaphysicians argue that eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge was a necessary step in man's evolution; that by experience we learn all truth, and that without experience we should always
