The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden symbolizes man's original state of perfection before he began to have experience. The Tree of Knowledge means the Life Principle, which can be used both ways. It bore the fruit of knowledge of both kinds of experience, good and evil, freedom and limitation. Man must choose which kind of fruit he will eat. The serpent typifies the Life Principle, viewed from the materialistic viewpoint; it casts man from is perfect state through his belief in duality and separation. Man chose to depart from Good, and man alone must choose to return to it. God lets him alone, for he is a free agent and may do as he wills with himself. When a man decides to return to his Father's House, he will find his Father is still there. God's creation is perfect and we must awake to this fact and know that we are now in the Kingdom of Heaven.