Adymus
Adam and Eve is a metaphor for the moral choices that individuals in a society must go through in their lives: "Conform to societies system of morals and beliefs, or to think for yourself."
What god represented was the Establishment, the moral authority of any religious ruling regime. God tells Adam and Eve that they can enjoy the pleasures of the Garden of Eden as long as they don't Eat from the Tree of knowledge.
The Garden of Eden represents the state of Oblivion; the ignorant bliss that exists in the minds of the faithful. Those who don't think about the big picture can't possible miss anything outside of this box.
The Tree of knowledge represents the vast source of knowledge that exists outside of the religious box, it is all of the different perspectives, and all of the different information that has been discovered all over the world, a collective unconscious of sort.
Thus, to eat from the tree of knowledge you are sybolically digesting the fruits of knowledge that exist outside of your religious beliefs, and in turn gain perspective outside of what you have been raised in.
Obviously this was strictly forbidden by god, if Adam and eve gained more knowledge of their environment, they may begin to doubt that their world is as exactly as god lead them to believe it was. God would no longer be able to control how they think, and thus he would lose control over them.
The Snake that temps eve in the story represents rational thought. It wasn't an animal that starts talking to her, more than it was her own conscious and intuition that was telling her that there might be more to the picture that they are not seeing. It was her rational thought that told her that she needs to gain more knowledge about the world before she can start accepting any of it as absolute truth.
After Adam and Eve ate from the tree, they could no longer live in the garden of oblivion, for they are no longer innocent and ignorant, and they naturally had to leave. It wasn't so much that they were exiled by god, but that they left god behind.
From that point on they were cursed. Cursed with the knowledge that we live in an absured universe that cannot be completely understood and may as well have no meaning at all. Cursed with the burden that in order to continue thinking freely, they must sacrifice. The forces of God will come back looking to supress their new found free will, and must sacrifice in order to survive these battles and continue to spread the fruits of the tree of knowledge.
What god represented was the Establishment, the moral authority of any religious ruling regime. God tells Adam and Eve that they can enjoy the pleasures of the Garden of Eden as long as they don't Eat from the Tree of knowledge.
The Garden of Eden represents the state of Oblivion; the ignorant bliss that exists in the minds of the faithful. Those who don't think about the big picture can't possible miss anything outside of this box.
The Tree of knowledge represents the vast source of knowledge that exists outside of the religious box, it is all of the different perspectives, and all of the different information that has been discovered all over the world, a collective unconscious of sort.
Thus, to eat from the tree of knowledge you are sybolically digesting the fruits of knowledge that exist outside of your religious beliefs, and in turn gain perspective outside of what you have been raised in.
Obviously this was strictly forbidden by god, if Adam and eve gained more knowledge of their environment, they may begin to doubt that their world is as exactly as god lead them to believe it was. God would no longer be able to control how they think, and thus he would lose control over them.
The Snake that temps eve in the story represents rational thought. It wasn't an animal that starts talking to her, more than it was her own conscious and intuition that was telling her that there might be more to the picture that they are not seeing. It was her rational thought that told her that she needs to gain more knowledge about the world before she can start accepting any of it as absolute truth.
After Adam and Eve ate from the tree, they could no longer live in the garden of oblivion, for they are no longer innocent and ignorant, and they naturally had to leave. It wasn't so much that they were exiled by god, but that they left god behind.
From that point on they were cursed. Cursed with the knowledge that we live in an absured universe that cannot be completely understood and may as well have no meaning at all. Cursed with the burden that in order to continue thinking freely, they must sacrifice. The forces of God will come back looking to supress their new found free will, and must sacrifice in order to survive these battles and continue to spread the fruits of the tree of knowledge.
