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Genesis 3:6

וַ תֵּרֶא הָ אִשָּׁה כִּי טֹוב הָ עֵץ לְ מַאֲכָל וְ כִי תַאֲוָה הוּא לָ עֵינַיִם וְ נֶחְמָד הָ עֵץ לְ הַשְׂכִּיל וַ תִּקַּח מִ פִּרְיֹו וַ תֹּאכַל וַ תִּתֵּן גַּם לְ אִישָׁהּ עִמָּהּ וַ יֹּאכַל

And the Woman is seeing, for a good one is the Wood for a food, and for he is a longing to the Dual-Eyes, and he-who-is-coveted is the Wood to cause-to-cross,114 and she is taking from his fruit, and she is eating, and she is giving, also to her man with her,115 and he is eating.116


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The Wood of the Living Ones

The Hebrew word etz means wood. In Revelation we are told this is a wood of life. The Greek word for tree, dendron, is not used by John but instead the word for timber, a piece of wood:

Happy are those who wash their robes so that the authority of them will be upon the wood [xylon] of the life and by the gateways they will come into the city.” Rev. 22:14 literal

The Wood of the Living Ones and the Wood of Perception (or Recognition?) of a Good and Ruined-one seem to be paradoxically one thing, perhaps a reflection of each other, the one being the real and the other being a “shadow” of the real,

For the Law, holding a shadow of the coming good, not herself the replica-image [eikon - #G1504]…” Hebrews 10:1 RBT 

Perhaps it is a Hegelian Dialectic, i.e. a thesis and an antithesis. At any rate this is cryptic literature. Why is the location of the wood of perception/recognition not specified in Genesis 2:9? Why does the Woman say they should not eat from the wood in the middle of the Enclosure? Those who eat of the wood of perception of a good and ruined-one

“…who minister a figure and shadow of the heavenly-ones, according to as Moses warned, being about to complete the tent, for ‘See,’ he is saying, ‘you will make down [reproduce] from the print shown to you in the mountain.” Hebrews 8:5 literal

“The Law” is a teaching (Torah), and a heavily cryptic text at that. The shadow of the wood lies on the Ground/Red-one; it covers it. The reality, the form, of “the Law” stands above the Ground/Red-one. The Christ is the heavenly form of the Law and he explained in an cryptic fashion,

Just as he sent myself, the living-one of Father, also myself is living through the Father, whoever gnaws on myself, that one also will live through myself” John 6:57 literal

He uses the word to gnaw, crunch (#G5176). In classical Greek this is used for animals or of men eating vegetables/fruit.

This one is the work of the Theos, in order that you all might believe into him whom that one has sent.” John 6:29 literal