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Being and existence. It could not put forth its
hand and partake of the tree of Life; it could not
eat of it, and live forever. Therefore, the Lord
God sent him, the seeming man that now says, "I
Am, I Am, I Am," to all manner of beliefs and
opinions and conditions, from Eden to till the
ground, Being, from whence he, the true man, was
taken.
If this condition could be, remain in the Garden of Eden, it could be part of it and live forever,
hence contradictions would be eternally in God
and His manifestations. His kingdom would be
divided against itself; a good tree could then bring
forth both good and evil fruit.
Adam had gone forth in his beliefs from the
true being of what God is, and from true knowledge and wisdom, and from the truth that all is.
good, to gain knowledge and wisdom through his
labor of experiences, and thus to till the ground,
instead of being it, and to gain eternal life
through death, instead of being It, the free gift.
This seeming man of non-being, the one of becoming has no being in God, so he drove him out
of the garden. But the man of God, male and
female, is always and everywhere in the Garden
of Eden. We are not to attempt to stand alone
and be " as one of us," claiming to be something
apart from God, for the creature cannot manifest
life separated from the Creator any more than can
