07-14-2008, 12:00 AM
Hi Dreamways,
There are only two trees mentioned in Genesis the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The former is the pattern of everything and much is written about it. The latter is the tree that mankind has eaten of the fruit which is DEATH against the
advise of God or Elohim.
The fruit is not an apple, it is death. Now we know things after a manner that we were not created to know things. An insufficient, outward mentality. We, in
Biblical terms are DEAD because of eating of the fruit of this tree.
Our goal is to come back to life or "wake up" to be aware of other Spiritual things and eat of the Tree of Life again.
Some of those fruits you have mentioned Knowledge, Wisdom, Knowing Without Having Known, etc.
Your dreams of separate trees for these separate faculties may be your way of understanding these things.
There is nothing wrong with that we are given things in ways we can understand these things (personal symbols, so to speak) until we experience direct
knowledge of them.
One way of looking at Spiritual progression is that it is a matter of remembering rather than learning. We were created as spiritual beings and have descended
through through lower and lower realms to get where we are now. It is why God clothed us with "coats of skins" when we left the Garden of Eden.
Skins, plural denoting the various bodies we would need to function on various realms. Physical, Astral, Energy bodies, Dreaming bodies, Etheric bodies etc.
Like an onion, many skins and many "circumcisions" to remove them.
These are some of the things I have noticed parallels in both Don Juan's system of knowledge and the Qabala and Bible. To move the assemblage point closer
to our center is to become more aware by stages. So also is the promise (not a commandment) to Abraham that his offspring would be circumcised throughout their
"generations". Those "Generations" are a description of us becoming more spiritually aware in stages.
Like the pealing of an onion, circumcision is a removing of "layers of flesh" to get to the core of ourselves and remembering where we came from.
There are only two trees mentioned in Genesis the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The former is the pattern of everything and much is written about it. The latter is the tree that mankind has eaten of the fruit which is DEATH against the
advise of God or Elohim.
The fruit is not an apple, it is death. Now we know things after a manner that we were not created to know things. An insufficient, outward mentality. We, in
Biblical terms are DEAD because of eating of the fruit of this tree.
Our goal is to come back to life or "wake up" to be aware of other Spiritual things and eat of the Tree of Life again.
Some of those fruits you have mentioned Knowledge, Wisdom, Knowing Without Having Known, etc.
Your dreams of separate trees for these separate faculties may be your way of understanding these things.
There is nothing wrong with that we are given things in ways we can understand these things (personal symbols, so to speak) until we experience direct
knowledge of them.
One way of looking at Spiritual progression is that it is a matter of remembering rather than learning. We were created as spiritual beings and have descended
through through lower and lower realms to get where we are now. It is why God clothed us with "coats of skins" when we left the Garden of Eden.
Skins, plural denoting the various bodies we would need to function on various realms. Physical, Astral, Energy bodies, Dreaming bodies, Etheric bodies etc.
Like an onion, many skins and many "circumcisions" to remove them.
These are some of the things I have noticed parallels in both Don Juan's system of knowledge and the Qabala and Bible. To move the assemblage point closer
to our center is to become more aware by stages. So also is the promise (not a commandment) to Abraham that his offspring would be circumcised throughout their
"generations". Those "Generations" are a description of us becoming more spiritually aware in stages.
Like the pealing of an onion, circumcision is a removing of "layers of flesh" to get to the core of ourselves and remembering where we came from.