The Blessed Fall of Man!

The truth about the so called ‘Fall of Man’

by Tomas Martin Bell, OpD

Most of us have heard the story of the “fall of Man” often told by the Roman or Christian preachers.  Their preaching refers to the story of creation from the Hebrew book of Genesis.  We are told that humanity is a “fallen” race that is expelled from paradise by a Creator God who punishes humanity for the first offense or “original sin” of man against its Creator.  The story centers around an apple, the fruit of a “forbidden” tree, that humanity is not permitted to eat.  You have been told that the Creator God casts man humanity out of paradise for disobeying the order not to eat of the “tree of knowledge of good and evil” because only “God” can decide what is “good” and what is “evil” for humans.  What a load of bunk! 

First, let me shed the light of Truth on a few ideas from this story:

The tree of “the knowledge of good and evil” referred to in the Genesis story is an expression that comes from the Ancient Hebrew idiom meaning “knowledge of all things.”  It is not meant to call to mind the ideas today associated with “moral evils;” neither is it meant to call to mind modern ideas that are the opposite of “moral evils” (i.e.: “social good” like “love,” “peace,” “joy,” etc…) This term more closely refers to advanced knowledge and exhaustive knowledge of all that exists.  Advanced knowledge can be thought of as the knowledge of the physicists in their field of study or the knowledge of the medical doctors in their field.  Exhaustive knowledge can be thought of as “omniscience” which is often a term used only when describing the infinite or unknowable “Creator” or “God.” 

Why is knowledge associated with a tree and its fruit?

This question is one that is of primary importance.  It helps us to unlock a door to Truth.  A tree is the result of a seed being planted into a body (earth) that takes root and springs forth from that body (matter) and reaches into its opposite, the heavens (spirit).  The tree can be thought of as a bridge between two worlds.  The roots of a tree that are in the earth draw water from the body of earth and sustain the life of the tree in part.  The branches stretch out into the heavens (in that same way that the roots reach down into the earth) to draw light into the tree and sustain its life in part.  Within the tree both water and light are used to produce a fruit (an offspring) that contains within it all the potential of the tree, and more.  The fruit is a product of the earth and water and of the heavens and light.  It contains seeds within it that have the power to bring new trees to life in other parts of the world. 

There are two trees in the “Garden of Eden” story.  One is the “tree of life” and the other is the aforementioned “tree of knowledge…”  The first people were not “forbidden” to eat of the tree of life.  This is a fact from the Genesis story that is worth pondering.  In the early stages of humanity (which the Genesis story discusses) it was certainly safe for people to eat from the tree of life (reproduce) but these early people were not yet able to learn and understand advanced ideas (knowledge).

With all this in mind, let me give you a new understanding of the “Garden of Eden” story:

The Blessed Fall

Early humans were not able to learn advanced things, but they were good and had much potential.  However, they were not yet formed intellectually as they are to-day.  So, existence gave then many gifts to help them live and develop.  One gift was the gift of the trees.  Trees allowed them to eat fruit made from two worlds: the world of water and the world of light.  Water contained all that humans needed to have material life and movement.  Light contained the potential of enlightenment.  Each time a human ate from the trees, the nourishment and potential of the trees became a part of them.  They were able to grow strong and beautiful because of the nutrients of the water of life found in the fruit of the trees.  The “tree of life” made it possible for them to reproduce and have offspring of their own kind. This tree gave the fullness of the gift and power of earth and water.  It gave life itself to the humans.  Other trees gave humans other abilities as they developed. 

The first humans benefitted from all the gifts of water and earth given to them by the trees but they were not yet able to take in the fruit of a special tree called the “tree of knowledge.”  You see the fruit of the trees which gave earth and water ability were easy for the first humans to digest because this fruit was made mostly from the same material out of which the first humans were formed.  The fruit of the “tree of knowledge” however was made mostly from that which is thought, of heaven, and air.  To eat of this tree would take some time because humans had to eat enough of the other trees (which contained parts of thought, heaven) to build up the ability to digest the fruit of knowledge. 

Life itself created a way to protect humans from the dangers of eating from a tree before the right time.  Life created gravity.  Gravity would help the humans and the trees.  The trees would keep their fruits until the fruit was ripe and the humans were ready to eat of it.  When the fullness of time arrived, the trees would send forth their fruits and Gravity would cause the fruit to fall down to the humans waiting below. 

The first humans made sure that their children respected the law of nature.  They told their children about the dangers of eating a fruit that is not ripe.  Fruit that is not ripe will be hard to digest.  Some of it can make you very sick.  Sickness can even kill you.  They taught their children to be patient and to respect life and nature.  They taught their children to never think they know more than life; and to never reach up and pluck the fruit from a tree that has not given you its fruit.  They taught that each tree has its own life cycle.  Some trees send down their fruits quickly.  While other trees take a long time to give their fruit. 

There was one tree that took many, many seasons to give off its fruit.  This tree was called Wisdom.  Not all could eat of Wisdom’s fruit because it took many seasons to ripen.  Some people died before the fruit of Wisdom ripened.  Others grew tired and fell asleep so that when the fruit fell to the earth, there was no one awake to eat it and it spoiled.  Those who reached up to pluck that fruit before its time, died when they ate of it because there is a poison in unripened Wisdom that kills when it is taken into the body.   

Those who were alive and awake when the Wisdom fruit fell were called Blessed by the Fall.  They were reborn by the Fall of Wisdom.  They were able to eat of its fruit and become like living Wisdom trees who walked the earth with their feet as roots, but who soar the heavens with their heads like the branches reaching into the sky.  Their fruits were the words of Wisdom they spoke.  It is said that the Blessed Ones were like the tree of Wisdom, in that they waited many seasons to give off their fruit.  But those who were alive and awake when the Blessed Ones gave their fruit could eat of this fruit and gain the strength and knowledge to find the Ancient Wisdom tree and sit under its branches and await its divine fruit which bore the seeds that could make them also Blessed by the Fall. 

We too are blessed, not cursed

The “Garden of Eden” story is meant to inspire humanity and display its divine potential.  In the early stages man had to wait for Wisdom to ripen.  That is why prehistoric man (we did not record the thoughts and beliefs of these generations because they did not attain knowledge that was good to pass on into future generations.  They were those who are forgotten. They had to be lost to history, because their intellects were not formed enough to give them the power to pass on their spirit/intelligence to those to come) which can be thought of as represented by the characters “Adam and Eve,” was told that it could not eat of the tree of knowledge.  Later in our development, however, the apple fell on to the minds of man (as it fell on the head of Sir Isaac Newton, who sat under the tree with patient intelligence). 

When any preacher or any church tells you that you carry the burden of some primordial sin of humanity, do not swallow it. It is poisoned fruit from a man who has not been blessed by the fall. It is bitter fruit that comes from the angry hearts of those who plucked the fruit before it was given to them by nature and they tasted death. Do not let them tempt you to believe that death is the fruit of life. Life produces fruit of its own kind.  Life does not produce death.  Good does not produce evil.  Truth does not produce lies.  Look with opened eyes and see the tree by the fruit it produces.  

I hope that you all may be blessed by the fall.

I am,

Tomas Martin Bell OpD,

one who waited.