Trees, Symbolizing Patterns of Energy and Mind

the crystallizing effect of the subconscious mind, as rigidity and fixation. Energy, when expended, becomes exhausted, tired, spent and depolarized. This concerns the vital forces in the body, in the pelvic region. The further energy gets away from its source, the more dense or crystallized it becomes. This is clearly illustrated by light beams or heat rays.

Knowing the nature of the currents of energies as the three types of trees, we can better understand what happened and the curse that followed. This is all a vital part of the constitution of man and his essential relation to Cause (his Source) and Effect (Nature and form). The Bible states it so clearly, and you all know about the Bible. That is why I am using it as a text to explain the thoughts, recordings and secrets of the ancients.

In the nature of things, verse 17^[1] is quite plain; namely, why man must die as a form if he enters into the field of crystallization or 'Tamas'. And later, when man fell from the higher sphere into this current, and the subsequent curse on all active parties, can now be easily understood as a statement of fact, in keeping with the nature of things, materially.

Why must man fall? In the Causal Plane, things are only mental concepts, whirlpools of mind, ideas, patterns. On the emotional plane of action, 'Akash' [akasha, aakaasha], it is action for the sake of action or expression. In matter, the physical plane of 'Pind', it is action for the sake of the fruit of action; namely, the sensations, the enjoyment of the senses, the reactions, the accumulation of things, and personal honor, pride and self aggrandizement through possessions and power.

Now we see why this is called eating of the fruits of this tree, and why it is considered as a fall and the cause of all subsequent sin and misery. Every pleasure in this world, indulged in as such, has its resulting sorrow -- if not immediately, then some time in the future. The same principle is still active when a child insists on touching a hot stove; it must experience the sensation and the resulting pain.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna brings out the point regarding how to escape this trap of matter, since we are forced to act whether we wish it or not: "ACT WITHOUT BEING ATTACHED TO THE FRUITS OF ACTION."^[2] In other words, we do our duty to the best of our ability and leave the results (whether we succeed or fail) in the hands of the Lord. We try to render service, but should not be bound down by the sensation, the accumulating of things, nor the thoughts of possession or egotism about accomplishment; but remain active in the principle of action. Thus we do not become bound like Gulliver.^[3] Much real psychology is involved here; in fact, it is the basis of it. The whole principle of psychiatry of Freud and others rests on this fact of attachment to desire and sense satisfaction.

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¹ Genesis 2:17 - but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
² Bhagavad Gita 2.47
³ In the land of the Lilliputians.