Eve And The Apple

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the fruit
from the tree of knowledge of good and evil he became more human like. Eve
was enticed by the words of the serpent who said that "If the fruit makes a
serpent like a man, it should make men like gods." (Line 710: "That ye
should be as Gods, since I as man, Internal Man, is but proportion meet; I,
of brute, human; ye, of human, Gods.)
Other arguments that the serpent used to manipulate Eve included;
1,) You shall not die, look at me, I have touched and tasted and I have
not died. 2,) Should man not be allowed a fruit that a beast has? 3,)
How can God's tree give knowledge out against his will, if he already knows
all?
Eve also states that by God forbidding the fruit he made it more
desirable. While contemplating whether or not to eat the fruit, Eve
wonders, why the beast did not die after eating the fruit? Why should such
intellectual food be reserved for beasts? But her main reason for eating
their fruit is to acquire greater power, to become a "goddess". She ...

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