Thus began our year of Jubilation with I AM, but it was not to last. The Garden in all its beauty had been invaded by something that would deceive me and my partner both. Too long had I become happy with my companion, Eve. She was the sun and the moon. Everything was perfect between me, my companion, and I AM. The animals and insects were beautiful in their habitat, but the Serpent was more clever than any animal God has placed in the Garden,
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One day, as Eve recounts, she was wandering in the Garden when she heard what she thought was a tree speaking. It said, " Do I understand that God has commanded you not to eat from the trees in the Garden?" Eve was perplexed for she thought the voice had come from the trees and she couldn't understand why a tree was speaking to her let alone in her own tongue.
Curious, she looked around to try to find where the voice might be coming from. Just as she was about to give up and chalk it up to her imagination, she spotted it. Among the leaves, twisted between was the Serpent. She spotted him and he immediately asked her again, "Is it true? Can you not eat from the trees?"
Eve, not knowing his intentions, answered him saying, "Not at all, we can eat from these trees. I AM told us lovingly not to eat from the middle tree, He said in the moment we did we would surely die." The Serpent spoke again, "Now why would I AM tell you such a thing? Surely everything in this Paradise is perfect? No, you will not die. I AM knows that as soon as you eat from the tree, you will be just like Him." Eve replied, " Are we not already just like Him? Made in His very innate image?"
The Serpent persisted, "No, not in his image, but of His very mind."
" His mind, His thoughts?" Eve replied
" Yes," the Serpent replied "You will be equal with Him possessing everything that He possess. You will lack nothing."
And this, this interested Eve very much.
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