Knowledge Disturbance Essay.

The sacred book read by more than three billion people in the world, strangely expresses in its third chapter of the book “The Beginning”, mentions the expulsion of man from paradise.

The crucial reason cited was disobedience to God the Creator. Theology does little to delve into what they disobeyed. I believe it was due to their ethical limits, limits that are beyond my understanding, because I say, disobedience was for the pursuit of knowledge. 

Symbolism of the Fruit of Knowledge

Prohibition is the fruit, an allegory to symbolize something that is possible to feed, as well as knowledge, gnosis, the yada, we can feed ourselves; In fact, those who do not feed on this fruit have a tendency to suffer from a variety of atrophies, hence the allegory of the fruit.

But it is the question of the origin of the fruit that disturbs the interpretation: “Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil”; wouldn't knowing good and evil be vital for human survival until then? Wouldn't knowledge instill access and truths about life? Why did God forbid the children of his creation from feeding on this knowledge? Disturbing questions!

When knowledge fails us, we call upon thought.

Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise because they acquired knowledge. 

The literal textuality interpreted by allegory produces a scenario of great meaning, while in a state of ignorance or innocence regarding knowledge, paradise was perfect, and the creator, knowing the capacity of human thoughts to be produced from knowledge, protected man with the order, do not eat!

The man with drives and in search of answers, heard the serpent himself of this “evil” of wanting to know that paradise exists within us; 

This inner existence where everything lives, God, serpent, I, with all drives and desires makes us live in the paradise of existence based on purposefully limited knowledge, paradise because the less knowledge, the fewer thoughts that jump in existential dimensions, the less one knows, the less one suffers, for the simple fact that the parameters of all levels are equated to the limitations of life's comparisons, being, the limit of thought is equal to the limit of knowledge, and the limit of knowledge generates the limit of behavior; 

The limits of astronomy have made us dwell in limiting beliefs about life. The Earth was once flat and the center of the universe, the Sun moved around us, the solar system was the core of all interplanetary knowledge, knowledge of the Milky Way emerged, the black hole was identified, and the universe is expanding, many galaxies, billions of planets, life is being sought outside of Earth. 

It is understood that knowledge is like steps that we go up or down, always with limitations of doors to be explored between floors, the deeper we go, the more limitations, the more we search, the more we ask questions, the more we review past knowledge.

What do we want? a paradise in ignorance or constant expulsion from our gardens of delights because of knowledge? 

Those who live within their limitations of knowledge are not wrong and should not be deserving of criticism, after all, there is a paradise for every limit of knowledge, who live in their beliefs, knowledge and ways, the fruit of good and evil still exists, is it available, is it worth feeding on it?

Not for those who live fully in their paradises, but for those who want to risk being expelled from peaceful existence, having to plant, harvest, have pain and a lot of sweat because of the knowledge acquired, excess thoughts, review beliefs, undo knowledge, resignify relationships, coexistence, climb or descend steps will always metaphorically generate these pains and sweats of genesis;

Once you leave paradise, it will be sealed, with no way back, so each person wants the paradise that pleases them. 

The “évas” of life, aces “havah”, literally “breathe”, human beings are insatiable for knowledge, and they are the ones who suffer the most, because they seek the most, because they know the most, because they are most expelled from their paradises. 

Theologically, the only tireless quest should be “let us press on to know the Lord”, which would lead us to a transcendent spirituality. Philosophically, the search for existential answers, “Who are we?”, “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?””is certainly far from being answered, although it helps a lot in life concepts.

Scientifically, the only possible knowledge is “replicable mathematical knowledge”. Admirable are those who have the restricted capacity to unite these three pillars that expel anyone from any paradise of human existence.

Each one chooses his own.

breathing,

Fabiano Moreno, spring 2023.