The Trees Stood Alone

 In the beginning, the serpent—pregnant with its own hunger—was cursed to eat from its belly. It devoured not only the life given by its mother, but the life it passed on to its children. And so we, too, fed from the belly of this Garden.

The first tree was Truth, rising to the peaks of mountains where it spoke with the sun, the moon, and the stars of Heaven. Truth grew so high it turned to stone, and when it fell, it became a forest of ironwood. For everything truly eternal becomes written in stone.

From the sacred ground where Truth had fallen, another tree rose—Wisdom. And God spoke to the woman through this tree, asking: “Who shall she be?” What she saw from the top of Wisdom’s height was given to her: every land, every river, every creature, every kingdom.

From Wisdom’s roots, she resurrected Truth as a new shoot. Truth grew upward once more, while Wisdom grew downward, deep into the earth. These two trees—one reaching to Heaven, one anchoring the world—stood together.

From their union came a daughter: Knowledge, the tree at the center of the Garden. She stood alone, untouched. No one was to eat of her fruit or claim her in marriage until they could see what she had seen from the mountain’s crown.

For whoever ate from the Tree of Knowledge would surely die—not by punishment, but because they were being prepared for a new tree yet to come: Righteousness, a priesthood through all time.

When Righteousness grew, it joined with Knowledge as one flesh, one body, one light—thin and bright as something divine. From their union came another child: Lies. For it is better to know a lie than to mistake it for Truth; better to understand the shadows we create than to worship them.

When Truth becomes a lie, we forget what is good. But Truth always reveals itself in the end, for nothing in Heaven can be taken, touched, or destroyed. Heaven is reached only through emotion and feeling—the roots of the soul.

On the right side of the mind sparks Wisdom; on the left, Truth ignites its divine nature. When these two root together, the past, present, and future are one. and stand alone in the center of this garden.. And this healing began the day we first ate from the belly of our mother, our sister, and our Earth.