Glossary
A student shorthand for Dante's recurring tree motif at this point in the reading.
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tree of life
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...been using. That's all I wanted to say. It's a tree of life like obviously."
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Glossary
The Eden tree Jiang says would let humans live as long as God.
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Glossary
The second tree that would allow Adam and Eve to live forever, making them like God once they also know good and evil.
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Jiang says the tree of life is sexual in nature because the universe advances by two forces combining to create a third, which he also glosses as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
interpretation
Jiang distinguishes punishment from banishment: labor pain and hard agricultural work are the punishment, while banishment prevents access to the tree of life.
definition
The two trees are defined as the tree of knowledge, which gives the mind of God, and the tree of life, which gives life as long as God.
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In Jiang's reading, Yahweh does not banish Adam and Eve merely because they disobey; he fears they will become like God if knowledge of good and evil is joined to the tree of life.
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If human self-reflection and growth could continue forever through the tree of life, humans would become as powerful as God.
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"...been using. That's all I wanted to say. It's a tree of life like obviously."
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"...three things i need you guys to remember about the tree of life okay the first thing to remember about the tree of life..."
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"And this is the tree of life. In other words, the tree of life is the fundamental movement of the universe. And we can..."
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"So, this is exactly what Satan said. Right? And this is what the Bible is saying as well. Now, let's move on. Eventually God..."
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"...might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever. This is why. There are two..."
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"So I'll explain first what the Bible says and then I'll explain how we can interpret the story. Okay. So God says to Adam..."
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"And when Yahweh commands them to come out and he sees right away they're embarrassed about their nakedness. They're embarrassed about being confronted by..."
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"...he might reach out his hand and take also the tree of life and live forever. Okay? This is where the Bible is genius...."
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"...can do this forever you're going to live forever. The tree of life and live forever it means you become God because your knowledge..."
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"...came from where we're going okay this is called the tree of life and the story is this in the beginning god is everything..."
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"...all right so what happens is that this is the tree of life which is basically adam kadmon all right and as god is..."
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"...what's this Kabbalah thing? Right. It's what they call the Tree of Life. And in the Tree of Life, it's what I'm trying to..."
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