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garden, He said: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17). Of course, SATAN came along and asked: “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1) Eve responded that they could eat of every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because they would die if they did so. Satan (the serpent) brazenly remarked: “Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4-5). Satan, THROUGH ENTICEMENT AND LIES, had just deceived the first man and woman by promising them godhood! He told Eve that she would know both good and evil. Satan’s offer to know BOTH good and evil presented an option that was previously unknown to her. She had never known evil and, therefore, the lure of learning about something new and different must have intrigued her. Up to this point she had only known good, truth, perfection, health, and beauty. Now, because of the attraction of the unknown offered through Satan’s deception, she would learn of evil, death, sorrow, defilement, pain, and separation from God. The very moment Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit they died spiritually and were driven from the beautiful garden of Eden. That very day they experienced death to innocence, death to perfection, death to the joys they had known, and eventually they experienced a physical death even passing this physical death on to ALL humankind for “in Adam all die” (I Corinthians 15:22). Yet, Hall tells us that the one who gave the realization of good and evil (who was Satan) is the “Universal Savior!” According to Masonic writer, Lynn Perkins, the fall of mankind was something GOOD. It was not a “fall” but a betterment of our situation . He boldly declares that man “rose to Divine Status by partaking of the ‘fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.’” [Emphasis in the original] He adds that the advice the serpent gave to Eve was “wiser than the recorded command of God that would have, if obeyed, confined Adam and Eve and their descendants to the status of animals forever....” Albert Pike, another occultist and Mason, brags that the oroboros “is the body of the Holy Spirit, the universal Agent, the Serpent devouring his own tail...." [Italics in the original; Boldface added] What blasphemy!